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Pulling up to the lesbian strip club, asking them if they take library cards

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I would love to but we're both vegetarian >:(

This Valentine’s Day, get eaten by the one you love!

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Non-binary Prospectors - "Thar be gold in they them hills"

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Woke Nine Inch Nails be like: I hrt myself today

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me: *likes a post with the #asexual tag*

tumblr: aSEXual! this user LOVES sex! sex sex sex! give them the most dirty posts on the site, theyre gonna love this one!

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occasionally i contemplate vanishing into the woods and using tumblr update posts as my only method of communication with the outside world

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gonna tell my kids this was hayley williams and taylor swift

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maybe (just maybe) i am not perfect and i MIGHT have just a few issues

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i was saying this yesterday, our society needs another twilight

it doesnt have to be about vampires or romance driven. we just really really need a stylized young adult franchise that both takes itself far too seriously and also doesnt take itself seriously at all. oh yeah, and it needs an incredible soundtrack too. twilight's soundtrack is SO much better than it has any right to be. like muse and paramore and THOM YORKE?????? how did they manage that

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i have a love-hate relationship with the fact that she calls me pretty

like yes thank you thank you but also im not pretty yet and the fact that youre using it to describe me NOW is kinda ruining it for me

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whenever someone asks me what i like to do for fun, i never answer with video games. saying video games are a hobby of yours as an AMAB person is like saying "my favorite hobby is eating dinner in the evening"

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dangerously close to my lowest point rn

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a little piece on barbie's representation

i really liked the way that queer representation was done in barbie because it was subtle. i also like it when media goes over-the-top with its representation and being absolutely unapologetic about it, but the way that barbie had its representation there for those who needed it without making it feel so bombastic was really great for me.

as an asexual person, seeing that barbie herself was lightly aroace-coded was incredibly nice to see, especially because barbie has come to be the basis for heteronormativity in women throughout the years. they did also make some jokes about how not only barbie herself but the other barbies and kens dont have genetalia, which feels like a bit of trans representation as well. though not as strong as some of the other bits and pieces in the movie, it was really cool to see a joke about how the characters are all dolls become a genuine character device. i have also seen some lesbian shipping of barbie herself online, and while i think it would be a bad thing for them to be canonized i must admit that they are quite cute lol

heres where the sentiments about barbie's representation start to become a little more opinionated: allan and doctor barbie. ive seen a lot of people say allan is gay-coded, nonbinary-coded, etc. and that those associated with those labels see a lot in him. and i totally agree, allan ABSOLUTELY gives off those vibes. but ive also heard a lot of complaints about how he wasnt *confirmed* to be one or multiple of those things, or at least suggestions for future media about him having a boyfriend and things like that. i dont know about anyone else, but i really like how allan's identity wasnt confirmed throughout the movie. it seems like a part of his character to just exist, do his thing, and be himself. he doesnt have to be "non-binary" or "gay" or even in a relationship at all. he can just be allan.

doctor barbie is a bit more of an interesting story to me because she brings in a lot more discourse from the outside world. for those uninformed, the actor who plays doctor barbie is Hari Neff, a trans woman. obviously cool in its own right, because trans people dont often get cast in roles of big-budget movies. but what i think is really cool is that it has absolutely NOTHING to do with her character or the plot of the movie itself. she is not "trans barbie." shes a doctor. shes a barbie. shes a woman. there is no large statement to be had about it, no active push to say that trans women are women. because they already said it, just by her being there. and that is all the representation i need.

having character's identities worn on their sleeves can be awesome, and i love seeing media where those characters are actively proud about their queerness. but i specifically really liked the way barbie's representation just... existed. i could see myself in these characters *because* they are so complex, so individual, and yet they dont make it obvious every facet of their existence. which is a part of what the movie stands for i think. it isnt "blonde aroace woman" "gay nonbinary person" and "trans doctor." its barbie. its allan. these characters are people WITH identities, not identities with characters built around them. and exactly that is why i love barbie so much.

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earlier today my coworker mixed up tony hawk and stephen hawking and i dont think i will ever be forgetting that

stephen hawking's pro skater

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need me a tall gf, gotta climb that shit like the tower of babylon

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ma im in pain

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god made me me because if i was a blonde woman i’d be too powerful