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🍁 Books for Autumn & Halloween 🎃
Part One!
(Row One) 🍁
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker
The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldtree
(Row Two) 🎃
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
(Row Three) 🍁
The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Diviners by Libba Bray
#mooncakes#Cemetery Boys#legends and lattes#the witch boy#burn down rise up#the diviners#the taking of jake livingston#a lesson in Vengeance#a dowry of blood#autumn#autumnal#autumncore#cozy#cozy autumn#cozycore#fall#fall season#halloween#happy halloween#books#booklr
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30 Days of Pride Books (with @draconiclore)
Day 29: Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado: Raquel and her crush Charlize investigate a series of disappearances in the Bronx, all linked to an urban legend subway game and a painful chapter in the city's history.
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2023 Cover Redesigns
Love when great books get new looks? Here are a bunch of queer books getting new faces for their paperbacks, rereleases, and/or special editions in 2023! Middle Grade Middletown by Sarah Moon Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters,…
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#Burn Down Rise Up#Chris Sickels#Cool for the Summer#Dahlia Adler#Fresh#Kerri Resnick#Love is an Ex-Country#Margot Wood#Micah Fleming#Mike Heath#Petra Braun#Randa Jarrar#Sarah Maxwell#Stephanie Rocha#Vincent Tirado#Wolfsong
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Book Review: Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado | An Education of the Burning and Rebuilding of 1970s Bronx
#SummerReading2023 #summerreading #blogpost #BurnDownRiseUp #socialhorror #youngadult #QueerLitread #dominicanbooks #dominicanwriters #bronxwriters #vincenttirado
#Vincent Tirado#Burn Down Rise Up#Dominican Writers#Dominican Books#Bronx Writers#young adult#bookblr#booklr#blogger#book review#bookblog#book blog#horror#queerlitread#queer lit#summer reading
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Title: Burn Down, Rise Up
Author: Vincent Tirado
Series or standalone: standalone
Publication year: 2022
Genres: fiction, horror, thriller, LGBT+, fantasy, mystery, contemporary
Blurb: For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. 16-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it; after all, the police only look for the white kids...but when her crush Charlize’s cousin goes missing, Raquel starts to pay attention, especially when her own mom comes down with a mysterious illness that seems linked to the disappearances. Raquel and Charlize team up to investigate, but they soon discover that everything is tied to a terrifying urban legend called the Echo Game. The game is rumoured to trap people in a sinister world underneath the city, and the rules are based on a particularly dark chapter in New York’s past. If the friends want to save their home and everyone they love, they will have to play the game and destroy the evil at its heart...or die trying.
#burn down rise up#vincent tirado#standalone#2022#fiction#horror#thriller#lgbt#fantasy#mystery#contemporary
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Happy Black History Month! Check Out 15 of Our Favorite Queer Reads by Black Authors
February is Black History Month in the United States, and Duck Prints Press is joining in the celebration by sharing 15 of our favorite queer reads by Black authors! The contributors to this list are Shadaras, boneturtle, Tris Lawrence, Sebastian Marie, Shea Sullivan, Terra P. Waters, and an anonymous author.
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin
A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics Series) by Bethany C. Morrow
Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart Series) by Kalynn Bayron
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
How to Find a Princess (Runaway Royals Series) by Alyssa Cole
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics Series) by Kalynn Bayron
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
What are YOUR favorite reads by Black authors? We’d love to find more to add to our to-be-read piles!
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oh damen we're really in it now.mp4
#caprisun#captive prince#damen#damianos of akielos#damen of akielos#kings rising#prince's gambit#ITS HIM ITS MY GUY#also can i just say#i know i made him blush in the rip pitcher sketch because thats the correct interpretation of that scene. cuz he saw his thighs#but can we all agree that those must be the palest pastiest legs a man has ever put in direct sunlight#diogenes said to plato “this is a man” about that peeled chicken because he mistook it for Laurent in a chiton#i bet he burns like a lobster#you leave him in direct sunlight for too long and he starts heaving like an office laptop from 2016 booting up Baldurs Gate 3#i am still in the middle of book 3 and when i tell you i am in DIRE NEED OF SOME LAURENT POV DECRIPTIONS OF DAMEN#TELL ME HOW LOVELY HE IS I NEED YOUR PASTY ASS TO SAY IT#I want to hear those rapid fire thoughts because you just know he is extinguishing them like summertime mosquitos#if the govart dies chapter is anything to go by#damen oh damen you really thought ancel was gonna shove that stick up his ass during that one performance. i love you.#you are THE funniest motherfucker in that book and your obsession with that blue eyed featherless biped only adds to it#who drops a pitcher when they see a white boy approach#god out of fear maybe#i would never live it down straight up never#that memory instantly became damen's dark horse in the championships for the most embarrassing shit that he will think about in bed at nigh
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Au where Lloyd realises Arin is going through a “i wanna be a villain” phase every first student goes through and after an argument none of the ninja, not even Nya, can stop the annoyed Lloyd from dragging every single one of them out to the training yard before this petty loser summons Morro in front of all of them.
