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i think about this scene all the time

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Being British on the Internet rn is worlds colliding because I picked up a phone 3 hours in right and the first content I got was like a lot of 'ripp lizzy <\3' but then there was the odd 'RIP Elizabeth II <\3 thank you for everything' and now I'm struggling to tell them apart. I don't know who is sad and who finds it funny. I don't know what tone to bring it up in

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please look at my favorite comment that has ever been posted on the internet

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Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

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There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places.

Wendell Berry, “How to Be a Poet”

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this is literally true

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I gave you my love and you used it to play. Art harriorrihar

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  ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[text ID: I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be.]

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(sighing loudly because of my enormous desires)

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

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Me to my anxiety : can u like calm down these people don’t even think about you Depression : ever Me: that’s not what I meant

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I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

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I want to see more dark fantasy stories that interact with the concept of “magic but fucked up”. Give me magic being a primal, violent thing. Give me magic that was never even meant for the mortal body to house so it hurts. Give me uncaring magic using people like vessels to release its energy; it’s not the tool, you are. Magic that drains you bit by bit and lessens your life span to conjure it. Magic that turns you into something dark and inhuman the more you use it. Magic with a hefty price. Magic but fucked up.

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the idea of "if a workplace is good to its workers then they wouldn't need a union" has got things the wrong way around. if a hypothetical workplace already treats its workers right & cares about them then it would have no reason to oppose workers unionizing because a union isn't threatening unless you're abusing your workers :)