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“I’d love to stop watching TV, but you cancelled school!”

aka, YouTube series to binge when you’re stuck indoors and you’d like to learn a little something.

ART!

Lindsay Ellis’ entire YouTube channel. It’s like film school for people who can’t afford film school.

Here she is teaching you about film theory… via the Transformers movies.

Here she is talking about the ways the potrayals of various characters have changed and developed over the years.

It’s Lit! A series hosted by Lindsay Ellis in collaboration with PBS, about reading, writing, and the publishing industry.

Brows Held High. Half comedy reviews, half artistic and political analysis of “highbrow” films – often both at once.

Also he has talked about Shakespeare a LOT. Like, so much, you guys.

ThugNotes. Advertised as “classic literature, original gangster.” Sparky Sweets, PhD, summarizes and analyzes some books you may have heard of.

Terrible Writing Advice. Teaching you how to write by telling you how not to write.

Maven of the Eventide. A very nerdy goth lady reviews vampire-focused content, and has thus talked quite a lot about the history of the vampire genre and how it’s developed over the centuries. It’s so awesome. She also has really cute kids who show up sometimes!

SCIENCE!

Sexplanations. One very smart lady answers all your sex ed questions. Yes, even that one.

Tibees. A PhD student explains physics and math… in the style of Bob Ross, baking videos, and shitposts.

Cool Worlds. Videos about astronomy and space and other planets, for when you want to think about how small you are.

Minute Physics. Complicated scientific ideas, in short, easy to digest videos.

SciShow: Hank Green and friends tackle serious scientific queries, like, “Why don’t we just throw trash into volcanoes?”

HISTORY!

Ruining History. Shane Madej infodumps about salacious periods in history that were left out of the books. People have always been weird, y’all.

On that note: Puppet History! It’s a new one, but it’s a lot like Ruining History, but with puppets and songs, too.

BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime. If I get mysteriously murdered with no leads, Ryan and Shane are the only people allowed to talk about it. 

Also Supernatural often has some interesting historical tidbits.

MISCELLANEOUS CRAP!

Adam Ruins Everything. One very earnest, very nerdy man annoys his friends and family by debunking common misconceptions about everything from chemistry to the TSA to the funeral industry.

Last Week Tonight. Comedy news program hosted by a sad British man in America. Depending on the episode, you might see him get in a jockstrap-related feud with Russel Crowe, troll the FCC with robocalls, or interview Edward Snowden. Constantly wastes HBO’s money on stupid shit. Always funny, always informative, and he hates Trump SO. GODDAMN. MUCH.

Defunctland. Our host Kevin gives us the rundown on theme park attractions, and sometimes whole parks, that don’t exist anymore – how they were developed, and why they ultimately shut down.

He also has a side-series about kids’ TV shows that don’t exist anymore.

And a miniseries about the works of Jim Henson.

Daily Moth. American news given in ASL, with full English transcripts.

Ali Abdaal. A Cambridge grad talks about life has a junior doctor, and how to study and work more effectively.

Feel free to add!

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some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

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A (good?) TV example of what a queerplatonic relationship is like

…How many of you have watched/remember the show “Full House”? 

…It’s a pretty well-known show, and because of that, it’s usually my go-to whenever someone asks me to explain what a queerplatonic relationship is like. 

In particular, I use the relationship between Danny, Jesse, and Joey as an example. 

…A bit of background info, the show’s general premise is that Danny Tanner is a widowed father with three daughters. The brother of his late wife, Jesse, and Danny’s best friend Joey move in “temporarily” to help Danny raise his daughters as he is coping with the death of his wife. However, Jesse and Joey’s stay in the Tanner household becomes permanent. 

(Just a disclaimer, I am only going to talk about the events pre- the reboot,  Fuller House)

The show ran for eight seasons, and as those seasons progressed, the relationship between the three men gets stronger and stronger over time. 

Now, to clarify, Danny, Jesse, and Joey are all straight, and not blood related. 

The three men aren’t in love, but they have an extremely high level of commitment to each other.  They live together under the same roof throughout the entire series, and Joey and Jesse assist Danny in raising his daughters, to the point where Jesse and Joey are just as big of father figures in the girl’s lives as Danny himself is. 

The girls are basically their shared daughters.

Together, the three men+ the kids consider themselves as one family unit. 

Even though they aren’t in love with each other, Danny, Jesse, and Joey literally cannot function or live without each other because they are too important to each other. They support each other in the same ways that a spouse would.

Even when Jesse got married to his wife Rebecca later in the series and the two had children of their own, Jesse still didn’t leave Danny and Joey, and just moved his wife and kids into the Tanner household instead, continuing to live under the same roof as Danny and Joey. 

