Category: Essay
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Why We Need To Write Essays
And more importantly, why they should be fun. Photo by the Pineapple Supply Co. via Unsplash. A thing I’ve become frustrated with in recent years is the increasingly prevailing idea that an essay is a piece of writing produced exclusively within the bounds of academia and/or on the pages of a broadsheet newspaper. An essay, at…
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I Want To Fuck The Monster
Event: Monstrous May, Kink: Pregnancy & Breeding, Theme: Body Horror & Transformation, Theme: Chronic Illness, Theme: Chronic Pain, Theme: Disability, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Identity & Personality, Theme: Monsters & Monsterfucking, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Transgenderism, Theme: TransmasculinityMonsterfuckery from a trans and disabled perspective. Content warnings in this post for discussions of gender dysphoria, especially body horror and pregnancy, and some chronic illness talk such as descriptions of an asthma attack. I don’t have the tweet and I categorically refuse to look it up, but when The Shape of Water was being…
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Why is Aziraphale so gay?
Analysis of Aziraphale’s characterisation in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. This meta essay was originally written and published on Tumblr and Ao3 in 2019 — it’s silly and written as much for humour as it is for textual analysis, with curse words and sarcastic comments, and I’m afraid it’s not terribly academic, but I came…
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It’s Your Responsibility to Kill Yourself
and other interesting viewpoints in The Haunting of Bly Manor. A still from the opening credits. From Wikipedia. Before I get on with this review, I would just like to note that this will, of course, be incredibly spoiler-heavy for The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan’s spiritual sequel to the The Haunting of Hill House,…
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Transgender Diaries: Hormone Therapy Day #28
Documented my changes and progress having been on testosterone as a transgender man for 28 days today. Warnings in this for discussion of (positively discussed) weight gain, chest-centred dysphoria, and then some mentions of sex drive and bottom growth. A month ago, I wrote an article on Day #1 of my testosterone journey, where I…
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Transgender Diaries: Testosterone Day #1
I was going to start this article as more of just a vague tweet thread, but then I was like… No, no, I think it would be better if I kind of went into it in more of a blog/article format, because I have a lot of feelings about how my physical transition is going…