running around in circles bc they’re so!!!

reasons.

more than a footnote — read on ao3

DeNiall. 40k words. 6/9 chapters. M. Canon-divergent AU.

Four boys, two sets of roommates. One matchmaking plan that keeps going off the rails. Feelings will get pushed to the surface. Hearts will be exposed.

Or, Dev and Niall suspect Baz is secretly in love with Simon. They decide to do something about it. Falling for each other was never part of the plan.

chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6

🖤 Chapter 6 is posted: read on ao3. 🖤

Hades and Persephone

Recent commission! The details on this one were crazy fun to paint, I spent a lot of time on it but I'm really happy with the result :)

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when the story is just not working, but you keep writing anyway

Current mood…

Reminder that she actually wins that season, so keep your head up.

Reminder that she constantly had trouble believing that she deserved to be there and her first few could best be described as ‘not the worst’.

And she won. She stayed positive, cried when she needed to, and kept going.

Once more:

People do understand that the privilege from male privilege doesn’t come from identifying as a man, right?

That’s not the thing that confers the privilege. Patriarchy grants that privilege to men based on how nearly they conform to what patriarchy says a man is and should be. That’s where the privilege comes from, not just identifying as a man.

Which is why it doesn’t imply trans men aren’t men to say they aren’t given male privilege.

All it implies (or really just says) is that trans men are not men that the patriarchy recognizes and rewards in the vast majority of cases; in other words we aren’t systemically granted male privilege. Where there are certain places you can find conditional benefit as a trans man if you are entirely stealth and try to conform to patriarchal standards, that is a precarious position to be in and one that can end in death if (or when) they’re outed as trans.

But like. The way people talk about men on here it really feels like people think that male privilege is a thing which is tied 1:1 with having the identity of man. Which only works if you dismiss the real lived experiences of trans men.

I went to the library today and every chimney in the village was smoking and the smell was so cosy. The streets smelled of rainy earth and autumn leaves and woodsmoke. And then I found the house that had the best smell of all main street. I don’t know what kind of wood they were using but it made me linger by the door even though it was raining and I was trying to protect my library books. It was like an olfactory hug, this smoke had such a soft and fuzzy smell. If someone had left the house in that moment I would have definitely asked them. What are you burning in that fireplace of yours? Dreams?

I’m such a slut for casual intimacy. Like yesss rest your chin on my shoulder while we're in line at the grocery store, I live for that shit.

[purring] satorrrruuuuu~💕

gender

WIP Wednesday

It is spirit week at my school and the kids have been wild. With that said, today was dress like your favorite book character day. While I own the infamous Baz Pitch floral suit, I never turn down a day to wear jeans. So, I dressed as my favorite character’s favorite instead.

No one recognized my character or my book, despite hanging up the art by the awesome @biellepics in my classroom as a reference. With that said, I’ve been promoting these books nonstop since the beginning of the year and a few freshman finally seemed intrigued enough to borrow a copy from my library today!

Below the cut is a bit of Baz POV from Chapter 5 of The Boy Next Door. If you haven't started reading the fic yet, you really shouldn't read the preview. You don't deserve it. For those who are all caught up, please contain your excitement about what might be happening this chapter...

all friendships & relationships are forged through an inescapable cycle of being incredibly obnoxious and bizarre and overly affectionate at somebody followed by an immediate hard swap to horrified violently self-annihilatory mortification and self-doubt until you get bored of trying to explode your own bones out of your body and start sticking your paw under their door and yowling again, with the long-term goal of reducing the density and length of your madness occurrences over time

I love when you’re reading multiple fics by the same author and you start to spot all the phrases and adjectives they like to use

I ghostwrote these tags my god

that one hit me where i live

My home, my heart. <3

Happy indigenous peoples day!