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link no longer works so if you somehow dug this out then you’re just gonna get a 404 message

here’s my discord server bois

swishing at the speed of light

if you get the joke you’re cool if not then that’s also cool just join if you want some quality cONTENT

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some things i love: 

anything with a detailed lore

weird origin stories

learning about high profile crimes

the backstreet boys:

a band with a long career during which they have received numerous awards, made multiple records and appeared on tv and in their own documentary

formed after getting through auditions called by a conman who wanted to keep his ponzi scheme running for as long as possible

sued him after finding out they had a much smaller share of the profits from the first few years of their career

source:

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so you know how film or tv credits will have a disclaimer basically saying all of its contents are fictitious and any similarities to real life are coincidence? yea that’s because the guy who shot rasputin got mad that mgm made a film about rasputin that portrayed his shooting and then sued the company for defamation where the court order was for mgm to include a disclaimer stating the entire film is a work of fiction and any semblance to real life is coincidental. most production companies then followed suit to cover their own arses and now it’s a convention for most title screens.

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what never fails to amaze me is gen z's fascination with rasputin, russia's greatest love machine

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close to me is harder to listen to than anything from disintegration fight me

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not takin any risks

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discourse = discussion

you cannot have discussion when there’s just a bunch of people with your exact same opinion!

that’s not what discourse is, that’s a circlejerk!

hot take: if you have a discourse blog you cant tell people who have different opinions than you not to interact. thats not discourse, its an echo chamber of nothing but the same opinion to yours.

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time to get educated my dudes

So You’re A Gentile Who’s Realized We Have A Problem: Now What?

Tumblr likes to spin its wheels and spend time yelling at each other, so here’s a nice comprehensive guide. Five Things You Can Do Now That You Know We Were Serious About The Antisemitism:

1) Accept that if you’re in this to be an ally, you’re going to have a tough road ahead of you. We’re traditionally very wary of outsiders in our spaces because when we welcome them, well … this happens. In fact, if you want to convert to Judaism, you traditionally get rejected three times, just to make sure you’re serious and not shitting with us. Expect wariness. Expect to get your feelings hurt, because a lot of us are very raw right now. Stick with us anyway–once we know you’re not just bandwagoning us, you’re going to end up with a lot of friends who are relying on you. Nobody said allyship was easy.

2) Learn about Judaism. Note that I DO NOT MEAN LEARNING WITH INTENTION TO CONVERT. We don’t proselytize and it would be against Torah for me to even suggest it. What I mean here is, you can’t call bullshit if you don’t know what we’re about. Some good basic resources are The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred Kolatch; My Jewish Learning; and for a strict Orthodox standpoint, Chabad. You’ll find that some things in these sources contradict each other. That’s pretty par for the course in Judaism; we don’t have a single dogma or point of view.

3) Consider calling a local synagogue and asking if they have volunteer work for a gentile ally. Introduce yourself, explain (briefly) what got your attention, and offer your services–to stand outside during services, to walk folks to and from shul (this is particularly important in Orthodox communities, where driving on Shabbat is forbidden), hell, to help stuff envelopes for whatever vigil or service they may be holding in memoriam. Anything will help.

4) You may wish to make a donation to a local synagogue or Jewish charity. I strongly recommend the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which is a Jewish charity focused on combating antisemitism. Jews traditionally give monetary gifts in sums of $18, which corresponds to the numeric value of the word “chai,” or “life.” The last time this happened I made a post about this tradition and got accused of being a Nazi because of the whole 1-8 A-H thing, so let’s just nip that right in the bud: yes, we know. It’s a horrible coincidence. We’re not giving up a few-thousand-year-old tradition because of some dipshit with a bad moustache. If you can’t afford $18, consider moving the decimal over and donating in multiples of 18, like $3.60. Your meaning will still be perfectly clear, and anything helps. If you wish to make a donation in memory/in honor (which many synagogues appreciate), I suggest either choosing the name of one of the shooting victims–giving tzedakah, or charity, in their names is considered a great mitzvah and a blessing to their families–or using the phrase “am Yisrael chai.” It means “Israel lives.” Although the country in the MENA region is called Israel, this is not what the phrase refers to–the traditional patriarch of Judaism was named Jacob, and renamed as Israel following a wrestling match with a messenger of G-d. To say “am Yisrael chai” is to say his people, that is, the Jewish people, live.

And on that note …

5) In the coming days and weeks, you’re going to see a lot of people making this about Israel or Zionism. Please tell them to shut the fuck up. Israel, Zionism, and Jews are three completely different, albeit related, things. To wit: Israel is a geopolitical country situated on the site of our ancestral homeland and currently headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a safe homeland; and Jews are a group of people spread across six continents and most countries who are united by a common group of ancestors from the Levant (the part of the world now occupied by the geopolitical entity known as Israel). Saying the victims of this shooting had anything to do with the political situation in Israel would be like saying I, personally, am responsible for Vladimir Putin because I have a Russian ancestor. I speak exactly two words of Russian, have never been to Russia, have no family left living there (and haven’t for four generations), but I’m totally responsible for Russia. You see how ridiculous that sounds? The same applies to Jews and Israel. Please, please, PLEASE do not conflate this event with Israeli politics. I’m not saying Israeli politics aren’t a topic worth discussing–I’m saying this is not a discussion they belong in. Don’t let the powers that be (or the alt-right sleaze that sucks the dicks of the powers that be) distract from the topic at hand, which is “out of control guns meet out of control xenophobia and antisemitism,” by throwing OMG ISRAEL AND ZIONISM AND GLOBALISM into the mix.

And finally: yes, gentiles, this is okay for you to reblog. In fact I encourage it. And I will answer any questions you have to the best of my ability, if they’re asked in good faith. Please just follow the most basic tenet of Judaism, which is: don’t be a dick.

If you’re ready to stand and help, now is the time.

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as it turns out i did not produce much gay art because i was super busy that month

happy pride month everybody we’re halfway through #20gayteen

keep your eyes peeled for Extra Gay art coming this month

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a style icon

Cara Delevinge wearing a top hat and tails at the royal wedding is utterly and completely too much 20gayteen delivers once again

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my summer in a nutshell

Y'all ever fuck up your sleep scedule just to talk to someone

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important post!!!

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via joywavemusic’s Instagram story

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Me: I’m having such a hard time, can y’all please go easy on me?

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my dog barks at the doorbell when rung in the same way i feel like shouting WHOM’ST THE FUCK PINGED ME whenever i get a discord notification

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@ all 18-25 yos in the uk: if you haven’t yet, register to vote because we’ll probably end up having yet another general election and i’ve had it up to here with hung parliaments

from everyone who can’t vote yet: fucking vote

“If you’re between the age of 18 and 25, and you want to scare the hell out of the people that run this country, this time around do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day and do what young people all around the world are dying to do. Vote.”

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its a cover of tessellate by alt j lmao enjoy 

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here’s my discord server bois

swishing at the speed of light

if you get the joke you’re cool if not then that’s also cool just join if you want some quality cONTENT