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Research nurse, third culture kid, periodic blogger, wannabe writer, cupcake enthusiast

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@PlagueSquid A lot of fanfic authors learn writing in school and are self taught past that point, and schools don't normally cover queer works or their structure. The good thing is that they'll learn through practice and fandom discourse like this.

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@gorgomenteia But you can? You can subvert a genre, play around with rules or analyse structure differently in your own writing. It just changes how you label it.

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@foolskeppet We do categorise books by their thematic weight. The HEA carries the most weight and is the defining condition of romance. Stories can have romantic elements and themes without being in the genre romance. That doesn't devalue the love story, it just categorises it differently.

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@tropotropotropo All genres have rules. Whether or not the author chooses to subvert them is another story (pun intended). Like how Horror needs to have an element of fear and disgust, otherwise it's not a horror.

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@katnap_kradle @tropotropotropo Tragic romance is a descriptor usually, and is labelled under a different genre (usually drama). It can also be a subversion of Romance as a genre, but it is not a part of the genre itself. There's a difference between love and romance as a theme and Romance as a genre.

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@BarryPierce The people who are creating the things you like now grew up on the media you're trying to distance yourself from, after all

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@BarryPierce I think it is common for young people to find things that older people like uncool because they are trying to define their own identity away from their elders. Cringe is subjective, not biological. But also you would not have what you have today if what came before did not exist.

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@kat_2_tiger Ikr, I don't want to meet my maker soon but there must be an easier way to keep this body running 🥹

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

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@verniejtweets Ask my girl Terri-Ann on youtube, I not in that https://t.co/pGvkcPxb7Y

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Many of you have seen The Odyssey or are about to watch The Odyssey, and if you’re familiar with the tale, you know Penelope’s weaving - and her unweaving - of a burial shroud are key parts of the story. I’ve known this epic since I was a child, and I’ve always wondered...

[Bolu Babalola @BeeBabs]

It is actually impossible to not call your husband "girl" sometimes when you actually like him

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@hvdrog3n @HelloKittydiaz Same, because sometimes it really is just a matter of spelling and grammar, everything else is great!

[aud @mbappefc10]

the 3rd place humiliation match on saturday:

[ً @artfuIchaos]

I believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books and movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[kelly 🌸 @lychkel]

DO IT OR ELSE

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@aChildOf2Worlds I had a meltdown, got over it, then married him five years later 😅

[𝑩𝒍𝒗𝒄𝒌 𝑩𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒂 @BlvckBulmaa]

It’s not necessarily an edit but this tribute to Akira Toriyama makes me cry every time

[whitney @whitneysvision]

kendrick really said

[Mind @MindCharity]

Black people are nearly 4 times more likely to be sectioned than white people.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said this disproportionate targeting should “shame us all”.

But the new Mental Health Bill has no radical changes that will address this systemic racism. 1/2