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ultimately the cheesecake factory menu fails to tell a queer narrative

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English translations of foreign-language poetry be like

My rival dresses to display her legs, and her shoes are of an alluring fashion;

but my shoes are comfortable and my tunic is plain.

She holds the most prestigious position in the women’s dance performance, while I sit in the audience.

I dream that someday when you awaken you will know that what you sought was always here.

You and I walk together, you in the coarse and tattered trousers of a common working man;

we sit on a bench in the park, laughing together, and nothing seems difficult.

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"A jury of gull lovers awards points based on the screeching (75% of the total) and acting (25%). Competitors are simply told to “screech and behave as a seagull. Do it well, because you have only one chance”.

I feel so deeply European at these moments. The Remain campaign should just have been stuff like this.

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I feel so deeply European at these moments. The Remain campaign should just have been stuff like this.

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Who the hell is marrying equilateral. Clearly a Conservative shape.

This has caused great debate among my math friends so I think it needs tumblr's input

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At the lesbian meetup, met a kind of transphobic woman. Started gearing up to get fighty and then realised... she wasn't an actual terf. She was just older, genuinely didn't know stuff, had heard some terf talking points in passing and had been made kind of anxious by them, but hadn't made it her entire personality. She was open to learning that trans women weren't actually roaming around coercing unwilling cis lesbians into sex, thanked me earnestly for giving her a basic explanation of what "non-binary" meant and truly seemed to be relaxing bit by bit the more she heard. Obviously I'm aware that I can't be sure I've given her a sufficient dose of anti-transphobe vaccine to immunise her permanently against the shit that's out there, but overall it made me hopeful. Most people just aren't dyed-in-the-wool bigots. People can be curious and relieved to hear the fearmongering they've been exposed to is untrue. Telling people this stuff isn't a lost cause.

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Tremendous congratters and all that.

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"i cant watch shows about fantasy kingdoms without thinking about how they should be abolishing the monarchy" that my friend sounds like a skill issue

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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shuro in this house we stan people who would go to the end of the world and break laws and risk their lives and commit unspeakable acts and cast forbidden black magic and kill a dragon and use its corpse to reconstruct the body of a loved one so they can be brough back to life please you are disturbing the atmosphere i mean read the room 🙄

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i’m listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a “habitat restoration”. when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner’s garden.

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Problemista (2023) dir. Julio Torres

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Marcille successfully brings back her love interest with wings and claws and blood all over and suddenly she has to be reported to elf cops and be thrown in elf jail?? Can a woman not love to the point of blasphemy anymore?? What a sick world we live in