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Just blocked someone with "I'm fine with all ships, except illegal ones!", and I keep thinking about it. I'm from a place where gay ships are literally illegal, you're not allowed to post anything about it, illegal-illegal. So when I see people say stuff like this my brain immedeately labels them "anti-queer", sorry guys, you said it, not me...

Anyway, daily reminder to everyone: law ≠ morality

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Its' crazy that such a middled aged woman like yourself is so obsessed with childrens tvshows and gay teenagers (!?!!) get a life.

So there are two possibilities here.

You're drunk and put this in the wrong ask box. Which makes you a rude asshole, but at least still allows for the possibility that you have a couple of brain cells to rub together.

You are mind-numbingly stupid. Because if you put this in the correct ask box, then this is about BBC Merlin, which is a family show, i.e. the intended audience is the whole family, adults and children, so even if I were middle-aged (I am not; you got that wrong too), I would still be included in the intended audience. Also, their ages are never explicitly stated in the show, but Arthur is 20 in the first episode of the first season, because Uther states it is the 20th anniversary of the purge, and the purge happened after Arthur’s mother died giving birth to him. So Arthur was never a teenager in the show. Merlin is a little younger because his parents met after Balinor fled Camelot because he was being hunted by Uther’s men, so clearly he wasn't conceived until after Arthur was born, which would make him a teenager in the earlier seasons, though I doubt he's supposed to be more than a couple of years younger than Arthur since they are portrayed as contemporaries. The show takes place over several years; I don't think it's explicitly stated how long of a time period it spans, but ten years is the estimate I always see based on time jumps. So Arthur is likely in his late 20s by later seasons, and around 30 when it ends, with Merlin being a couple years younger. Since this bullet point is operating under the assumption that you're stupid rather than drunk, I'll point out that that would mean they're not teenagers. The actors portraying them are older than I am. Bradley James was 25 when the show started and 30 when it ended; Colin Morgan was 22 when it started, and 26 when it ended. In my fictional works about people who don't exist, they're portrayed as being in their late 20s to early 30s, so I have to assume the obsession with gay teenagers is projection on your part.

Moreover, it is not a bad thing to be middle-aged in fandom. It's actually very sad that you feel one day when you reach A Certain Age (that is if the level of intelligence suggested by this ask doesn't lead to your untimely demise from licking too much lead paint) you have to stop having any hobbies aside from waiting to die. Older fans often bring decades of experience in their hobbies and create some of the most beloved fanworks in the community. Kids are not writing those polished, book-length fics that people love, grown adults with mortgages are doing that. Having fun isn't restricted to people ages 0-20. Just because you're stunted enough to not be able to conceive of adults doing things they enjoy that don't harm anyone doesn't mean that everyone is. Feel free to stare at a blank wall when you're middle-aged until you die and never enjoy anything again, but don't expect other people to do the same.

Also, you meant 'it's', a contraction of 'it is', and 'childrens show' should be 'children's show'. If you’re going to send written hate to people, can you at least make an effort to be literate? For fuck's sake does no one care about trolling as an art form anymore?? It's just people with the dumbest takes on earth now, and it's sad to see the form devolve like this.

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Yeah… yeah… 🥹💙💚

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Yeah… yeah… 🥹💙💚

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DREW STARKEY & DANIEL CRAIG Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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What is this bag and is it practical

Gerardo Sacco via Instagram

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Alan Rickman in Die Hard (1988)

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Could you post evidence for his codes?

zohran mamdani’s wife rama duwaji’s latest post:

meanwhile:

^al zahhar, who is one of hamas’ founders.

but mamdani doesn’t hate jews? really LMAO are you that idiotic?

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"this user is proship" we're all pro ship how the hell else are we gonna get to the Northwest Passage

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I somehow f***** up my shoulder. It's upstream of my muscle weakness somehow. I do not look forward to trying to get a PT from Kaiser. Also I have to keep working to apply to jobs!!

Last time this happened I fixed it by changing out my mouse and learning vim. Using vim right now already but I probably need a new mouse and keyboard. And wrist braces again. I'm such an idiot for forgetting this could be a problem.

Also I need to strengthen my shoulders and my core. Really my life would probably be improved if I spent 100% of my free time researching muscle groups or doing little exercises.

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I find it hard to assess how damning it is for someone to have connections with Hamas in Gaza. Weren't they the administrative state as well as running the military arm? Am I really going to get mad about someone being Hamas garbage man? (This leaves aside the question of whether or not it's fine to give the armed wing the thumbs up as basically the self-defense of the Palestinians in Gaza.)

I'm taking this on a case-by-case basis and honestly this last assassination just seems like an attempt to silence a witness to future activity.

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BBC says there is not much evidence he was part of a Hamas terrorist cell.

Also don't we think the timing of this assassination is suspicious? If he was a Hamas terrorist, why did Israel let him live so long? Seems more like Israel is assassinating him because he might report on its activities in Gaza City.

zohran mamdani’s wife rama duwaji’s latest post:

meanwhile:

^al zahhar, who is one of hamas’ founders.

but mamdani doesn’t hate jews? really LMAO are you that idiotic?

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Everything Changes

by Bertolt Brecht tr. John Willett

Everything changes. You can make A fresh start with your final breath. But what has happened has happened. And the water You once poured into the wine cannot be Drained off again.

What has happened has happened. The water You once poured into the wine cannot be Drained off again, but Everything changes. You can make A fresh start with your final breath.

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“She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- …”

by Emily Dickinson

She dealt her pretty words like Blades — How glittering they shone — And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone —

She never deemed — she hurt — That — is not Steel’s Affair — A vulgar grimace in the Flesh — How ill the Creatures bear —

To Ache is human — not polite — The Film upon the eye Mortality’s old Custom — Just locking up — to Die.

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Bisexual anthem

First Fig

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends;       It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends --       It gives a lovely light!

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse