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i do like a good little note taking session in a cute café ☕️

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i do like a good little note taking session in a cute café ☕️

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University of Padua where I am taking a course next week 🫠

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Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.

Ames isn’t happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames’s boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she’s pregnant with his baby—and that she’s not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he’s been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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light reading

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anyway, don’t be a stranger

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december

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16.01.2025 [😉]

💟: 긍정적으로 생각하자/ A day to overcome anxiety

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Feels good to start fresh

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the beginning of January 🌹 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

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Started reading some academic papers on danmei and I will post about them regularly. Here're some excerpts from one that traces the genealogy of danmei:

"Early danmei writers usually wrote out of interest and posted their works on online forums for free. Their writings were marked by a daredevil spirit and were filled with raw energy. Popular on Lucifer and Jinjiang were subgenres that contained elements of ‘grotesque eroticism,’ such as incestual love stories between male relatives and ‘abuse novels’ (虐文) that featured rape, BDSM and imprisonment.

Early danmei fans followed the principle of ‘quandi zimeng’ (圈地自萌), a fan terminology meaning ‘claiming your own land, enjoying yourself on your own "territory’." The underground popularity of danmei nevertheless caught the attention of the mainstream and official Chinese media. As early as 2004, a media report claimed that homosexuality was a psychological perversion and reading too much danmei could change one’s sexual orientation. During the 2007 annual anti-pornography campaign, hundreds of danmei forums and e-libraries based in Xilu and Lequeyuan were wiped out, resulting in the loss of a large quantity of creative works and meta essays. A number of danmei-related Baidu Post Bars were also forced to close. Through a variety of resistance tactics, however, danmei fandom quickly bounced back and entered a stage of rapid expansion."

-‘OPENING THE DOOR TO A NEW WORLD’: Danmei and the Gender Revolution in China, by Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu

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more spreads!

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my mind that cannot ever shut up and my hands that never seem to catch a break 📝 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

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In the remote Buddhist monastery of Haeinsa is preserved the Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world, dating from 1251.

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neat little stack of life savers. 💫

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cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings