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I would like to issue a formal THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH to every single black woman who has ever made content about hygiene/DUSTING POWDER in particular. That stuff is life changing I went HOURS in drag without stinking AT ALL and I am surviving this humid heatwave hellscape drier and non-stickier than I’d ever thought possible holy SHIT

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Just watched K-pop Demon Hunters (spoilers)

I’ll need to watch it back over again to fully get my thoughts together, but on a first pass?? Damn. That movie had some SHIT TO SAY about shame and honestly it resonated. Was not the cutesy fun time I thought it was gonna be—that was HEAVY. First 5 minutes to the last 5 minutes, it just didn’t let up. It had SHIT TO SAY. Shame isn’t healed through perfectionism. It’s healed through embracing, witnessing, and seeing our humanity and ourselves as deeper than the shame, be that collective or individual. Damn. I think I really really liked it! (Also the songs were fucking fantastic, but we knew that was always gonna be the case lol)

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really everyone you love has something miserably wrong with them or an obvious flaw that won't ever be fixed but like it's up to you what kind of person you can and cannot deal with. someone in my family has anger issues which I can handle and diffuse with no problem, but a person who can't tolerate yelling could not be close to him. another person I know is very anxious & needs constant reassurance and she gets along famously with gentler and more straightforward people than myself, but I can't handle being second guessed all the time. someone who is loosey goosey with their morals wouldn't bother me, but a person with a profound sense of justice makes me feel afraid of getting on their bad side. none of these traits actually make someone a bad person & just because there are personalities I can't handle doesnt mean I'M a bad person either. litany against callout posts for stupid shit and simple incompatibilities we all have to live on this earth together & need to learn how to deal with each other

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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Pronouns? Yeah I gots all the pronouns you could want. Bootleg? No, no, you've got it all wrong. They just, uh, fell off the back of a truck. Now, can I interest you in a she/sher? Or how about a nice he/hee? That one's gonna get real popular, lemme tell you what. What? I'm telling you, these are genuine articles of speech. Look kid, I don't normally do this, but you buy a set of, uh, lemme see... not those... you/youse, I'll throw in another pair free. I dunno, for your dog or something. You ever think about your dog's pronouns? I thought not. Cash only.

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Sea Grunkles Photo Album II (re-uploaded)

I don’t know what happened. I went to edit the original post with the updated photos with the Stanford font and.....poof. Fucking Gone. Now I want to die....so here’s a re-upload.

Any who...

Some references to @lemonfodrizzleart’s Artist!Stan and @artsymeeshee’s Chibi Stan

Take a look around Stanley’s corner

The trip to Loch Ness may not be all for naught

Be sure to check out the first album

For some reason you can zoom in more on Reddit. Check out some details!

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Sea Grunkles Photo Album II (re-uploaded)

I don’t know what happened. I went to edit the original post with the updated photos with the Stanford font and.....poof. Fucking Gone. Now I want to die....so here’s a re-upload.

Any who...

Some references to @lemonfodrizzleart’s Artist!Stan and @artsymeeshee’s Chibi Stan

Take a look around Stanley’s corner

The trip to Loch Ness may not be all for naught

Be sure to check out the first album

For some reason you can zoom in more on Reddit. Check out some details!

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Sea Grunkles Photo Album II (re-uploaded)

I don’t know what happened. I went to edit the original post with the updated photos with the Stanford font and.....poof. Fucking Gone. Now I want to die....so here’s a re-upload.

Any who...

Some references to @lemonfodrizzleart’s Artist!Stan and @artsymeeshee’s Chibi Stan

Take a look around Stanley’s corner

The trip to Loch Ness may not be all for naught

Be sure to check out the first album

For some reason you can zoom in more on Reddit. Check out some details!

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A little bit different, a little bit grown

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My apothecary diaries ships btw

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there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

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pride month!!!

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I love that the animation team chose to give us this. It’s a slight change from the light novel and manga, but it does a far better job of showing us—visually showing us—the depth of Maomao's affection for Shisui.

The only difference between the anime and the light novel/manga is, simply, how much the two physically touch each other. How they cling so fiercely and desperately to reassure themselves that the other is safe and undamaged.

The light novel tells us, over and over, how much Maomao loves Shisui, how deeply she misses her after the events of this arc. But LN readers know that Maomao’s affections for others aren’t always clear to her. They often manifest in the way she thinks about them, and how often. Shisui is one of the people she treasures most, but she doesn’t come to terms with this until it’s too late.

And, in true Maomao fashion, in the LN/manga, she does not understand the true extent of her feelings for Shisui while she’s held captive at the stronghold. All of her thoughts and emotions are focused on survival, escape, mystery-solving—understandably so.

And physical affection is not something Maomao initiates often, if ever. She shies away from most forms of touch, and is, most certainly, not comfortable with expressing her feelings in any verbal or physical way.

Therefore, it was a conscious choice on the anime’s part to give us visual evidence of Maomao’s true feelings. Maomao doesn’t say much, but we can still see it: that relief in holding her, that reluctance to release her hand. They let us see it in the way she touches her freely, without hesitation. The viewer can see, can feel how difficult it is for Maomao to let her go, even when she, herself, hasn’t fully realized it yet.

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Doomed Yuri

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youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,