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FRIENDS if you’re broke and interested in lesbian history go grab this book free in epub format right this minute!

you can use calibre to easily convert it to mobi for kindle

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baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

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Sam pin up !! unfinished but i’ll get back to it once i’ve done a few more mums.

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<shut up and take my money.gif>

I also want to RL date Cleo and Sam, please. (And be friends with Billie and let Babita show me her armor collection.)

i completed the 7 designs of the mock mum dating sim. it took so long rip me but it was worth it………….

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Just in case anyone else also has a need for a ton of amazing pictures of same-sex ballroom and latin dancing. (There are several albums on that account, not just the one this is linking to.)

If you’re not so much into ballroom/latin dancing as such, you may still want to click through for the mixed-gender, all-mustached show group number of a Queen/Freddie Mercury medley (you will immediately recognize the group I mean by their outfits).

I made a - *cough* - few pictures during “European Championship Same-Sex Dancing 2017″.

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Reblogging for @tgstonebutch

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Reblogging because the European Championships in same-sex ballroom/latin dancing are happening right now in Berlin, Germany, with over 140 couples competing. Just in case people didn’t know this is a thing that exists. And because it makes me happy.

Gabrielle Ray & Dorothy Craske in Lady Madcap, 1905. (via Summertime76)

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i saw your tags -- sock club is basically you pay for six months (or whatever) of monthly or every-other-month surprise yarn from your fave indie dyer and it's often color combinations that are exclusive to club i.e. if you didn't sign up you may not be able to buy those colorways later. (Colorway is the yarn world term for 'color combination'.) If you want to see examples of sock clubs online, send me an ask and I'll reply with links!

Thanks for explaining this part of the yarn fandom to me! :D

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HE FINALLY CALLS HIS SISTER’S THING A DISABILITY INSTEAD OF “SPECIAL NEEDS”. (I still strongly side-eye how he frames his experience of having a disabled sibling and the way he talks about his sister, but I’m happy to acknowledge that “my sister had a disability” is at least better than “my sister was special needs” or whatever other crappy sentences he used to form around this term.)

Chris Colfer on The Social

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I would please like to hire someone to accompany me through my daily life and keep explaining human communication to me.

Alternatively, I would also take reliable universal translator tech if it was customized to match my brain.

Because these days I feel as if I’m getting worse at human communication instead of better, despite trying really, really hard to be as clear as possible in both my questions and my statements. And yet, pretty big and emotionally exhausting (at least for me) misunderstandings keep happening, with various people over various issues, and they are making me want to stop communicating altogether because I’m obviously just very, very bad at it. Only this doesn’t work because I’m also an extroverted, I-need-to-think-out-loud-or-I-won’t-know-what-I-think person who can’t really live well without human communication. So, dilemma. And the need for someone or something to help me understand where I’m going wrong all the time. (Yeah. A therapist might help. Maybe I should move the project of finding one again higher on the current priority list and try not talking myself out of it because it’s basically hopeless to find someone who is good with trauma AND chronic illness AND panic attacks AND who is queer-/kink-/poly-friendly AND paid for by insurance AND actually has an opening sometime soon-ish...)

Oh, and did I mention that I’m basically in the middle of wondering whether it’s time to finally accept the possibility that I may indeed have AD(H)D and not only a very high IQ combined with a lack of mental stimulation (as had been “diagnosed” when I was 30)? Because, wow, it would explain a lot of things. But do I really need yet another issue to add to my long list of already-existing issues? Then again, maybe some people will give me more of a break when they understand that I really can’t do better in some aspects of my life and that it’s not due to a lack of wanting or trying. Or maybe that will just lead to them not taking me seriously anymore because then I’d be officially diagnosed as overly sensitive and too crazy to participate as an equal in things... (Yes, hi, internalized ableism. I see you’re still very alive in my brain.)

At any rate, life is hard right now. AGAIN. And it will get harder because we have to move again at the end of the month and I don’t know where yet (long story, two actual options, confirmation probably next week), so I can’t DO much about it yet and just know that there will be a huge bundle of stress very soon. And I could really, really use a break because the past two years have been almost non-stop hard already, with one unforeseeable and (probably) unpreventable crisis following the next.

