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Communication Is Kind of my Thing

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Just your friendly neighborhood speech-language pathologist writing Klaine fanfiction. Pronouns=she/her/hers. Banner by @justgleekout. Icon image by @baskslashdelta
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Rating: T Chapters: 13/14 Tags: romance, emotional hurt/comfort, high school AU, friends to lovers, POV multiple

Summary: “As he glanced at the calendar, Burt Hummel contemplated—not for the first time—how little he had in common with his only child.” Burt Hummel doesn’t know how to connect with his son but when he discovers that Kurt has a serious problem, Burt will do anything to help him. Told from multiple perspectives, this is a story about what happens when a problem goes undiagnosed, and what happens when it finally is.

cover art by @gleefulpoppet | beta-read by @blurglesmurfklaine

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Okay so this is a big deal

To me, and to a significant subset of Sir Terry's fans (including most of you who've found this by the tags), his writing is serious commentary on the human condition - politics, prejudice, self-control, revenge vs. justice, religion, idealism, faith in people vs. cynicism, and more - dressed up with fantasy settings and a hefty leavening of humor to make it fun to read. And it is WILDLY fun to read, actual laugh-out-loud or at least a snicker averaging about every page.

But there's this common idea among the "important literature" people that fun and funny books are not also worthwhile or important in the same way.

This is a Discworld book being released WITH ACADEMIC COMMENTARY and AS A PENGUIN CLASSIC. That's a HUGE amount of recognition.

Oh, I’m about to tear up. I had to fight so hard to do my thesis on Pratchett because the university didn't like what they considered pop culture being studied as literature and this is just... Existing. 🥹

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amvs

can’t use the internet without adblock because it’s so crowded that it’s unusable can’t read important breaking news without a subscription can’t get a streaming service without them eventually adding commercials can’t watch youtube videos without 30 ads can’t search up things on google without seeing a shit ton of sponsored results can’t answer unknown numbers because everything is a scam call can’t use essential app features without a 30 dollar subscription per month can’t watch a music video without product placement. is anyone else tired

me realizing gen z has probably not experienced an internet outside of this

there were dedicated forums and geocities and myspace profiles and endless mmorpgs that also had custom profiles and sites where you could make your own social network and glitter graphics and livejournal and chatzy and imvu and wizard 101 and toontown and vside and onverse and weeworld and free realms and the pirates of the caribbean game and club penguin and google was actually a search engine

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soup-mother

freezing cold take here but maybe religious medical discrimination is bad actually and you should in fact not be allowed to deny someone medical care that you personally don't agree with.

perhaps even private schools are not good and you should have to teach evolution and stuff or not be allowed to be a school. apparently these are controversial opinions

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers (except me because obvs I have done it). Spread the self-love ❤

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Thanks! :) I'll do 3 since I haven't written that many fics altogether.

  • Express Yourself : Always a soft spot in my heart for my first fic in the fandom. It also brought me most of my friends in the fandom, directly or indirectly. I genuinely enjoy re-reading this story myself and writing it was such a special experience for me. I felt so inspired and wrote so quickly. I want to get back to that feeling again.
  • Friends in Low Places: The fic that I felt would never live up to Express Yourself, that I had to get some distance from before I could really appreciate it. But now I love it! It is lighter and funnier that my first longfic. Check out the podfic as well, which includes @blurglesmurfklaine performing the songs in the story as part of the podfic (she is so talented!).
  • A Night at the Ryerson House: Spooky season is technically over but if you want to keep the Halloween spirit alive, check out this scary (but not too scary!) Glee Halloween story, written round robin style by a bunch of friends I convinced to try this crazy idea with me. It is creepy and bananas and features Sandy Ryerson living in a big pink house with haunted dolls.
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How to Ditch Amazon

Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want.  Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.

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bladelei

this seems like a good thing to bring around as people holiday shop

And order your books from bookshop.org! Which will share profits with independent bookstores and has free shipping.

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