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Omg I just had the most adorable reference question.

A high school aged girl came up to the reference desk asking for a test prep book on mathematics. I got up to retrieve it for her and she said “wow I love your shoes, where did you get them?”

“Oh, thank you. I can’t remember the name actually, but I ordered them online from a place that sells more masculine shoes in my size, because I can never find any in stores.”

Then she lights up and starts describing an outfit she’s putting together for a dance, and lists off that she has the “more masculine looking dress pants” a button up, suspenders. She just needs some good dress shoes. She tells me “everyone keeps saying I should wear heels with it but... no, I’m not that kind of girl”

And so I get the book for her and tell her I’ll treat her question about the shoes as a reference question and look up the website for her. She’s very excited by this and tells me that when she’s tried on men’s shoes they don’t fit right.

Then she tells me that “I look at you and I’m thinking damn I would wear her style” then stops herself and asks “is it okay that I used her pronouns about you?” And I was like yeah! I go by they and she pronouns.

And then she was smiling and left with her math book and website for shoes.

Extremely adorable baby butch. I hope she has a great time at the dance.

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on days like this day

the water on the inside of my body

reinvents itself

as water on the outside of my body

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while “zuko sent to find one single person who hasnt existed in 100 years and then he actually does” can be very funny in concept, can we just talk about how fucking heartbreaking it must be for iroh? 

like. he knows this is an impossible task. and it does happen–yes! in the first episode, so maybe we don’t even think about it that much! but when ozai tells zuko to go find the avatar, it’s an impossible task. and iroh knows this. and zuko might have everything riding on this, and he’s a kid and hasn’t learned what’s impossible yet, and so he’s plugging his ears and saying “i can do it! i can do it and then dad will love me again!”, but iroh knows the only reason this specific task was assigned is because ozai doesn’t want him. he doesn’t want him back. ozai didn’t want him to betray them so he gave him a little hope, a little “of course i could still love you, you can come back, that’s a possibility, just don’t disappoint me” because, you know, he’s an abusive dick. but iroh knows his brother, and he knows 

i think as a kid, while i loved loved iroh, it was a little hard to reconcile his silly moments with his wise moments. it’s not anymore 

i’m just thinking of the pai sho tile, and how silly it seemed at the time that it was just in his sleeve. silly old man! so forgetful 

no. no, that wasn’t it at all 

because every moment he stalled, every moment he mucked up the plan, every moment he just generally wasn’t helpful, that was another moment where he could still have a chance. where he might get through to zuko. where he could delay what was suddenly now a very real possibility: 

that ozai sent zuko away, but zuko would actually come back, expecting to be loved. and that’s what iroh didn’t want to happen. winning ozai’s love was more unrealistic than finding someone who’d been dead for 100 years, in the end 

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Numb // Linkin Park 80s Remix

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helpful grammar tip! farther is for physical distance, further is for metaphorical distance, and father is for emotional distance!

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Youre home alone at night

Someone slides a picture of your own dick under your door

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Drarry Met Gala

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PSA: Dear white folks talking about the New Zealand attacks...

Yes the leadership shown by NZ’s prime minister during this tragedy has been admirable.

Yes NZ’s swift response in changing its gun laws is admirable.

Yes the many vigils and expressions of sorrow are heartfelt.

But please, please, do not generalize New Zealand as some utopia. 

New Zealand, alongside Australia, remains one of the most virulently xenophobic and racist places on the planet.

Stop smothering the everyday reality of people of color in NZ and Australia with your sweeping generalizations based on the public image you see during such a tragedy.

Stop smothering the voices of those PoC with the weight of your whiteness.

Just stop.

Just as those innocent souls died from a thousand bullets, people of color continue to suffer death by a thousand cuts over years through everyday racism and xenophobia in NZ and Australia. 

It ruins lives. Over and over again. 

And no one pays any attention to that.

The best thing you can do is to support the families of the victims, but also to keep bringing awareness to the rampant xenophobia and racism in New Zealand and Australia. 

Burying that ugly reality in platitudes in a time of tragedy is not the way to bring about any real, lasting change. The only way New Zealand and Australia will change is if they are pressured from the outside. They rely heavily on a sanitized international image for tourism and trade. 

If you want to see proof of the incessant racism faced by people of color in NZ and Australia just browse through these tags:

New Zealand: https://thisiseverydayracism.tumblr.com/tagged/new+zealand

Australia: https://thisiseverydayracism.tumblr.com/tagged/australia

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hearing genuine laughter from the people you love is the most healing sound

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It’s likely that many people don’t like to read because they had to read and analyze books that didn’t interest them in high-school.

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ever notice how men criticize games like animal crossing and stardew valley on the basis of “the entire game is just doing tasks” without recognizing that “kill bad guy” is also just a task but violent?

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ever notice how men criticize games like animal crossing and stardew valley on the basis of “the entire game is just doing tasks” without recognizing that “kill bad guy” is also just a task but violent?

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Housing Is A Human Right, Martha Rosler Times Square, New York, 1989

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Glacial Hills by SpaceFrog Designs | metal posters