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When Marshmallow Books Have Mean Men
We don’t hate toxic MMCs, we hate being blindsided by them.
Nov 20
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Rachel D. Oak
Dark Academia LIED to us and I take that personally
On the myth of brilliance, burnout, and the quiet grief of the person you never became.
Nov 18
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Found Family Owns My *Entire* Soul
sometimes blood isn’t thicker than trauma and shared takeout
Nov 11
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The Case of the Disappearing Side Characters
Why modern romance keeps flattening the best characters (and why fanfic never will)
Nov 9
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Don’t DNF Like a Coward (a brutally honest reading system)
why your guilt is wildly misplaced
Nov 6
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Why I Love Books That Ignore Reality Entirely
When being locked in a questionable facility is romantic
Nov 4
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The Slow Death of Reading (and How We Let It Happen)
From flashlight-under-the-covers kids to doomscrolling adults, how did reading go from rebellion to cringe?
Nov 2
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14:21
October 2025
💀 We’re being strangled by illiteracy (and there’s very little oxygen left)
it’s not just the kids’ fault
Oct 28
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The F*ck Even Is Media Literacy?
Ya'll keep using that word and I don’t think you know what it means
Oct 26
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12:15
Write from the Wound, not about it
How to shift your pain into powerful fiction (without turning your stories into confessionals)
Oct 23
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We’re All Just Trying to Rewrite the Hurt
Why we keep coming back to stories that heal the wounds real life never apologized for
Oct 21
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I Could Commit a Crime Better Than I Could Do My Taxes (it’s AO3’s fault)
From vampire popsicle injuries to obscure world history: the weirdly specific knowledge that comes from a reading habit gone feral
Oct 14
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