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ppl who drop you because youre in a bad place arent real friends let Them leave

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Happy birthday Cher u kickass motherfucker u

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About anything, really

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Me & your girlfriend playing dress up @ my house

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dont care if i sound corny or cliche but to love and be loved back and not having to second guess where u stand in someones heart is such a warm and safe feeling & everyone should have the luxury and pleasure of having it always

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🖤🖤

Once you get on your shit, don’t slip. Maintain.

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But if you do slip it’s cool just get back on b it’s all good no worries

Once you get on your shit, don’t slip. Maintain.

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Facts

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Waves from Saturday night

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I’m so happy for you fuck yeah 🥲

I took the most gorgeous and simple self portraits yesterday. Whatever version of myself I was desperately trying to manifest, I found her. After struggling to see the beauty in myself for the past two years, I wasn’t ready for it to come out and smack me dead in my face…

I honestly feel like I can see the me I’ve been trying achieve for so long, which is just.. I don’t know the realest version physically of myself. 

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Does anything that can exist exist somewhere?

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Hey

My cat put her asshole in my face

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Many of the political attacks on trans people—whether it is a mandate that bathroom use be determined by birth sex, a blanket ban on medical interventions for trans kids or the suggestion that trans men are simply wayward women beguiled by male privilege—carry the same subtext: that trans people are mistaken about who they are. “We know who we are,” Page says. “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”

Page was attracted to the role of Vanya in The Umbrella Academy because—in the first season, released in 2019—Vanya is crushed by self-loathing, believing herself to be the only ordinary sibling in an extraordinary family. The character can barely summon the courage to move through the world. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” Page says. Now on set filming the third season, co-workers have seen a change in the actor. “It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” says showrunner Steve Blackman. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.” For Page, returning to set has been validating, if awkward at times. Yes, people accidentally use the wrong pronouns—“It’s going to be an adjustment,” Page says—but co-workers also see and acknowledge him.

Whatever challenges might lie ahead, Page seems exuberant about playing a new spectrum of roles. “I’m really excited to act, now that I’m fully who I am, in this body,” Page says. “No matter the challenges and difficult moments of this, nothing amounts to getting to feel how I feel now.” This includes having short hair again. During the interview, Page keeps rearranging strands on his forehead. It took a long time for him to return to the barber’s chair and ask to cut it short, but he got there. And how did that haircut feel?

Page tears up again, then smiles. “I just could not have enjoyed it more,” he says.

ELLIOT PAGE for TIME Magazine › 2021 interview by Katy Steinmetz, photography by Wynne Neilly

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favorite characters ≡ Ilana Wexler

“You know, if you love something, you have to let it have sex with other people. And then if it comes back to you, dope, cause you also get to have sex with other people.”

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What happens to us when we die?

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Can’t imagine being anywhere else but here