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Gothic churches: God is real and loving and I live in fear that one day He will discard me for the fact that I will never be worthy of His love. Gothic revival churches: If you're ugly that's a sign that God doesn't love you. Brutalist churches: God either permits me or He is powerless to stop me. churches that gather in rented basements: Our priest who speaks to God directly told us that we're not in a cult so we're ok.

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Boromir: “It is such a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing”

Gandalf: “I know,” *gesturing towards Pippin* “He’s fucking terrifying”

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Art Critic: the skull in the corner is artfully placed on the periphery of vision to symbolise the omnipresence of death, important thematically to the artist’s conception of life and mortality.

Actual Artist: aw shit, I got all this negative space, guess I’ll stick a skull there that looks pretty rad.

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Doechii — Met Gala 2025

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Frodo @ Aragorn: tbh you're mid but your vibes are immaculate

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i’m a Tik Tok expat and your blog unironically helped me settle into to the whimsy on Tumblr! i used to be SUPER worried about fitting “normie” standards, and i’ve never felt so comfortable with + proud of being a strange nerd :] ty for playing a part in that Elvis!

Woah mama don't fit in, roleplay a dead singer for sixteen thousand people

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Sooo I know I only post my writing here but I kinda do photography and I went to Vienna so I present to you, the interior of The Peterskirche and The Karlskirche (I visited another one, I don't remember which)

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Shout out to corrupt politicians !!!!

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shoutout to my favorite calvin and hobbes strip

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“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

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my co-instructor has come up with an ingenious way of getting the kiddos to quiet down without making them sad. at the beginning of class he says "we'll play a game called puffer fish! when i say "puffer fish" then everyone has to imitate a puffer fish!" so when everyone is talking all at once and disrupting he shouts out "puffer fish!" and every single kid without fail closes their lips and puffs their cheeks quickly. there are no consequences for failing to do the puffer fish. the kids just really love the puffer fish.

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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I regularly have dreams I refer to as "Big Luca Dreams", wherein my dog Luca is very big. They are my favorite dreams.

This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams

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