god the thing with books is that there is room for literally everyone in every age group with every taste from every walk of life and every preference!!!!! it's literature!!!! a foundational part of humanity!! but publishing trends are squeezing kids/teens out of genres and markets created specifically for them to chase the childadult contingent, while at the same time, romance/erotica (which is healthy, fun, has always existed) is being marketed aesthetically similarly and to the same audience of what used to be YA. so now there's a very weird collapse that is simultaneously putting adult romance in front of children, squashing teen stories, and sanitizing actual erotica. it is VERY weird but it is not an issue with authors suddenly being bad or women suddenly being stupid perverts, it's a direct result of the publishing industry and how books are being sold/published/marketed
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It’s a necessity to check someone’s age sometimes, because you’ll see them acting real chronically online--often in that specific-circles-only isolated kinda teenage, small scope worldview and experience way and takes--and their interactions are kind of wacky, then you see they’re like 14-18 and you go “oh ok makes sense”
then sometimes you see someone do this shit and they’re in their 30s also beefing with literal teenagers and never moved past 2008
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this is so deeply off topic for this blog but i am so furious at the duffer brothers, im so sick of queer people being nothing more than plot devices who’s stories just end in tragedy and heartbreak. being on the internet for something close to a decade i’ve seen it time and time again and i’m so so tired. straight audiences comfort will always be more important than queer stories and it’s horrible.
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happy 4/20 (drawn by the beloved @decompose1 )
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Hiccup and Astrid are the mom and dad friends.
Hiccup is the mom friend he doesn’t like getting mad at the “kids” but he can be strict when he needs to be.
Astrid is the dad friend she will punish you and won’t let you change the channel even if she is asleep.
Snotlout is the older sibling friend.
He is constantly setting the others up to do dumb things and is kind of mean but doesn’t like when someone else is mean to his friends.
The twins are the middle children.
Constantly getting into trouble and just ignoring their punishments.
Fishlegs is the youngest child.
He is the favorite child and rarely gets in trouble.
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I say this respectfully and politely, but if you think that an adult inherently cannot be friends with a minor without it being problematic please do not follow me. We will not see eye to eye and I do not wish to invite bad faith into my life.
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sometimes i think dream has a big big wheel of people to harass and bully and like its color coded by what type of minority they are and when he spins it and it lands on a person with multiple colors he starts jumping with glee and clicking his ankles together. which is to say what the fuck dude. can someone kill this freak already
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the number of people who lack the braincells to consume media critically are insane and are ruining the enjoyment for so many others for absolutely no reason at all. you can be critical of a group and still enjoy them because of other reasons. you can still enjoy their music and their variety content and whatever else you might find entertaining and still be critical of them. when will people realize that hate doesn't do anything for anyone, and it just makes a bunch of people look very ugly, and it's for sure not the idols bc they got that part down ..
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tumblr users love to be like "omg people are mad at me/this person i'm defending simply for saying [vaguely worded and morally justified opinion that would make anyone look evil and wrong to disagree with]" while in fact people are mad at them for something entirely different, far more specific to the situation, and only semi-related. sad!
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