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Little puppy big steps

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Teatime

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My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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I’m a radical inclusionist. I don’t think I have any right to tell anyone else what queerness is or how they’re allowed to experiment with their own identity. “Infiltrators” are a completely negligible problem, respectability politics is bullshit, and any downside of just trusting people with their own experiences is enormously outweighed by the problems caused by gatekeeping

Just mind your own business, I promise it’s okay

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CtM Thursday Thoughts

Christmas Special 2020

Shelagh and Gloria

Hello Nonnatuns! Here’s a special Thursday post with some thoughts about the 2020 Christmas special, and particularly about this one plot that I thought was the best thing about the episode–the continuing story of Gloria Venables, and how Shelagh figures into that story. More thoughts follow:

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Baby bears

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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, March 21, 1942

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on the upside: i am experiencing a wholesome old-fashioned tearing-up emotional ‘omg look what we humans did holy fuck we’re not all bad’ reaction to photographs of the Actual Vaccine. trucks pulling out! crates being opened! planes being loaded! vials steaming gently as the lid is lifted! first shot going into first ICU nurse arm! 😭😭😭😍😍😍✨💪💗 i fucking love science, etc., etc.

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reassurance

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Hail Tyr

Hail to the eldest adopted son of the All Father Hail to the foster father of the Wolf Hail to the god of sacrifice for the greater good Bless and walk with us this day

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So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

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People will say “I don’t dream of labor” like that is nice but I just want to shelve books and generate curricula for information access and youth literacy and just because I am opposed to the fact that labor is an obligation to survival under capitalism does not mean that I don’t aspire to labor for the benefit and maintenance of society. I dream of labor that is meaningful and life-giving to my community. I know capitalist alienation has convinced you that existence is ineffectual but it’s not a revolutionary belief. It’s an outgrowth of individualism.

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From Hatred to Empathy

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So anyway I had a very vivid lucid dream last night, in which the Old Man took me on a tour of the lands where his roots began, and we spoke at length about many things, standing on the frozen stone before a monument of swords thrust into the earth.

Among those things is that he is pleased with and proud of me, as he has been many times before, and in lives before this, and called me an “Audacious thing” with a fond smirk.

Another of those things is that he’s had many new people approach him speaking my name, and that I’m to tell you all that he welcomes each of you, and offers you hospitality, and to trust in your own intuition and that he will be in touch with each of you, and that there’s work to be done, but that many of you are already doing it without knowing.

He also said to be aware, and ‘keep your weapons close to hand, because in the coming days they may be needed. Something is dying, and something is being born, in blood and pain and tears, but the new will be better and more splendid than the old, in ways the old could only ever dream.’

Anyway then he railed me senseless but that’s beside the point.

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date a dork who will give you the goofiest smile after making the absolute worst pun ever