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One time we was doing the Medieval faire a little bit after the Witcher tv show got started and everybody brought a bunch of like plastic pirate coins and hanukkah gelt and shit like that cause we assumed a bunch of patrons would be dressed up as witchers but there were like . . . 2 of them. A buddy of mine tried to throw one of em a coin and he was like "That better not be another fucking coin"

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5 choses heureuses:

La neige

Les petites feuilles de l'arbre à commencé d'ouvrir

Une nouveau histoire

Parler avec ma mère de n'importe quoi

Le cirque

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#setting a kitchen on fire #or serious health and safety violations

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#you guys are wrong

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NurseyDex Pre-Relationship || 700 words

How are you supposed to get over the homoerotic tension of finding your soulmate at 18 playing hockey? Or, Dex makes a decision about joining the NHL

Read it on AO3

#it's such a good moment!

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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

#Kizzy my beloved #there are so many good ones #but I'm rereading A long way to a small angry planet #and I just love my mechtech

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Normal work emergencies: “They need me to come in and fix a system that broke down.”

Dropout work emergencies: “They need me to come in and throw pasta at comedians.”

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So if you follow me (and aren't just stopping by because you saw one of my funney viralposts), you probably know that I've been writing a bunch of fanfiction for Stranger Things, which is set in rural Indiana in the early- to mid-eighties. I've been working on an AU where (among other things) Robin, a character confirmed queer in canon, gets integrated into a friend group made up of a number of main characters. And I got a comment that has been following me around in the back of my mind for a while. Amidst fairly usual talk about the show and the AU and what happens next, the commenter asked, apparently in genuine confusion, "why wouldn't Robin just come out to the rest of the group yet? They would be okay with it."

I did kind of assume, for a second or two, that this was a classic case of somebody confusing what the character knows with what the author/audience knows. But the more I think about it, the more I feel like it embodies a real generational shift in thinking that I hadn't even managed to fully comprehend until this comment threw it into sharp perspective.

Because, my knee-jerk reaction was to reply to the comment, "She hasn't come out to these people she's only sort-of known for less than a year because it's rural Indiana. In the nineteen-eighties." and let that speak for itself. Because for me and my peers, that would speak for itself. That would be an easy and obvious leap of logic. Because I grew up in a world where you assumed, until proven otherwise, that the general society and everyone around you was homophobic. That it was unsafe to be known to be queer, and to deliberately out yourself required intention and forethought and courage, because you would get negative reactions and you had to be prepared for the fallout. Not from everybody! There were always exceptions! But they were exceptions. And this wasn't something you consciously decided, it wasn't an individual choice, it wasn't an individual response to trauma, it wasn't individual. It was everybody. It was baked in, and you didn't question it because it was so inherently, demonstrably obvious. It was Just The Way The World Is. Everybody can safely be assumed to be homophobic until proven otherwise.

And what this comment really clarified for me, but I've seen in a million tiny clashing assumptions and disconnects and confusions I've run into with The Kids These Days, is that a lot of them have grown up into a world that is...the opposite. There are a lot of queer kids out there who are assuming, by default, that everybody is not homophobic, until proven otherwise. And by and large, the world is not punishing them harshly for making that assumption, the way it once would have.

The whole entire world I knew changed, somehow, very slowly and then all at once. And yes, it does make me feel like a complete space alien just arrived to Earth some days. But also, it makes me feel very hopeful. This is what we wanted for ourselves when we were young and raw and angrily shoving ourselves in everyone's faces to dare them to prove themselves the exception, and this is what I want for The Kids These Days.

(But also please, please, Kids These Days, do try to remember that it has only been this way since extremely recently, and no it is not crazy or pathetic or irrational or whatever to still want to protect yourself and be choosy about who you share important parts of yourself with.)

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aubrey :]

tip jar

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A phrase I heard a USAmerican say yesterday that just made my brain halt in it's tracks: "Is it close to London, like can you take a train there from London?"

And both those questions are fair questions when you don't know where Surrey is, but the implied correlation of "close to" and "can take train" is just so weird to me. Two months ago I took a single train from Copenhagen to Stockholm, those are not close to each other. It took more than 5 hours and the train still goes once every two hours (more often at high intensity times).

To me "can you take a train there?" would be my second question to the question "How big is the city?", because like as soon as a Danish city is of a certain size there's usually a train line.

Idk. It was just one of those moments of "Your world looks drastically different than mine" and the idea of trains as a "close" transport form is really strange to me, given that I have gone to quite a few countries in Europe by train, and while I've also commuted every day by train for years, I still associate trains most with going across Denmark.

#I am becoming increasingly aware of just how bad public transport is in North America holy shit #kirokiro

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seeing trans people in public is like encountering an angel in the produce aisle. you understand

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[Image ID: a tweet by Lizziel In Stereo @/LizzieStyx reading: "Is that all the same shirt @/Franklero? Can we safely call it a comeback of the century?" Attached is three pictures of Frank Iero wearing a black and grey plaid shirt in three different situations.

It is quote-retweeted by frnkiero: Party (goth) Dad @\Franklero reading: "yes these are my clothes and i tend to wear them from time to time at different points while living a life that requires the use of clothes."

Image ID second image: a tweet by @/copacabany reading: "@/gerardway why are you always wearing those white converse?" Followed by a tweet by: Gerard Way @/gerardway reading: "@/billiedirntcool because they are my shoes" End ID]

these tweets are holding hands

#comeback of the century what the fuck

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seeing trans people in public is like encountering an angel in the produce aisle. you understand

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#Alanna my hero #her everything was just so good