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Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

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Do people actually like quote books, movies, and TV shows in casual conversation because I refuse to believe that that's true. I legit cannot remember a single quote from anything that I have ever watched or read and you're telling me that people can quote full on paragraphs from their favourite book and it's not just a movie trope to show that they're a nerd.

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haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

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it was a mistake that, in fighting to de-pathologise queerness, a lot of people ended up arguing that there is a defined group of experiences that should be pathologised, but that being queer is not one of them. a lot of queer people have gotten far too comfortable with the authority and power granted to medical and psychiatric systems because. well. they were wrong about homosexuality in the past but some experiences are objectively deviant and non-normative and need to be subjected to an external authority

even now, when people argue against “gender dysphoria” as a diagnosis, there is often this undercurrent of “because our experiences aren’t the experiences of a crazy person”. well imagine if you were, legally speaking, crazy. imagine if you were no longer trusted to self-report on your internal world and your own best interests. imagine if you could have autonomy removed from you at a moment’s notice because it’s “for your own good”. you have to get more comfortable softening the lines between the sane non-disordered transsexual and the insane/disabled/disordered/diseased. nothing else is satisfactory

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you buy a piece of clothing from some etsy dropshipper and it's going to be like glued together and cost $67.89 you buy something directly from some random casualwear brand in guangdong for 95 RMB and it's so much nicer than anything you own that you have a panic attack about global garment manufacturing and commodity fetishism

the chinese dropshipping situation on US-based ecommerce platforms is kind of wild to me just because none of them will sell you anything good

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the chinese dropshipping situation on US-based ecommerce platforms is kind of wild to me just because none of them will sell you anything good

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Tip: If you manage to find an Etsy seller you like who isn't just a drop seller, try checking their profile or punching their shop name into a search engine to see if they have a website. Etsy has requirements for sellers that are so absurd they rival Amazon's policies and they take such a huge chunk of the sale that I'm honestly surprised the drop shippers are even turning a profit on anything at this point.

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never understood why people get so bent out of shape over the idea of other people giving money to "scam" or "fake" fundraisers online. I don't mean getting upset that someone is spreading around scams but like, when people get mad at you for giving to something they don't think is genuine. do you get mad at people for giving panhandlers a couple bucks bc they might spend it on drugs, too?

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Me when I catch myself thinking "I wonder what it's like to be chosen by somebody" but then I remember my best friend chooses to be my best friend and my mutuals choose to follow me and the minimum wage employee chooses to give me sincere kindness that I remember years later because I was going through a hard time and it meant a lot

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drinking water when I have a headache should give instant relief. it should go away. what's even the point of drinking water if it can't do that

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i am so pro abortion it actually makes me mad when a character in a show is revealed to be pregnant & she immediately doesn't get an abortion

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this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

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me burning the candle at both ends: oobh i got plany off wick

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the word utena itself means "calyx," the part of a flowering plant which protects the bud and supports the blooming petals. i had heard this before in a fun fan fact kind of way but heard it from Hiroshi Nagahama-san, rgu's art director, whom i had the privilege of hearing speak at otakon years back.

he also mentioned something i had not heard; he said the show's english title is not terribly accurate to the intent of the creators, but a poor translation problem on their part. he said a better translation is Utena: Girls' Revolution.

i get chills thinking about this distinction. he elaborated that the title wasn't referring to utena tenjou herself, or at least not Just to utena; nor any singular character for that matter. there's no Revolutionary Girl. its about the revolution of and for and by girls. and "utena"...the Support.

anyway tldr you could say the title as Support Girls' Revolution and that makes me crazy