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There’s a popular fan reading online that Trent’s interest in Ted, in addition to the professional and aspirational capacity, might be a little bit of a crush, or a romantic one. Is that in your head at all? Or does it surprise you that people are reading it that way?

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I'm so used to my friends being some form of not-straight that when one of my friends came out to me, my response was "... congratulations?" and then my brain went SHIT HE JUST CAME OUT TO YOU

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did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

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MAKE IT SCARED

DO IT BAD

STOP WAITING FOR APPROVAL

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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

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Okay you know what, I do have another thing to add about audio fiction and how important it is, especially now. You know, during *gestures broadly around*

The thing about audio fiction is that they can't take it down.

Books can be pulled off the store shelves and publishers can flat-out refuse to give space to new ones that don't fit their side of the current political climate. Video streaming services can and already have gone even further by entirely scrubbing media they don't like from the only places that had rights to distribute them -- if not for piracy, shows like Infinity Train would be gone gone. I expect we will see much more of this type of behavior in coming years.

With audio fiction podcasting, the default is a decentralized, self-published, free to access platform. They can't very well take down a whole hosting service, and any show they go after can just be re-uploaded under a new RSS feed. (If you're a creator, please look into the basic principles of self-hosting, just in case.) Although we probably won't need to take any of those measures, because since there's no money that capitalists can extract from this art form,

They don't even know we exist. Be as queer as you want. Be as progressive and inclusive as you want. Be as anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-fascist as you want. Tell stories that are important, that people with power wouldn't want you to tell. They won't find us, not here.

Peace and love on every planet. And fight until we get it.

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charles slowly realizing his feelings for edwin is great, but i now propose: charles realizes his feelings practically immediately after edwin's confession but now thinks it's awkward to tell him so soon so he just waits but gets increasingly worse at hiding it

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Edwin Payne + When I Heard at the Close of the Day (Walt Whitman) Charles Rowland + Bat Out of Hell (by Meat Loaf) Niko Sasaki - First Meeting (Manga Version) Crystal Palace + I Eat Boys Like You for Breakfast (Ida Maria)

dead boy detectives (6/??)

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I revamped this for Pride month <3

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Hi speaking of medical literacy for trans people, transfems pls check out the website Transfeminine Science, especially their introductory article on feminizing HRT

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“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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i just finished listening to the whole podcast for the second time & i desperately need madge & lottie to fall in love in s3 😭

they can fall in love right now with an ao3 account and a dream, no need to wait on us!

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When the snow melts, it becomes spring!

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

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Fruits Basket~ 🐀🐈🍙