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If you are a white person reblogging my post about cannibalism and race in gothic stories, you must ensure you don't have any house of the dragon stigmata pomegranates pseudo incest bible poetry fucks in your following because I remember the last time those pale ones raked me on the coals and accused me of bringing back hays code for criticizing their favorite little books and shows.

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I'm trying to read Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh right now but to be very frank, the writing is not doing it for me. This is my second attempt at reading this book, but it's not working out.

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I wish I was into some really mid shonen yuribait slop like shokohime, or a bland commercially popular ff ship like rhaenicent or caitvi which have a lot of fanart and fan fiction to browse from. alas, the only ships I like are from indie books with less than 1000 reviews on goodreads, or super specific unpopular toxic crackships which usually involve shipping a fan favorite lesbian character with the one woman nobody likes. makiqua and harrianthe are probably the closest I get to fan favorite stuff, and in both cases the canon lesbian is more popularly shipped with a "better" love interest. what's a toxic yuri connoisseur to do.

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INTERNATIONAL ORDERS TEMPORARILY CLOSED

THERE USED TO BE A LAKE HERE ONCE

A poetry collection about trans bodies, sapphic love, the desi queer community, and growing up Bengali in early 2000s Kolkata.

This is an indie debut poetry book by a non-binary Bengali author. Buying an author copy helps support me directly, as opposed to buying from a website.

GP*y: sritamasen1905@oksbi

P*yp*l: sritamasen1905@gmail.com

INR = Rs 300, USD = $ 4 (INR 300 converts to only about 3 USD, however, P*ypal skims off quite a bit, so if you want to support me, would appreciate if you paid around 4-5 USD)

HOW TO ORDER:

🦚 Fill out the Google form. There you can provide your personal details- address, pincode, country, name (PLEASE add the same name as a note in your Gp*y/P*ypal payment following slide 3; this will help me keep track.) as well as choose an edition of your preference and let me know what inscription/note you'd like me to add, if any.

🦚 After the base payment of Rs 300 is made via P*ypal or GP*y, I will confirm your purchase via Instagram DMs. Please ensure that your DMs are enabled, and if not, please mandatorily add your email ID.

🦚 Once I have finalized your order, I shall calculate shipping charges and let you know the additional prices to pay. For Indian folk, this will take 7-10 days. For those living abroad, please be patient, it might take slightly longer to calculate.

🦚 When you clear the shipping charges, your parcel shall be mailed soon after.

International purchasers, please try not to cancel orders after booking, I swear I'll have a meltdown if I have to figure out the P*yPàl and overseas refund transactions. Please, please be patient and cooperate; I'm a debut author and am still figuring out the nitty-gritties of overseas shipping. Also please note that I cannot 100% guarantee you a colour edition of your choice; although call me biased but they are all so beautiful. My payment details are on slide 3, and if you cannot purchase my book atm, I would appreciate a tip on my ko-fi!

Thank you for supporting a Bengali trans queer author; I hope I can write more for you soon.

For this sale, first priority will given to readers who identify as Desi, Bengali, LGBTQ of color and/or trans queer.

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It's weird and sinister because practically every post I see about transmasc-specific woes on here and instagram always veer into transmisogyny instead of like. targeting cis heteronormativity. fascinating stuff.

sometimes when I see transandrophobia nonsense it feels like I'm watching people ask the extremely pertinent question: are women bourgeoisie?

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This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong trivialises his subjects by refusing to look at them directly, to describe them patiently; he seems not to trust the strength of his own material, or the perceptions of the reader.

Once again, the success of the novel hinges on its mode of presentation, and Vuong proceeds to exhibit all the same tendencies. Once again, there are hundreds of incoherent sentences and images. The text on a wooden sign is ‘rubbed to braille by wind’; seeds from a bird-feeder ‘fall like applause’; a girl pours Coca-Cola into the eye socket of some roadkill, or rather ‘into that infinite dark of sightless visions’; we are given a glimpse of ‘moss so lush ... that, at a certain angle of thick, verdant light, it looks like algae, like the glacial flood returned overnight and made us into what we were becoming all along: biblical’; fathers watching their sons play football ‘could be statues for what it means to wait for a boy to crush himself into manhood’; water churns ‘like chemically softened granite’. All these appear in the first eight pages.

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Do you ever feel a small wave of terror every time you open a fantasy book by a white author and there is the first mention of a mystical sand kingdom in the east. Hell. Wonder how those people are doing. Wonder how they are possibly going to be portrayed throughout the epic breadth and scale of this richly sprawling new saga.

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“If Alison Bechdel is a terf, that makes my ‘over 35 non-binary queer dyke friends’ who went to michfest terfs too I guess 😂” yes. Literally yes. That’s the whole point: terfism is a lot more commonplace & normalised than people think, even within TME trans people.

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Korean film: uses the horror genre to depict the decades' long colonial/imperial military violence practiced by the Japanese forces, as well as the forcible erasure of culture and history via assimilation

White YouTuber: Why are they so hostile to the Japanese? This is making me uncomfortable.

Do Americans genuinely not know anything about world history because tell me why I just saw some people get offended because a Korean horror film portrayed the Japanese as villains, and called the film racist.

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Do Americans genuinely not know anything about world history because tell me why I just saw some people get offended because a Korean horror film portrayed the Japanese as villains, and called the film racist.

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me at the convent: no god for me thanks i'm just here to fuck the nuns

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like. romance peaked here let's pack it up

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BIBI as LEE HAE RYEON

THE WORST OF EVIL (2023)

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out of curiosity, does everyone have a certain type of character they get attached to or are urs random

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So weird to me how people act about Briony Tallis to this day. Like I get that you have a crush on James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley, but imagine saying that the 13 year old girl who committed a grave error out of pure jealousy and spent her life tormented by it, is in any way imaginable, "the true villain" in a story where a man also sexually assaults a child and gets away scott free with it.

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Lot of damage to take in a single paragraph.