And Morro, trying to deal with whatever bull he’s been facing after the merge, stands absolutely baffled when Lloyd gestures to him saying to some random kid “Do you really wanna end up like him??”
Best part is that when they both get into an argument again and all the ninja and including the new gen give up on stopping them, Morro holds a hand up and says “wait wait wait, for the love of GOD. Do NOT tell me you’re trying to do that whole evil first student thing too.” And then this mf joins Lloyd in lecturing Arin in gruesome detail about his life and regrets in just as much annoyance. And this time Arin just stands there horrified thinking ‘maybe I should rethink this…’
All the ninja are horrified. (Well, they actually just kinda gave up. They’ve learnt that every green ninja, wannabe or not, are all incredibly stubborn.)
Sora, Wyldfyre, and Euphrasia are all equally terrified.
Lloyd knew this would happen. They didn’t share one brain for at least a month for nothing.
#lego ninjago#ninjago#morro ninjago#lego emo#listen i get the whole ‘lloyd being a menace to morro’ dynamic#but hear me out on morro willingly joining lloyd in his bull#like they could hate eachother#they couldve be deep in tension because they didn’t address some VERY obvious trauma#but those two would happily cuss someone out together#and join forces in making sure no one ends up like them#is this technically a rebellious teenage Arin AU?#yes it is#so like basically#instead of ‘Lloyd: im gonna burn down the world’ ‘Morro: oh nooooo’#its ‘Lloyd: im gonna burn down the world’ ‘lloyd:with an idiot’ ‘morro:apparently im burning down the world today.’#iykyk#morro wu#ninjago morro#lloyd ninjago#ninjago lloyd#lloyd garmadon#arin ninjago#ninjago arin#arin#ninjago dragons rising#dragons rising#nya ninjago#sora ninjago#ninjago wyldfyre#ninjago euphrasia
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just read the new hatchling skin rules and am having Some Type Of Initial Emotional Reaction and am now writing down said Initial Emotional Reaction uncensored as i currently Strongly Feel A Type Of Way and Require Venting. i cannot word this more politely. i do not have the capability to render this rage into polite borderline corporate-speak for the sake of the damn rules that act like anything short of apologizing for being alive to make up for having even the most constructive understanding friendly criticism or even personal mild non-critical dislike of something like a color or a breed is tantamount to personal targeted hatemail. i cannot wait until i cool into calm bitterness later because if i think about this enough to write about it again i will just go right back to being furious and the fact that everyone ielse who's complaining is focusing entirely on the lolita fashion thing and not on in my opinion the far more significant and offensive part is pissing me off even more. extremely angry unedited ranting ahead
fr having it's own "female presenting nipples" moment right now, not that i'm particularly surprised, they've been a prime example of "conservative protestantism in a lefty-language veneer" for a long while now.
"don't adultify" is such a fucking vague and easily selectively interpreted rule, not to mention insulting for a number of reasons,
but putting that part aside the whole idea of "nothing that suggests that the dragon is an adult in a young body" is. look, i'm not exactly fond of the "adult who looks like an anime schoolgirl" trope myself, but i fail to see how in the absolute FUCK having it be canon in-universe that it is both possible and legal for someone to be forced to stay as a child permanently, is somehow LESS creepy than just saying eternal youth dragons have dwarfism. also, fuck you to anyone with dwarfism apparently i guess?
and "no zombie baby dragons" is just stupid. even fucking minecraft has baby zombies, and microsoft has steadily butchered that game into one of the most t for toddler babymode things on earth this side of cocomelon.
and "no scars on hatchlings" so fuck you to any kids with scars too apparently, even though that's way more common than anyone seems to realize. you hear that, kids? if you're under 18 and have scars your very existence is too obscene for public view. 13+ year olds will be irreparably traumatized if they have to know you exist at all! fuck you disabled kids and fuck you amputee kids and fuck you any kids that have suffered anything ever at all for not appearing as a perfect unspoiled image of conservative christian child-doll innocent purity. flight rising staff says your body and existence is inherently too nsfw to even be acknowledged as existing much less visually seen. everyone knows REAL children don't get damaged at all, and if they do then they're too horrifying and defective at their job of Being A Child Properly to exist in public spaces! how dare ugly things that might make us uncomfortable with their existence by contradicting out ideals about aesthetic moral purity be allowed where good respectable normal people can see them!
