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The Hunger Games has the FUNNIEST arranged marriage of all time btw. Katniss realizes she'll have to marry Peeta and she's obviously upset so Haymitch tries to comfort her by saying "you could do a lot worse" and Katniss is like "well DUH of course I could do worse than Peeta he's the best & handsomest person on the face of the planet but that's not the POINT I want to be able to choose for MYSELF". Then she goes and chooses Peeta anyway lol. Comedy gold I tell you
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Darrow | Red Rising
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every day i wash and dress myself like a wound
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i literally dont care what your excuse for using AI is. if you didnt put your own effort into making it im not putting my own effort into interacting with it.
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i think if you’re feeling a certain kind of way and you know why you’re feeling it & you’ve done everything you can about the problem causing the feeling for the time being you should be able to go to your guardian angel and smile beatifically and say “i’ve done my feelings homework” and they smile beatifically back at you and say “alright my child” and they tap you on the head and you feel an immense sense of peace that washes through you and escapes as light from your fingertips and then you feel normal again
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Nothing has convinced me more that I’m a writer than spending eight hours on my computer experiencing every emotion known to man as I try to summon even a shred of motivation to type words, only to have the hands of some distant super alien being take over for the last 25 minutes and write 1600 words.
#like what is that#I can’t even be sure I feel productive bc what the hell was that 7.5 hours#writing#I love you and hate you#as it should be
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The eight stages of writing :
- this is awesome
- this is slightly less awesome
- this is shit
- I’m shit
-oh god oh fuck what the hell am I doing
-wait this might not be that bad actually
- How the fuck is this working
-This is awesome
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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it
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i have to defend fictional women who aren't good people because if i don't who else will
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the end and the beginning - wisława szymborska tr. joanna trzeciak
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I think that there's a tempation to shut down all criticism of romance novels, or dark romance, or smut, or erotica, with some version of "that's just letting the catholic in you win" or "that's just repurposed evangelical christianity" or "you just hate it because women like it" but I really truly genuinely think that people need to start figuring out how to think critically about genres and stories written and enjoyed primarily by women.
Something being written by women, or being enjoyed by women, does not make it less acceptable to criticize. It's not letting conservativism win! You can have feminist critiques, and sex-positive critiques, and kink-positive critiques, and progressive critiques of these genres, and it's neither a betrayal nor some attempt at censorship in disguise.
It's also not saying that the genre or subgenre itself is bad, or that it shouldn't exist, or that there is anything wrong with the people who read, write, or enjoy it.
If something is written and then shared publicly, it can be viewed through a critical lense! And to deny that is actually to devalue its place in the world of the written word, because it implies that has so little worth or impact that it is not worth thinking critically about.
Of course, there are conservative, sex-negative, anti-feminist critiques of the romance and erotica genres/sub-genres. But don't let your fear or dislike of those keep you from engaging critically with the genre or lead you to dismiss or attack others who engage critically with the genre.
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“Small delights – a clear winter sunset through the natural iron grillwork of black trees, a street lamp shining through ice-encased branches, blue sky glittering, and sun on ice-crusted snow. Loveliness, loveliness.”
— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”
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'He's very tenderhearted', said Relius. 'He'll feel quite bad about it as he cuts you up into little pieces and feeds you to the wolves.'
—Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves, in the Queen’s Thief Series
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a weighted blanket is not enough please compress me into a .zip file
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girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived
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really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you
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highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.
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