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That cat looks important!

Cat portrait, c. 1860s

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Normalise it!

made a picture i will use a lot

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Among the silliest girls in Britain!

shoutout to kitty and lydia bennet for being a rare female example of Those Two Idiots

not just one cringefail losergirl but TWO of em. austen truly was ahead of her time

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Just putting this out...

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Child labour? Is this in a red state?

New Minecraft trailer

WHAT?!?!

!?!!?!!?

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Keep up the Clara art!

Clara redraw for practice

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I'm over here in Britain, but like many around the world, I want to show support for the No Kings protests against Trump! Down with the traitors, up with you stars! The US has no King! I am aware of the irony of a Brit saying this, but you get my point! Good luck, and solidarity forever!

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Lovely to see some No Kings protests!

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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I. M. Foreman from Interference?

the book was by I.M Foreman

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To the Queen in the North!

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Janitor What feels like quite the idea!

I really am tempted to write a Doctor Who fanfiction called Janitor What where the main premise is (while being a pretty major plot hole himself) another timelord who was friends with The Doctor and The Master when they were young on Gallifrey. Only, instead of running in fear or being driven completely mad when forced to stare into The Untempered Schism, he is compelled to clean time and is captive to this illusion that time doesn't have to be so wibbly or wobbly at all. He sort of works as the timelord who actually does his job. Only issue is that his two best friends have gone absolutely off their rockers and he spends most of his time cleaning up their messes. In other words, The Janitor is who patches up plotholes. How did Pete Tyler know to catch Rose in Doomsday? The Janitor. What ever happened to The Valeyard? The Janitor. How are there no Reapers before or after Father's Day? You can thank The Janitor because that's his daleks baby. And The Janitor always shows up in this shipping crate that says Fragile on the side and he's got a tool belt of bullshit like an Ultraviolet Spanner, a Gammaray Hammer, or the Sub-o-matic plunger. Of course, the even better gimmick of it all is when he lands and is asked who the hell he is. I mean it is the very last place one expects to have hired a janitor. Which always prompts a mind boggled, "Janitor? What?"

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A protest isn't like a lecture that you have to book ahead of time, anyone can turn up!

But make sure that the fascists don't know that you were there!

stop being silly in front of me

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A lion and a unicorn together!

heed the call —; shining beast of the daybreak sun! bright starlight scatters across her flank in a kiss as the earth's halo falls to her steed 🌞

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Aww. Pusheens!

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Little Japanese Snow Fairy! They are so cute!

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Why should we hear that misery builds character? We'd be happy with a character that isn't miserable. For the people who got through it and were apparently so strong, many didn't. Were they cowards then? Do they deserve our scorn?

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Might be useful to put this out, so people can celebrate pride when they think most fit.

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.