i don't say any of these words lightly, and i'm very much not the type to go around calling people whatever-ists and in fact find that kind of thing extremely annoying, useless, reductive, and more or less only ever see it used as a blunt cudgel to shame people into line so they don't question you, and have historically found it especially annoying when people pull out the accusations-of-ism card on fr staff over things that are far more likely just completely understandable (if dubiously competent) issues of certain things simply not occurring to someone on code and design level due to lack of sufficient exposure to the idea, and have always been of the belief of giving them the benefit of doubt (even if often that just means i think they either most likely made an understandable mistake that i would likely also make, or, when i'm feeling less kind, that they're simply not particularly competent rather than actively hostile) so understand how much it means coming from me when i say- flight rising staff, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, you ableist batch of pricks, so far up your own asses with your performative veneer of vaguely lefty-flavored language that you don't realize how fundamentally extremely conservative all of your actual beliefs underlying them are. for every update you make that i approve of there's another that does twice as much damage as the good update fixed (and i'm starting to wonder if you maybe know what you're doing with that too-always batching the fucked up shit on the tail end of some big thing you know people will be excited about, always hiding these controversial moderation changes under something shiny and new, to the point that now i dread any new good update that genuinely seems a step in the right direction and/or is something we've been wanting for awhile because i'm just constantly expecting the knife hidden behind the footnotes afterwards, the fucking "ban tiktok/gay marriage/strip rights from this population/end net neutrality/whatever/ect" clause stapled onto the end of a bill about something entirely unrelated functionally holding a change people want hostage until they allow the fucked up part through. i've been here most of the site's 10+ years and i've seen this sort of thing happen far, far too often.) and every year the shit that gets pulled on the management and moderation end of things makes me more and more almost glad i've never had an income to spend on this, and the fact that apparently the moderation behind every single other petsite in existence is somehow significantly worse fucking astounds me. the only reason i stay around here is because It's Free Dragon Pictures, because it's literally the only actually good petsite game i've ever played and not gotten sick of within a week or so (and really the only good low-energy game i've ever played in general, which i'm increasingly convinced is in spite of it's management), and because somehow, despite all of this shit, i still genuinely love the game itself, because unfortunately by some accident of creation it seems they apparently stumbled purely by coincidence into making an actually good game idea no one else quite has. and after all the fuckery that gets constantly pulled, i refuse to believe the game being good is anything other than, much like many of the of the incidents i think they're unfairly accused of malice and -ism over, an accident.
Disabled children too obscene to fucking exist. fuck you. good to know half the child population's existence requires a trigger warning to even be allowed to be acknowledged as existing to you. good to know if the heart surgery i had when i was 11 had left any visible external scars i would be considered inherently too obscene to exist to you. good to know if the overhealed and benignly potentially cancerous scar on my back from whatever actually happened when i was a toddler (i don't trust either of my parents to ever be accurate about something like that) was in a more visible spot you would demand i have a trigger warning to post selfies online. good to know if any of the shit that's broken me emotionally left visible physical marks you would think it was good and right for me to be forcibly hidden from good normal people's view and considered too taboo for even the slightest discussion without hiding it with makeup and lies, just so i don't make good, lucky, undamaged, normal people uncomfortable, god fucking forbid. should we hide the gays too, since they also make so many people uncomfy? i imagine it won't be long before disabled adults are too obscene for your polite societytm sensibilities too. i've had the feeling for a long time that amputee and disabled skins were living on borrowed time with your rules, kept technically not explicitly dissalowed where all other forms of injury and ""body horror"" are banned simply out of fear of the backlash it would cause to include them, and well. the doomsday clock on that one just got a little bit closer to midnight, huh?
the only reason i wasn't a (physically, visibly, externally) scarred kid was pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you weren't a physically scarred kid too is pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you're not some type of disfigured or ugly or amputated or visibly injured or whatnot is pure sheer fucking luck. you're lucky. nothing more. if having to contend with that fact-the fact of how easily it could have gone a different way and there is nothing they would be able to do about it- makes good normal tm people uncomfortable, then well, get the fuck used to it, other people children very much fucking included don't exist to cater to the aesthetic sensibilities of a lucky perfect few. the only thing that separates you from the damaged ones you find too obscene is a bad day and an unlucky hand. and one day, even if you were lucky enough to escape being damaged when you were young, you and i will both be just like them too.
more festival skin winners slots is good. elemental swords sound fun.
