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*bagpipes intensify*

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What was taken from us this week was our right to determine for ourselves how and when we should share our relationship and queer identities with the world. The truth is, every queer person has the right to come out on their own terms and their own timeline. They also have the right to choose not to come out at all. The forced conformity of the closet cannot be answered with the forced conformity in coming out of it. This isn't about shame. This is about privacy and the fundamental right of self-determination, which are exactly the principles on which the struggle for queer liberation has always been fought. But there's another truth that's much simpler.

Red, White and Royal Blue (2023)

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RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023) Dir. Matthew Lopez

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Give Amy a raise.

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i love characters that are just a cunt. no redeeming characteristics. just there to stir shit up and scheme. cause a ruckus. get on everyone's nerves.

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“Sit still and lengthen your lines, Shorten your poems and listen to what the darkness says”

— Charles Wright, from “Sprung Narratives,” in Chickamauga (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995)

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MONICA BARBARO as Natasha “Phoenix” Trace Top Gun: Maverick (2022) dir. Joseph Kosinski

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tamino photographed by zeb daemen for behind the blinds, 2022

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But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.

“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

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Jodie Comer as Villanelle in KILLING EVE (2018-2022)

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i got carmilla. like the novel. can't believe i'll finally get to read my og vampire crush 🥹

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legend 🙌

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THE CROWDED ROOM Episode 8 "Reunion"

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230714 - spotify on twitter

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Digestivo-Hannibal (2015)//Giuditta che decapita Oloferne-Artemisia Gentileschi (1620 cr.) 

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? // roberto ferri // mothering by ainslie hogarth // rainer maria rilke // ? // planet of love by richard siken // a self portrait in letters by anne sexton // indian summer by ron hicks