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as sure as the sun will rise in the east and set in the west there will be ao3 dickriders pulling up to say why the site shouldn’t moderate racism and say the status quo is better. you could just call me a racial slur, it’d be a faster way to tell me you’re racist than all these excuses y’all keep making.

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The Hanged Man. Art by Nicolas Bruno, from The Somnia Tarot.

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happy pride to the dykey fags and the faggy dykes

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I’m guessing this has been done already but they are on my mind A LOT

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[ID: Digital drawing of Hermann and Newt. Hermann is sitting down, holding up the newspaper in one hand and a mug with a picture of Otachi in the other. He is smiling. Newt is leaning down and kissing the top of Hermann’s head, his right hand resting on his shoulder. End ID]  

Domestic lads…

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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. [...] When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”  🩸

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” 🌻

Two souls, reunited.

(quotes from Madelline Miller's The Song Of Achilles)

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with thread and fabric being very very labour-intensive in pre-industrial times I wonder how much of the cost of a ship was in its rigging. even a small sail is a lot of fabric compared to clothes, and it has to be quite high-quality. and even a small boat needs a decent amount of good rope.

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reblog for something t4t to happen to you this summer.

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it's always like "don't go on this weird revenge quest for the whale that bit your leg off" and "why did we do this it's doomed us all and also isn't profitable in the nantucket market" and not "was it fun to doom your crew for the sake of vengeance on an unfeeling animal it looked fun to doom your crew for the sake of vengeance on an unfeeling animal"

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thinking abt stacker pentecost feeling his drift partner die in his mind and then somehow, somehow carrying on, standing alone when no one had ever done that before, burning as the radiation threatened to consume his mind and body. thinking about pentecost winning that impossible fight and stumbling out of the corpse of his jaeger - skin smoking and body screaming and mind gaping from the loss of his partner, looking out at a battlefield of gray and blood and emptiness, of death and metal and alien flesh and then out from it all stepping a little girl, just a tiny girl clutching her shoe like her bleeding heart in her hand, staring up at him with an awe that strikes him deeper than the radiation ever could. she smiles at him like he is the sun, like he is her messiah, and in that moment, he feels his breath start in his chest again. through her he remembers what he is doing this for, who he is suffering for. through her he finds the beauty of humanity, the goodness in every person he is fighting to protect. he goes down to her, his mind and body burning, and he carries her home. she carries her shoe, and he carries her. both of them hold their hearts in their hands.

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white queers are so stupid i’ve seen like 5 variations of the exact same tweet or tumblr post of “we shouldn’t hate on rainbow capitalism right now, since the fact that these brands have walked back on their support is terrifying/any support we get now is needed” as if that isn’t the exact fucking reason we all hate rainbow capitalism lmao

like. it’s a problem BECAUSE these corporations capitulate to the slightest provocation since profit is their sole motivation. we hate that shit FOR THAT REASON.

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sending love to every disabled queer who will spend the month seeing pictures of unmasked superspreader events from our own community. it's okay to love pride, and also be upset that it's being hosted in a way that puts your safety at risk.

if you're not disabled, please mask in large crowds. pride is vital, and so is community care. covid is not over, despite the government minimizing it so that we'll go back to work like everything is fine. mask for yourself, for your community, and for disabled & immunocompromised people. 10% of first infections (even if you got a vaccine) and 20% of second infections result in long covid symptoms at six months post-infection. nobody can afford to continue on pretending this is not happening!

you can buy high-quality, tested masks here.

#SpreadPrideNotCOVID

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the fact that you can’t see who follows the playlists that you have made with your own two hands after serious gruelling work is insane to me like how am i supposed to know who i have to kiss sweetly……

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A weathervane shows the whaling ship Essex being led out of Nantucket by Captain George Pollard on 12 August 1819. And later inspired the famous novel Moby Dick. By Steve Hazlett, 21st century

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Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

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fellas is it gay for another man to drill deep down and blast all your reason out of you? fellas is it gay if the ineffable thing has tied you to him with a cable you have no knife to cut? fellas?

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i really think the way out is to just love each other

- me trapped in a cave and trying to start an orgy with the other coal miners