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cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy

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Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

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subtle intimacy is so soft. knowing someone’s routine and slowly becoming a part of it. memorising favourite teas and soups and drink orders. good morning and good night texts and messy paragraphs of love written half asleep. nicknames only you know. just small things that say “look how dear you are to me.”

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This is the funniest tweet I’ve ever seen.

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This goes so fucking hard holy shit please watch

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A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

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The old favorite

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so funny to me the pope has siblings. imagine a bunch of people looked at your brother and decided he was the physical embodiment of god's will. like that kid kicked me in the head once.

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healing happens in circles, not lines. you will return to old places with new eyes.

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"the new pope is problematic" well folks it's the catholic fucking church so im not really sure where your hopes were at

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me seeing purple flowers on a lawn: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing sunlight hit the waves of the sea: that’s the prettiest thing i’ve ever seen

me seeing raindrops sparkle colorfully on a bus stop bench at night: that’s the

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Another zine?! Oh, but of course! Download your own copy for free here! (or if you really like it, consider tossing me a buck!)

(flowers designed by Anna Tarankova on vecteezy)

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Vintage Photos of Minorities in the Queer Community

Because we aren't all able-bodied gay white guys!!

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Hey! Just a reminder that bisexuals and queer men/achilleans are absolutely allowed to identify as butch or femme, and I encourage you to loudly identify as butch or femme if you feel like it. This is not a discourse topic, you have always been part of, and included in, the butch & femme labels and I would love to see more bisexuals and achilleans identify as butch or femme!!! YOU ARE ALLOWED!!! And you absolutely SHOULD if you desire to!

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it’s okay to say ‘this isn’t for me’ or ‘I’m not happy here’ and leave… you don’t have to wait for things to be really bad

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The more that the deportation system in your country is fast, cruel, and not subject to appeal the easier it is for people to say,

"Accept my bad actions or you'll be deported."

This applies equally to legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and people who are temporarily in the country seeking asylum, visas, etc.

I do not understand why people find this confusing.

If you're here on a work visa, and the consequence for being fired is that you are immediately spirited off to a concrete cell which is lit 24/7 and you aren't allowed to contact anybody and eventually they ship you off to an arbitrary city without any of your possessions,

Then your employer has a ton of leverage to say, "Yes we are making you work unpaid overtime and ignoring our supposed obligations under the contract you signed, but if you complain we'll fire you and good luck contesting it from inside your cell or from another country while you look for housing and a job."

That is how "strong border enforcement" creates an underclass.

People seem to respond to this by pretending I'm talking purely about illegal border crossings by people without visas and then explaining that it's fine to go round those people up. Which is simply beside the point.

Honestly border policy appears to involve simply ignoring how immigration works and pretending the policy only applies to criminals crossing the border without a visa.