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Here to promote the Dasey Discord Server once again!

We are a growing community (76 members to this date!) of kind and like minded people, creating a safe space for us to geek out about Dasey, to talk about other interests, encourage and support each other.

If you love Dasey and are looking to interact with other fans and content creators, come join us! For the safety of the server, please ask for a private link, to myself or @isinkwiththeship .

If you’d like to get an idea of the vibe of the server before joining, you can check out our official discord twitter, where we will showcase some of the best moments on the discord and promote new content! @officialdaseyd1

#dasey #life with derek #dasey discord

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Life with Derek Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Casey McDonald/Derek Venturi Characters: Casey McDonald, Derek Venturi Additional Tags: Handcuffs, Friends With Benefits To Lovers, Friends With Benefits, unrequited love because they’re both idiots Series: Part 1 of Dasey Discord Birthdays Summary:

“Let me know when that second one becomes an option,” she says, throwing a pistachio shell at him. “In the meantime…” Casey stands, crossing around the desk to nudge the door closed. “Might as well put that mouth to use elsewhere.”

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Ohh Happy Birthday 🎉🎉

Thank you!! ♡

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happppyyy birthday!! hope you had a great one!!

Thank you! It's been lovely so far!

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hey! I'm a fellow jily fic enthusiast and algernom de plume member and I've noticed that you are an incredibly kind and amazing human so this is me letting you know! thank u for being awesome and i hope u have a great day!!

Hello! That's so kind of you. I loafed about with my wife and read a book, so a decent day. Hope you have a great day, too, anon. 🥰

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on a tangentially related note to my last reblog, i recently went into the toy aisle at the local supermarket. and as is standard for most grocery store store isles, there was a “boy” section of toys filled with bold primary colors and trucks and superheroes, and a “girl” section filled with soft pastels and dolls and ponies. and in the middle of that girl section, amidst the malibu pink barbies and the periwinkle elsas, was one bright red ladybug doll. and whenever i see people criticizing ml for not centering adrien enough or making disparaging remarks about girlbossing, i think about marinette dupain cheng, the only superhero, the only bright color, the only nonwhite doll in that aisle. and i think that her presence there is important and valuable and means something regardless of whatever flaws adults find in this children’s show. the need for girl superhero leads is not over. marinette is an icon.

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Approaching the three year anniversary of getting my bar results and pretty close to that the three year anniversary of being a practicing lawyer. Taking this time to say a fuck you to the college professor that told me I'd never do well in law school. 👸

#texas lawyer #your friendly neighborhood texas lawyer #fuck him #not writing #not fic

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I don't have a tumblr - how do I get the link/invite to the Dasey Discord?

Feel free to message me on Discord!

BrookeDi#0776

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Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started reading a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time, I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,) but it felt like it flew by. So after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

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The thing I am fucking feral about today: this shit.

Look. Look at this.

Stede, by and large, is not a Toucher. (That’s a whole separate essay.) He’s hesitant as fuck about it, and tends to initiate contact, if at all, through some intermediary: clothing, air, etc. Later, with Ed, he’ll do incidental touches, little things that could be explained away like the brush of arms together, etc.

(THIS IS NOT THAT ESSAY.)

But look at this shit. “May I?” Stede asks, and he gives it a moment but Ed doesn’t actually hand it over. He doesn’t even answer.

And Stede just reaches out, takes an end of the silk, and

slowly

drags it

through Ed’s fingers as Ed fucking tilts his eyes upwards in complete silence, his gaze clicking from spot to spot as his heart gets unwound from his lax – but not relaxed – grip.

And while I like the meta where Stede has NO FUCKING CLUE ABOUT HOW SEDUCTIVE HE’S BEING, I also like the idea that for the first time in his life, because this is a Queer Situation, Stede has the glimmerings of Game. Because, my god, the forwardness of it. He didn’t wait for Ed to give it to him. He just reached out and took, but in such a syrup-slow manner that Ed could’ve said no, could’ve just tightened his fingers if he didn’t want to let Stede take this precious thing– and Stede’s giving him that time while simultaneously also making some pretty great allusions, intentional or not, to how exactly he’d make his move, if a move he ever made.

