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When someone says "it's too huge, what can I even do to resist?"..... think of this woman and start with one thing

Sometimes resisting fascism looks like a Mexican flag bumper sticker on a white woman's Tacoma.

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Fuck, this is perfection 🔥

Wei Wuxian & Wen Ning (MDZS) || Work Song

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I will never not be weak for a good disabled!Noctis fic, whether the canon version or an AU. And this one is SO GOOD

So! If you can, you absolutely need to commission @wombywoo​! Because OMG!

It’s my Noct! From Step Out Into Twilight, the huge giant epic I’ve been writing for the last three months and that shows no signs of ending, where he’s sent to live with Cid after the Marilith attack. And he is PERFECT. I can’t even begin to say how happy I am with this, how much it is just so perfectly him.

If you have the means and commissions are open, get one!

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) + TUMBLR REACTIONS

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Saving @shuravf 's tags bc I'm cackling at wwx outgaying everyone 🤣🤣

No wonder Lan Zhan knocked himself out...

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New hero unlocked

have you lot heard about the tiktoker who’s taking on the actual government over a parking ticket? because she’s a hero

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Library ftw

> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

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I'd like to talk a bit about masculinity.

So, I'm a trans woman, I was raised male for 26 years, and since my father wasn't around half the time, my mother did the majority of the raising. This means that she did the majority of teaching me in how to "be a man" socially speaking. Sure, car stuff and male duties were my dad's job to teach me, but values and behaviour in how a man should act was the role of my mom.

My mother always told me that she was raising me to be a good husband to my wife, to treat women with love and respect, and overall how to be masculine but not toxic.

My mother even put together a collection of films and books for me to read with positive male role models for me to build my life around, and honestly it really helped a lot.

So, I'm going to pass on the knowledge I've learned about masculinity that I've learned over the years:

Masculinity isn't a bad thing. It's not bad to be a man, or masculine. Yes, there are toxic men out there with toxic views on how to "be a man", but the same could be said about women. If you don't think women can be cutting or hurt people with femininity, you're dead wrong.

Masculinity can be gentle. It can be loving. There's men out there who adore the women in their lives, and treat them extremely well. These men care about those around them, they're active listeners, they have good communication, they're devoted to their partners, and they're genuinely good people. They're not feminine for caring about animals, speaking softly, being gentle, being loving, anything of the sort. They're men, and that's their masculinity, which manifests in a healthy, positive way.

Masculinity can be gentle, loving, devoted, doting, generous, kind, and all sorts of positive gentle things. It's also a spectrum. There's plenty of masculine men who act in ways that are kind and caring.

George Fisher for example, lead singer of Cannibal Corpse. He's a big, masculine dude who works out. He also spends his free time at home and on tours out playing claw games to win toys for sick children.

Or Travis Ryan, who has a house full of rescue pets, and is an advocate for veganism

Donald Tardy of Obituary fame takes care of over 130 feral cats in Florida every night when he's not on tour, bringing them all food and water

Three examples of extremely masculine men, who are kind, soft, and gentle towards animals and children.

There's nothing wrong with being soft. It does not make you any less of a man.

Too many people act like masculinity is hard, damaging, evil, toxic, and so on. Which yeah, it can be in some - but there's also a lot of good in it. Loving, positive, healthy masculinity should never, ever, be treated like something that needs to be "fixed" because it's masculinity and therefore bad.

There's good men in this world, whose masculinity is good and should be celebrated, and healthy, positive masculinity in those that choose it, should be treated as the good that it is.

So, to those who are choosing masculinity, and choosing a path of loving, healthy, positive masculinity:

Thank you. Honestly. We need more good men and masculine people in this world. You're not a bad person for being this way. You deserve equal goodness to the goodness you put out.

Keep being loving, good, amazing people. Don't let anyone tell you that you're bad for being you, because you're not. Masculinity can be wonderful for some, and it shouldn't be treated like a curse, or a bad decision.

