#to this very same club

[sexynetra]

She’s so me for real

[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

had a fun little conversation at a party about ds9 and the guy and i agreed on almost everything (he's a big sisko fan, makes me trust him), except at one point while we were talking favourites he sort of casually went "i imagine julian bashir is nobody's first choice" and i was like. oh honey. you haven't met the trans nd trekkies have you.

[bogkeep]

the main reason intergenerational friendships are important is because my friend from archery club will show me pictures of plushies that he's created little outfits and elaborate backstories for

[martyryo]

his biggest sin was having blue hair and pronouns.

[r-aindr0p]

Purple hair, bangs, potions & magic : another particular crossover living in my brain

+ reverse hair color for everyone since Rook is naturally blonde

[pharawee]

Everything can change at any time. One day you may not believe in the same things anymore.

[marlynnofmany]

Me: *tells a roomful of people about my adventures in marketing my books, which includes an enthusiastic description of my time on Tumblr*

Me: *wonders an hour later what I've reblogged recently, in case they look me up*

My Tumblr: "All good, boss. Aliens, words, fae bargains and humans being weird about food."

Me: "Oh good."

[hello-satan-speaking]

Y’ALL🤭💚

[lale-txt]

i knew Soft Launch reached the right audience when the comments about the wlw dating being deeply relatable piled up lmao

[salisburyliam]

I don't care if the book tries to tell you otherwise: HS is a comedy

[satans-knitwear]

There are in fact fishnet tights over these leggies. I cannot personally see them while making these gifs bc i need new glasses, but they are there!!

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[lesamis]

What are your favourite poetry prescriptions? 👀

this is such a fun question, thank you, i love it. i don't think a lot of these will be poems you've not encountered before, but maybe it's useful to have them on hand in case disaster strikes? here are some poems to read when...

you hate your job

you need to get the job done

things and people are too loud and much and close

the world is about to end

you're feeling bitter

you're feeling weltschmerz

you miss your friends

you need to make peace with inhabiting a physical form

you're leaving

you're homesick

you need to hold on a bit longer

you miss your mum

[loppiopio]

just some 🥥 related sillies i've made for that fic we all know.

[covertblizzard]

jaykyle au where they're theatre kids in the same school but they're not the actors jason's the scriptwriter/director and kyle is the prop manager (i don't know the official terms sorry) and they'd probably do an amazing job on the backstage setting if they could stop arguing for 5 whole seconds about their artistic visions and ideas and how "this would obviously work better this way"

[heartbeatbookclub]

I was looking at a few posts about autism (as one does) and it just suddenly clicked into place a fundamental thing about Yuri's character that I'd been grasping at, but hadn't really been able to adequately identify. I still have a much longer and more thorough analysis going through a whole lot of my thoughts on Yuri's character and her experience of autism that i'm working on (of which this will likely be a component), but I thought I'd share this separately just to emphasize.

Post I saw which made this click for me was making fun of the fact that most media depicting impaired empathy in autistic characters explicitly depicts them with this unflappable confidence of never having been rejected by people they love. The crux of this is that in actual reality, autistic people almost always have that experience at some point, for some behavior, for reasons they don't really understand. "There is an invisible line where people will get sick of you, and you have no warning of when you're about to cross it." So frequently, autistic people attempt to ride a razor thin edge, walking on constant eggshells to desperately attempt to avoid crossing that line.

Very often autistic people will attempt to avoid doing anything at all which could be considered weird, or off-putting, and will try their absolute hardest to do things in a way that is acceptable to other people, sometimes to the point of outright suppressing their emotions, because they are afraid that they'll say something just wrong enough that the people they care about will push them away, and they don't understand WHY it happened, but they know it's THEIR fault. Sometimes masking is fighting to appear aloof all the time because you can't regulate your emotions in a way that is acceptable to other people.

And holy fucking Jesus, that fits the exact mold of what I've been trying to talk about with the particular way Yuri's anxieties manifest.

It really feels to me like Yuri has this constant fear of breaking the "rules" of socializing, despite not really understanding what those rules even are. She's constantly afraid of saying something wrong, when she doesn't even know what wrong would be, she's just sure everyone ELSE will know it when they hear it. I think a huge part of her social anxiety comes from her own understanding of herself as a very weird person who doesn't really get a lot of how to socialize, and it seems to me like she's probably dealt with her fair share of social rejection and isolation based on those traits. She then felt she had to take responsibility for those traits, probably because it's the one thing she can change, and she is the one common denominator in all of these bad situations (This is something which is pretty common, actually! "Everyone else can socialize just fine, and I have so much difficulty with it! I must just be broken in some way. I have to try super hard to be normal to make friends!")

I think a big part of why it's so apparent in the Literature Club is because she really thinks she's found a place where she can make friends in spite of all of her issues, so when she starts...being herself, and receives even the smallest HINT of pushback, she overcorrects and tries to rein all of herself in to fix her "mistake", because she really wants to make friends here, and doesn't want them to reject her as well.

She's had this experience of others pushing her away for being weird so often that, coupled with her acknowledged trouble for reading situations, when anybody responds poorly to something and she recognizes it, she immediately overcorrects out of fear of being an annoying burden to everyone around her, and that "correction" consists of suppressing herself into being "normal" (or at least "less weird"), because she believes nobody could actually like her just for being who she is. There's something wrong with her fundamentally, and to make friends, for people to like her and want to be around her, she has to "fix" herself.

it's just, like...

it's really hard for me to interpret Yuri's character that doesn't involve her being somewhere on the spectrum, bros. she's written with such delicately constructed autistic coding, despite the appearance of just being a hackneyed weird girl visual novel trope. she deserves the world.......

[mccleans]

i hope we as a club see zero success for as long as we're represented by a rapist and his apologists. i'd rather we go bottom of the table than continue to watch him celebrate and be celebrated