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hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

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Silas and Daphne from The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph white!

(Yes theyre wearing each others clothes and that’s a laurel branch for Daphne and a rabbit plush for Silas <3)

I’ve never felt as seen as when I read this book. Truly one of my favourite pieces of literature

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idea: English class, but we just analyze and dissect Hozier lyrics

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"even if by our modern lense this historical figure appears to have been gay/trans/etc, without direct evidence we cannot definitively ascribe a queer identity to them" this is true "so because we can't know for certain, i'm going to keep referring to them as if they were cishet" hey hang on a minute bitch.

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These are so beautiful.

Credit goes to the wonderful artist: ChibiGreen

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A little pigeon loafing on a loaf 🥰🐦💕

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Before visiting the cave, Regulus sat in a muggle park near a church

He listened to the church bells and closed his eyes, imagining those could've been his and James' wedding bells in another life

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there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

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Something about little guys, packed up for travellin' 🤌

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it’s fucking wild because one day you’re like i guess i’m not dying tragically young and you go to the store and you buy dental floss, ingredients for soup, and a bath mat

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there’s something very beautiful about being able to try again tomorrow

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There's a fascinating phenomenon that isn't unique to tumblr, but which I have certainly seen here a lot, which I'm going to call the Default Assumption of Incompetence. It's when somebody has the baffling habit of always starting from the assumption that other people do not know anything about anything, or at least that having more knowledge than the assumer is extremely rare and statistically unlikely. To do this, they will frequently go out of their way to ignore context clues that indicate otherwise, or in some cases the assumer simply doesn't know enough about the subject at hand to be able to estimate whether or not this person knows what they are doing.

The assumer will see a social media post about someone's mushroom harvest, which clearly only contains exactly two distinct kinds of mushrooms, which the poster has identified and correctly named in the post itself, and the assumer will feel compelled to warn the forager to be careful out there! Some mushrooms are poisonous and they should be very careful to only pick ones they can identify! The assumer, who has ignored the fact that the poster did identify both of the mushroom species they had picked, and can most likely be trusted to do so in the future as well, has naturally assumed that the person showing off the results of their latest mushroom haul must have been obliviously picking them at random like an unsupervised toddler who is lucky to be alive.

If someone makes a post talking about how they just got a new job as a bus driver, the assumer might swoop in to warn them that driving a bus is extremely dangerous! It's so dangerous that it's literally illegal to do that unless you have a specific special training for doing that! Even a normal driver's license isn't good enough, you need a special license for it! And when the person who just got hired as a bus driver verifies that yes, they know that, they do have the license to drive a bus, and that they wouldn't have even hired someone who doesn't. The first question of the job interview was about making sure that they have a valid license for driving this type of vehicle.

"Well how was I supposed to know that?" is the assumer's standard answer to being corrected. Not embarrassed or apologetic, only defensive and insulted, as if the other person here is the one being unreasonably rude for implying that it was stupid of the assumer to assume that someone who just got a job driving a bus might not know how to drive a bus.

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do NOT try this at home

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Remus: I once had a haircut I deeply regret.

Regulus: Is it the one you have now?

Remus: No.

Regulus:

Regulus: It should be.

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