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my writing: whatever snippets and short scenes I post here
reading recs: recommendations of my favorite writers and mutuals
my pets: babies :)

everything with teeth wip:

ashgrove wip:

  • kris romero (he/him, they/them) - intro
  • tomasz galinski (he/him)
  • nieve o'connell (she/her)
  • lysander swindell (she/her)

unsorted characters:

05 04 2025 • 0 notes
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@strawberrycircuits

sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh

08 04 2025 • 72,013 notes
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@wholeheartedsuggestions

you’re allowed to get up one day and just decide to change who you are. dress differently, speak up more, laugh out loud even though you’ve never liked your laugh, say what you want to, say hey to people you wouldn’t normally, get that confidence going. we don’t have to stay the way people see us out of the fear that they won’t like the us we want to be.

08 04 2025 • 145,477 notes
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@howelljenkins

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

@howelljenkins

to love and be loved is to rest

07 04 2025 • 226,225 notes
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@lgbtransgirl

Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

  • Not all Men are evil
  • Everyone has the capacity for evil
  • Transgender Men are men
  • Transgender Women are women
  • Excluding Cisgender Men from your spaces requires Transgender Men to out themselves if they want to engage (Same for Women)
  • Anyone can be Non-Binary, there is no "look" or requirement
  • Non-binary masculine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces, many are just treated as men and predators
  • Non-binary feminine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces without being seen as "Woman-Lite"
07 04 2025 • 29,932 notes
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@saturnine-saturneight

Traffic roared behind their back, swirling up the stench of gasoline, leather, and fresh bread. Any way Johannes could have spun this, there was only one place left to go. But unfortunately for them, despite the opening hours clearly written on the sign behind the glass door, the place disagreed. Half an hour past ten, the door to Ms. Somoza's office was firmly shut.

Handle of their suitcase digging into the palm of their hand and this morning's pit of ragged disappointment deep in their stomach, Johannes leaned their forehead against the cool glass of the front door and heaved a sigh. Of course it couldn't be that easy. Of course. But perhaps at least the hole in their stomach could be filled, preferably with meat and bread.

Never had they spent very much time in parts of the city that featured kebab shops, and even back home, before the big move, they had rarely ever seen one face to face. But they were still a piece of the country they left behind, a part of the daily parlance, and where Johannes had never so much as given it a second thought that they'd never eaten a doner kebab until now, now that they were standing in front of the eatery right next to Ms. Somoza's office, they suddenly found that an enormous pity. After fumbling their way through an order, they found themself with an absolutely gigantic Styrofoam box, heavy with bread, meat, and salad, practically dripping with sauce and large enough that they had to clench their suitcase beneath their arm and hold it with both hands.

It was terribly delicious.

This has been an advertisement for doner kebab.

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06 04 2025 • 32 notes
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#yayyy my terrible friend jan is back <3 #also stop making me hungry
@batmanisagatewaydrug

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

@evegoldenwoods

For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.











@evegoldenwoods

And here's part two:










@bespectacledbunnys

06 04 2025 • 12,699 notes
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@viscerawrites

eye splitter ; a wip intro.

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genre(s) // fantasy, horror.

setting // a world known as Tevraneh.

overall goal // full novel, at least 50-60k.

narrative // third person, multiple povs.

content warnings // eye trauma, graphic violence, major character death, abuse & manipulation, religious themes & trauma, cannibalism, referenced violence against sex workers, attempted murder, implied incestuous abuse, implied necrophilia, dissociation, self-harm, hallucinations, unreality, ableism, elements of racism towards fantasy species, potentially more.

a glossary with terms used in this post can be found here.

eye splitter taglist: @space-writes @foxboyclit

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about the wip, as of now.

In the world of Tevraneh, the eyes aren’t just a window to the soul; they are the soul.

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06 04 2025 • 28 notes
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@teaboot

The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

05 04 2025 • 18,470 notes
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