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Transgender people in my phone you’d better live you’d better love you’d better live long enough to become old and annoy your great grandnephews you’d better watch trashy movies you’d better meet new people you love and hate and forget and remember you’d better hang in there for better and worse you’d better smell the dust after the rain and remember that you’re alive and full of beautiful sturdy bones you’d better hold onto that friend and never let them go you’d better keep living and living and living and never stop

#trans #transgender #queer stuff

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If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:

weird flex

religious reasons

religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)

tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)

someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool

someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool

it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible

#worldbuilding #things writers need to know

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saw something that made me do a double take so: poll

1. for the purposes of this poll, if you have ever written any amount of fanfiction, even just a sentence, even if you don't post it, that counts

2. if you write fanfiction but don't read it please tell me why. i want to study you

#polls #read and write #both copiously at times

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put in the tags where you were this april 29th

#home. briefly the bank and the pharmacy. walked around putting up flyers for a neighborhood event before it started raining. #taylor swift

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It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives

#reminders

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memorable lines from season 1 of Downton Abbey

#downton abbey

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#I don’t like coffee #so zero sorry #i drink caffeinated tea maybe once a month #but the vast majority of days i don't consume caffeine #polls

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#i put amphibian/reptile/swimmy thing but that barely fits #it was a dolphin #polls

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I did the math recently, and in high school, just being at school + homework (not clubs, church, volunteering, and all that other stuff that felt mandatory/necessary to get into college--JUST being in class and doing homework that I had to do for my classes) took me over 60 hours a week on average. At 14, I was nowhere near developmentally ready for that kind of a reality. Hell, I'm 27 and I'm still not developmentally ready to work that much--and as an adult with a full-time job, I don't. It's inhumane.

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

#i reply #high school #school #the teenage years

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#us politics #voting

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The thing about Queen's Thief is that the reveals that come with Gen's trickster type, don't just reveal that he is smarter or more skilled than the people around him (or the readers) thought, but also that he is more good than they originally thought. Gen's goodness is a part of the twist.

This is probably most prominent in King of Attolia where his surprising mercy is a huge part of the plot (and his genuine love and friendship). But it happens over and over again.

In The Thief we are led to believe that he is motivated primarily by self-interest and we are surprised by the depths of his loyalty, the generous affection that comes out for the Magus, and by the fact that he is actually primarily motivated by duty and love for his queen/favorite cousin/reigning bestie.

In Queen of Attolia the twist is that his actions which looked like generalized mischief and political power plays actually all spring from love, and that love arose initially from empathy with a girl's loneliness.

Or when he becomes king, and then it's revealed that yes he got what he wanted but actually this is an act of self sacrifice (for the sake of Irene and Hellen and Eddis).

And on and on.

The pettiness and the pride and the mischief for its own sake are all still there, but they coexist with this deep undercurrent of loyalty and duty and love and mercy and kindness. And when push comes to shove that undercurrent will always win out and its that which makes the twists so triumphant and satisfying.

#queen's thief #the queen's thief #qt #Eugenides

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Ch👍

#videos #wow

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being a compassionate person takes practice. being kind takes practice. not being a selfish dickhead takes practice. these are all learned traits that we have to work on our entire lives. your capacity for good is not predetermined, it’s achieved.

#yeah this #be a decent human being

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reblog if you enjoy napping, being cozy, being conked out, snoozing, wrapping up in blankets, sipping a hot drink, catching some z's, hugging a plushie, or otherwise relaxing and resting

#i am so bad at relaxing #but yes #bedtime

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My parents were very anti-accommodation when I was growing up. Their basic stance was "If we ignore your discomfort and your limits, you'll eventually become normal, which is better for everyone, including you." Very occasionally, if I begged, I could get what I needed in a particular moment, but only if I begged and also got lucky. I had to use the perfect words and explain everything in exactly the right way to even have a prayer of being accommodated.

Now my grandmother probably has dementia, but we don't know for sure because she won't go to the doctor. She is not begging. She is not using the perfect words. She is not explaining anything in a way that makes any sense or has any relationship to reality. And my parents are being patient with her. They are not insisting that she be "normal." They're trying to keep her from doing serious harm to herself or anyone else, but they want her needs to get met even if she doesn't live up to their standards.

And it fucking kills me. I watch them treat the woman who abused my mom and gave her long-lasting issues better than they treated their own firstborn as a literal child, and I want to scream. I feel so betrayed to know that they're capable of patience and just chose not to bestow it on me, even though intellectually I know it's more complicated than that.

And I know that none of this means that it would be better for my parents to hold my grandmother to the kinds of standards they held me to, or to make her jump for accommodations the way I had to. None of this means that I should make my grandmother explain herself perfectly before I accommodate her either. But it hurts and it hurts and it hurts.

It's allowed to hurt when you see someone be treated well in a situation where you were treated badly. Especially when the person or institution treating them well is the same person or institution who treated you badly. You're allowed to feel betrayed. You're allowed to rage and grieve and need time to process. What you're not allowed to do is insist that other people be treated badly because you were.

#a lin original #be a decent human being #ugh #family #i reply

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It's allowed to hurt when you see someone be treated well in a situation where you were treated badly. Especially when the person or institution treating them well is the same person or institution who treated you badly. You're allowed to feel betrayed. You're allowed to rage and grieve and need time to process. What you're not allowed to do is insist that other people be treated badly because you were.

#a lin original #be a decent human being #ugh #it's hard

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this post is going to stay up forever, but I'm going to reblog this post with a picture of a funny cat I drew wearing big boots. the reblog that has the cat in it will only be available for 5 minutes so good luck if you manage to see or find that version.

I'll add the cat to this post about a minute after posting this. I need to add an image description so it'll take a sec

#it's been more than five minutes op