Danny also met another woman that he got engaged to (Vicky). However, Vicky wanted to move away in order to forward her career, and the two weren’t able to make a compromise, so they ended their relationship. Vicky prioritized her work, but Danny didn’t have the heart to move away and leave Jesse and Joey behind. 

In other words, Danny thought keeping up his relationship with Jesse and Joey was more important than his romantic relationship with Vicky (well, that, and he and his daughters liked staying in San Francisco too much). But still- he put Jesse and Joey before Vicky at the end of the day. 

Actually, all three of the men have at multiple instances throughout the series, had came to a crossroads where they had to decide whether to branch off on their own and separate from the other two for various reasons (often to follow some sort of dream), or to turn it down and stay in the house with with the other two.  Obviously, the three ALWAYS choose to stay living together. 

As you can tell, the relationship that Danny, Jesse, and Joey have although not romantic, is considerably stronger than a normal friendship would be- or even a best friend relationship. Their relationship is basically like a three-way marriage without the romance. 

They are so committed to each other that it’s pretty much impossible for all three of them to even picture a life where they are separated and not living together. They hold each other to such a high regard that they make life sacrifices to stay with each other. 

And that is VERY much like a queerplatonic relationship. 

Queerplatonic relationships are usually a term used by aromantic people to describe the very close non-romantic partner that they share a strong commitment with, but you don’t necessary have to be aro or even LGBT+ to have a queerplatonic relationship with someone. Just know that it is something MUCH MORE than just a mere friendship. 

Sometimes, a queerplatonic relationship is three straight dudes and their shared daughters living under the same roof. 

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Jessie’s casing an art gallery affords an opportunity to discuss a queerplatonic relationship. The phrase “I don’t love” encompasses more than a prince’s lack of romantic attraction. A gay aromantic makes a game of his alloromantic co-workers’ inability to accept him. Alida finds an accomplice in petty revenge after hir friend sets hir up on a date. An aro-ace wanderer invents their own fairy tales free of weddings as a happily ever after. And a demiromantic witch learns about aromanticism from her allo-aro cousin after an escapade with an unwanted romantic admirer.

When Quiver Meets Quill collects twelve fantasy and contemporary aromantic stories about amatonormativity, friendship and connection.

Contains: Asexual aros; allosexual aros; aros without reference to sexual attraction identities; transgender and non-binary aros; queer aros; autistic aros; neurodiverse aros; and a genderless aro dragon.

Links: PDF (read in browser) | Patreon

PDF, EPUB and MOBI editions are available for download from Patreon.

Length: 27, 077 words / 96 PDF pages.

This is a free collection, archiving several previously-published short stories. You do not need to be a subscriber to download the digital files linked above.

As many of these stories contain allo-aro characters, there are sex mentions and references along with romance references, depictions of physical intimacy and depictions of amatonormativity and aromantic antagonism.

Stories include:

Lucky (allo-aro)

The Wind and the Stars (aro-ace)

Friendship (allo-aro)

Monstrous (allo-aro)

What if It Isn’t (allo-aro/greyromantic)

Loveless (allo-aro)

The Vampire Conundrum (allo-aro/frayromantic and aro-ace)

Attraction (allo-aro)

Old Fashioned (aro-ace/demiromantic and allo-aro)

Leaving (allo-aro)

When Quiver Meets Quill (aromantic and aromantic)

Unspoken (allo-aro)

For a complete listing of individual blurbs, story lengths, alternate publication links and individual content advisories, please see the When Quiver Meets Quill master page on my WordPress site.

Cover image description under keep reading cut:

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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positive possum take it away

if you’re reading this

a lump sum of money is on the way to you

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i took one look of this and began singing it like it was Death of a Bachelor

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2019 is the year y'all stop treating bi and pan women as “secondary” wlw

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Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

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Good stuff.

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I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

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Girl (2018)

There are many resources online about the dangers of binding for FTM guys, but far fewer that address the dangers of tucking.

This film, based on the youth of trans dancer Nora Monsecour and made in collaboration with her, features a young trans girl character tucking with tape in order to pass as a young woman. It is good to see that a film is drawing attention to MTF struggles, and the daily practice of flattening your groin, which can sometimes be very painful.

As an alternative to tape or bandages, I would recommend LeoLines underwear, available through Etsy. There are many reviews by trans women who recommend LeoLines panties and padded bras, and the underwear is so cleverly designed that many women report not even needing to tuck beneath the panties. (Also, as the designer of these products is a trans woman, all the marketing is aimed at trans women, and not crossdressers.)

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Please do not flag this post. It is an educational post, intended for transgender girls who may watch this film and be encouraged to tuck unsafely. It is not explicit.

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I accidentally created the most soothing drink in the world after trying to recreate the hot honey drink in Ponyo! I guarantee it will remove all stress and troubles, I’ve had like 3 today because it makes me so happy

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