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Weird fluffy ballerinerrrrsss

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im sorry i literally cannot get this out of my head since last night

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ace attorney clue idea that i thought of forever ago and never finished until now 🔎

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this is so beautiful

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The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.

Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.

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So, like, the thing you have to understand is that prior to the mid-2000s, the "Young Adult" genre as we now know it didn't exist. The expectation was that you would graduate to the adult aisle of the book store at, like, 13-14. This worked because the only people still reading long form novels into their teens were precocious bookworms who were better read than their parents.

Harry Potter changed all this. The success of the Harry Potter books convinced the publishing industry that selling full length novels to normie children was a business model. The thing about the Harry Potter books, though, is that at least for the early books, the target audience was a bit younger than what we think of as the YA demographic; tweens, rather than teens. Now, the publishing very much wanted to keep all these normie kids buying books into their teens and beyond, but the previous model of treating teens as functionally adults for marketing purposes would not work; there was simply no way that normie parents were going to let their normie kids read fully adult novels where the characters, like, do drugs or have unprotected sex and stuff. So, in order to be allowed to market to the teen demographic, the YA genre was created.

However, teens have an inherent interest in reading about sex and violence and drugs, and so authors who are able to incorporate these kinds of themes into their YA novels in a discrete way such that it flies under the radar of the moral guardians are met with success. But this is a precarious tightrope to walk. Not enough "mature" themes and the teens will loose interest, to much or to blatant and the teens won't be allowed to read it. And so, it should come as no surprise, that the first person to successfully navigate this tight rope was a Mormon housewife with a vampire fetish.

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I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

#prince William from Hooky #the best part is that he's the one who gets kidnapped and the princess sets to rescue him

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I had a dream that I was in an unhappy political marriage with my friend’s parrot. I’m not sure why it was necessary but I felt the heavy burden of obligation when I took him to a ‘bring your spouse to work’ day at my job and everyone praised his little hat and how good he was at throwing paper. I stared forlornly out the window, not really present, and imagined what my life would be like if I had been able to marry for love.

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How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

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what happened to the skeleton war, you guys used to love the skeleton war

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original: https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/977299937963765761

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neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

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ur one of the few youtubers

not when i'm done with em

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*touching his extremely defined six pack* who did this to you.....