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redesign for lesbian visibility week 🩷🧸🫶

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Our Lady of Lavang

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forgot the best part of death note, the american names written by someone who was just kind of guessing what american names sounded like. anyways rip to raye penber, arire weekwood, and lian zapack, average american men

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Shakespeare Fun Fact

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in the dark corners of our world, secrets wars are waged by forgotten legions…

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Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

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St. Gall Gospel, The Crucifixion. Illuminated by Irish monks around 750 AD it is now preserved in the Library of the Monastery of St. Gallen in Switzerland

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He was also a cute little blond guy (basically the height of beauty for a medieval gay man)

This drawing of him was made when he was about 30, and even though it's stylized, you can tell that the illustrator knew what they were doing and it's probably a faithful representation

More people need to know that my dead bestie St. Aelred

experienced targeted homophobic harassment by a knight

the knight used an unspecified sexual slur against him (probably calling him a bottom in a derogatory way) in the king's presence, and Aelred's response was basically "yes? and?"

his hagiography emphasizes his skill in conflict resolution and his forgiveness of the knight (which shows that the knight's behavior would have been considered unacceptable)

the fact that he slept with dudes doesn't seem to have been an issue--the audience only objected when his biographer tried to claim that he had always been chaste

his extreme vow of chaste celibacy was considered highly unusual in his culture

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More people need to know that my dead bestie St. Aelred

experienced targeted homophobic harassment by a knight

the knight used an unspecified sexual slur against him (probably calling him a bottom in a derogatory way) in the king's presence, and Aelred's response was basically "yes? and?"

his hagiography emphasizes his skill in conflict resolution and his forgiveness of the knight (which shows that the knight's behavior would have been considered unacceptable)

the fact that he slept with dudes doesn't seem to have been an issue--the audience only objected when his biographer tried to claim that he had always been chaste

his extreme vow of chaste celibacy was considered highly unusual in his culture

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i entirely get why people are like "actually knights were historically land-owning nobles waging war on people" and reminding people that idealised modern conceptions of knights are not historically accurate, it's just really really funny given that people have been idealising the institution of knighthood since like. the twelfth century or earlier, go take it up with fucking chrétien de troyes

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In 1988, ACT UP protested the FDA withholding HIV treatment due to requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

In 2024, trans activists protested promoters of an NHS-funded report requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

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Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)

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Isn't being your 1000% platonic best buddy's loyal vassal just the least homoerotic thing you can ever do? Maedhros thinks so. He's never done anything homosexual in his life.

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The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.

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It's so funny when TERFs do biological essentialism and take it to some insane extreme I never could have imagined on my own. You'll be scrolling an LGBT or feminist tag and suddenly see a post that says "Women prefer milk chocolate colored pretzels while men prefer dark chocolate covered pretzels due to Female Socialization," and some other TERF in the notes is replying "Men eat dark chocolate covered pretzels because they have angry, rage-filled souls. Women are incapable of eating dark chocolate covered pretzels, the flavor is too harsh and wicked for their gentle tongues." and not a single person in the thread realizes that this is fucking balderdash

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Unmute !

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Using dissociate instead of zoning out. Describing a hobby as a hyperfixation. Saying nonverbal when you want a bit of quiet. Saying intrusive thoughts because that must mean an urge like to buy coffee or hair dye. Do you know feeling off sometimes is a sign of autism? Lying is gaslighting. Everyone I dislike is a narcissist.