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i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

the thing about growing up with siblings in an abusive household is that ultimately you're each other's jail wardens and whipping boys and that does things to you no matter how much you sincerely love each other and understand why it happened the way it did and wish you could have been big and strong enough to save both of you

it's just inevitably going to be difficult to reconcile the love you feel for the other half of a bear trap clamped around both your legs. is the thing.

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

as a writer, it’s very important that you know this: whenever you tell yourself “this will only be one-chapter-long” that is a lie. your brain is lying to you. it won’t, in fact, be just a short one-shot

In the past I’ve been very dismissive of Omegaverse, but as I consider it again I have to give it props for being SUCH an ubermensch of a genre. I believe it is outcompeting all predecessors because it provides a perfect cross-section of “identity secret”, “sex pollen”, “biologically justified mpreg”, and “seme/uke gender dynamics”. It’s everything that gay fanfic has ever obsessed over in one neat package of pre-made world building you don’t have to fuck with if you don’t want to. PLUS it has anatomically exotic penises. Like, it can do anything.

And I have to say the average story over the last ten years has improved in terms of world building and social consciousness. Is it that more people are participating, so the greater reservoir of material to be in conversation with is gaining complexity? Is it that different sorts of people are now participating who didn’t used to? Both? I couldn’t tell you.

[very clearly indulging the urge] im fighting the urge

Fingering the plot hole

girl dinner. fattest fucking plate of pasta you've ever seen in your life

[ID: tweet reading “that’s a great idea for a story. But have you considered they should all be girls?” /end ID]

As a principled feminist I'm often tempted to say shit like "are men capable of higher thought" but then I have to remember not to perpetuate gender essentialism and change it to "why do men choose not to think about anything"

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this

yes this is an exploration of guilt and culpability but it could also be a sex thing if you just give me a minute