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you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

#flawless #no notes

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that happened to my friend archie

#hollering

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he is now googling how to look for bed bugs i think he knows i met my limit of things i can handle with the toothbrush thing

husband left on an overnight work trip this morning and accidentally took my toothbrush and i am still internally screaming in horror

#okay i did say don’t bring back anything on my toothbrush #because i will simply have to burn the damn thing #maybe the house down too #we’ll see how it goes

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husband left on an overnight work trip this morning and accidentally took my toothbrush and i am still internally screaming in horror

#listen #i told him nbd but #bfd okay? #i am apparently very weird about that #love him but #no #that's mine #thank cheese for the free toothbrushes from the dentist

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Does this mean that you like Polin?👀 Will you be writing fic for it?🥺

oh yeah, definitely. love them. i saw the first season a few years ago when i had covid (lost my sense of taste and smell i needed something visually stimulating, ha) and was rooting for little miss penelope even before i knew they had a book and ended up together in it.

then i stumbled into reading their book and i had to lay on the floor for a minute bc pen was breaking my heart and it turns out we can add the someone fell first, the other one falls harder trope to my list of likes.

i just saw this and squeaked, i am going to be obnoxious quietly about it tho

no one wants to see me try and write historical romance. can you imagine? good lord i would make a mess of that i bet, hah. i just felt their whole fandom shudder at the thought of my over the top ass stumbling in with fic and filthy smut throwing it at them like a heathen. 😭

i'm uh, i'm gonna go squeak some more. okay love you bye.

#besos! #anonymous #polin #bridgerton #colin x penelope #i need her and eloise to make up tho i am dying i love them both

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with some time removed now i look back at our Riverdale time and just....what even. i've been in a few fandoms by now but that one really was extra bonkers.

I did chill me out on other fandom bullshit tho, i've seen it all and worse before.

seriously tho!

you can't survive the riverdale fandom and not come out like this at the end

really gives us some perspective when joining other fandoms, ha.

#besos! #bronwynn #rvd #just realized i wasn't following and i have always adored you i will fix my mistake

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Why do you think there's so many bad takes in fandom? I know you've been watching/reading Bridgerton lately and there's so many terrible takes in that fandom that it's making me cringe.

literally only asked me this bc you know i'm fandom old. pfft.

no but also we (i'm guessing) were in the riverdale trenches and does no one remember those takes? like, remember when 4 underage teens were sitting by a fire in a promo and it turned into 4 underage teens on the lowest standard of basic cable were having an orgy within hours of said promo bc someone turned their anxiety into everyone else's problem? i do. it's also hilarious but that's not the point i suppose.

my best guess is media literacy is now a long lost art bc you're reading a lot of takes that stem from very and extremely literal interpretations of promo/interviews/trailers. they lack nuance and paint a lot of things in black and white and any deviation will be met with swift accusations of doing wrong think in fandom for whatever character/plot/ship they don't like.

let's all remember alex. not a good or right take in his career and there he is, being paid to share his bad takes with the rest of us. people playing telephone without context and letting their bias talk them out of simple logic is sort of wild when those people also have access to the rest of us online, ha. i can see how easy it would be to let someone's anxiety spike over hearing/seeing something they were already worried about happening and turning it into a full fledged theory based on something that, in all probability, won't be anything like they imagined.

in my (long and varied) fandom experiences, the best theories come from the english degree girlies who are quietly discussing themes and motifs with their friends and not the people screaming every 5 mins about how this is going to happen bc a social media post/promo got met with vibes and anxiety. or, to be totally honest, a lot of people just write a fic summary and call it a theory while passing it around making everyone else anxious with them.

actually tho, i can think of so many people who would be better off just writing the ideas they have as fic instead of passing it off as fact and then getting mad when people don't agree with them. 🤔

#besos! #anonymous #gonna tag the snot out of this tbh for blacklist purposes bc i love y'all #tw: alex #ha #i'm not even sorry #rvd #bridgerton #also don't forget that you can almost always trace vitriol to a ship war #it's legit like 6 degrees of ship wars out there i promise you

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

#it's true

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watching another fandom lose its mind bc they're too close to it and can't see the bigger picture makes me realize we were all insufferable and probably very entertaining

#sincerely i feel for them #but are they overreacting? #yes #hugely so #god love them wish them the best they'll be okay in a couple months

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🌮 4 ever

on a mini road trip through parts i have never wanted to see and so far:

i have seen billy the kid’s grave though i am sure billy himself does not care i was there

a dust storm exfoliated my car

someplace called the velvet taco is not food related and is, in fact, a sexy store. definitely naming my car the velvet taco now 🌮

there is a town called muleshoe fr

made it to texas, temporary rip to my reproductive rights

the mister refuses to let me drive in texas, says he’s been waiting for my mouth to get me arrested but not in texas pls 🙏

a sign warning of deep sand is prob not the same as quick sand but i’ve seen the princess bride so i can probably survive

i feel like there should be more cows. rude, texas. rude

oh wait. saw some cows 🐮

and i’m pretty sure i can drive a tractor now. the mister says definitely not and looks worried i may try

i’m for sure gonna try

#I made him take that pic and he didn’t even question me #he knows me so well

[thetaoofbetty]

on a mini road trip through parts i have never wanted to see and so far:

i have seen billy the kid’s grave though i am sure billy himself does not care i was there

a dust storm exfoliated my car

someplace called the velvet taco is not food related and is, in fact, a sexy store. definitely naming my car the velvet taco now 🌮

there is a town called muleshoe fr

made it to texas, temporary rip to my reproductive rights

the mister refuses to let me drive in texas, says he’s been waiting for my mouth to get me arrested but not in texas pls 🙏

a sign warning of deep sand is prob not the same as quick sand but i’ve seen the princess bride so i can probably survive

i feel like there should be more cows. rude, texas. rude

oh wait. saw some cows 🐮

and i’m pretty sure i can drive a tractor now. the mister says definitely not and looks worried i may try

i’m for sure gonna try

#if i make it home alive and without an arrest record i will be very proud

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IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

#for real #idc idc she can do whatever #some of y'all are way too worried about what someone might think of *you* in relation to a fictional female's choices #but mostly it's just people wanting the most boring character traits out of some sort of perceived morality #passsss

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Nace Fic!

I am so excited to share the project @thatiranianphantom and I have been keeping under wraps! I cannot even tell you.

The Nancy Drew writers were kind enough to leave us with the richest, most beautiful tapestry to continue the Drew Crew story, and this is our contribution to it.

This takes place just post 04x05.

Separated for a year after their attempt at breaking the curse, Nancy and Ace are back in town for the Fanson wedding. When a new mystery takes over the town, can they reconcile the past with the present?

Check out chapter 1 of I Couldn't Tell You (This is All I Wanted), and please let us know what you think.

Have I mentioned how excited we are. It's Nace time!

#nace #nace fanfiction #nancy drew

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Girl where tho, we want the tea but I don’t see it 😅

noooo let me be judgmental, i’m just being petty 😭

for real i was just side eyeing some insane pick me not like other girls i’m better than them energy on my dash and i think that’s more embarrassing than whatever they were making fun of people for liking tbh

#besos! #anonymous #fr tho #i would be so obnoxious if i had good tea #ha

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#sorry needed to be judgey somewhere #and i picked y’all

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source? i felt it in my heart

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the icy grip of a new hyper fixation is trying to ruin my life 😔

#oh my god no #i can feel it happening #rip to me good luck everyone else #it’s not even something that would normally be my jam someone save me before i write fic #if you need me i’ll be on the floor #i'm trying to be normal about it #it's not going well