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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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Still here, still alive, still planning on doing a story collection and writing new things when my ear allows it.

The ear is getting better, but it is very slow. It has improved a lot though, and I hope it continues to do so until I can write again.

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(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!!

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firewritten · 5 years

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there are two wolves inside you

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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

Women loving women

Unique world building

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan.

Bisexual disaster protagonist

Great social analysis

Comedy

Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn.

Ace romance with a nonbinary pov character

More fluff than angst

TW for mild gore

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner.

Men loving men

Mature content

The Fever King by Victoria Lee.

Dark YA

TW for heavy traumatic themes

More Than Enough by Elizabeth Wambheim

Fluff

Ace men loving men

Women loving women

Beauty and the beast retelling

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones;

Woman loving women

Adult content

Bodyguard romance trope

Contemporary

Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton.

Lesbian coffee shop rom-com

Mature content

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole.

Black women loving women

Novella

Mature content

I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn.

Comedy

Women loving women

Told through not traditional narration

TERF character (called out by the narrative)

Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates;

Men loving men

Drama

TW for traumatic themes

Running with Lions by Julian Winters

Men loving men

Sports

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Black, biromantic asexual protagonist

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!

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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?

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Hi nice writer friends!

I am still alive. It’s just that I had a bad cold in March, which was followed by bad tinnitus, which was followed by a sore throat. My primary care doctor prescribed antibiotics and they helped, but a couple of weeks later the tinnitus showed back up. And it’s still here and loud and debilitating and there are three different sounds that come and go, and one of them is hearing the blood in the veins near the ear go by, yay!

I went to an ENT specialist two and a half weeks ago, and they did a hearing test and looked in my ear and nose, and there’s fluid in the ear and my sinuses are inflamed and it’s probably related to allergies.

I have a follow up appointment Wednesday, and I”m hoping I can convince the ENT to go ahead and drain the ear instead of waiting for it to clear up because it’s awful and I want my life back.

I can’t focus and I haven’t been able to do much of anything but play Sims and do some basic questing in Elder Scrolls Online and watch TV for weeks and weeks now. The spousal person has been very understanding and willing to do things like order delivery and eat frozen pizza, because when the tinnitus is loud noises like moving dishes around and scraping spoons on bowls feels awful and leads to me crying and the side of my face vibrating with my pulse.

So...yeah. I am still here and I still want to write and I still want to update my serial stories and I still want to put together and self-publish a collection of my short stories. It’s just that right now the inside of my head is screaming at me from three different directions, so...yeah.

I hope you are all doing well. And if the inside of your head is currently silent, please please notice that and appreciate it while you have it.

*hugs*

#personal #not about writing

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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

#writeblr #disability

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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.

#the spousal person and I finished the first season last night #it's good and interesting and diverse #not about writing #but about media #it is rated M for mature audiences

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Three of my babies. :) Rigel the big orange bro, Quasar the tiny light gray and white girl, and Vega with her lovely stripes.

We found their mother pregnant and probably abandoned in our backyard almost five years ago.

#not about writing #I think their fifth birthday is in July #sorry for not being here much #going through it with my health right now

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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!

#about writing #writing advice #the emotional flashback thing is real #there is also fawn and freeze in addition to fight or flight #I use fawn a lot #if I think someone is mad at me #I will apologize for anything #and accept all the guilt #which made me a very good target for emotional abuse years ago #I've worked on it since

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#other people's poetry #other people's awesome #writeblr

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

Previous | Next

Read from the Beginning

Word count: 1,700

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

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#other people's writing #other people's awesome #other people's seths #is very good #if a bit disturbing because the effects of the things in the warning makes me anxious

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All right, it’s vacation time and I am reasonably healthy after a month of a bad cold followed by a bad bacterial sinus infection, and work on the story collection is resuming! :)

I am still trying to decide the story order. Guess I’ll ask some people who know my work well for that.

Short stories of mine if you want to read them: https://firewritten.tumblr.com/short-stories

#writeblr #writing #about my writing

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

#other people's writing #other people's poetry #best poem ever

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Estella was reasonably fluent in a variety of alien languages, including awkward silence

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)

#other people's writing #I get you Estella

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

#writeblr #about other people's writing #I approve of new words

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