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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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if I ever strike gold and end up writing a popular book series i'd love to keep an eye on the fandom to determine the smallest crackship and make that the only one that goes canon

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hate when I'm trying to just take a normal drink but it turns out I'm thirstier than I thought so I end up gulping it down like a goddamn cartoon characer. the indignity of water lust.

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I’m part of a union even though I don’t have a job. Finland was built on unions (as much as our government wants to dismantle them rn). Your union isn’t necessarily linked to your job, generally speaking they’re per field (although there’s plenty of overlap). I’m studying philosophy, in the social sciences department at our university, so I’m a member of Social Science Professionals.

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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I am so proud of the Hungarian ppl right now.

It was the 30th Pride.

It was banned.

200.000 people were there.

Thank you for this boost today. Thank you for showing up and standing up for our right!

Photo cr.: Telex.hu

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Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

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To add to this: What do these people MEAN? Fun reads are usually also steeped with a lot of philosophical meaning! It’s not very common that a book just doesn’t have themes? Isn’t the fun in the exploration of those themes?

I’m half-convinced these people just aren’t very literate and don’t understand what they’re reading. I think the anti-intellectualism wave has turned analysis and philosophical messages and themes into something you have to be a genius or a nerd to understand when it’s actually very basic stuff that I fully believe most people can do (and DO DO, they just don’t connect that that is what they’re doing!).

To be fair, I also didn’t connect that that was what I was doing when I was in school and we were learning about those, but I fully blame my shit teacher for that. The moment I actually grasped what concepts like themes and motifs meant (with actual examples) I was like oh it’s this stuff.

I LOVE finding those connections and noticing the little tidbits the author has weaved in to the story. They’re so FUN! I don’t care if it’s lighthearted and easily digestible and a ”fun read,” it most likely still has infinite potential for analysis. It’s a symptom of the illiteracy epidemic that these ”book influencers” don’t see that.

please bear with me while I be judgey for a hot second about a particular Type Of Internet Person here amongst friends

I'm really baffled by the phenomenon of "people who have become ~book influencers~ who don't like to read" bc this Type Of Person seems to be everywhere and I don't understand why??

like. this is a review of an ARC. this person has thousands of book reviews and people following them for said book reviews.

(damn bitch, you get arcs for this?)

it's not that I exclusively read Very Serious Books For Very Serious People and I hate fun reading or think that no one should read for pleasure

but like. what.... could they possibly have to say..... about books......... if they do not enjoy thinking about them...........

and crucially: why are they spending their precious time on earth making an entire internet presence out of it

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me immediately @ this sign: oooooh they are gonna love you on tumblr

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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This leads me to give every fic writer with historical blorbos a new writing challenge: Write a fic using all these words in one scene.

running list of words that are unexpectedly (and delightfully?) older than I expected:

brunch (1890s)

spunk, as in semen (1880s)

grill, as in interrogate (1890s)

unfortunately "I grilled him over brunch about the spunk stains" is regrettably a historically accurate sentence for a late-victorian

hot, as in "inciting desire" (18th century)

camp, in as theatrical/over-the-top first added to dictionary in 1909 but in use as gay slang for indeterminable number of decades prior

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getting both wet AND hard because i don't let my physical form limit my self expression

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the five hottest things a fictional man can be are 1. highly intelligent 2. terminally ill 3. emotionally unavailable 4. full of trauma and regrets 5. lying about their identity

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The way this pasta bracket is my new obsession

hiiii I got confused - am I voting for evilest long pasta in this bracket?

no, this is just Normal Long Pasta Bracket! the Evil Bracket is a future plan

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You're doing a good job

now that is debatable! but thanks

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penis

erect or nah

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reblog to give writers the power to write 10k words of porn without plot