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Hi i just wanted to tell u how much i love reading ur work !! I started with let’s play pretend and immediately apon finishing i stalked u for more and u were about halfway thru language lessons. I waited like a month to read and after finishing i still was not satiated of ur writing and went and read extra credit. N e ways i think ive read like 5 of ur fics now and i genuinely adore your writing so much. I read i put a spell on you the other night and it had me giggling in bed until i finished. Kindly requesting another little halloween themed B side for spooky season. Just wanted to let u know how much i appreciate ur writing and all ur characterizations of the marauders they literally never fail

Thank you so much that’s really sweet!

So my friend texted me on October 1 and said, “happy Alex season” while another friend sent me their annual text of “it’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers,” so we could each enjoy our reread of the greatest essay in the history of mankind.

Why? Because spooky season is when I COME THE FUCK ALIVE. It’s all Halloween all the time up in my mind but in October I can really let it out.

That said, this witch’s high holiday is a big deal in my life and I don’t have a single free night between now and Samhain. It’s all parties and shows and fuckery. So the odds of me pulling off a spooky season b-side are probably low. But I won’t rule it out!

Here are a couple other things to scratch that itch:

I published a (year late) second chapter for My Moony which includes a lot of Halloween stuff, including Remus in fishnets.

A podfic now exists for I Put a Spell on You thanks to @burningaurora with incredible cover art by @meteoralinart

Things that Go Boo by @theresthesnitch is a haunted house oneshot.

The Proctor House by @eyra is set in 19th century New England

Hallowed by @hihimissamericanbi is a Salem witch trials WIP

Anyone else, please feel free to drop your fave spooky season fics in the comments!!

🎃 👻

“It’s okay to not be okay”

Unless it impacts your work performance…

Or your grades

Or how you act

Or if it causes you to say no

Or if you’re harder to be around

Or if you need time alone

Or if you talk about it

Or show symptoms

“It’s okay to not be okay”

Unless you have trauma

Unless you have one of those “scary” mental illnesses

Unless it inconveniences me

Unless you’re undiagnosed

Unless you cry or scream or make a scene

Unless you don’t keep that shit to yourself

Unless you make me uncomfortable

Unless I can’t infantilize or fetishize you

Unless you have hallucinations

Unless you have psychosis

Unless you get angry

Unless I think you’re cringe

Unless you can’t preform hygiene tasks

Unless you’re disabled, or trans, or gay, or not white, or fat, or AFAB, or intersex, or a man… so I guess anyone

“It’s okay to not be okay”

As long as nobody ever finds out.

Our society has a severe issue with performative activism, and mental health is a huge example of this. Every time someone considers reaching out, they run through this list mentally. This is why true activists and resources need to be loudly supportive of all the things on this list. Take the subtext out of your support.

Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers. Patras, 300-400 B.C. From the Museum of Patras.

This is hauntingly pretty...

where do I get one?

Black water rushing through me. 

i’m trying… damn it, i’m trying.

Through, tough, thorough, thought, trough, though don’t rhyme, but pony and bologna do

fast forward

Can I just get to the part of my life where I own a bookstore, 3 asshole cats, and drink coffee all day?

For drawprongsfootbadly!

Prongsfoot would hold hands and spin in the grass by the lake until the fall down dizzy

@middleagedenragedmama your turn