gay-emo-quotes:

walkingthroughstarlight:

I grew up in a poly household. My mother was married to two men who loved her dearly and they were the best of friends. I use past tense due to the fact that one of my fathers passed away a few years back.

I grew up in one of the most stable, loving households I can imagine. I had tons of support from all three of my parents, I never felt alone, and I never felt confused about my parents relationship.

Were other people confused when I told them about my parents? Sure. Did it take some time for them to understand my parents relationship? Yep. And the reaction I got every single time from other kids once they understood? “That’s so awesome!”

Growing up in a poly house did not hurt me, confuse me, or make my life difficult. It sure as hell wasn’t abusive.

Healthy poly relationships do not hurt children.

I really want some more recognition for poly relationships. This is a lovely post and a step in the right direction. Couples consisting of two people can be dysfunctional. It’s not just poly relationships.

emmeetslawschool:

catastrophicallyinlovewithbooks:

because I see this everywhere and most people don’t know about it. The hyphen(-), the en-dash(–) and the em-dash(—) are three completely different things with completely different uses. If you write fanfiction, it’s likely that your readers won’t care, but if you want to submit a manuscript for publishing, you need to know the difference. 

The hyphen (-) is the basic symbol you find on your keyboard, and it’s meant to only be used for hyphenated words (well-being, two-thirds). 

The en-dash (–) is a slightly longer dash. It’s usually the width of an uppercase N, hence the name. You can find it by looking through the ‘insert symbol’ option in MS word or many word processors, and it is meant to be used to show a particular distance, or for intervals (May–August, 1900–1916, pages 12–22)

The em-dash

(—)

is what people most commonly use, but they refer to it as a hyphen. It’s the longest dash, about the size of an uppercase letter M, and you can either find it through the list of symbols in your word processor, or some word processors actually automatically transform two hyphens (–) into an em-dash 

(—). It is meant to be used as a break in the sentence, in a place where a comma, semicolon or colon would normally be used or as a break in dialogue. (Her niece—the daughter of her oldest sister—is the one over there.) 

*All three types of dashes are normally meant to be used without any spaces on either side of the dash. 

GOD BLESS YOU OP

funereal-disease:

I have no problem with fanfiction, to be clear. I’ve both consumed and produced it. But I do think that some fanfic-centric creative communities, having been burned too many times by people who insist fanfic isn’t “real writing”, go too far in the other direction and cultivate a weird hostility toward anyone creating original fiction. “What, you’re ~too good~ for Marvel/Disney/Hogwarts?”

This is related, I think, to the thing where people start by resisting (correctly!) the idea that popular equals trite and boring, but end up verging into insistence that anyone who sincerely likes anything other than lowest-common-denominator media is just being pretentious and needs to admit they really do like Beyoncé.

funereal-disease:

I’ve gotten used to it, but it’s still *incredibly weird* to me that fanart and fanfiction are considered the default mode of creative expression on Tumblr. Posts aimed at artists and writers overwhelmingly assume that fanwork is all people are creating; if original work is mentioned at all, it’s as “origfic”. I’m not Deeply Bothered by this or anything, but it’s just…weird. It’s like a bizarro inversion of every other creative culture I’ve been part of.