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the problem about critiquing popular children's fiction as an adult who is interested in narrative and storytelling is that people will see the critique and feel immediately attacked because they enjoyed it as children and now it is a part of their identity in a way that they get defensive about examining. like I get it, I imprinted on a lot of fiction as a kid also. unfortunately I show this love by picking everything apart and talking about the ways in which it could be better. which for some reason people seem to interpret as "hating"

I'm not sure why anyone would think that I would spend time rereading and examining in detail the themes of a novel which I hated, but hey. takes all kinds I suppose

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99% of all murders committed by women in ancient greek plays are completely justified

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Boney McClyde does the last of the autumn chores, even though he'd rather rest

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Sapphics who don't like fat girls are so weird to me. You're supposed to like girl. Why wouldn't you want more girl per girl

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STRANGER THINGS S04E06 | Chapter Six: The Dive

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Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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"came back wrong" but it's food that you heated up in the microwave

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I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

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having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

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dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

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So I feel six years late, but I'm entering the fray! Only got two character profiles up so far, but i'll try to fill out the others later. For a direct link to my profile, see the source :D

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i know riiight, who even drew this anyway? 😤

(i love zoey sm!! she stole my heart and ran with it)

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Ok so, I finally found a way to combine my obsessions with upsetting centaurs and 4-dimensional geometry, and his name is Horace. I will be taking questions now

PATREON | STORE

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honestly, especially in the current state of the world, you all have GOT to kill whatever puritanical voice inside your head keeps insisting that if something is erotic it has no social, artistic, or intellectual merit.

stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.

stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.

stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.

no, not all erotic art is high art, and not all erotic art is meant to invoke deep intellectual discussion - but insisting that makes erotic art valueless, a disservice to intellectualism, or whatever else - does nothing but add fuel to a fire built on conservative ideology.