Posession is nine tenths of the fine print

The trick was finding a human who would blend in. Teenagers decked in black to the fingernails, crystal readers, people with an axe to grind – the world was already on guard against them. As soon as something unusual went on in the life of someone with an acknowledged connection, no matter how tenuous, to the dimly lit shadow of the supernatural, people got wary.

Of being conned, if nothing else.

No, demons had always been choosy about who they inhabited. They had to be: pitchforks hurt, but so did being thrown into Bedlam and left to the earnest experimentation of so-called doctors. The secret to success in demonology was less what you knew of true names and arcane rituals, and more of being the right sort of vessel, at the right time, and too focused on your goals to balk at the deal you were going to make.

But in these modern days of smartphones and the internet, there weren’t a lot of people who were that desperate for something beyond the human ability to obtain. Sure, there were a lot of people who would sell their soul to win the mega million and become the first billionaire in the United States to pay taxes, or to become a rock star, but those weren’t good long term bets. Rock Stars and overnight millionaires stood out. You could get away with a lot with a rock star and some greasepaint, calling it stage magic, but putting in the effort of maintaining that persona even if the body’s original owner was trying to burn you out with MDMA didn’t leave a lot of time for advancing the demonic agenda. Plus, the shelf life of a rock star was pitifully short.

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Day late, but not a dollar short

(GLOW spoiler warning!!!)

i really wasn’t expecting this show to touch on something so incredibly heart breaking like the homophobia and AIDS epidemic from the 80’s. the fact that they actually talked about it, adding:

• a gay character who portrays a drag queen on stage and his fight for recognition in the entertainment business, also how he has to hide and pretend that his friend/surrogate is his wife

• showing the movement suppoting AIDS help groups / also how the aids epidemic affected the community

• the blatant hatred and discrimination against lgbtq people, even in some of the most “accepting” places in america

• the portrayal of a man with homophobia so deeply internalized that he absolutely ignores romantic feelings that he (probably) has had for years towards another man, making him so confused and weirded out by the concept of men being gay (specially his best friend/love interest??), making him marry a woman he doesn’t really know, how he has a mental breakdown after having sex with a man and ends up crying in the lap of a friend because he’s scared of dying

• the portrayal of a character that grew in a culture where many things were already unimaginable and forbidden, even more the idea of a woman liking another woman, resulting in a fear of her own sexuality and other women’s, how she came to terms with falling in love but then became so scared because of what being gay implied, then accepting and deciding to join the fight after seeing other lgbtq people accepting how they are and living their life no matter how much they had to go through

GLOW REALLY SAID WE ARE BRINGING THE GAYS THIS SEASON!!! WE ARE BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS NOW!!! NO MORE FUCKING AROUND!!

also, noted: in previous seasons (and in this one too) they have already addressed incredibly important stuff like racism, sexism, eating disorders, obligated rivalry between women, immigration, and so much more!! so you should all absolutely stream this show, i promise you won’t regret it!!

there are two wolves inside you

The struggle is real. 

And then I do neither of those things! 

This. This is the real struggle.

Underrated & Under-reviewed LGBT+ Book Recommendations

To read for Pride all year long.

I see a lot of LGBT+ book rec pots going around because of pride but they rarely feature any of the obscure books that actually need to be found and read and supported to help new LGBT+ manuscripts break into the literary world.

So, without further ado, here is a list with books which have (approximately) less than 5k ratings or less than 1k reviews on goodreads. (Books with fewer than 1k ratings are bolded!)

Disclaimer: I haven’t read all these books personally, but they have been read by people whose opinions I trust. I tried to get as much content information as I could, but I might have missed some things so please let me know if I should adjust any of the content info!

Fantasy/Sci-fi

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan.

Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn.

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner.

The Fever King by Victoria Lee.

More Than Enough by Elizabeth Wambheim

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones;

Contemporary 

Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton.

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole.

I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn.

Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates; 

Running with Lions by Julian Winters

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann 

Bonus Recommendations

Dragonsong a wlw fantasy short story by Audrey Rose B

Knit One, Girl Two a fluffy wlw contemporary short story by Shira Glassman

The Songbird’s Refrain a wlw fantasy by Jillian Maria, coming FALL 2019.

Please reblog with your own favorite underrated, under-reviewed LGBT+ books!

HEY GUESS WHAT

Look what’s now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! THAT’S RIGHT!

MY BOOK!

It’s time! You can actually buy print copies of My Name is Runaway now!

(For an overrated price, so I’ll understand if you wait for the e-book, which is half the price but still in formatting for a few more days - I’ll be adding it to Goodreads tomorrow if I can for your goal-meeting, trivia-creating needs)

Who wants to be first to the finish?

Some Real Shit ™ guys: 

I feel like I’m letting everyone down because I can’t be some a major Writeblr Supporter. And I’m really really sorry.

I wish I could do what some of the other awesome writers here are doing by constantly finding and reading and reblogging other people’s work, and I have tried, and I’ve mostly failed, because of lame excuses like I’m tired and I can’t read words properly all the time. (Dammit dyslexia? Or depression? Or some other neurodivergence?)

And it gets to the point where sometimes I’m nearly in tears because how the hell do those people have so many more spoons than me and why can’t I engage with that many awesome wips and writers without my social calibrator dipping into levels that put me in overload mode for days.

I don’t have any sort of motivational moral here, other than, I guess, if you feel like this, you’re not alone? And that I’m really sorry if you’ve wanted my attention and I couldn’t give it to you. It’s not because your wip isn’t great or because I didn’t want to. Keep being awesome.

Actually I do have a moral: It’s okay if you have less spoons than other people with the same interests.

It’s okay if you can’t do as much, or engage as much, or feel as alive as them. It’s even okay if you find people with the same mental illness or disability who can consistently do more. Because all you can do it your best, and if you’re trying that hard, you’ve already won. 

Don’t be upset with yourself. (I’ve been upset with myself enough for both of us.)

That is all <3

Watching and LOVING this show on Hulu.  Aidy Bryant is wonderful in this superb new show.   The rest of the cast is also excellent, as is the writing.

So since I’ve seen quite a few PTSD fics circulate around this community, I thought I would share some of my tips for writing it realistically, as someone who has it.

-Not every time the thing comes up do you get triggered into flashbacks. It can be random and it can even sneak up on you.

-Not all flashbacks are visual, shower-floor, crying flashbacks. Those exist. But more often, a flashback is more like an emotional flashback–you feel like you did when the thing was happening. And your brain tells you it’s about to happen again even when that doesn’t make much sense, and that’s what sets off the panic reaction.

-We all have a version of the story we can tell without panicking. Usually very bare-bones, sometimes morbidly funny, sprinkled with inappropriate jokes about dying and dismemberment. 

-Sometimes watching someone else have a panic attack from PTSD can set us off into our own. 

-There are oftentimes genres of shows we can’t watch because they remind us of our trauma.

-Many times, the attack manifests itself more aggressively than a regular panic attack from a person with GAD or depression. This is because we’re reacting to a specific stressor. They can be very combative, or they can be VERY defensive (mine are always defensive. I get quiet, I feel nauseated, I hide without thinking about it.) 

This has been PTSD awareness with Taylor Tut. Have a great day, y’all!

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

A biweekly serial about vampires, witches, and a rather unfortunate philosophy professor.

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Warnings:  Blood, drugs, alcohol, and uh…club music, I guess

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OH FUCK?!?!

If I had One earthly wish Then it would be To do a squish

Yes, I’m editing again, no, I still don’t know jack shit about linguistics despite writing a character who knows over a dozen languages (via quill-of-thoth)

the fact that gloriful isn’t a real word has been a source of endless pain for me

Start using it and it can become one

It’s what Shakespeare would want.