This Is A Tea Checkpoint.

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

Writers on a random Tuesday: Sits down, locks in, giggles, writes 10k, does not sleep

Also writers on a random Tuesday: writes one sentence and then stares into the abyss for five fours

youll be able to find books and movies and music that change your life until the day you die. that's pretty good

didnt realize this was an ad at first so i just assumed that was somebody's advice. no1 art tip... hunt monsters...

February hopefuls:

🦢 City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim

⛵ Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

🏺 Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans

☠️ Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (audiobook reread)

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

Thinsecurity is a seductive thing. It tells thin people that feeling badly about one's own body is the worst-and only-outcome of difficult experiences with our bodies. They cannot fathom what are such commonplace experiences for very fat people: A stranger recommending a surgeon. A familymember withholding food until you look like you need it. Fat camp. Being recommended for The Biggest Loser. And on and on and on. Those experiences are too far from their own, unimaginable to someone who has so long been locked in place by their perception of their own body. So straight size people reinterpret them, make them something easier to understand. Rather than talking about body-based oppression, they revert the conversation to their thinsecurities.

When fat activists talk about body-based oppression, thinner body positivity activists paint it over, replacing it with a more palatable insecurity. But when we don't talk about body-based oppression, we're strangely lauded for our confidence.

What we don't talk about when we talk about fat - Aubrey Gordon

touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know