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girls who learned all their vocab from books and are now constantly embarrassing themselves by pronouncing words slightly wrong in conversation

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“You brought a book?”

“Like you didn’t.”

She concedes the point and digs a paperback out of her clutch—Austen’s Persuasion, a good choice. Jess displays his own masticated copy of Tobias Wolff’s Old School, which feels like a consistently fitting read when encased within the two-hundred year old hallowed halls of Chilton Preparatory. The book’s cover is hanging on by Scotch tape and a prayer, and half the pages are creased with undone dog ears.

“Man, we’re a couple of anti-social freaks,” Rory declares.

Jess grins. “Just call me Thomas Pynchon.”         

distilla truant ↳ a jess goes to chilton au by @rorygilmoregf

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When I say I hate the good girl bad boy cliché I mean I hate when it's a violent guy with daddy issues and a woman who is desperate to fix him even though he makes her cry five times a day. But give me a cheerful optimistic doe eyed girl and a guy who seems dangerous to everyone but is actually a big softie, especially with her and I'll ship it till the end of time.

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when you are not even remotely a stan but the character/ship gets too much undeserved and inherently hypocritical hate you just say fuck it and become a vehement apologist. as a treat

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I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

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DOCTOR WHO Journey’s End, 4.13

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hey shout out of recognition and validation to all the queer people who didn’t exhibit many queer behaviors or have queer many experiences when they were young!! shout out to trans women and trans men who didn’t feel bad about or uncomfortable with their AGAB when they were younger and didn’t gravitate toward the “opposite side of things”. shout out to nonbinary and genderfluid ppl who felt content with their AGAB all of their childhood or even teen years. shout out to lesbians who didn’t have any crushes on girls growing up and liked traditionally feminine things and shout out to gay men who didn’t have any crushes on boys growing up and liked traditionally masculine things. shout out to bi and pan and omni people who only had hetero attractions growing up. shout out to aros and aces who thought they experienced crushes or attraction or whatever while growing up and didn’t feel excluded by being surrounded by allo people. shout out to literally any queer people who didn’t “show the signs” growing up because that can make you feel invalidated or worried that you’re faking it and you shouldn’t feel worried about that! When we say that everyone’s journey and experience is different, that includes you!! Happy pride month <3

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the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family

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its always "what are your plans for the future, you should really be planning for the future" and never "wow that character you're obsessed with sounds so cool can you explain them to me. im sure you get them more than anyone else"

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The way my block list is made up of 95% people I’ve never interacted with but had the misfortune of stumbling upon one of their dumbass posts and I simply couldn’t run the risk of having to see any of their other stupid takes

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Anonymous asked: Wait, I signed up for a trans kid when I decided to become pregnant? Are you joking or are you really that crazy?

Hey there, 

I’m not joking at all and I don’t really see how this would be a laughing matter to you. 

Yes, you signed up for a trans kid. And while we are at it, you also signed up for a disabled kid. Autistic kid. Gay kid. A kid who doesn’’t look like you. A deaf kid. A kid who will have interests that don’t match up with yours at all. You signed up for a shy kid and a loud kid and a kid who wets the bed and a sick kid.  

That’s the beauty, the miracle of parenthood, don’t you agree? You decide to care for a little person you don’t even know yet. You decide to open your heart and home to them, you promise to nurture and love and protect a tiny human being. How can you promise that, if not unconditionally? 

You can’t pick and choose your kid. Maybe even more importantly, they can’t choose you. They depend on you to keep that promise - and not only if they live up to whatever expectations you had. 

With all my love, 

Tumblr Dad

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for years you have paraded around in public, wearing a hat that so boldly claims that women want you and fish fear you. you know just as well as i do that this is a lie. can you live up to the bar your hat sets? currently you are being lowered into a tank of piranha, and only your wife has the controls to save you. does this woman truly want you, or will it be you who fears the fish? let the game begin

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so we're not going to talk about the fact that warner just took a look at brainwashed super soldier juliette and was like "you know what , i'm going to kiss it better"

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Juliette: Name a way to be nice to someone

Warner: Don't kill them

Juliette: Setting the bar low, my fault, my fault.

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Warner, to Kenji: Juliette doesn’t love me like she used to.

Kenji: What happened? 

Warner: I told her that I loved her but she didn’t say it back. 

Juliette: MY. MOUTH. WAS. FILLED. WITH. GUMMY. WORMS.