Masculinity is beautiful

Masculinity is wonderful

Masculinity can be a force for good

Masculinity is healing

Masculinity is a spectrum and there's no wrong way to do it, so long as it's not toxic

Masculinity can co-exist with femineity

Masculinity should be celebrated and not shamed

Masculinity doesn't make you a bad person

Trans men, and transmascs deserve all the respect, and room to grow into the people that they've always wanted to be. To shame them for wanting to be masculine is harmful for everyone involved. Masculinity isn't a bad thing, men aren't ontologically evil or bad. The vast majority of men are good people, and are blessings to those around them.

So men, and mascs:

Be soft, be nice, be kind, be gentle, be authentic, be vulnerable, don't be afraid to be you. You're not any less of a man for being "soft", instead you become a man of value, and worth.

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This is so incredibly true. 2016 me had no idea how strong and confident I could get, and how much of a true community I could build. We can do this because we keep going

the thing is, it IS going to be worse. but WE are better. 2024 me could eat 2016 me for lunch

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Are two weapons always better than one?

There’s a longer breakdown of this on Patreon!

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This is so cool! At first i thought it was a mural but no!

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I will absolutely add my magic to power this cast

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

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literally cannot stop thinking about wangxian in a home economics flour baby situation

because it would be hilarious no matter how you chose to tackle it

if they're already dating they would somehow manage to outdo themselves as the school's most obnoxious couple

because OF COURSE they somehow manage to manipulate the system in order to become each other's partner

date nights are now family nights, complete with children's movies and age appropriate games and exercises for little baby a-yuan (because of course they name the flour sack). they give madam yu and lan qiren simultaneous heart attacks when they announce that they have become a grandmother and a great-uncle, respectively, with the utmost of sincerity. lwj carries around a fully prepped diaper bag to classes. wwx carries the sack around in a baby carrier. lwj goes away for a national orchestra competition over a long weekend and he acts like he's being sent to war while wwx goes full out single mother widower mode, to everyone's consternation. how dare you insult me in front of my own child, a-cheng, what kind of example are you setting for your poor, defenseless nephew? what are you buying for a-yuan's one month celebration xiongzhang? yanli knits the flour sack a little hat.

and if they manage to discover their mutual breeding kink way before they should have otherwise, wwx is only nominally vocal about it. and if jiang cheng has to suddenly babysit a flour sack because of this discovery he's being VERY vocal about it.

and if they're not already dating it would be the world's fastest mutual pining resolution

oh, hahahaha, don't worry about it, this is totally chill, i can be totally chill about this lan zhan. yes, yes, of course we have to take it seriously, i just meant that i'll try to stay out of your hair- of course we have to do this together, i just meant- what do you mean you don't mind spending time with me? oh. cool. coolcoolcool, yeah, sure, i'll come around your house at? seven? cool.

and that's how they go from wwx constantly bothering lwj and lwj being Objectively Weird about wwx to them spending every single night after school together. they're meticulous about their care for a-yuan (because of course they name the flour sack). he goes down for his naps on time, he gets fed every fourth hour, they take turns keeping him entertained. lwj gets to see wwx being actually serious about something for the first time ever and wwx gets a glimpse of the overflowing well of lwj's affections. they fall into co-parenting as naturally as breathing. they get marks for their dedication in class. and no, huaisang, wwx can't come to your rager of a party tonight, because he and lan zhan has to keep up a-yuan's bathing routine, and no, it's not because he's weirdly obsessed with lan zhan, what are you talking about. and sorry uncle, but lwj won't be available for their weekly tea session this week, because he and wei ying has a playdate for a-yuan at the playground, and no of course he's not being irrational about this, this is his academic career on the line, obviously.

and of course as the end of them playing house rapidly approaches, both of them suddenly realizes that they wouldn't mind keeping up the roleplay of husband and wife for the rest of, like, forever.

and no matter which route this takes, when they, years and years and years later, meets little orphan wen yuan it's fate for a lot of reasons, and they've still hung on to their pictures to show him of his flour-ge as he grows up.

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do not let up the pressure

https://yellat.money/

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Crowdsourcing executive function

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I think I really want to see this tattoo

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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My favorite personalities: Tall, Singer, Hot, Angry, Looks like dad and Twins