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starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

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So I noticed something. Don't know if I'm onto something, or if I've just fallen victim to my fever dreams. But hear me out.

Rumi's mother was a member of the Sunlight Sisters, to be specific, she was the one with the braid, just like Rumi.

At first, it's easy to imagine that's because she's trying to emulate her mother and live up to her legacy as a popstar and huntress. It wouldn't be surprising if she braided her hair in her honour.

But then you remember, who raised Rumi? That's right, Celine.

I don't have the screenshots for it, so I could be mistaken, but if memory serves, it was Celine who was braiding her hair back when she was a child. It was Celine who ultimately chose her and Mira and Zoey as the next huntresses and helped them raise to fame to achieve their goals.

So what if the reason Rumi wears a braid is because Celine is the one desperate to keep her mother's memory alive, even if it means neglecting who Rumi is as her own person?

The film never really dwells on the true extent of her hatred of demons and how it affected her relationship with Rumi beyond ruining her self-esteem and causing all of her internalised hatred. Maybe Celine doesn't hate demons just because it's her job, but because they took Rumi's mother away from them. Maybe her falling in love with Rumi's demon father is what broke the Sunlight Sisters up.

Maybe, the reason she styles Rumi's hair into a braid and why she refuses to acknowledge her nature as a half demon is because she's purposely suppressing the idea of Rumi as her own person, separate from her mother.

Maybe all Celine wanted all along was to hold onto the memory of Rumi's mother, even if it meant refusing to accept her daughter, whom she swore to protect, for who she is.

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A 14 year old girl flushing her miscarriage down the toilet can be charged with mutilating a corpse, but keeping a dead woman on life support for 120 days then cutting her open to extract a 2 pound fetus because her dead body was decaying too fast to sustain the pregnancy any longer is not only legal but compelled by law. America/the world/men hate women so much.

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Winx

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there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh

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Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

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The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

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Yeah that tracks

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I bought a quarterly needlepoint magazine from 1991 today for $1 at an op shop, and there’s a four page spread about a woman who completely faithfully remakes samplers from the 1600s and the part that blows me away is that she was keeping women in history alive.

The original sampler maker was a teenaged girl called Loara she’s the only one known of seven siblings in that family. She was born approximately 1632 and had passed before her father had in 1656 which they know because it was mentioned in his will.

So in the 1630-40s a girl made a sampler, in 1991 a woman had put in years of research before recreating the sampler as Loara had 350 years earlier , and I’m reading about it in 2024.

Embroidery keeps women alive in history, and it’s part of why I love samplers so much.

Here’s a quote from samplers that I think about often:

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Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875

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"you are gay and chinese" continues to be such a profound and emotionally impactful work to me which is rly funny

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helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!