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we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

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no way i just saw people in tiktok comments crying screaming throwing up at the idea of aslan being a jesus figure. worsties the lion literally dies to save edmund (the sinner) and then rises from the dead. he tells the pevensies he can be found under a different name in our world. what else could this have meant

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Sunset above the clouds 🥺

I am so so so tired but i saw the milky way for the first time ever :,)

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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Gender essentialism is still cringe if it is directed against cis people btw. Ive basically had someone say to me that cis people are biologically incapable of understanding less normalized gender identities because "their brains work differently". If anyone has this opinion please come forward now so i can block you thank you. The reason cis people dont understand gender in the same way trans people do is because trans people are naturally more exposed to the discussion about gender because we have to think about it a lot. Cis people, who have never doubted their identity, obviously dont think about it as much, if at all.

Cis people arent inherently more stupid than us, or less capable of talking about gender on a biological level. What would that even look like???

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ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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honestly, especially in the current state of the world, you all have GOT to kill whatever puritanical voice inside your head keeps insisting that if something is erotic it has no social, artistic, or intellectual merit.

stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.

stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.

stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.

no, not all erotic art is high art, and not all erotic art is meant to invoke deep intellectual discussion - but insisting that makes erotic art valueless, a disservice to intellectualism, or whatever else - does nothing but add fuel to a fire built on conservative ideology.

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(gripping the skink with both hands, pale and feverish, sweating and shaking as I look at myself in the mirror) “killing a character is a valid writing choice that can be a crucial plot mechanic and lend beauty and depth to the story as a whole” (wretches up blood into the sink) “even when it’s my favorite character”

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I am so so so tired but i saw the milky way for the first time ever :,)

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just so you know i wrote a poem one time that i hated and i was so so so embarrassed about but i had to post it as part of a whole situation with some friends and it got like 3 million likes across my socials and people made zines about it and adapted it to songs

and then i wrote a poem a month ago and i was like "this is my best work yet. it's the most important piece to me i've ever written and sharing it will be self actualizing." my friends didn't even like it.

and the point here is that i talk to so many artists who make something successful and then they're so scared to follow it up and they say "what if the next thing i make sucks?"

it might! that's art babbeeyyyyyy!! so make a third thing!

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narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"

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say youre cooking something in an oven on a sheet tray. say you covered said tray in foil or another such barrier oreventing the food from touch the tray. Assuming theres no Spillage:

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I am once again in an airport

Benefits of being in the airport: i get to fill up my tumblr queue again

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ouagh I REALLY liked nestlings

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not a snippet sunday just a. snippet sharing day because i just wrote this and i. ough

Behind the haze of clouds, the briefest hint of the north star glinted down. He frowned as the view became obscured. Basil stood over him, hands on his hips. “Do you take delight in being an absolute idiot?” Nate took a breath, enjoying the earthy scent and pressure on his back. He let out a laugh, still reeling from the thrill of the fall. “Yeah, it was pretty fun, can’t lie.” “Are you going to lay there in the dirt all night?” He rolled his head around in a poor attempt at a shake. Basil stared down at him, eyebrows creased. “You’re fun to annoy, did you know that?”

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Have you ever finished a book that was over 800 pages?

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Benefits of being in the airport: i get to fill up my tumblr queue again