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EGGTOBER DAYS 7-12

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CHARITY GIVEAWAY!

Palestine is facing genocide right now. Today, Israel bombed a hospital — there are over 500 Gazans (patients! receiving care!) dead, with the count steadily rising.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are facing a rise in Islamophobia like never before while Israel uses horrific & illegal military tactics like white phosphorous attacks against Palestinian civilians.

The United States of America and 3 other countries vetoed a ceasefire, aided by the 6 countries that chose to abstain from the vote. This has directly supported Israel's cruel & ceaseless violence against Palestinians.

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It is awful out there. It's lonely & heartbreaking. It's easy to look away; it's hard to stand up against evil.

It's a lot fucking easier when we do it together. We've got your back.

with a plague upon his people, the Prince will do anything to keep his kingdom safe — even travel alone in a woods he is not equipped to handle, even follow the lead of a man who's stolen his heart in a space of a single glance.

when the elders of his clan refuse to honor the shift that lurks beneath his skin, the Dragon will sneak away time & time again — especially when it keeps putting him in the path of an enchanting melody & an even more enchanting man.

turns out: love is the answer to all of their problems. it always has been.

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so we're all here after getting rate limited huh

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i love him. i love him so much

#life lessons with uramichi oniisan #kumatani #clenches fists #GIVE ME THE RING

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I wanna tell you guys a story,

Not too long ago, my friend Bella came out as aromantic to me, and now I’ve got some things to say.

I was the one who told her what aromantic means, because I was explaining different sexual orientations to her. I remember saying, “Asexualiy is when you have romantic attraction, but no sexual attraction.”

Bella immedently, without missing a beat, asked, “Is there an opposite to that?”

I asked what she meant, and she asked if there was a term for sexual attraction but no romantic attraction. I told her about aromantics. She got weirdly quiet, then excused herself.

Not two weeks later I was heading to my boat. I was supposed to meet Bella and another one of our muteral friends there for a day of fishing.

As soon as I was in earshot, I saw Bella storming off the boat, and our other friend standing there like an idiot. Boi had no idea what was happening.

Anyway, Bella isn’t looking where she’s going and walks smack dab into me. That’s when I realized she was crying. Puffy red eyes, wet cheeks, the whole nine yards… And if you know anything about Bells, she does not cry. Ever.

She’s been through some serious crap in her life, and she does not cry. She’s tough as nails. Bella has a steel core. She does not not cry. I’ve seen her fall off a roof and break her arm before, not a single tear. I can’t stress this enough, Bella. Doesn’t. Cry.

So seeing her in tears shook me. I took her by the shoulders and escorted her somewhere more private where we could talk. We ended up in the women’s restroom, which was weird as fuck for me, because haven’t been in a woman’s rest room for years. Luckily it was empty, and I’m realistic, I know I don’t pass so well, so I don’t think anyone would have said anything anyway.

Before I can even ask her what’s wrong she hugs me around my middle and burys her face in my hoodie. Then, in a voice I can only describe as traumatized, she says, “I think I’m broken.”

I’ve never seen her in so much pain, and Bella and I are CLOSE. She’s one of my dearest friends. She’s like my little sister, but if she’s like my sister, our other muteral friend is like her twin. He and Bella have know each other WAY longer, they’re practically inseparable. They come as a pair. They’re a duo. They’re a package deal.

Appearently, said muteral friend asked Bella out and forcefully kissed her. She shoved him off, and told him she’s aromantic, which she only recently figured out. She wasn’t ready to be out, but this muteral friend left her no choice. She tried telling him no, and he didn’t listen. Bella saw no other option.

Quote on quote, this is what he said to Bella. “That’s okay. You just haven’t dated me yet. We’ve been like, unofficially together for years. You’re probably just freaked out that it’s finally going somewhere.”

After that I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but apparently Bella kept saying no Nd trying to explain herself, but he kept insisting he could ‘fix her.’

Eventudally she started crying and stormed away. That’s when I found her.

Keep in mind, this was her first experience coming out, and her best, closest friend insisted he could fix her and forcefully kissed her. I found out later he also implied corrective rape would ‘solve the problem.’

Bella was traumatized. She’s still traumatized. I tried to make her feel better by buying her an aro pride shirt, and taking her go a local LGBTQ+ hang out. I wanted her to be around like minded people, so she could see she wasn’t broken, and her identity deserved to be respected.

Instead of a warm, welcoming environment… The first thing someone said to her was, “This place is for REAL lgbt people. You don’t belong here.” He also implied she wasn’t human.

Just think about that for a minute. Her first experiences with being an out aromantic have been limited to;

A person she trusted more than anyone forcing himself upon her, claiming she was ill, and needed to be fixed. (Raped.)

Sobbing in my arms in the women’s restroom because she thought she was broken and defective.

Being told she wasn’t welcomed in LGBTQ+ spaces and called inhuman.

This isn’t what I want for her. Bella deserves better than this. She needs a support system, not all this crap. I’ve spent the past week trying to undo all the damage exclusionists, arophobes, and people she trusted did.

Aromantics and asexuals belong in the LGBTQ+ community. You literally cannot change my mind.

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why do they look like this

#life lessons with uramichi oniisan #uramichi #usahara #kumatani #i am no better than a man #kumatani i'm available

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the more I learn about the great molasses flood of 1919, the more I realize poetry can only go so far and some catastrophic sugar substitute events will just outdo you every time.

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The British Museum staff are on strike. IT’S TIME.

QUICK EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH, RUN IN AND GET YOUR SHIT BACK

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Birth of v

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i've seen so many glitched polls already. unvotable polls, polls where you vote for everything, paired polls where voting in one also votes in the other, polls set to last for decades,

no QA team is as good as dropping a new piece of enrichment in our cage and watching us all start to chew on it. it tastes like vanilla extract

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Hi! I've just seen one of my mutuals recommending La Vie en Rose and since this is one of my absolutely favourite fics I wanted to share your other felinette drabbles. It seems though that these don't exist anymore? I also wish you a fantastic New Year!

Oh hi!! They are available, I just had a name change. You can find them here :)

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I’ve started streaming to see if I enjoy it! Go follow me on Twitch! 😳👉👈

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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

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