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I think it’s interesting that the LGBTQ community at large doesn’t really seem to acknowledge that sexual shame is one of the most common and profoundly felt emotions in the community still to this day. I think people confuse an ability to bite back at bigots or knowing on paper that their identity, body, etc is “valid” with true self-acceptance…yet I know huge numbers of people who have serious trouble fucking because they think of themselves as deeply abject and it’s weirdly normalized, or framed as a personal hangup instead of something that can be brought out into the open. No amount of claiming infinitesimal victories over people who get out slightly less than you can really confront shame at its core. I really think it should be something we raise more consciousness about and (ironically) shame people for less.

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Vegas in Space (1991)

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why yes I would actually love to play a convoluted board game at this chill drinking party that wasn’t advertised as a game night. Hey would it be ok if you whip it out after we’re all in four drinks? Yeah, just so none of our attention spans are at 100% and none of us would be cleared to drive a car or obey traffic laws. and would you mind explaining the rules in a very surly manner and appear subtly irate whenever someone’s attention strays from the game? yeah yeah and would it be ok if we played it on an abrasive carpeted floor too? thanks

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every city is walkable if you're willing to walk lonely and precarious

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Rene Magritte

September Sixteenth

(via @lonequixote)

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I literally hate every job in the world. I don’t want them. I don’t want ANY of them!

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Nicole Eisenman, Sloppy Barroom Kiss, 2011

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"I think I hauve covid" is sort of the modern man's anime nosebleed

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i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

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I guess this is what the new animal farm movie is going to look like huh...

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Medieval Bunny Washi Tape by AiriTree

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is it not the quintessential American 90s kid experience to have a heated playground argument about the genders of Blues Clues and Magenta? they are the Original t4t couple

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True Stories (1986), Directed by David Byrne

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i do kinda think whoever started the trend of requiring customers to ask an employee to let them into the bathroom should be executed Tbh. i dont care how much crack people are doing in your bathroom i shouldnt have to track somebody down and ask for permission to go potty in a public establishment

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am I making any sense

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Love watching movies with people who are autistic about different things than I am. Last week a friend and I were watching Twisters, and he said, those are going to turn out to be good guys. And I said, how do you know? And he said, because their truck brands are owned by the same equity company as the main character's.

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If you think of any worthwhile novel—its intersecting arcs, its intertwined themes and metaphors—no one is clever enough to do it. When you have crammed your head with data, you have to take your hands off and see what shapes the story forms. You must trust the process, and that can be difficult, because you have to quell anxiety; the task is to get out of your own way. I think this is true for all worthwhile fiction, not just historical fiction. At the centre of your work is an act of faith in the novel form. You employ what Keats called "negative capability"—you must endure doubt and follow paths without signposts.

—Hilary Mantel, in an interview with The Guardian