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i know a guy whose name is not joshua except online and to me. he introduced himself to me as joshua as a prank, but it backfired on him because i comply maliciously. i have also chased him at high speeds after he stole something of mine, causing a fear that i don't think he'll ever recover from

personally I don't think if you're a kid you should be using your real name on the internet. very easy for people to find out too much about you. instead you should spend years using a different made-up name that becomes part of your persona to an arguably even greater degree than your actual name and then when you grow up and find out you're trans you have a ready-made name to switch to even if it's probably like Leaf or something

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“Pride is for everyone!1!1!”

*no curb cuts*

*up a hill*

*no sensory safe zones*

*no ASL interpreters*

*no masks provided*

*grassy, uneven terrain*

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Stop liking shrimpnami it’s haunting me

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free my girl she did all that shit but she lived and learned and made the choice to attone (please please please)

Saying now that I think Johannah’s going to get a redemption arc so when it happens later I’ll be able to come back and gloat

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the current arc of @hellofromthehallowoods has a lot that you can talk about but there's one thing i'd like to touch on which is the way that people are separated and grouped. spoilers ahead be warned

the black rains have touched everyone. half of our known antagonists have had very specific, very "unnatural" changes happen to them (heather mcgoen's insane muscles, cole's tongue centipede) and it doesn't keep them from being aggressive towards those who are more different. towards the undead, towards anyone who chooses to revel in their differences, towards their friends and community and those they've sworn to protect. it actually makes it worse, as we've seen from cole and his intense shame and self-loathing. since they aren't so different, and they see the "monsters" as inherently evil, they have to create that distance themselves.

which begs the question: where do they draw the line between power and perversion? ignaceous would likely be fine, he only presents (from what we've seen at least) as someone who can control flame, most comparable to olivier. but would oswin? would arnold? these are people that the deputies would respect to some degree, either as coworkers or as someone with the same goals in arnold's case, protecting scout city. are they the next targets no matter what, or is their right to live conditional on their silence or complicity?

similar questions apply to sir fen and the storyline with saint lauris. if one of her knights started displaying a power notably separate from her own, even if used to benefit her, would her reaction be to claim a secondary saint and take them under her wing, or would she condemn them, call them evil?

this is all contrasted by our view of the protagonists (or at least the "good guys") as we've seen in leyland's most recent pov. stitchery and huntington bicker the first moment they see each other, but it's immediately ignored the second leyland's in danger, as their focus shifts to protecting them over any other goal.

and idk i just think that's really good storytelling

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did trilobites walked among flowering plants

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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 1989. 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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shrikes are so funny

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don't like auto-flush toilets. like excuse me I'll tell you when to swallow

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he had several years to try and go back and fix his relationship with his son

yall need to be nicer to victor frankenstein, post partum depression is no joke

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Give a man a leaf and he will eat it. Teach a man to leaf and he will go away

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victorian trans guy who goes to beloved local barber sweeney todd and presses half a crown in his hand and says “begging your pardon sir, i know it ain’t much but i was hoping you might tell my employer i get me shaves from you should he ever come around. only he’s been asking me how i keep my chin so smooth and i haven’t the heart to tell him i can’t grow a beard, so i might have told him a little lie, sir, and said it’s all due to your wonderful skill, sir” and sweeney todd goes “no problem. by the way would you say your employer deserves to die”

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goin feral over these

Drew the mendies because. Because them <3

I love the mendies very very much. I had some hc about them (such as the extra arms for some, the hands for feet for huntington) so obvi i had to draw them all. Bonus percy cause percy <3

The dot version (og one) looks bad on phone </3

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yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

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Anyone talking shit about this flag-

-needs to shut the fuck up.

I do not care if it's "ugly", I don't care if it's "cluttered", being pretty isn't the point of a flag. It's a symbol of our community and it serves the purpose of representing us.

Yes, I know we are included in the original flag. I prefer the Gilbert Baker flag myself for its history and aesthetics and I feel it represents me as an intersex person. But this isn't about personal preference.

You do NOT know how many people know what intersex means because they asked why that flag was put there. That's people who might've never asked that question. That direct representation of us DOES matter. It DOES help us. And your aesthetic preferences are not a good reason to get rid of a direct refrence to intersexuality in one of our broadly used queer community symbols.

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they did a magnus archive about this

180 i'm pretty sure

does everyone have a teacher that they still have beef with/ hold a grudge against today??