At least I’m good in a crisis? <cue tired, cynical laughter>

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YES OKAY I’M FINALLY BUYING THIS AS WE SPEAK LIKE RIGHT NOW.

(I mean, did anyone seriously expect me to be able to resist THAT excerpt?)

Life has just dealt Danielle Solomon a gut-wrenching curveball, but new joys are ahead.

“For weeks I’ve been wanting to ask you out but I haven’t because this is who I am right now and you don’t deserve all this anger and pain.” “Oh, my gosh, you ridiculous person.” Clara took both her hands in hers. “I know you feel like that inside but that’s not how it comes out on the outside.” Danielle looked at her through tear-streaked eyelashes. “Are you willing to hang out and do stuff even if I don’t smile the whole time except if we see a dog on a skateboard or something?” “Yes!” Clara nodded enthusiastically. Danielle squeezed her hands, and Clara knew that was what Danielle felt like doing instead of smiling. “I’m so glad we met.”

Illustration by @daftpatience of a pivotal scene in my new Jewish f/f contemporary romance Knit One, Girl Two, starring an indie dyer (hence her multicolored hands) and the artist who inspired her latest sock club. $1.99 here!

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Reblogging for awesome beards on awesome women and also for adorable dwarf lady romance. <3

Scenes from Sansûkh at Dragoncon!  We had an absolutely incredible time wearing these and shooting together, and we were very lucky to have @richandstrangephotography​ as our photographer!  The response we got from people thrilled to see a troop of bearded and beautiful dwarf women walking around was amazing, even though we weren’t characters they knew. <3

(Captions are on each photo if you click on them!  Individual shots to come later.)

Gimris- Me (Avallone Cosplay) Baris- @the-dragongirl​ Bani- @houkakyou​ (Houkakyou Cosplay and Photography) Mizim is @flukeoffate​  (Flukeoffate Cosplay) Bomfris is @jedi-goldberry-with-the-force​ (Riverdaughter Designs) Dis is @balinisballin​

Photos by @richandstrangephotography (Rich and Strange Photography) Sansûkh belongs to the incomparable @determamfidd

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I’m still amused that I thought I was buying vaguely Klaine-inspired bedding a few years ago and ended up discovering that I had instead bought this exact same duvet cover (mine comes with a matching pillow case, though)...

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Clearly, it’s die Butter, das Nutella, and die Schorle.

A Berliner is a (usually) jam-filled doughnut thing, a Pfannkuchen is a pancake (and it should be as big as your plate because it’s made in a big pan).

Also, das Brötchen and die Brezel.

And 11:45 is Viertel vor Zwölf, and 11:15 is Viertel nach Elf. Everything else is just confusing. Except completely sensible constructions like “fünf vor halb Elf” (= 10:25).

Also, Moin is used day-round because it doesn’t mean Morgen (morning) but Guten (good). If you want to use more letters, you can always say Moinsen instead.

And the words Kirche and Kirsche are pronounced “Kiache” und “Kiasche” not “Körche” and “Körsche.”

Obviously.

I think the biggest german discussion is when you meet someone from a different area in Germany and they call things differently and you are just like “nooooo that is not what it’s name is!!!” But the other person just won’t see your point because they think the same you think. Friendship can break over this folks.

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An Octopus unscrewing a lid from the inside.

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When women display the necessary confidence in their skills and comfort with power, they run the risk of being regarded as “competent but cold”: the bitch, the ice queen, the iron maiden, the ballbuster, the battle axe, the dragon lady… The sheer numbers of synonyms is telling. Put bluntly, we don’t like the look of self-promotion and power on a woman. In experimental studies, women who behave in an agentic fashion experience backlash: they are rated less socially skilled, and thus less hirable for jobs that require people skills as well as competence than are men who behave in an identical fashion. And yet if women don’t show confidence, ambition, and competitiveness then evaluators may use gender stereotypes to fill in the gaps, and assume that these are important qualities she lacks. Thus, the alternative to being competent but cold is to be regarded as “nice but incompetent.” This catch-22 positions women who seek leadership roles on a “tightrope of impression management.”

Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via reading-blog)