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I write them love letters written with the hand of autumn, a shade of the bleeding trees and golden honey that grows envious of beauty that their eyes hold.

ig: rosenaufsuden

#separati #da #virgola

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So many posts on this website are like, “If you do [thing] it’s because you have [mental disorder],” and then it’s just something everyone on Earth does, like be surprised by loud sounds. Congratulations, you’re a human person.

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i’m sorry but ur mothers n grandmothers n great-grandmothers didnt fight for u to call urself a menstruator

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Idk about you but I definitely would and should date a trans woman. Have you fucking seen trans women?? Fucking transcendant. Masterpieces. Out of this fucking world.

#separati #da #virgola

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some ex-muslim who says how they’re ex-muslim every 2 minutes on twitter: oh I left islam for *insert some extremist ‘islamic’ belief that only 5% of muslims believe in*

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“Feminists fuck better.” Please stop. Men still hate you. “Watch me smash patriarchy while reverse cow-girlin’ you.” He still thinks you’re a bitch. “I only fuck feminists.” Thanks for letting me know nothing’s really changed. “Feminists can be sexy and cute!” I don’t care for mollifying feminism; you’re only trying to make it palpable for men. “Some porn stars are empowered by porn!” Individual empowerment doesn’t speak for macro-social repercussions of the very same industry; the majority of actresses in pornography go through shootings with the help of alcohol and drugs in order to numb the physical and mental abuse they suffer. Much of your individualistic understanding of empowerment and agency is very much complicit with patriarchal violence. So. 

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Tik tok has this weird thing where the lgbt side of tik tok really HATES cis white gays. Specifically cis white gays that fall under the twink category.

I look through all the comments and it’s so shitty but it makes me feel bad reading things like ‘I hate being lgbt because of them’ ‘they make the community so much worse’ ‘they should be thanking the poc for their rights’ ‘they all act the same’ etc etc and everyone is backing them up.

It’s like. Y’all do know you’re being homophobic. Y’all do know that the people you shit on can see what you write. We are in the lgbt community because we want a community of acceptance for gay people, but now suddenly because we’re cis and white and gay we’re the worst?

Sorry we flaunt pride, some of us grew up loathing ourselves and all our actions because we’re gay, and so now since we’re able to celebrate our attraction and be as vocal as we want about it, WE are the gross ones and make pride worse?

And the people who say that are in the lgbt community themselves. You’re still homophobic. No amount of people backing you up will hide the homophobia you’re spewing.

#separati #da #virgola

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Tumblr: you can say no to sex for any reason!!!

Tumblr: …unless that reason is genitals!!!!!

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This is a really helpful suggestion if you find yourself taking some time to adjust to someone’s new pronouns/name!

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Oh my god I have never wanted to hug someone so badly in all my life 💕 She’s pulling no punches and I think I might be a tiny bit in love

#separati #da #virgola

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💖🖤💜 Hermione says TERF rights! 💜🖤💖

#separati #da #virgola

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read this and tell me it doesn’t sound exactly like trans activism

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this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god

she was a child

she was a child trapped in a legendarily abusive studio contract where she was being pumped full of drugs and sexually abused by producers

what is the point? “think about this the next time you watch the wizard of oz”? and do what? this tweet is so pointless

not for nothing but she was also a lifelong advocate of the civil rights movement and held a whole press conference to denounce white supremacist terrorism after the 16th street baptist church bombing

there are politicians who did blackface in office right now

judy garland has been dead for 50 slutty, slutty years

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leave her alone long enough and jk rowling will be wandering the streets of scotland performing harry potter as an interpretive dance for anyone who’ll give her attention

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That Thing about Narnia

I find very often that Narnia readers, even fans, who complain about the religious aspects of it, have a very, very limited, and more than that, prejudiced understanding of them.

It seems especially that those who read or re-read them at an older age, with full awareness of the existance of these themes, have already made up a very clear idea of them and of how they influence the stories, and it shows.

I mean—there are obvious ones, like the Deeper Magic in LWW, which everyone will get, and about which people usually don’t complain, but otherwise it seems that the ideas readers have of the influences and themes are extremely off.

I need to say here, that I don’t claim to have a superior understanding—most things go over my head, I’m often surprised about what I still find, and whenever I read books or articles about Narnia, I am amazed how much there still is to find and to learn about.

But I do understand the basic way in which Christianity and Religion work in Narnia. And it’s not what most non-religious (and even some Christian) readers think it is.

The first thing is: the Narnia books are not missionary work. They are not books that try to convert things to Christianity—only kids who are raised in Christianity or have in some other way studies its basics (in school, for instance) will even figure out some of the parallels, and even that isn’t a given. The books will not in any way make a kid after reading think “Oh, boy, I sure need to become a Christian now.” Religion, in that sense, is not even a subject, and only sparsely referenced as a normal everyday thing, just like in most pieces of western media.

The next thing is: these books don’t teach the world view of modern day American alt-right Protestants. A lot of people, especially on tumblr, seem to think so, which is rather odd, considering the books were written in the 50s, by an English (Northern Irish, actually) Atheist turned Anglican, whose own unusual religious development, and whose (academical) interest in Paganism and other non-Christian religions certainly kept him open-minded in these respects.

And then there’s all that talk about the Problem of Susan, of course, and about how the Scrubbs were actually woke people, and how everything was sexist and all that Because Those Evil Xtians Who Try To Convert The Children.

I see so many posts about how people just ignore the religious themes, and how people like the books despite them, and that’s all fine and well, but you guys have no idea what they are. They are not “hurr hurr white old man wrote bad old-fashioned worldview” they are on an entirely different level, in certain references and images and quotes that you may actually like a lot, and more general in the Fight for Good and everlasting Hope.

And if you get rid of the religious aspects, you get rid of all that you like about Narnia, and be left with only a shallow little bit won’t appeal to you at all, and probably a good deal of what you think is that annoying Christian influence.

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tbh I have so much more respect for someone like JKR, who sticks with her unpopular opinions despite shitstorm after shitstorm, than for someone who lets themselves be bullied into changing what they say even though they haven’t been rationally convinced, just yelled at enough.

Not saying it’s wrong to change your opinion. But it should be because they’ve been convinced, not because people on Twitter have ganged up on them.

I mean… there are people for whom group identity and belonging is the most important, and for them “Your social group has come to a consensus that you are currently out of step with” is important information and a great argument for changing their mind. That has its place and for a lot of people it… works, it probably doesn’t feel like bullying to them. Those people will probably end up having more friends than I have. But that’s not my kind of person.

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The fact that the first book literally opens with C. S. Lewis saying, “But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again,” should tell us everything we need to know about Susan’s story after The Last Battle.