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This is more punk than the whole of punk history.
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east-of-novel · 4 days
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One thing I LOVE about reading old books is the use of 'queer' and 'gay' as weird and happy, because every time I read it I think to myself 'damn, representation, I guess'.
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east-of-novel · 4 days
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east-of-novel · 6 days
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east-of-novel · 10 days
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east-of-novel · 11 days
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I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them
Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits
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east-of-novel · 13 days
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A mom helping her kids beat a hard level in Super Mario Land, 1990s.
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east-of-novel · 19 days
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east-of-novel · 20 days
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People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
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east-of-novel · 20 days
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Everything Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is absolute bullshit, and everything that Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is 100% true. It’s a travelogue fantasy. It’s proto-science fiction. It’s cosmic horror. It’s shockingly original and it’s shamelessly plagiaristic. It’s a misotheistic Christian parable in which the whale is the mask of a cruel, uncaring God and Ahab is Satan himself, not as trickster or as tempter, but as doomed hero. It’s the most gripping thing you’ll ever read. It’s boring as shit. But above all else – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it is filled with Facts About Whales.
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east-of-novel · 23 days
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obsessed with how often women describe falling in love with other women as a quieting, a moment of stillness and calm where before there was noise.
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east-of-novel · 23 days
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“how is peppermint patty a lesbian if she has a crush on charlie brown” like you don’t know any lesbians who are obsessed with some weird sad little guy
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east-of-novel · 24 days
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east-of-novel · 24 days
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have you guys ever tried to roll a boulder? sisyphus must be fucking jacked
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east-of-novel · 25 days
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