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lgbtqreads · 2 years

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Fave Five: Adult Fiction Set in the 1980s

My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (NYC) Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski (Poland) No Other World by Rahul Mehta (US, India) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (London) Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair by June Gervais (Long Island)

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#1980s #80s #Alan Hollinghurst #Jobs for Girls With Artistic Flair #June Gervais #My Government Means to Kill Me #No Other World #Rahul Mehta #Rasheed Newson #Swimming in the Dark #The Line of Beauty #Tomasz Jedrowski

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dorindameddler · 3 months

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#this made me scream #some of you are experiencing a different game than me like in what world 😭#now wyll on the other hand….

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redvelvetwishtree · 4 months

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#they just resort instantly to bombing #and everyone just thinks it's normal #coz it's a non white middle eastern Muslim country #how are the us uk and israel allowed to exist when they're the worst thing for world peace #why do their governments get away with so much #and they then have the audacity to lecture other countries about human rights #fuck off #yemen #palestine #israel #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #middle east #free gaza #fuck israel

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qiinamii · 7 months

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we'll do fine.

#fionna and cake spoilers #what hits me a little is how similar fionna and simon's stories are in the case of finding nuance in their lives #when both have gone through their separate but still valid pain no matter the extent it had been #and its that they met each other they get to see how it compares and they're no less worth of the peace and fun they dreamed of #even in the form of simplicity and just being normal #“i wouldn't have met THE fionna and cake” “we wouldn't have met THE simon petrikov”#it hits me harder that after the dandelion scene would've been their last time seeing each other physically #and how assuring simon sounded when fionna didn't know what to do with the literal world in her hands #tho im sure prismo isnt that much of a rule jerk lol i still drew out the revelation anyway with this tiniest addition #also the fact fionna's world is influenced by simon's thought processes and conditions so now things are a little better for both of them #fionna the human #fionna campbell #simon petrikov #qiiarts #the lil flashback of #betty grof #fionna and cake #adventure time

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orinthered · 1 month

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#i posted this on twitter too. but im curious.#i already made my opinions clear and ofc in an ideal world both work in tandem and can elevate the other #but no holds barred. cmon #.txt #polls

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maxgicalgirl · 2 months

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Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

#autism #neurodivergent #adhd #fun facts #GOD I’m such an idiot #anyways now a 10 year old is out there looking up swear words online and it’s all my fault :(#I got so excited by the fact that I knew a fun fact #that I didn’t stop to think that maybe not everyone knows that fun fact for a reason :(#it’s like explaining how to successfully bury a body at a book club #or explaining the dangers of Scientology to your sister’s boyfriend the first time you meet him #or debating gay sex positions with your best friend in front of your mom #no matter how much I wish to be a beacon of knowledge in this world #sometimes there are things others just don’t want to know #and consciously that’s valid but the autism ? I does not care

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lastoneout · 9 months

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the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

#the worst part too is this is just the logical conclusion of the hyper-individualistic society #that thrives on isolating us from each other and our communities #anyway pls get out and go volunteer to clean up litter or at the soup kitchen or something #y'all need to see that your actions can have both good and bad real world consequences #and also interact with people who share your values but come from different walks of life #and also how to organize with people you don't always 100% agree with #so yeah hang out at the farmer's market or smthn y'all really need to connect with your communities

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ochibrochi · 4 months

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guilty conscience 😬 (i watched legion of superheroes movie)

#batman #bruce wayne #superman #clark kent #world's finest #karadox #brutalia #bruharvey #twobats #plasticbat #???#batcat #dc comics #bruce is literally so stupid #the temptation to tag as superbat just bc theyre standing next to each other

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pickled-flowers · 4 months

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Sex positivity is also about not calling Ace people prude and using virgin as an insult 👍 hope that helps

#sex positivity is also respecting sex lives that dont look like yours #or lack thereof #and insulting people by saying they dont fuck make you sound stupid <3 #im sorry i just cant take people who use their sex lives as a flex seriously its just not my thing!#like yea having lots of kinky sex is cool but not having sex and not being interested by sex is also cool #one is not better than the other the human experience is just very varied and diverse #its normal you wont understand everyone your brain isnt even made to comprehend how many human there are in the world #but we should all have spaces to navigate our sex lives as we wish even if that means interacting with sex as a subject as little as possibl

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ordersreality · 6 months

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Task Force GRUDGE

Truth, Earth’s star system sits in a very inconvenient spot. Well, depending on your point of view. A few trillion years ago a star fissioned giving birth to several new stars of which our star system is one. Hundreds of stellar dwarfs, dozens of stars and planets, all continue to linger around the remnants of that one star we now call Arcturus. Add that to dozens of star clusters and families in the neighborhood, some mere parsecs away, and ours is a fairly crowded corner of the galaxy.

