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Subtle Pride Flag Masterpost

All my subtle pride flags so far compiled into one post.

Lesbian

Gay

Bisexual

Pansexual

Transgender

Non-Binary

Genderfluid

Demisexual

Aromantic

Asexual

AroAce

Progress

I might do some more in the future of the ones I missed.

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I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

#fact checked and this is indeed true dlfkjs #linguistics

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A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

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Noooo don't get a tattoo it's so permanent blah blah blah my tattoo is whatever I want it to be and today it's an octopus

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Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

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Osijek, Croatia.

Leaft art by Nicola Faller of Slama Art project.

August 2021.

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image desc: a note from tumblr user @/whimbo saying “imagine telling them the queen is dead”

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花結び　ヽ(^。^)ノ ｽﾃｷｰ Tying a floral knot

（ Reddit:r/oddlysatisfying u/Boojibs ）

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Somebody might have pointed this out before, but how exactly did Aang & Co. get back to the fire nation with a defeated Ozai in tow?

Awkward bison ride in the saddle listening to him rant about ethnic genocide? Did they strap him to one of Appa’s legs? Dangle him from a basket? Leave him on a cliff for somebody else to come collect??

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what they dont tell you about growing up in the early 2010s is that fun.’s  “we are young” will make your heart ache a frankly embarrassing amount

#why is this so real #for me this song is sleepovers and bus rides to school singing at the top of our lungs annoying everyone around us #q

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“one must imagine sisyphus happy” no, one must imagine him a stubborn asshole who thinks he’s smarter than everyone including the gods. i’ve heard plenty of versions where hades gives him the CHOICE to roll the boulder up the hill; it’s the only way he’s getting into elysium. if he wants to walk away, fine! he’ll just be relegated to the asphodel meadows (the “nosebleed/overflow” section of the underworld where all the normies end up).

and sisypus, well, he’s a goddamn king. he cheated death! twice! a simple boulder is no match for his mighty wit.

hades’ punishment isn’t “you are forced to perform an unwinnable task forever”. it must fit sisyphus’ crimes. his hubris. any sane person, and quite a few insane ones, would spend a while pushing the boulder, maybe a few hours, maybe a few months, and eventually realize it was futile. an eternity in a peaceful meadow, not alone, not tortured, seems agreeable. but not to sisyphus. no, he’s too famous, too smart for that. he’ll get it to the top this time. this time. this time for sure.

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#i’m dying #q

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#this is just trinket getting a snack for his mama #q

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toph was shown easily bending a meteorite that sokka gave her, meaning that toph can bend any dirt regardless if its from earth or not, meaning toph couldve definitely bent the moon and the only reason she didnt do it was out of respect for sokka and his ex gf

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