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if you’re a baby trans and you haven’t started smoking cigarettes or vaping yet don’t. it’s actually not that hot or interesting. It will just cause you ungodly frustrations and suffering and cost you a bunch of money and be next to impossible to quit

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It makes me happy when they listen

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If you're already smoking and you want to stop please know there are things you can do to quit that aren't patches, menthol sticks and chewing gums that are all over priced and involved with the adverts that intentionally drive you to keep smoking because quiting might be 'devastatingly difficult' Varenicline is a pill that you can talk to your doctor about, it's an inhibitor that makes smoking do nothing for you, prevents withdrawel and helps you break the cycle, there is no need to punish yourself going 'cold turky' Why have you not heard of this even if you're my age? Nicotine gum and Nicotine sticky tape needs to sell somehow

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Improve your art...but only if you want to 😌✨️

TLDR You're still an artist even if you only ever draw portraits of Hatsune Miku facing 3/4 to the left. Do what makes you happy 🎉

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Single Mages are dying to meet you!

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Are you sad we missed it? "We didn't miss it. THIS is it." -nick and nora's infinite playlist

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i made a list of 365 movies i'm going to watch in 2025 and the final film being high school musical (dir kenny ortega, 2006) is perhaps my funniest joke to myself yet

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getting ready with the girrrlllss

part 1

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Im so sorry to do this :/

My abuser is pulling some stuff and keeps threatening me with disconnecting my phone (I pay my monthly phone bill and have for years and years, but my phone and plan is in his name)

July 6th, I have to give my phone back to Roger's and buy a new one. So this is a good time for me to get my phone stuff for my fiance and I, both under my own name.

I have everything all ready to go, but I'm $60 cad short to be able to do it as soon as tomorrow, and I dont receive my disability cheque for another 2 weeks.

Im asking for help with that last $60.

Im hoping for an Indigenous peoples month + Pride miracle so I can get this last thing free from his control. 🤞

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Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament.

I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way.

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part of the reason I think it’s so sad that we collectively write so few stories about unrequited love is bc I feel like there’s very little public acknowledgment of how much it sucks to be the one somebody is in unrequited love with??? and not in a way of like, oh they’re crossing boundaries or putting expectations on me or whatever. becoming close friends with someone and then finding out they’re in love with you and you don’t love them back the same way is heartbreaking, bc a) someone you love is in pain and there is literally nothing you can do about it, and b) it usually means that whether you like it or not there’s going to be distance in your friendship that wasn’t there before as they try to get over you. idk man I just feel like we’ve all discussed the tragedy of loving someone who doesn’t love you back quite a lot and very rarely discuss the tragedy of finding out the way that you love someone just isn’t enough.

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I was thinking about how the social consequences of J.K. Rowling's own ideology would absolutely prevent her literary success from happening today -- and I don't mean "Now that people know she's transphobic, they don't like her books anymore" or even "She built her story on broad themes of liberalism and diversity, but has now aligned with the fascist far-right."

I mean that a big part of the success of Harry Potter came from its adult audience and cross-age appeal. Adults and kids and teens were openly reading and talking about and socializing over a book series marketed as middle-grade, and it was okay. Sure, there were some articles about adults being embarrassed to read a kids' book, and some stuffed-shirt opinion pieces about how Adults Should Read Serious Adult Books. But for the most part, it was okay.

This led to a boom in juvenile and young adult books with broad cross-age appeal, Twilight and Percy Jackson and Hunger Games and Throne of Glass. There was a real glimmer of hope of breaking down strict age categories in media in general and books in particular.

We could've made progress with that. It could've been beautiful.

Instead, we got hit with a massive wave of transphobia, queerphobia, "Think of the children" sex panic. Book bans, Qanon, "saving our girls," Moms for Liberty, conspiracy theories. The biggest Stranger Danger Pedo Panic since satanic ritual abuse. Infiltrating culture so much that queer progressives unironically believe in this pedo panic narrative completely oblivious to its right-wing origins.

Meaning that, to "protect children," many public libraries now ban childless adults from browsing the children's and young adult sections. Sure, they often have "exceptions" for things like people doing research, but that's not the point. It's not about rule enforcement or exceptions. It's about setting a cultural tone that adults sharing physical or cultural space with children are to be viewed with suspicion.

The queerphobia-to-pedo-panic pipeline, which Rowling has gleefully ridden, has ruined the cross-age-fandom phenomenon she helped build. You couldn't have a Harry-Potter-type cultural phenomenon today, because adults and kids aren't even allowed to browse bookshelves together, let alone build the kind of cross-age online fandom communities we had. 2024 culture would have a heart attack and call the police if they saw my 2003 browser history. Adults and kids, talking about the same books, together? Sharing fanfic? Unthinkable!

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Why can't we ever use bullshit bioessentialism for fun things

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