That’s not the inconvenience, though.

See, several of those star systems hold planets that have cultivated complex life forms, some of which went so far as to build space faring civilizations. One or more of those have done so several times in a span of time than none of those starting out now even remember those that went before them.

I’m not going to tell you Earth is one of them. Mostly because you won’t believe me. Trust me, though, it’s important.

The main source of inconvenience is location. Close to Sirius and Procyon, and maybe a dozen other systems one must sometimes pass through Earth’s star system to get to others. Must, unless laws or policies prevent that owing to this being a populated star system.

We might add, most spacefaring civilizations employ Birkeland Currents to achieve interstellar travel at rates that are commercially sensible. Joveran technology is the best, for that. A ship could get from Sirius to Earth—2.64 parsecs away—in about a week. Deploying the most common slip-ship technology, it takes about a month, Earth time.

Thing is, for a slip-ship to get from Eniga—not on our maps—and Weala—Procyon on our maps and a major trading port—they have to travel a good week out of their way, spending fuel, time, other resources. Even more on a passenger slip.

Meanwhile, Earth is still a little outpost, primitive, barbaric, really. Sometimes that combination is just irresistible to some business interests. Well, just think about what Cecil Rhodes did to Africa, and raise it to interplanetary magnitude.

Let’s offer a little known blip of history for an example.

In the late 1950s several individuals visiting a transit port and waiting for clear weather to get where they were going were kidnapped in hopes of gaining either ransom or slaves, maybe both.

The legal authorities gave chase, passed through a galactic wave front that shot both ships with lightning. Both landed in the Amazon and didn’t fare very well.

Before authorities could get the necessary permits to retrieve property and technology other interests, from the CIA, KGB, and private interests, had salvaged the crash site for treasures.

PS: while some of those people out there might pass for human if they keep their bodies covered and their tails tucked, the risk of discovery might still be too high, especially if they smile and unveil their beaks. So….

While those authorities were working out what to do about that crash, the others who don’t care so much about the law found opportunities and ways to take advantage of them. Well, not for the first time.

Needless to say, the damage was done. Foo Fighters, the Battle of Los Angeles, Roswell of the 1940s, Turkey Springs, and Allagash Abductions last year, all added to questions and fears. And in March of last year some weapons from that Amazon incident turned up in a police officer’s van, and in the hands of several officers conducting raids on child murderers in the area.

Fortunately, maybe, an agent for a secret, quasi-governmental agency happened to be in the area. That agency was built with alien intrusions as their focus.

Finding those weapons on the street like that put a fire under that agency’s ass, if you will. They needed a way to get into areas of question, retrieve what property they could, including technological and biological remains. Thus, a new task force was born. GRUDGE.

And Camp Wolf Creak will be a focus to train and deploy those resources.

I’m not going to ask you to believe anything I’ve said. Not about life throughout the universe, or that some of it has been visiting ours for quite some time. We’ve found fossils from seventy-two millennia ago that would curl your toes.

You are only required to keep what we do here confidential. Sure, you could be reassigned. The army is between missions and might be a little lost at the moment. And if you say a word about what you’ve just heard nothing will happen. Or worst, you’ll be thought of as nuts. It’s going to be like The Onion Router, no one will know we are there because we won’t be any louder than the noise everyone else is making.

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#fan fiction #tolkien #rpg #order of realities #monster hunters int #survival crafts #no other world #science fiction

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hansoeii · 8 months

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Do you think of me?

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shadowtraveled · 2 months

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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them.#hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore.#but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

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cemeterything · 6 months

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an angle i enjoy in cosmic/eldritch horror is when, instead resorting to the old classic "the horrors being so incomprehensible that they break your brain and drive you mad" cliché, the premise is that in comprehending the horrors you are so changed by the experience that your new state is indistinguishable to an outside observer from madness. you comprehend the unknowable just fine, but actually communicating that to anyone else is impossible because they just don't have the mental framework required to understand it. the eldritch horrors don't drive you mad. what does is the ordinary everyday horror of finding yourself isolated, ridiculed and doubted at every turn, no matter how hard you try to make yourself heard and understood.

#🐉#this is why i liked the way tma did it #where the eldritch is more or less a direct allegory for trauma (among other things)#and how those experiences can make the entire world seem like a different place and make you feel crazy #when other people dont understand what seems so clear and obvious to you #apartment 'complex'? actually i find it quite simple. no guys really its so simple you gotta believe me. why dont you believe me.

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akanemnon · 2 months

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