Made ya laugh.

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

"americans who claim the word 'yank' is a slur because they don't want to confront/are proud of the privilege they hold as a citizen of the imperial core" and "people who noticed a pattern of some users here using the word 'yank' when they mock the killing of black and brown people in the US and is upset about it" are two different groups of people and i'm so sad to see the latter being lumped with the former

Also just so y’all are aware, “yank” has some serious Confederate vibes in a lot of the country. The primary people who say that here are violently racist southerners complaining Midwesterners and New Englanders aren’t outwardly racist enough. Living in Appalachia I get called a yank by racists trying to frame human rights as a foreign northern thing regularly when they don’t like that I told them to stop saying the n-word.

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this