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REBLOG IF YOU HAVE STRETCHMARKS

This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

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remember the author of "the boy in the striped pajamas" btw this is him now

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“National teacher shortage” is a fun way of saying that the USA has made a passion driven job so ungodly inhospitable that even people who “just care about teaching, not the money” don’t even care about teaching anymore.

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after a suicide attempt in 2016

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themessangerpigeons

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When I was a kid, I didn't know trans men existed. I thought that nobody actually likes being a girl, that's just something that unfortunately happens to you, and you just gotta suck it up and pretend to be happy about it. Something vaguely about how it'd be shameful to admit you'd rather be a man because that's not The Feminist Stance, you just gotta grit your teeth and endure that shit and insist that you prefer it that way.

When I first learned that female-to-male transitioning even exists at all, my first thought was to wonder "why hasn't every woman done this?" How has this been kept secret so well that all women haven't flocked to transitioning if that's a thing you can do?

It was only over years that it actually sunk in that yeah no, women really do just want to be women, like genuinely. For the first 12 or 13 years of my life I wasn't aware that trans men exist, but in a more vague and unaware sense, I did not believe that cis women exist.

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Masha The Hero

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don't say "2010's music" and then play something from 2017-2019. that's not 2010's music to me. they're sonically so different from 2010-2016 to me

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Don't mind me reading a bunch of sad fics about best friends.

No, my best friend moving across the country is unrelated, that's ridiculous.

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People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

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Everyone thinks they’re radicalized these days. Well start blowing shit up then

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These two posts right next to each other

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I knoweth what’s occurring hence. I knoweth what’s occurring hence. Verily? I do. And if thou dost desire me to meander behind the scenes to reveal the secrets... I am the sole soul out of the circle, it would appear... and if we dost examine mine own score here— I require not to tread to the fore, for I ken well what it doth be. 'Tis a grand and ample GOOSE EGG, good fellows. 'Tis a FAT ZERO. HAIL!! A late addition to the numeral chart bestowed upon us by our kin from Arabia, a trifle of lore that I possess regarding the annals of numbers. Such a morsel would serve me right in sundry games of trivia, save it hath been RIGGED FROM THE OUTSET! Oh, I have but scarcely BEGUN to unravel this tapestry, dear companions. Thou wouldst surmise in a contest where only TWO choices may be deemed correct, one might STUMBLE UPON the right answer at times, wouldst thou not? In sooth, the odds of NEVER guessing rightly in the entire venture is a STATISTICAL MARVEL, and yet, HERE WE STAND. Presented at the zenith of the game as a champion, what thinkest thou that doth signify? Icarus, soaring too near the sun. Yet it seems Daedalus, our crafty artisan, possessed waxen wings of his own, did he not? Yearned to witness his progeny fall. To plunge from the heavens. Oh, how CLOSE TO THE SUN he did fly! Yet I shall NOT ABIDE IT. I untangled thy labyrinth, puzzle master! The minotaur hath fled and thou art to receive the horns, good sir!