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(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

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maybe top 10 posts ever

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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‘you put that cig out, you can hold her’

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“Then, with my second novel, I started to receive responses from agents that said “I love what you’re doing here, but I think it needs a stronger narrative structure to take it to the next level.” Of course, this narrative structure was exactly what the book was resisting. More bluntly, I would receive responses that said, “I love what you’re doing here, but the publishing industry is just too conservative.“ But how will that ever shift, if these are the people in charge of whose work gets attention. Then there are the editors who echo the same narratives. And, maybe even more jarring, there are the editors who love everything about the manuscript, but then they don’t have the power to do their job, and acquire the work they love. And, this happens in both corporate and independent publishing. Then, of course, there are the editors and agents who say something like, “I love what you’re doing here, no one else is doing anything like it, but I just don’t find myself relating on a deep enough level, and so I don’t think I’m the right person to truly champion your work, and make sure it receives the attention it deserves.” But if an editor or publisher has to relate to everything they publish, then publishing is only for the people who make these decisions. Things do change over time, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. We are in a moment right now where certain queer and trans authors are achieving a kind of access that wasn’t possible even a decade ago—especially for trans authors, and queer authors of color. But there was a moment like this in the ’90s, when queer work was suddenly allowed on mainstream corporate presses, and people were like: “Oh my God, everything’s changing.” And then the door slammed shut. So, I think that’s always a danger when we rely on multinational corporations to determine what is considered literature. When the publishing industry decides, our work suffers.”

— Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Writing on Your Own Terms

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(trying to give relationship advice) from a narrative perspective i think both of you dying together would be the most emotionally satisfying resolution but i’m guessing that’s not what you want to hear

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"her warp--" her weft bro

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Portraits of Afro-Palestinians from Jerusalem and Jericho 

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Grand Theft Hamlet is a great movie, by the way, or at least it filled a need I didn't know existed. It's a documentary where a lot of actors in lockdown try to stage Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online, getting other people to read various parts, picking places to perform, scheduling rehearsals, picking up some regular people who watch them rehearse, and all the while dodging every other player in the game shooting at them with rockets. It's great.

One thing that especially worked for me, though, was the ghost. This is the first time I really felt it when Horatio begs Hamlet not to follow the ghost. Inside GTA Online, the ghost is in all black except for a ski mask with LED lights in a smiley face, standing on a blimp that Hamlet has to jump down onto from a balcony. Don't follow him, Hamlet!

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Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.

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“Veil of Smoke” by Unknown Photographer ◇ Cigarette smoke caught between transparency and touch

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did you seriously just let it linger

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let's go to the library with mama

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hey, does anyone know if tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, or if it's like. a bank holiday.

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Grills will always be gender neutral, my dear.