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Armand: holding onto control by his fucking fingernails.

The fandom: unprecidented mastermind. I bet he brainwashed Louis into coming to Paris in the first place. Louis is actually living completely in a simulation of Armand's making. Yeah, Armand saw The Matrix and was like, I could do that. And then he did.

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"I been hearin' about this one particular young man all day. Supposed to be a bad blues man. Preacher Boy where ya at?"

"I LIED TO YOU" Introduction SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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CO Chapter 3 Episode 2: The Guardian of Groundswell

Bonus Aabria:

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PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:

The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.

The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.

YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.

The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.

When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.

THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.

The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.

*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down

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I love drinking my Kryn Matriarchy Juice and not just because I'm obsessed with both drow as a race and gender in fantasy cultures in general, but also because it makes essek like. the elle woods of the dynasty.

not that essek is particularly masculine on the face of it lol but I do think it's interesting he's one of the only drow we meet who has very short hair. which might just be because elves and long hair traditionally go hand in hand in fantasy, but it could also be an example of kryn fashion leaning feminine by default, especially the kind of formal fashion worn by people in politics who want to be taken seriously. and we know that essek is the rebellious progressive youngster of the court, so it makes sense that the non-conformative hairstyle is a subtle little rebellion against social norms

we kind of take for granted that essek dresses and presents himself the way he does - the mantle that broadens his shoulders, the cloak that makes him look big and boxy, floating to make himself taller - to look intimidating and powerful, but we're coming at that from a pov where masculine = powerful. in a world where femininity is the default and superior gender - where the queen and most of her high-ranking officials are and always have been women - why would that be the case?

anyway this is all to say that essek coming to court for the first time with his short hair and shoulder pads and plain black oversized cloak looked like this to the other drow:

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I hate these motherfuckers and I hate everybody whose actions contributed in any way whatsoever to how we got here. None of this bullshit needs to be happening and none of it would be if enough people had pulled their heads out of their asses on or before November 5, 2024.

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

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your communism and anarchism sucks shit if you're not actively working towards dismantling white supremacy and antiblackness

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Okay I have started on the writing

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my jewish fandom ass wants to write an essay about how Stan Pines is the perfect deconstruction of antisemitic caricature characters–initially we think he’s this tricky, stingy, money-obsessed character, and that’s played for laughs, but then later it’s revealed that he was forced into that lifestyle and mindset out of a desperate need to save his family. (Echoing the experience of a lot of Jewish people who were historically forced into professions like moneylending as the only way they could make a living, provide for their families, and escape destitute poverty. Which then was weaponized against them in the creation of viscous antisemitic stereotypes and tropes.)

I want to write that essay, but I feel like a lot of people on this website would willfully misunderstand me

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armand being a firm believer in method acting who tells his company shit like "uhmmmm do i hear FRENCH from the lips of an ENGLISH company??? remember u gotta live it off stage if you wanna be it on stage..." like yeah okay the guy who fully pretends to be whoever his current companion wants him to be and doesn't reflect on this one minute but instead just pretends everything is fine and normal and as it should be believes in pretending to be something you're not with total disregard of your own true self so you can play a convincing part for an audience. fork found in kitchen.

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family portrait

commissioned by @loumandism

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the only time it was actually funny and entertaining when a "ship" was "confirmed" by someone who worked on the show was when someone asked rene auberjonois at a panel what the nature of quark and odo's relationship was and he replied "sexual." without elaboration

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it’s