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#I picked Jasmine but I am a tea slut and I am always buying too much of it #I also really like Lapsang Souchong #or anything floral or with strawberry

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purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered. 

#It has it's issues but seeing artists having to shift from website to website because of shifting policies I understand #why it's the most popular one #people are tired of having to move things every few years

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It will depend on the people involved but try going to local political organizations. I know people my age/ younger can feel kind of intimidated by older people but so far everyone has been really friendly and thanked me for showing up.

#I haven't done much yet but I also feel like I am learning a lot more about what's going in my area even after just a couple meetings #I don't really go out much or know that many people so I feel kind of disconnected

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I called the pharmacy about why they haven't filled my t prescription and they literally told me they needed to check on something and then put me on hold and then hung up on me

#My medication for a condition that causes my body to attack itself stopped working in November #I was not able to start a new medication until February because my insurance changed what prescription I was allowed to have 3 times before #it would fill anything

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#yeah #the first time I applied for insurance for both of us the plan was 3x as much as my old one

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

#that tracks #Before she ruined her work by being an awful person she was ruining it by micromanaging it to death #The main complaint after the books were done was she just WOULD NOT stop adding shit

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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.

This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…

Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of  Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint. 

S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf. 

Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.” 

Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well. 

The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons. 

Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Day Before by Liana Brooks

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell

Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai

Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books

TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers. 

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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I am so tired of seeing people perpetuate the same cycle about child stars. "OMG [insert star here] is so cringe and problematic!"

Like what about that situation makes you think a person will turn out normal and well adjusted? I'm sick of seeing people do the same old thing when we've seen how much it destroys people and that the same people will probably be like "OMG how could we be so cruel!"

#this doesn't excuse things like acts of abuse to be clear #extra tiring to see people making the same mistakes with Britney already #like she basically under house arrest for years on top of being a child star of COURSE she's not ok! That doesn't mean she doesn't deserve #autonomy over her own life

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Musk's lawyer from the Ben Brody defamation case is being sued for practicing law without a license. I just can't anymore, you are one of the richest people on earth, why in the world would you hire a lawyer that legally can't represent you?! I know Musk is just unironically stupid, but there must be a limit.

#I am flashing back to when Elon didn't want to get licensed plumbers to install a private bathroom for him at twitter #But also did not know this guy was a big deal lawyer because in the transcript they both sound like clowns

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hey

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep

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being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

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#nothing #they are perfect to me as is

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Fucking animal time

#I was trying to find this again and I couldn't

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#I understand both of these #I have this affliction but for yuri

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