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Blood, Skulls and Roses.

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As you wish.

Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.

If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.

This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.

In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)

I know this doesn’t apply to any of the romance authors on here, but I really hope the Twitter/tiktok authors who cheered on the porn bans and told the rest of us we were crazy to “fear monger” that Romance would fall under fire are having a very “stub your toe for the rest of your natural lives” kind of day.

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.

Oh yeah, this blog still exists, can't get into main right now, get that fixed tonight... But for now wtf is this right now?

An important message to heterosexuals, listen carefully: you do not, and I repeat do NOT, have to marry someone you actively dislike, don't enjoy spending time with and/or whose hobbies you despise. You do not have to do that!! stop doing that!!!

"hahaha I hate my wife and made an entire room of the house dedicated to evading her company"

"hahaha I hate my husband and I drink industrial quantities of wine to cope with having had kids with him"

MAYBE STOP?

Please marry a friend - someone you love spending time with, someone you can tell your secrets to, someone you enjoy sharing physical space with.

The attraction often fades, or becomes secondary to most other real life practicalities. But the need to be a team and to enjoy each other's company is life-long.

Marry a co-conspirator. Marry a friend. Marry someone you can be weird and silly with. Marry someone who you aren't embarrassed to be vulnerable around. Marry someone who will make you tea at 6 a.m. when you're sick and still have to go to work. Marry someone who you can ride on a train with for ten+ hours. Marry someone who will clean up the cat barf or dog poop or diaper for you, because you just sat down to dinner. Marry someone who will treasure your art. Marry someone who understands that you both are going to change, and wants to be intentional about growing together. Marry someone whose vision of the future and core values matches yours.

Marry a friend, y'all. It's the best choice I ever made.

Yeah, so I know maybe ten people who follow me, my phone isn't giving any indication of when y'all were active, so if you're around like or reply to this.

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