jamescanningauthor

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do you ever walk into a piece of media already convinced which character you'll be obsessed with (based on your usual tastes and how the fandom portrays them) and then when you actually get into it some random motherfucker clocks you in the jaw instead and you're left like ???????? really??????? we're blorboing THAT one????

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Listening to my coworkers talk about how much they need money knowing I’m about to spend half my paycheck on legos

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I just got a full-on neonazi reccomended to me on Tumblr, does that mean someone I am following or who follows me is into that crap? If so, kindly die. I am not joking.

They were also a self-identified Catholic and claimed to be "tolerant to all religons except for paganism and satanism," which is hilarious because Hitler was opposed to both Catholicism and Protestantism and sought after a hypothetical victory to replace them with a state religion of quite literally neopagan "Aryanism".

He delayed this action during the war because he knew it would alienate much of his main support base. He wanted the regime to be more firmly established before making such a change. How can someone claim to support Hitler but know less about him than a creature who hates him with every fibre of its being?

I say this as a reconstructionist neopagan myself of a more historically accurate stripe, not inspired by bigotry but by love of Dionysos. That is another topic entirely.

I know more about Paganism than neonazis. I know more about Hitler than neonazis. I am actually very interested in some of the major figures of the German fascist regime, but I do not post about them on here because this website construes interest with condoning, and because it is far too serious and sad and I do not wish to share it with others the same way I wish to share my other, more positive interests, because it is an interest that it is extremely difficult to find others interested that are not cryptofascists, so I only talk about it with a few people I know, mostly who I have met face to face, who could not possibly hold such a position due to their marginalization.

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i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

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i’m in trenches you’ve never heard of

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this is how this looks on windows computer web site btw

who wants to be the 🌝 to my 🌚

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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

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‘i can fix him’ ‘i can make him worse’ well I can pick him up like this.

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Spy🌹🍷

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I can help

I want my Grant hyperfixation RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

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Okay reblog if you’re an artist who STRONGLY PREFERS reblogs with commentary

People are apparently under the impression that reblogging someone’s art and adding a comment is frowned upon and that can’t possibly be true, every artist I know of sees a reblog-comment as like the ultimate definitive reward for their hard work.

Obviously don’t feel bad for NOT adding a comment if you’re shy or just don’t know what to say, but if there’s something you would like to say about a drawing you’ve liked enough to reblog, I’m pretty sure most artists crave hearing it.

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the bisexuality was there. it didnt change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the bisexuality was there

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ah... your secret technique... in normal circumstances, such a bullet would have no effect on me, but you certainly knew that, my rival... and so, cleverly, you accelerated it with a gun

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I like it here

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What if we kissed

Then I would be happy and peace on earth :))))))))

I would be happ y dolphins rainbow image

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How it feels to find a fanfic where your favorite character is going through literally the worst horrors you can imagine

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