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star trek shop sent me an email saying "happy birthday seven of nine" but there isn't a birthdate for her on the wiki and her first appearance on voyager was in september? I don't understand

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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#this is not true but the post is funny (via @shkspr )

prev tags correct! quick overview of this here! this "fact" is largely not true but there WAS in fact a guy who blended up creatures (planaria, not leeches) and fed them to other creatures to investigate whether memories could be transferred. his results were largely not reproducible though and there were no mazes involved.

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they should have tried having gay sex. it wouldnt change anything about their situation but then at least they could say they gave it a go.

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This contributes to the feedback loop of feminine performance. As mentioned, when defining the original characteristics of the gaze it wasn’t just who was making the art but who the intended demographic to be consuming the art is. Historically, this audience was never women as mentioned, it was exclusively men. So, what does it say that even when the target demographic is women—as exemplified by the Skims campaign, a brand made by a woman, using Sabrina who’s primary audience is women, to sell to women— yet still we are unable to escape this influence of the gaze, and despite a lack of men in the equation we are still subliminally influenced by this need to perform their desires for them. The Skims photoshoot is a clear example of how the male gaze lingers. There is an undeniably voyeuristic tone to the images, influenced by the fact that the cinematic references being made are apart of media that contributes to the gaze, media that was made by men for men. So despite being a woman-led project with women as the target demographic, the influence of the gaze is still palpable due to the media being referenced, contributing to the feedback loop of feminine performance.

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There is something to be said about the legacy of female pop stars and starlets being used to push a fetishistic “sexy baby” narrative that contributes to the sexualization of teen girls. What separates Sabrina from figures like Kate Moss, Alicia Silverstone, and Britney Spears is a crucial detail: they were all teenagers at the height of these marketing campaigns. Freshly “legal” teenagers whose image was being targeted and fetishized for the sake of male consumers as was highlighted by the article titles. These girls were teenagers and freshly “legal” at the time of these shoots, and everyone involved in the marketing wanted you to know that. Fixating on their barely-legal status, and intentionally targeting them towards male consumers.

Sabrina however is, as mentioned, unambiguously 25-years-old. She doesn’t strike me as attempting to make you believe she is younger than her real age. She doesn’t look like a teen. She doesn’t style herself in a way that to me would signal that she is juvenile. She intentionally wears clothing that accentuates her womanly curves and hourglass shape. She is not trying to convince you that she is some sort of teenage sex symbol. The two controversial photoshoots—W Magazine and Skims— are worth analyzing but with context. It is important to note that these weren’t photoshoots for her own personal projects. Given her status she likely could have had some input or say in these photoshoots, though these were editorial shoots driven by creative directors and stylists with their own vision. That doesn’t absolve her of all responsibility, but it does complicate the accusation that she is intentionally pandering to a “pedophilic fantasy” and to suggest she is intentionally infantilizing herself and curating a “sexy baby” aesthetic that panders to pedophilia using these photos specifically as evidence of that is misleading.

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The reality is the expression of femininity is incredibly nuanced, with a long, complex history of intertwining social issues including race, class, and the exploitation of girls. I don’t think Sabrina is trying to position herself as the “sexy baby” people are making her out to be. I don’t think she is pandering to a pedophilic fantasy. I think the examples such as the Skims Campaign and the W Magazine photo are symptoms of subconscious problems with the expression of femininity within the context of the colonial, Western, globalized culture we reside in— problems that do deserve to assessed through a critical lens. But, to be completely honest, I don’t believe that micro-managing the aesthetics of femininity is a path to liberation.

Thank you bestie @milfygerard for recommending this sub stack piece it was really interesting 🫶🫶🫶🫶

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everyone say happy third birthday muna (self titled)!!!

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can you imagine being in high school rn jesus christ

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We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives. Raise. Awareness.

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now how is it only tuesday....

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Hey guys so sorry to ask again but I just need like 35 for rides to work this week. Money is tight bc my work has been closed and also I missed a few days from chronic pain. Tysm!!!

Venmo: *

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Liv at the King of Drag premiere | 23 June 2025