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“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love…I love..I love you”.

Referencing THAT ONE Pride and Prejudice scene (two if you count the quote above)

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Sometimes I think that people fail to realize how smart Cyno is. I know it's because he's a straightforward person-- much more than characters like Kaeya and Alhaitham, and he doesn't come across as nearly as academic as Tighnari and Faruzan, but hear me out (CW discussion of racism and colourism.)

Cyno is from the desert, something that the Akademiya knows well. We see the racism he faces even if Cyno never brings it up himself (you can find it in bulletin boards (under the Matra heading) and his Vision Story), and that is when he already had a good reputation. Can you imagine how bad it would have been as a student? Setaria was only allowed to succeed because her academic ability dwarfed everybody else-- and that's likely after Cyno paved the way. (In the quest The Missing Village Keepers, Dehya says, "Geniuses like Setaria are one in a million. The other children never get a single chance to try and rewrite their fate... Even though the Akademiya knows very well that we're humans, just as they are.") If Setaria was on par with her peers, or even only a little bit better, the Akademiya never would have given her a shot. (In Educational Tracking systems, POC are more likely to be placed in lower streams than white kids all through their education, even if they belong in more challenging classes (source)(source). Racism often equates intelligence to skin colour (source)(source). Even if most people at the Akademiya wouldn't be white, that sort of prejudice would still apply to people from the desert.)

We know that Lisa is one of the most talented students in hundreds of years. We also know that Cyno studied alongside her in the Spantamad darshan (Cyno's About Lisa says they studied under the same sage, while Layla's About Lisa states her darshan.) When Collei showed up in Mondstadt with her Archon Residue, Lisa wrote to Cyno for help. He was the one who sealed it. If Cyno wasn't at least her equal, why would Lisa need to call her classmate all the way from Sumeru to help?

Cyno has to be insanely smart, or he would never have gotten into the Akademiya in the first place, let alone ascended high enough to become the General Mahamatra. (Side note: the fact he doesn't say anything about the prejudice he experiences despite it obviously happening around him means that Cyno is probably used to it. He just kept his head down and ignored it. I could make an entire post about my headcanons of Cyno and the prejudice he experienced, but that isn't the post of this one.) For an institution that values intelligence as much as the Akademiya, the sages wouldn't have felt nearly as threatened by Cyno as they did in the archon quest (using the akasha to predict his movements) if he wasn't super intelligent.

Also, we know Cyno personally investigates scholars. If he didn't have a fundamental understanding of each darshan's subject matter, he wouldn't be able to make sense of any of their projects.

(Feel free to look at the other post I spent too much time on, Tighnari is extremely strong.)

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he's the worst man alive he's the love of my life he's covered in blood he's weird about god and he's a lot, he's not perfect, but most importantly he's bisexual

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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A random assortment of archaic/disused English words that should still be used:

brust (bristled or bristly)

coolth (coolness. We still have 'warmth' so why did this one disappear????)

ambiloquent (using ambiguous language)

downsteepy (steeply descending)

mazeful (confusing)

evulgate (to send out among the people, to publish or distribute)

toploftical (haughty)

hazardry (risk-taking)

dizzard (a fool, jester, or stupid person)

againster (someone who is habitually opposed to things or 'against' things)

loselry (behavior characteristic of a losel, which is similar to a 'loser,' except the connotation encompasses "profligate" or "scoundrel")

plaguey

malengine (evil intent, fraud, deceit)

beasten (of or pertaining to beasts)

wranglesome (contentious and prone to quarreling)

dwine (to waste away)

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rb to relieve the back pain of the person u reblogged this from

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It's come to my attention that some folks don't know about Willow and Tara. If you care about Buck and Eddie, it's worth your time to learn about them, especially if you're queer.

Let me tell you a story about a time when queer people, queer women in particular, were essentially non-existent in the media — tv, movies, hardly anywhere. And along came Buffy, which gave us a nuanced, lovely, richly developed love story between two young women. Willow and Tara were main characters, and one of the core couples on the show, for many years. They shared one of the very first lesbian kisses on network television. Believe me when I tell you there was nothing — nothing even remotely close — when it came to queer representation on television at the time. Willow and Tara meant a great deal, to a great number of queer people. Still do.

And then they killed Tara. Like this.

When I tell you the rage and fury that welled up in the wake of Tara's murder. Because this time the queers fought back, demanded more and better stories as atonement. The-powers-that-be had, for the first time, given us something that was ours, making a real effort to tell our stories. So many queer folks felt seen and validated in ways we never had before. And then they killed her. The hurt and grief were real and sting to this day (I fully teared up making this post). But there is no doubt in my mind that the backlash absolutely led to the exponential growth in queer representation that happened after.

Willow and Tara's importance to queer culture — their love story and Tara's death — cannot be overstated. They have a place in the Legendary Queer Canon reserved for very few.

When I tell you that the second Eddie's blood hit Buck's face, I felt whichever queer(s) at 911 were responsible for making this happen — I felt them reaching through the screen to say: let's work through our Willow and Tara trauma together.

These gays are going to live.

I know I am always on my bullshit about how everything 911 does is on purpose. But this? Was intentional. Like nothing I have ever seen. The way they (so lovingly, romantically) filmed Eddie being shot in front of Buck wasn't just an allusion to some other tv show. They paid homage to legendary queer canon.

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god the loneliness of young adulthood is so real

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“Is it gay to say that world domination is just no fun without him?”

Local Light Yagami ponders on homosexuality

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I’m not going to explain myself

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wtf?

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“That’s his chicken" 

(via)

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hi my name is destiel nevada putin elec’tion covid way and i have long ebony black hair

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Is this BOLD enough for you?

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1922