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ohhhh diva down

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a movie adaptation of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna starring Charithra Chandran as Mika and Joe Alwyn as Jamie... like, walk with me... also Ian McKellen as Ian because why the fuck not...

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recent film (this is what the inside of my heart looks like)

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L'érotisme de Georges Bataille (tr. Mary Dalwood)

Translation

Man goes constantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him.

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need the vampire lestat album to either be so incredibly spiritually amazing that I literally ascend to the heavens or so comedically awful that it hurts to listen to it. it cannot be simply mid we need one of two extremes

that or we get lin manuel miranda to write an armand diss track rap musical

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Hey, so how do pink crayons taste?

And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

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my longest AWOOOOOOGA to date if i’m being honest

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"People should not have kids if they're poor"

Yeah, the system agrees and the system is built on eugenics where they don't want certain groups of people (ie: people of color, disabled people, queer people, etc.) to be here anymore. So, they weaken systems like foster care and accessibility and they create systems that target Black people and Indigenous people and they don't protect children disowned by their family for being queer because then those people will fall into poverty and either die before they have kids or their kids will fall into that same cycle so as not to take food off the plates of straight cis upper class white abled people who have too many plates to even keep track of.

If you genuinely whole-heartedly believe that people in poverty shouldn't have children then you start attacking the systems that create poverty in the first place. If your care is for the well-being of children, then you start attacking systems that actively harm children. If the problem is poverty, attack what creates poverty and not the people who can't do anything about the circumstances CAUSING the property.

The people who create these systems WANT you to attack the people who suffer because of them. You aren't helping anyone by furthering eugenics.

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booktok anti-intellectuals when a subgenre that was literally invented to acknowledge and critique bigotry contains fictionalized bigotry:

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had a nightmare someone was making wuthering heights with white heathcliff blonde cathy and brown edgar linton hahah

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the urge to delete all my personal social media is so strong. like, all of my friends are settled down in their relationships, married, having kids, moving in with their partners. and i'm just... there, lol.

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"lestat is the worst, how could anyone be a lestat fan!" "armand is actually the worst, how could anyone excuse what he did the claudia!"

babes you're watching the murder abuse and crime show. they're gonna be fucked up.

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Ladies... who are knights... lady knight book recommendations

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Princess Knight by Cait Jacobs

The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman

Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

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there was a time when 3 ugly guys and paul mccartney from liverpool could become huge now you have to get plastic surgery at 16 and follow the idf on tiktok to be put on a spotify playlist

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wow i love twitter sm.

on a serious note - i think it's funny to portray women not wearing make-up as silly and childish when you're the one apparently caring so much about what other people are doing to their faces.

ask yourself: why do you find bare faces not appropriate for formal events? why does it bother you to see a woman without makeup? how does it effect you? why do you think it effects you?

you're so insistent that there are no societal pressures at play, that women are doing this exclusively for themselves and for the joy of it - then where does this urge to force it on women who don't find joy in it come from? why does it annoy you to see women in their natural way of being? it's a choice, but also there's a right choice, apparently, and anyone stepping out of line shoud be promptly shamed into submission. right?

"a little (whatever) never hurt anybody" okay and neither does a bare face. grow up.