#flight rising#how do i always and only end up in fandoms where either the fans or the creators or the fans and the creators#are downright insufferable crypto-conservative nutjobs of the type who tend to think justifying suicide baiting is ever okay#i'm sure i'll cool down to a more calm bitterness on this eventually but for right now i've just read the post and my initial reaction#is still Burning Hot#you have touched upon a trigger subject and I Am Very Angry#the stupid school dress code-ass clothing rules is dumb but wouldn't have gotten much out of me other than an eye roll on it's own#but no scars? no sign of past injury? no implication of disability? no uggos basically?#everyone else who is angry is focusing on the dumb dress code rules when this bullshit is right fucking there#the experience of being an fr player all these years has been a slow building of papercut after papercut#with everyone telling you it's not that bad#until you're the unreasonable one for being so angry over 'just a papercut'#and you have no good way to tell them that it's been 'just a papercut' over and over and over again for *years*#and you would very much like if the chill thing that's supposed to be a low-investment de-stressor would STOP GIVING YOU PAPERCUTS#i don't know how much i can give the benefit of doubt anymore
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There was few to choose from but I did like burn down, rise up by Vincent Tirado
What’s an author you discovered in 2022 that you really liked?
who wants to try a booklr game? it's an experiment.
since it's the end of the year, I will start my asking an end of the year book question and then when you reblog, answer the question and then add another book question for other rebloggers to answer.
those are the only rules, everything else is open to interpretation!!
my question: what was your favorite fictional romance you encountered in books you read in 2022?
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I was listening to Blood Upon The Snow by Hozier and GOD what a Himring theme like imagine???
Maedhros is newly "healed" from his 30 years or torture, just gave up his throne and crown to his uncle and is determined to travel east to build his strong hold against Morgoth. Everyone is worried, like yes he's technically healed but Maedhros has a… violence to him now. He is colder, both at the touch and personality wise. There is a glint in his eyes and his brothers (and cousins, and his aunt and uncle) all look at each other with worry behind his back as he now prowls as he walks.
Maglor is the most worried. He's more in tune with the world and the Music around them, and while Maedhros' song isn't twisted like the thralls they've met, it's brassy now. Before, back in Valinor, Maitimo used to sound like a string quartet, complex and intricate, like a beautiful glass mosaic that told a whole story without words and still let light shine through upon everyone in a splash of rainbow beams. Now, there is a thrumming undertone that's deeper, richer, that makes the almost word filled song of the strings become shrill, like they're crying out. The bass undertone sounds like the marching of an army and the strings sound like a death wail of the doomed. It makes Maglor's skin crawl as he watches his brother, not knowing what to make of the change in Song.
He listens, and he follows Maedhros. Climbs with him up the tallest, coldest peak he finds in the east. The mountain is cold, the wind is biting, and the snow is deep-- not that that is a hindrance for the Elves, but the horses have to trudge through snow that is basically up to their chests. The music here is also cold, sharp woodwinds nipping at the ears and shrill strings that rattles his bones. Maglor opens his mouth to complain, to urge his brother to turn back down this damned mountain when he finally breaks through the cacophony and hears his brother's song.
For the first time since the darkness engulfed Valinor, Maedhros' Song was steady, quiet, finding peace and blending into the rush of Music wiping around them. Maedhros himself looks at peace, eyes closed and face upturned to the weak sun. Between the rich red of his hair, regrown down to his shoulders since they had to shave it after his rescue, and the deep scarlet of his Feanorian robes, Maedhros looks like a spot of blood upon the snow. Maglor shivers, suddenly overcome by a vision of his brother drenched in blood, mouth curled into a snarl like a feral animal, surrounded by endless white and red all around him.
Maedhros begins to hum, a low tune that does nothing but send shivers up and down Maglor's spin.
"Brother, please, let us leave. There is nothing for us here, maybe if we keep travelling east there will be a better place to set up camp." Maglor begs, walking closer to Maedhros.
"No." Maglor freezes at the word. There was an undercurrent of command, of steel. "This place speaks to me, I will make our stronghold here."
Maglor gapes, he looks around at the barren mountain. Nothing but rocks, and snow, and sparse shrubs. "Here? Really?"
Maedhros nods. "Here. Her name shall be Himring, and she will withstand any siege." He hums again, the notes low and easily swallowed up by the wind. Maglor with his keen ears could pair the simple tune and worried at his lip when he noticed that it was actually a very basic version of the Song that screamed around them.
