Margaret and Rourke (Part 1)

Rating: Mature  Relationships: Female Human/Male Orc  Additional Tags: Exophilia, Monster Lovers, Interspecies Romance, Orcs, Older Man/Younger Woman Content Warnings: Mentions of Sexual Assault, Mentions of Physical Violence, Mentions of Torture, References to Sexual Assault Resulting in Pregnancy  Series:  Part 18 of Shelter Forest: The Towns  Words: 4,238

The reader's mother from Akjan's fic and her orc hubby get their own fic! After her daughter is taken away from her to be married to an orc chieftain she's never met, Margaret worries she'll never see her again. An orc arrives with news of her daughter and promises to help them reunite. Please leave feedback!

Your daughter had been gone for two months already. The count had ripped her from your arms in an instant on the day of her eighteenth birthday and gave you little to no time to say goodbye. You could only hope that she was well and being treated properly wherever she was, but you had no way to know for sure. You were anxious constantly, unaware if she was healthy or fed properly or even alive, but the idea that she could be somewhere out there, safe and happy, was the only comfort you found in your day to day life.

[ID: texts from an unspecified user on an unspecified messaging platform. they read “guy in a business suit sat next to me on bus”, “has legal pad”, “only thing written is ‘muppets’”, “which is underlined”. end ID.]

her: i’m coming over you better not be trent reznor spinning in the closer by nin mv when i get there

my dumbass:

look i know i am preaching to the choir as the saying goes but these 'water is wet' studies as i have seen them called is to prove a point not everyone believes.

like i have met people who think being suicidal is an inherent part of being trans and don't know how the numbers decrease from gender-affirming care HELL even didn't know the numbers dropped so much just from getting basic affirming care.

rarely is research done for a pointless reason, not everyone is gonna know this stuff even those who are involved in the LGBTQ+ community and spend time working with LGBTQ+ youth ( i don't work with youth per se but the volunteer work i do with pride has me in spaces with them).

like yes i know the joke here but i think this type of response isn't the best to research being done on our side.

Studies like this are being cited in court cases against gender-affirming care bans as we speak. Remember, the argument behind those laws is that gender-affirming care is harmful to children in the long term, both physically and psychologically, and that this justifies interfering in private citizens' healthcare decisions. We need as many studies as we can get showing the opposite if we want those laws to be struck down permanently.

NEVER laugh at something that formalized and catalogues a generally accepted fact in your community, because it could be a rock solid protection in the future.

As a researcher who's occasionally involved in doing this kind of research (not for queer stuff, for disability stuff, though there's obviously overlap)

Don't laugh is, unfortunately, unrealistic. Sometimes it's laugh to keep from screaming. Don't cry is also unrealistic (laughing isn't always enough). People in group chats with me (and sometimes one on one DMs) can attest to my Very Regular frustrations.

But 'Aim the frustration, derision, etc... at the fact that the literature & current practices are fucked enough that we need those studies'? That I will get behind all day.

collection

anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma's boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are "like that" because they haven't seen their grandma's tits

good job tumblr 👍

“Sweet Dreams”

Martin Gregus captured a once in a lifetime moment of a Polar Bear sleeping on a bed of fireweed.

Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

This is it, this is the best photo ever taken

Agreed that that is one of the top tier photos of all time but you cannot deny this is a close contender

whenever i like your vent post pls don’t imagine me standing there with a thumbs up pls imagine me bringing you a warm blanket out of the dryer and a cup of your favorite drink bc that is what i am doing mentally in my own mind

Kitty wants pets

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