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Oh, man, I miss canning. I used to put up a couple hundred pounds of produce over the summer, when I had the kitchen space and storage. Not conducive to mini high-rise apartments. Maybe I'll just do a few jars of diced tomatoes at a time...or peaches...or salsa...

I’ve been canning tomatoes all night and am now in that state in which I’m imagining dramatic scenes in which Mild Mannered Middle Aged Woman Becomes Heroine, Saves The Day With Stash Of Canned Tomatoes In Puree.

I think I’ll sleep before starting on the next case.

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So I’m going to be bitter and old here for a minute.

The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.

This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.

It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now I’m expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience don’t matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded it’s illegal for me to “force it on others” and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.

Like, fuck off?

Fuck off.

I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.

And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say “here, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you go” like

Fucking, why would I ever.

Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?

I damned well will use queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.

I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who don’t know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how “well, actually” when they can’t even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.

The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.

So yeah.

Queer as in fuck you people in particular.

And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.

I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.

My point is, I’m not going to be referring to the “LGBT” community at all, anymore. It’s going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because it’s so dangerous.

but it’s fuckign not.

We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.

And ‘m not going to let it sneak back in.

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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Genuine friendly summer reminder for my fellow fat people.

We have more body than skinny people so we also contain more water and therefore need to drink more. 2 Litres is something skinny people need to drink we need more. I aim for 4 litres a day.

While any waterbased liquid is good try to not drink all 4 litres in coke or soda. I absolutley do recommend sport drinks or similar things. Fat people like us, or at least me, sweat a lot in this heat even without sport. Refill those electrolytes. Your body will thank you.

My go to drink at home is a 2 litre jug of water with just enough store bought raspberry or orange syrup that it has a taste thats not water.

Please stay hydrated in this heat and take care of your body. Its the only one you have.

(If you clown on fat people in tags/replies/comments I will hunt you for sport)

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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To all trans youth out there: I see you, I love you, I am proud of you being who you are in this extremely difficult time. I'm so sorry so many adults either want to attack you or have failed to protect you from those attacks.

You deserve a better world and we won't stop fighting until we make a better one.

And fuck the Supreme Court.

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Behold the herd of 40+ tumblerites thou hath summoned.

(51. Love coffee. Can only have one small one in the morning.)

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hi besties in my phone. i hope today is so so good to you. i hope something special happens to remind you that it’s not always bad. ily.

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Speaking as a survivor of child sex abuse: the world would be a lot better if yall spent less time talking about the ways in which pedophiles should be punished and more time supporting survivors and preventing abuse

I get it, punishment can feel cathartic. I’ve certainly spent time imagining all the ways in which my own abuser might be punished. But ultimately, him dying, or being jailed, or publicly shamed, isn’t actually going to help me nor will it stop more kids from getting hurt in the future.

I don’t want more prisoners. I want free therapy with trauma informed counselors. I want better sex education for young children that teaches them about consent and body autonomy. And I want a society in which I can openly discuss my trauma, or at least as openly as yall discuss the evils of pedophiles

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I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to have seen Kate-short-for-Bob and Lord Flashard come back for a cameo in a later episode. Genderbending pirates in the Age of Discovery (I mean, Utter Colonial Mayhem) and turning out to be incredibly anti-colonial.

"But you people already took all we have!"

"What d'you mean, "we people". You mean the English have already been here?" (with incredible incredulity.)

(Villager quietly points to the flag over head. And the subtitles point out that the villagers are all speaking perfect English.)

(Lord Flashard looks at Lady Bob, who is already gearing for a fight. She nods grimly.)

"Well...well, dash it all, darling, we'll just have to take it BACK from the British, then, won't we? We shall not stand for that sort of thing! Oh, do that swishy thing with your sword, will you, my love?"

relationship goals

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Because the current Christofascist administration is doing this -ending access to specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth, The Trevor Project wants you to be aware that you can contact them directly if you need someone to talk to. You are not alone. 🏳️‍🌈

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I dunno man. I found out today that a subway sandwich is $14 now. A shitty subway footlong sandwich that isn't actually 12 inches long and is occasionally made with expired ingredients and was never a great option to start with. I ate those in high school because I was broke and at the mall a lot.

There are poke bowls in my city from a local place for $16. Super fresh fish and veg, warm rice, more than I can eat in one sitting, for the price of a sandwich and a drink at america's most mid-tier sandwich shop.

Someone in another post said (paraphrased) you used to be able to get something mediocre for cheap, but now the mediocre things cost as much as the nice things so why would you?

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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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The LOOKS make this a dinner-table montage of its own.

Some days ago I posted a compilation of crowns from Medieval Gothic art (this post), so why not try a few centuries before that? Here's some crowns in Catalan Romanesque art of the 12th and 13th centuries.

1 and 3: Altar frontal from Santa Maria de Cardet (High Pyrenees, Catalonia) by Iohannes (National Art Museum of Catalonia/MNAC). 2: Apse of Santa Eulàlia d'Estaon (High Pyrenees, Catalonia) by an anonymous Catalan painter (MNAC). 4: Unknown origin (MNAC). 5: Statue of Virgin Mary of Espona (High Pyrenees, Catalonia) (Medieval Art Museum of Vic/MEV) . 6, 7 and 8: Santa Margarida de Vila-seca in L'Esquirol (Central Catalonia) (MEV). Statue of Virgin Mary of Veciana (Penedès, Catalonia) (MEV). Virgin Mary of Rodona de Vic (Comarques Gironines, Catalonia) (MEV).