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Jane Austen heroines exist on a sliding scale of "You are always right, and no one ever listens to you" (Fanny Price) to "You are never right, and everyone always listens to you" (Emma Woodhouse.)

the best time to grieve is when it spites the people who tell you not to

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Those videos that are like “sorry millennials but gen alpha thinks side parts/skinny jeans/high ponytails/whatever are cringey” are so painfully embarrassing can you IMAGINE being in your ENTIRE THIRTIES and caring what a twelve year old thinks about you??

There are people in the notes who think my beef is with the twelve year old and I want to assure you it is not: twelve year olds thinking their parents are cringe is a sacred rite of passage. Being a grown ass adult and letting the opinions of children affect you however is optional.

Sometimes I think about if Bucky hadn’t fallen from the train, and how he never left Steve’s side the whole war so he absolutely would have been on the plane with Steve. And assuming there actually wasn’t a way to land the plane safely, they would’ve gone down together because dammit he meant til the end of the line. And they would’ve woken up in 2012 together. They would’ve both been out of time but they at least would’ve had each other

listen. i know it's not 2014 anymore and i know it's just a throwaway line and that the russo brothers didnt intend for marvel action blockbuster captain america the winter soldier to become the tragic gay love story that never was but man. having steve say "it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience" in a conversation about romantic relationships right before the bucky reveal is so cruel. it's not just about steve and bucky obviously having the shared experience of being "out of time," it's the fact that they've both been stripped of their humanity in opposite directions. steve is a legend, he is an american hero and a national icon before he is a human being the same way that bucky is a weapon and a killing machine before he is a human being. steve knows that anyone who falls in love with him in the 21st century fell in love with captain america first, and that's just not him. but then the one person who knew him first and knew him best and loved him (not captain america, that little guy from brooklyn) so much he died for it is alive, impossibly. and it's a miracle because he's back and it's horrific because he's back under the worst possible circumstances. but to steve, the winter soldier is worth tearing the world apart for because he's always been bucky first. they find each other and suddenly they're human again. and maybe, despite it all, being "out of time" becomes a blessing, because in this century they'd finally be allowed to love each other the way they've always wanted to. like real people do.

like. no. the captain america trilogy isn't about two queer men traumatized and alienated by war and modern life rediscovering and reclaiming their humanity through their love for each other. but. i mean. it couldve been

when i was a kid we only had windows 95 and we had to sharpen the points of our mouse cursors with pocket knives to make them precise enough to click things reliably

Despite all the sadness of the end of Les Mis, I love this bit of dialogue between Jean Valjean and Cosette:

Marius in a maid outfit canon

"would you fuck your clone" = boring, who cares, the answer says nothing about you other than whether or not you're your own type

"would you fuck MY clone" = unexpected, high potential to cause a lot of 'why would you fuck my clone and not me?' drama, reasonable question to ask if you're a mad scientist

Happy ASAW 2024, here's something about community !

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Image 1: A title reads "Aromanticism Commonality" with the word aromanticism striped in greens, white and grey to make the aromantic flag. A featureless grey character says "I'm not [X] but I believe in their beliefs". A little text on the bottom right reads "(Don't take this too seriously)". The background is a light green to white gradient. End image 1

Image 2: A character with the pan and bi flags is saying "My feelings for people aren't dependent on their gender". A character with the aromantic flag is nodding at their side. The background is a light blue to white gradient. End image 2.

Image 3: A character with the polyamorous flag is saying "I can have the same kind of feelings for different people without exclusivity". A character with the aromantic flag nods along. The background is a yellow to white gradient. End image 3.

Image 4: A character with the asexual flag is saying "My feelings for other people goes against society's norms". A character with the aromantic flag is nodding along. Both characters have their arms over the other's shoulder. The background is a purple to white gradient. End image 4.

Image 5: Multiple people of different colours of the rainbow are gathered in a circle and high-fiving. They all look happy. From their high-five spouts a rainbow. A text on the top reads "We are all in the same community / We share a lot in common / I wanted to highlight some of that!" A text on the bottom reads "Happy Aro Spec Awareness Week!" End image 5.

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reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

If you’re asexual and you have sex you’re not actually asexual because you have the sex and if you’re asexual and don’t have sex you’re not asexual because you haven’t tried the sex so how would you know so obviously the only solution is to start throwing things

Also masturbation doesn’t count as sex except for when it does apparently

Write Your Story

I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.

Why?

He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didn’t even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but that’s beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me – his first beta – and y'all?

He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.

Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, “There is already a Minecraft story.”

Me: Okay? So what?

Lucifer: If there’s already a story, no one will read mine.

Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, “What if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.”

He laughed.

I showed him Mornings Aren’t For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.

Then I said, “So do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in love… would anyone read it?”

He laughed and said, “No because you already did.”

So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.

I’m going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.

Write your story. It doesn’t matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didn’t write YOUR story. Only you can do that.

And I want to read your story.

Holy crap, this is A+ parenting and such a good lesson.