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Thanks for sexualizing peoples trauma fuckhead

anytime

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Story where everyone is gay and also a kinda shitty person

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So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

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Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7

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it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

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Mean Girls (2004) // Conclave (2024)

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Max Wolf Valerio, Matthew Rice and David Harrison (left to right both photos) standing in front of a picture of them all marching in the first ever FTM pride contingent in San Francisco Pride 1994 (July 2023)

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wip saturday

since it's a thing at this point

On the night before the game, Jack steps out onto the hotel balcony and finds himself confronted with Johnson, Gale and Copper. It's been a while since he's talked to any of them outside the rink. But Copper is the alternate captain and he's spent the better half of a year slowly coaxing Jack into admitting he wants the captain spot next year.

"Do you think we'll make it?" he asks and tunes out Johnson and Gale nervously looking back and forth between him and Copper. Jack is certain there's been talk about him, but he doesn't care at this point. It's hockey or nothing.

Copper genuinely weighs the question, tilts his head this and that way as he thinks, his cigarette dangling loosely between pointer and middle finger. "I think we have a fair shot."

"But you don't think the team is good enough," Jack supplies.

Copper's mouth pulls into a slow grin. "I'm not giving up before we've even started. We worked too hard as a team to get here." He shoots Gale, his d-man partner, a smile. "And it's my senior year. I want to get as far as we can manage."

Jack nods. He doesn't want to push any further, because Copper is more dangerous than Bruno or J-Mills, but he can tell by the way his shoulders are drawn together, by the worry crease on his forehead, that Copper sees the situation the same way Jack does.

The team isn't ready.

The morning before the game, Jack seeks out Dave to convince him to let him play on first line, but Dave shoots him down before they've even made it downstairs for breakfast.

"You're not gonna save the team by yourself, Jack," Dave says, in a way that lets Jack know that Dave was in Jack’s place during his own freshman year.

And so they get knocked out of the semifinals.

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when I put characters in situations that do not make sense thematically it's fine because I know I understand their core Principles and that I'm just having fun. when other people do it it's evil

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there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons

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hurdy gurdying or gurdly hurdying? 🤨

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Me as an art critic: this piece really explores the… Misogyny of the artist 🤔

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some autistic people will never be able to have a job or live alone, some women that are transvestigated in bathrooms will have a penis, sometimes a trans women will win a sport she is "naturally" gifted in such as being really tall and playing basketball and sometimes the homeless guy panhandling really will just spend that money on cigarettes and scratchers instead of food. they are still human beings that dont deserve to be tormented by the legal system and paranoid freaks

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i had a dream i worked in an underwater restaurant and people kept ordering ice in their drinks and then getting mad at me when it would float away. and i’d tell them beforehand that the ice would float away & they’d be like lol no that’s not how it works just give me the ice. I’m fighting customer service battles never seen before

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Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally