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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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Oh, the joy of having 300++ tabs opened, so now I can't find that one fanfic I want to read 😅

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Werewolf boyfriend

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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“Go. Go as far away from here as you can, and don’t ever look back, okay? We’ll always be here for you. Always.”

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I WILL BE GOOD AS LONG AS YOU WANT ME, 1/28/24

image from wikimedia commons

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Some pictures from our hike

I'm so excited to be going on my first hike in forever, y'all—and taking one of our dogs on her first ever big girl hike! our old lady doggo is used to it but she's still super super excited 💜

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"but she hit her with a car" cute aggression

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ⓘ This user just wanna sit in front of the ocean and listen to the waves rn.

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Reminder that you're actually interesting. Your hobbies are interesting, your interests are interesting, you are important and loveable and people appreciate you. You're just a loveable, interesting person.

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I was right... I'm exhausted as hell :p but it was still a good time!

I'm so excited to be going on my first hike in forever, y'all—and taking one of our dogs on her first ever big girl hike! our old lady doggo is used to it but she's still super super excited 💜

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I'm so excited to be going on my first hike in forever, y'all—and taking one of our dogs on her first ever big girl hike! our old lady doggo is used to it but she's still super super excited 💜

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🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

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love is stored in the friend who reads your fanfiction

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Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse

Lily Allen, Apples

Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Daniel M. Lavery and Cecilia Corrigan, Let Your Father Die Energy Drink [x]

Big Thief, Mythological Beauty

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

Nocturnal Animals (2016) dir. Tom Ford

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