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opaltea · 23 days
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[garrotes you with our red thread of fate]
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opaltea · 5 months
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tumblr as a company has clearly sided with israel (running pro-israel propaganda & misinformation ads, blocking/suppressing the palestine tag and many related tags) at this point if you pay for ad free browsing, badges, or merch you are enabling this. tumblr is not playing both sides, they are not acting neutrally, they are on the side of genocide. do not support this company
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opaltea · 9 months
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i downloaded my problematic girlfriend off archive.org btw
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opaltea · 9 months
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opaltea · 11 months
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erika lee sears
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opaltea · 11 months
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as yet unexplored subgenres
zombie Amish romance
normal fiction (explores alternate reality that is much more banal and ordinary than this one)
elfpunk (-punk subgenre where every piece of technology is run by many incredibly tiny elves inside)
chaotic history (all of the alternate histories at once; very little attempt to coordinate them)
badass fiction (refers to speculative fiction works with worldbuilding, plot and characterization all ultimately governed by what is most badass; subcategories include badass fantasy and badass sci-fi, though the latter is a disputed category due to the fact that space wizards who ride space dragons and other fantastical elements commonly creep in because they’re badass)
bad sci-fi, or badsci (science fiction based on terrible attitudes toward science, such as six-day-literalist creationism or flat earth)
contemporary history (historical novels inexplicably set in the present day, with either historical events and figures recast as occurring in contemporary times or past historical periods portrayed as being culturally and technologically similar to the present)
dreampunk (instead of a first chapter wherein the protagonist awakens from a dream, the entire story is just dreams)
tree romance
existential literature (an avant-garde and media-transcending subcategory wherein reviewers and booksellers blurb and discuss a book that does not actually exist, creating a unique and thought-provoking experience for the reader, especially one who commonly pre-orders new books)
self-help fantasy (self-help book dedicated to solving problems no one has)
self-help romance (you buy the book to solve your problems but instead you fall in love with the author)
recipe thriller (a recipe book whose recipes are masterfully plotted and full of chilling suspense)
contemporary epic poetry romance (contemporary romance written in the exact style and tone of Ancient Greek epics)
dinosaurpunk
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opaltea · 11 months
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once you start interacting with “others” on the “internet” it is already too late
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opaltea · 11 months
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Hey sorry we had to weed your boyfriend. Yeah we took him out of the library collection to make way for new material. Nobody had checked him out in several years. You can buy him from our used book cart for fifty cents to support your public library though
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opaltea · 11 months
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opaltea · 11 months
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Hey bro this party is sick, you wanna go outside and smoke this j? We can talk about that sinking feeling… you know the one
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opaltea · 11 months
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opaltea · 11 months
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it makes me insane that being familiar with shakespeare plays is considered pretentious. like girl. they are on google. it takes less than 2 hours to read one and some of them are dumb as hell as well. give it a rest
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opaltea · 11 months
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does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse
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opaltea · 11 months
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what is up w the normalisation of normative normalcy on here. "be normal about [minority group/issue]" it's actually very normal to be cruel or indifferent about [minority group/issue]. that's why it's a [minoriti>sed< group/issue]. if that's not what you're asking me to do how about you say what you mean instead of taking the path of least vernacular resistance and accidentally appeal to a mythical saccharine baseline where everything is okay. let's not be intellectually lazy in our microblogging; it's unchic
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opaltea · 1 year
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Perfect Blue (1997)
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opaltea · 1 year
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my mother looks at me & sees my father’s mistakes (plural noun; fragmented families don’t know how to coexist). my father looks at me & sees everything i used to be (noun: innocent & soft hearted). my brother looks at me & sees the worst of my parents (verb; shaking, hurting, burning); he looks at me & sees the only thing in our family that might get out alive. i look at myself & see a monster (noun; blood hands & a venomous mouth & a failing heart).
and i’ve failed them all ; p.v.s. 
(via godspilt)
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opaltea · 1 year
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The reason Oedipus is so much more tormented by the crime of incest than the crime of parricide is that the former overthrows the nomenclature of the family. […] As Girard puts it, ‘incestuous propagation leads to formless duplications, sinister repetitions, a dark mixture of unnameable things’. […] The miasma enveloping the city is interpretive as well as atmospheric: for Oedipus’ crimes against his family have deranged the grammar of kinship, transforming Thebes into a barren unintelligible place. The monstrous commingling of the members of the family is reflected in a monstrous commingling of meanings.
— Maud Eilmann, Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
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