If he listened closer, he could almost hear the words in the Song. His heart clenched as he watched Maedhros turn and begin ordering their men, getting the wheels of creation of their base set into motion.
Maglor looked around the mountain side again. He could feel the glee of the mountain, at how the rocks thrummed beneath their feet and snow. It felt vicious, like hunting dogs straining at their leashes, an eager glee that felt almost bloodthirsty. Maglor just hoped that it just would be directed towards helping their cause, and not be their downfall.
To all things housed in her silence Nature offers a violence
#silmarillion#silm#maedhros#maglor#maitimo#nelyafinwe#I think Himring would LOVE mae and be magic and do anything for her Lord#Including stay standing for 4 Ages waiting for his return#Anyways I want Mae to be humming Blood Upon Snow while Himring is being build and that this is her Song#He sings it sometimes while walking her halls and kinda just becomes her Anthem#Mae sings it throughout his life and as a shitty lullaby to the Twins after everything has Gone To Shit#I know Mae isnt the battle bard of the family but MAN just imagining him singing this song while walking up to an orc siege#raising his voice as he sings about the hardships of the Winter and Cold and how hes the only speck of warmth for miles#burning hot like fresh blood melting through snow as he cuts down orcs#until he is practically screaming the last few lines. Loud and brash and bold and vicious#He IS the blood upon the snow. a red sun rising. a beautiful warning. and if you arent careful it will be your last and only warning.
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❤️🖤Bloody Heart Babe🖤❤️
#BIG fan of Wes' medium-length wet-hair look here#I've always enjoyed how the dark marks on his face look like they are extending out from the sides of his face and hairline#like they are dark vines slowly creeping over his face ready to engulf his entire face#but like symbolically the cross is keeping it away#that was my artistic hot take#now for the prime THIRST-HOUR™ y'all paid admission for#Wes did NOT need to do a whole ass model-on-the-runway walk like that in the gif#the confidence in this man swaying those hips like he actually got big curvaceous hips just has my jaw on the floor#like those low-rise black bottoms got my blood pressure going up#body just long 'n lean. FUCK.#ugh and I'm such a simp over Wes' soft eyes. Especially when he has them closed and he's looking down like in the pics.#the way his eyelashes delicately lay against the tops of his cheeks just makes my insides melt#like legit my insides feel like the warm molten chocolate lava cake at Chili's#Oh and hey L U C Y hey!!!#Wes Borland#Limp Bizkit#nu-metal#Black Light Burns#Wesley giving me that WAP on Wes Borland Wednesday#down the rabbit hole
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Fave Five: Queer YA Set in NYC, Part I
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender Look No Further by Rioghnach Robinson and Siofra Robinson More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Echo After Echo by AR Capetta Bonus: Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler is set half in NYC, half in LA, and Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land is set half in NYC, half in the Dominican Republic
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#Adam Silvera#Bronx#Burn Down Rise Up#Clap When You Land#Dahlia Adler#Elizabeth Acevedo#Felix Ever After#Going Bicoastal#Kacen Callender#Look No Further#Manhattan#More Happy Than Not#Rioghnach Robinson#Siofra Robinson#Vincent Tirado
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rise and warriors best worlds mvs no contest
#like. dont get me wrong i enjoy some of the other ones as well#ignite. legends never die. gods#burn it all down is pretty good as well#i like what star walking had going on at the beginning but not really the rest#but rise and warriors are another level#kinda sad about gods. if the animation had more energy to it i think it could have been up these with these two#especially with the story line they got going on in it#like the when the chorus plays it would have been so cool if the animation matched its energy !!!!!!!!!#but its doesnt :9#it just feels too slow. even when theyre fighting#LIKE SORRY WHY IS THE FIRST CHORUS MAINLY TAKEN UP BY DEFT STARING AT HIS COMPUTER LOOKING SAD WHEN IT SHOULD BE THE MATCHES#also the not chorus parts of the song could use a little oomph to them#like not exactly like the chorus but i feel like they dont need to be that slow#anyways thats all folks thanks for reading#cait.txt
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something bad is happening to my spine
#i don't know what but#this is super fucked up#i can't be sat up for more than like 10#minutes without a specific bit of my spine feeling like it's almost like. burning#it feels like there's a sparkler in there just fucking going at it#i really want to mention it to my dad but i also don't because . ugh#k really need to go to a doctor about this#but also he's probably going to tell me that covid cases are rising and there's a new variant#and we can't afford to get covid i know that but it fuckinf hurts so bad#luckily lying down makes it go away but. gos
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