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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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Why is this heat so hot 😩

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OK I swear I already went on one rant about the misuse of the term

"Lavender marriage"

But I can't find it to add to so separate post IG.

You do not WANT a lavender marriage.

Lavender marriages are for safety in a homophobic society you do not want to be hiding who you are attracted to.

What you want is a platonic or queerplatonic marriage.

And at this point I'm like 90% the reason people are misusing the terms is aphobia.

Cause what other reason would there be to ignore the important history of lavender marriages, to change their meaning to something that already has a word.

Other than because it's largely aspec people who use that word.

"That's a reach" Mate they still don't like to acknowledge the split attraction model and there's no explanation for that other than the sane thing.

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idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it

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It's 2025, can we agree that you can be straight and LGBTQIA+ finally? Or is the concept of asexual straights and straight trans people still too complex for this world?

Not aimed at the community as a whole of course but some of y'all gotta stop being so uppity about straight people existing within the community.

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I had an annoying interaction so this is your friendly reminder that the A in LGBTQIA+ does not stand for ally, it stands for aspec people.

Editing because people have mentioned in the tags, thank you for reminding my dumb ass:

Also agender people! The A is for aspec (not just aro and ace, the WHOLE spectrum!) and agender people.

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Happy pride to the A's of lgbtqia!

To the asexuals

Aromantics

Agenders

You are just as loved here

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Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

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Me, selecting filters on Ao3

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In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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As a state, Montana generally has really shitty internet. A lot of people live in rural areas and the weather can cause a lot of issues.

But we live in a time where internet access is a recourse for work, school, connecting with friends and sometimes talking to your partner(s).

That’s part of why so many schools and libraries offer virtual hotspots. It’s something that provides people with stable internet and connects them to the world.

That’s part of why it’s devastating that the Missoula Public Library is stopping their hotspot service because of funding cuts.

In this day and age, internet access can be a lifeline. Having a place to get that was so important to people, and I’m so upset that service is gone

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