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Bigotry is never the fault of the people it targets. Ever.

A Native person being an asshole does not turn you into a racist. A trans being an asshole does not turn you into a transphobe. The Israeli government did not make antisemitic. The Chinese government did not make you sinophobic. Etc, etc.

Those are choices that YOU make. Any attempt to shift the blame onto the group your hate is targeting, whether it's an individual or an extremist group or a government, is an excuse. End of statement.

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haven't started the new scott pilgrim series yet, probably gonna do that today, but i did finally get around to reading the comic a few months ago

and i'm so jealous of/impressed by the casually batshit worldbuilding

in awe of the way this gets thrown out there and then basically never mentioned again

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i had the idea for this last tdov but it didnt come together until now 🥖🍷 though i'm not religious, this quote is beloved to me

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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A lot of people in the world are simply not being excellent to each other and I do not know how I am meant to party on, dude, in these conditions

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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188.

and that's the thing before the rest of it you learn to get good at falling and you fall and you fall until it's not such a big deal and when it's not a big deal to fall down anymore that's when you start climbing higher

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love that they all look like they’re heading to separate functions. like. singles night on a caribbean cruise, ex’s funeral, dive bar with a mechanical bull, english department end-of-year reception, & the bus stop, respectively.

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

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The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

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181.

all these things I might have time for might have energy for might finally get to tomorrow

or not

I guess I guess we'll see

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

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Conscientious Objector

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor. He is in haste; he has business in Cuba, business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning. But I will not hold the bridle while he clinches the girth. And he may mount by himself: I will not give him a leg up. Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell him which way the fox ran. With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where the black boy hides in the swamp. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll. I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends nor of my enemies either. Though he promise me much, I will not map him the route to any man’s door. Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to Death? Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with me; never through me Shall you be overcome.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I don't think it truly hit me when I first read "Check, Please!" (many years ago now) that Jack's mom is an actress/model and Jack's dad was a superstar hockey player in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Now, looking at that, I'm like, "Oh, they could have totally been doing coke off of each other's naked bodies or something in their youth. Easy."

Do I think they are/were addicts? Not really. Do I think that they brought any of that party around young Jack? No. But those industries can be very sleazy, very toxic, very abusive, and they probably had the opportunity to participate in some fairly dangerous forms of "glamorous" "fun". One or both of them might have flirted with drugs.

And I like the potential angst of Alicia and Bob kind of brushing that wild past off as "just what you do when you're young and stupid and beautiful and rich", of them being settled and confident and comparatively "boring" adults now in these celebrity environments that have generally treated them very well, and this contributing to them not fully realizing just how much pressure this professional sports world that eats people alive is putting on their kid. It's just the exciting hockey juniors culture for Jack and Kent to participate in all of the underage drinking and stupid bets! Bad Bob Zimmermann can be the cool dad who looks the other way.

Until Jack overdoses on anxiety meds. And Bob is sitting in a hospital waiting room while the entire hockey world speculates about his teenage son's obvious recreational drug habits because "record and rumor has it that Bad Bob liked to party pretty hard back in the day". And it's the worst day of his life.

Also, I like the potential humor of the main characters worrying about impressing Jack's elegant and classy parents, while Alicia and Bob are 99% sure that their beloved hockey robot child was conceived on a private jet while they were VERY drunk. Bitty is worried that Jack's parents will think he's some unsophiscated southern hick who does keg stands at frat parties every weekend or something, goodness gracious, until Jack reveals that there exist photos of his father naked on his knees drinking beer from the Stanley Cup, and that those photos used to be framed in the upstairs bathroom of his childhood home.

Bitty: "...Good Lord, you weren't surprised at all to meet someone like Shitty, were you?"

Jack: "The social justice stuff was new."

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Happy Pride Month to these gays🏳️‍🌈

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…i am building A Thesis….i don’t know what it is yet but so far the data look like this 

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Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)