The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1937

it's not cringe ❤ not if it's you ❤ not if we're mutuals 🥰

has this ever happened to you

“Everybody agrees we need to shame straight women for reading queer fanfiction, but–”

No. No, we literally do not need to do that. It helps no one, homophobes don’t care, people exploring their sexualities and genders will retreat back into the closet, queer people will be pressured to out themselves, there is no version of this that doesn’t do massive disproportionate splash damage to queer and questioning people, and moreover it hurts literally no one to let straight people read and/or fap to smutty queer fanfic in peace as long as they aren’t shits to actual queer people.

Just stop, for the love of Christ.

cause of death: can’t focus in any of the 72 things i’m trying to do.

my brain goes from french grammar to how to write a mystery novel to korean vocabulary and right into ‘what fluff will feat on that write fic’ followed by ‘uh, holes in space time but not the sigularity type’ and have I told you guys about the commom origin of the word hundred on proto-indo european languages? It’s like that 89% of the time and then for 10% my brain is blank and for 1% i am focused

so. i was wondering what this reminded me of:

and then i remembered it’s this:

YES I AM BEGGING YOU GUYS someone else seeing what i did

Do the Lucemond girlies who go feral over wraith-like, snarky Aemond and hunky, bearded Lucerys know about The Last Kingdom and the absolute gem of a rarepair that is Osferth x Finan? And would they be willing to dive deep into the possibilities of an snarky, wraith-like baby monk falling for an Irish teddy bear of a warrior? And would they maybe do this via fanfic and would they maybe share that over AO3?

Asking for a friend.

And they were crewmates (oh my god they were crewmates)

world’s most fucked up substitute teacher

I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.