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me, logging into ao3 5 minutes before bedtime: WAITER! bring me your finest enemies to lovers!

ao3 tag search function: excellent choice, sir! how would you like it cooked?

me: explicit. with a side of hurt/comfort

ao3: lovely! and may i suggest a drizzle of mutual pining?

me: of course, and can you add a spritz of angst? make it a 100k slowburn for good measure

ao3: coming right up, sir

me: thank you. oh, and waiter?

ao3: yes, sir?

me: make it gay

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I agree 1000%

SEB LOWE IS SO GOOD

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This is the best idea in the history of film.

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Hell yeah! Hope you had an amazing time :D

seeing seb lowe tonight i can't waittt

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I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

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I went to a seb lowe concert a few days ago and holy shit it was amazing. WHEN THEY WERE ON STAGE I MADE A HEART SHAPE WITH MY HANDS AND SEB MADR ONE BACK AT ME, THEN AFTER THE GIG I GOT THEM ALL TO SIGN MY POSTER AND HAD A PICTURE WITH THEM AND MY FRIEND ZJSJKSKDKSKDJDJSKEJ😭😭😭😭😭

Best night of my life I swear to God

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the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

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I absolutely live this book. Read it in 2 days asn now I have to spend at least a few hours sitting on my own to contemplate life.

Review: Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain

I feel like there aren't many YA books that tackle teenage pregnancy head-on and that perhaps needs to change. This unique story discusses the many facets of this very real, often hushed-up issue and despite being well into adulthood, I feel like I learned a lot through reading it.

On New Year's Eve 2018, 16-year-olds Sid and Mel have sex and conceive a baby. In Northern Ireland, abortion is illegal but Sid's mother thinks it's the best option. However, Mel's parents are adamant that they keep it. Sid and Mel want to tackle it together but teen pregnancy treats boys and girls differently and things slowly start to crumble.

Sid is a slacker with few career prospects outside of music. Mel on the other hand is academically gifted and has dreams of studying Physics at Cambridge. They are certainly an unlikely couple, which gives their devotion to each other an extra special quality and convinced me that they would make it work.

The book is set against the backdrop of the Northern Irish referendum on the legality of abortion, which makes Mel and Sid's plight very timely. So, naturally there is a lot of discussion on the Irish abortion situation, which makes for highly depressing reading. However, I'm sure it will educate many readers who don't realise how dire things were up until extremely recently.

To illustrate how ridiculous abortion sanctions are, there is also some talk about how many children end up in the social care system due to bad or unwilling parents. It's a really sad situation and one that will only get worse in countries where abortion isn't freely available. Parenthood isn't for everyone and sometimes pregnancy is not a result of simple carelessness.

An aspect of the story that really infuriated me was the different treatments that Mel and Sid each endured in the aftermath of the pregnancy announcement. Although he dropped out of school, Sid was able to play music, make new connections and advance his career while Mel's future was put on hold. Mel's parents also put so much blame on their daughter while simply seeming to 'expect' it of Sid. The hypocrisy and misogyny was so strong from multiple angles and it was really quite gross.

Mel's future was expected to be full of professional success and her family appeared to have a detailed roadmap for her life. I got the impression that the pregnancy is a huge inconvenience to her parents because it derails the plan and I got really angry at their lack of consideration as to what Mel actually wanted. No doubt this is the kind of battle that young, scared girls fight against their religious, 'respectable' families all the time.

The lack of knowledge that Mel, Sid and their friends have about contraception and pregnancy tests is also so frightening. In a culture that forces teenagers to give birth to the babies that they conceive, you'd expect them to be equipped with every tool imaginable to prevent it from happening too soon. Thankfully, Mel does eventually get the facts that she needs to make the decision that she feels is right but it took such a long time and no one seemed to be willing to help her.

Little Bang is a moving, thought-provoking book that focuses on characters who are easy to root for in a world that makes life anything but easy for them. It covers so much without being preachy and although I wasn't expecting the ending, the more I've sat with it, the more it seems right. I'm pretty sure I'll be thinking about Mel and Sid for a while yet!

Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain will be published by Walker Books on 4th January 2024.

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since today (sept. 24) is jim henson's birthday i would like to remind you all of that time david tennant was in a live muppets performance as the doctor

yes i do think about this every day, and yes i did cry when i saw the full cast performance of rainbow connection from the end of the show

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there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s

it’s really fun

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visual representation of me when i think too hard about my partner and how wonderful and handsome they are and how i’m the luckiest silly liddol guy in the world to have him in my life and omg- *scurries off to pinterest to look for inspo for gifts i’ll make him*

@thesunnishboy hehehe

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I got this idea at 3am.

No, I won't elaborate further

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Two steps ahead.

Dipper was two steps ahead.

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presented without comment

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they would get along i think