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can you watch my suicidal cavalier for a minute while i go smoke

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long time no see, reverend daughter

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they're married they met and immediately started being messily divorced they are not on speaking terms but they do talk occasionally which is different they're coworkers they're bitter enemies they're co-conspiritors they're children having a nightmare they're the only two people who understand each other. they plot to kill god together and they seduce god together and they say the worst things anyone's ever said to each other and they don't even need to speak out loud to do it anymore. when they confront god together they pass a cigarette back and forth and trade personalities every couple of minutes and when they think he's dead they collapse into each other's arms. they do not forgive each other and they never ever will and still it's a shame that they didn't get to throw themselves into the sun together like they planned. i didn't say their names but they popped into your head didn't they.

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there is only one number who has ever ate another. there is only one number who has ever died. which one feels worse

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stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

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things ianthe has said that i feel gregory house would also say:

"should we hold hands in girlish solidarity?"

"alas. i have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention."

"why, your fist is so big, and my butthole is so small."

"what can i say, i love a little gall on gall"

"i tried and therefore no one should criticize me"

"[why did you get into this business] ultimate power and posters of my face"

"some people will do anything to get... a head"

"i didn't think this was the time for dirty talk but i can roll with it. choke me daddy"

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god im infected by that posting style that's like "posting about my thing #my thing" i just got back to my apartment and my first thought had to go and formulate itself as damn im so sleepy i haven't even had my tea #mytea

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me, smashing a pile of bones with a rock: this is hard work, but it has to be done by a someone, who is me

a curious passerby: what is this, what are you doing, stop that, its unnecessary

me, soaked in sweat and covered in bone dust: i am mining for death, this is a death mine, you horrible, horrible fool

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Embrace your divine feminine energy by taking part in traditional women's hobbies & interests like experimenting with radioactive materials, developing mathematics, programming computers, piloting aircraft and practicing marksmanship.

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Extremely entry-level no-fun-allowed hater moment incoming but. You, tumblr user, does that post actually "go harder that it has any right to" or are you just easily impressed by flowery prose with vaguely religious tone?

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tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

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So there's a post going around complaining about American Imperialism and Pride, blaming queer Americans for other countries doing Pride stuff in June.

And I've chosen not to reblog it for a lot of reasons.

First off, it's blaming American Queer people for making Pride "international." This ignores the history of the movement. The whole reason it's called "Pride" comes from the people who were celebrating the anniversary of Stonewall. The reason this term (and the June date in some places) was adopted in other cities in the US, let alone countries, was as a show of solidarity as a movement. This was a choice made by marginalized people in those other places, and not an act of "imperialism." While this was starting, we were fighting to have any kind of "Pride" events in the US to begin with.

The OP says that they're in aotearoa, and claims their pride should be in July, not June, because they earned their rights. They acknowledge that the official pride months in New Zealand (which differ by state) are in February and March -- but it misses the god damn point.

Pride isn't about having won anything. No one won any rights at Stonewall, nor was any historic legislation passed that day.

It was a god damned riot.

Pride is about the fight. It's about the day we decided to fight back.

Pride is about celebrating our ability to fight for our own existence.

If you don't want to celebrate it in June? Fine. I genuinely don't care when you choose to celebrate the fight -- I just care that you're fighting and I'm happy to stand alongside you. If you think people need to learn more about queer history in your country too? Awesome. I'd love to learn it. Share some resources or try teaching us.

But this weird attitude that it's somehow American Queer people's fault that your own community decided to adopt the anniversary of a riot in the US is just insane to me. They chose it to show solidarity, because when we fight for us, we're fighting for you too and vice versa. Especially in a year when American Queer people are fighting for their lives more than they've had to for a long time with the attacks on the Trans community, it feels pretty fucked up to equate those getting stepped on by the boot with the boot itself.

And maybe that poster is just young and hasn't thought about it. Maybe they're just frustrated that their nation's own queer history isn't more widely known. But this is also the exact kind of thing that gets fed into communities like this one in an attempt to divide it.

Don't fucking fall for it.

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unfortunately once you start noticing the tendency of some sci-fi to flatten every character into ‘ambiguously atheist’, the implication that the only future is one where no one has any religious beliefs is going to piss you off for the rest of time

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After being released from 104 days of ICE detention for his pro-Palestine activism, Mahmoud Khalil joins his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, and their newborn son at Newark Liberty Airport this morning (21 June 2025).

photo via NYT

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tlt tumblr: here’s a 52-page treatise on how john’s vision of his empire references the first and second crusades, cross-analyzed with the modern trend of liberal apathy and a layered examination of the complexities of a man from a colonized people becoming a colonizer. almost didn’t post it here because it feels too obvious haha

tlt reddit: can someone remind me who ‘cam’ is?

tlt twitter: guyssss i don’t know if i can finish these books 😭😭 i wanted nice lesbians in space but this relationship is lowkey toxic???

person in real life: hey man how’s it going