Like, “May I?“ Stede would ask, and Ed (Blackbeard) wouldn’t move, wouldn’t say a word, but he wouldn’t step away either, would just watch Stede with a clicking gaze as Stede stepped forward, raised his hands, and drew Ed syrup-slow toward him, every moment one where Ed could turn away and every moment clear that Stede was here, wanting this, wanting him, and deliberate in his want.

So my god, the pure queer seduction of this scene: the intermediary object as a stand-in for themselves; the plausible deniability; the silent consent (a subgenre of plausible deniability); coded language; “innocent” touch as protective camouflage…

(It’s a little distressing to consider how much queer romantic context comes from trying to be both Open to a possibility while simultaneously trying not to get the shit beaten out of us for being wrong. It’s a powerful language. It’s a tragic one. It’s what makes it feel so special if it goes right.)

Anyway. Stede may have no idea the levels he’s playing at here, but he’s a man who was explicitly and in canon abused for displaying a particular flavor of non-masculine behavior. Even if he doesn’t know he’s queer, he knows the need for the language of safety; he’s been learning it since childhood. So he speaks it– and Ed, who engages in at least “when at sea” levels of queer living, picks up on it like the Stede-radio he’s been tuning for ages now to find a signal that explains him has suddenly gone from static to the crystal-clear notes of Gnossienne No. 5.

Is it any wonder that Ed’s oh no moment is fucking palpable here? Is it any wonder that Stede comes away from this scene a little more certain of himself around Ed, able to argue him into staying, pull him into a treasure hunt, touch his bare arm against Ed’s when they become co-captains?

GAH these fuckheads, look at them.

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PSA! You're not "screwing over the man" by shitting on independent authors. You're just taking their livelihood. And we're not talking about KU books.

[Image ID: A screenshot of a tweet by username @KBrombergDriven. The text reads:

"1/2 Every time you return an ebook at Amazon, the author is charged back more than what they were paid for the sale. Yes, that means we could owe Amazon at the end of the month. Since TikToks went viral saying 'it's okay to return ebooks'

2/2 most authors returns have skyrocketed. Reading and returning a book is stealing. If you want free books, try the library app, Libby (among others) #AmazonisNotALibrary"

/.End ID]

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two months later and i still can't believe ofmd spent THREE WHOLE EPISODES hammering home how lame stede was and how uncool everyone found him only for THE LITERAL BLACKBEARD to show up and spend a whole episode going "look at all this cool shit this guy has" and "omg you're telling me you have a second closet?!" and "holy shit bestie, you READ?!?!?! 😍😍😍" 10/10 show of the century

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They love each other 🥰

LIFE WITH DEREK March Break (4.04)

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Ed + loving Stede for all the things he was always mocked for

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Hi! I don’t think you’ve been online for a while, but hoping you see this!

Would you send me the link to the Dasey Discord, please? I was in it last year, but had to delete my account. Just started a LWD rewatch and I need to talk about it 😂

Hope you see this!x

I don't post a lot, but I'm here! Sent a link through DM and happy to do so anytime for anyone interested in joining.

#dasey #life with derek #discord

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If you’re a real human person still using the default tumblr avatar, consider changing it.

why should you change it?

When you guys pop up in our notifications, most seasoned tumblr users will suspect you’re a bot and block on sight.

why do we block immediately?

tumblr has a history of bots trying to infiltrate and establish a connection to a valid, existing blog in order to populate google searches. Simply liking or reblogging a post, not just adding a scam link to it, establishes this connection. Tumblr users don’t want this to happen, especially if it’s a scammy p*rn bot. So, we often block on sight.

So now I have to reblog stuff AND change my pfp?

Well, of course that’s up to you! I just want to explain why you may have been already blocked by an artist/blogger you may have discovered recently, and how you can avoid it in the future.

Reblogging does help creators more than likes because your reblogs will show up on the dash of those that may follow you. Plus, reblogging puts that post on your own blog, and in case the original gets deleted or edited by the OP, it’ll be on your blog like that–forever (or until you delete your blog). Nice.

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