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Who do I need to fight? *takes off earrings*
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Who do I need to fight? *takes off earrings*
It was a total love fest so I’m telling her lots of on line doggies want to be her friend😉🥰
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It was a total love fest so I’m telling her lots of on line doggies want to be her friend😉🥰
Thank you so much. I try not to go on because so many of my friends on here have health issues/ are disabled. Today was one of those ‘wow that’s a lot of pain’ days where it was so bad it was shocking. G basically got the liquid morphine out to stop the yelling/crying. Doing better now thankfully 🫂
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thank you so much. I try not to go on because so many of my friends on here have health issues/ are disabled. Today was one of those ‘wow that’s a lot of pain’ days where it was so bad it was shocking. G basically got the liquid morphine out to stop the yelling/crying. Doing better now thankfully 🫂
A hello from one brown pupper to another! This is Maze and she lost her bestie Sorrell the cat last year.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A hello from one brown pupper to another! This is Maze and she lost her bestie Sorrell the cat last year.
It’s gone hand in glove in an uptick of racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia too. Which is unsurprising even as it makes a person want to pull their hair out.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s gone hand in glove in an uptick of racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia too. Which is unsurprising even as it makes a person want to pull their hair out.
Absolutely and ignoring the fact of who and how and why it has relevance for other people. It’s more of the same - throw around a catchy phrase that sounds like it means something important and blame the genre rules. It’s the 1, 2 *blows raspberry* of ‘look at me I’m different’ we’ve seen before.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Absolutely and ignoring the fact of who and how and why it has relevance for other people. It’s more of the same - throw around a catchy phrase that sounds like it means something important and blame the genre rules. It’s the 1, 2 *blows raspberry* of ‘look at me I’m different’ we’ve seen before.
I’m preaching to the choir here but they throw around terms like cultural relevance like they’re a benchmark romance is failing to reach when the truth is romance never tried to, has always been more subversive than they think and relevant to a massive audience.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m preaching to the choir here but they throw around terms like cultural relevance like they’re a benchmark romance is failing to reach when the truth is romance never tried to, has always been more subversive than they think and relevant to a massive audience.
cis so in that sense romance doesn’t have cultural relevance. The reality is we’re relevance is exactly what it’s always been a space for women, LGBTQA etc to find escapism but also (and it’s one of the reasons the HEA does matter) to see happiness on a page for a protagonist who is like you. I know
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
cis so in that sense romance doesn’t have cultural relevance. The reality is we’re relevance is exactly what it’s always been a space for women, LGBTQA etc to find escapism but also (and it’s one of the reasons the HEA does matter) to see happiness on a page for a protagonist who is like you. I know
Im never clear on what they mean by “cultural relevance”. Is that what happened with 50 shades? I’d be inclined to describe that as a moment that had a lot to do with sexism (ohhh women read sex). Or is it to do with being taken seriously by ‘the canon’? Which is still overwhelmingly male str8 and +
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Im never clear on what they mean by “cultural relevance”. Is that what happened with 50 shades? I’d be inclined to describe that as a moment that had a lot to do with sexism (ohhh women read sex). Or is it to do with being taken seriously by ‘the canon’? Which is still overwhelmingly male str8 and +
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People who use Twitter to broadcast-- who post and then walk without reading the comments or scrolling the timeline-- are enabling a Nazi but maybe not pickling their own brains.
Folks who stick around and engage, though?
Oof.
Folks who stick around and engage, though?
Oof.
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
People who use Twitter to broadcast-- who post and then walk without reading the comments or scrolling the timeline-- are enabling a Nazi but maybe not pickling their own brains.
Folks who stick around and engage, though?
Oof.
Folks who stick around and engage, though?
Oof.