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None of those are mii songs

it's almost like that's not what i said ‼️🇧🇩

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I want to take more cute oversized hoodie pics wuhhh,,,I will

#damn you weren't lying #i can really see you in your oc

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Happy International Worker's Day Slash Nothing Doing Birthday Day! I have some thoughts about this milestone, which you can read right here

#Youtube

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Gorgonocephalidae

#creechur #:DDDD

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my weirdest hobby is re-creating memes in html so i have a crisp, HQ version of them to use and edit whenever i need

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"Of COURSE you have a bluescreen and pronouns."

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first name: "any", last name: "pronouns", and my pronouns... well that's a funny story.. i only go by she/her

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#squimsh

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So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

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awww you havent been posting about being devoured by the ceaseless force of the river rushing up against the rocky teeth of its banks anymore, are you okay?

#the strid

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She let go of the breath she had consciously been holding.

#in the right setting these could all be very impactful

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Cockatoo - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

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Earthmover from Ultrakill - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

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#my old phone made it to 5 #i expect this one to last similarly (at ~6mo rn) #maybe longer since i'll be able to replace the battery which is mainly why i stopped using it #i still have the old one and kind of want to keep it for the camera #probably need to strip the os for the battery life

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Jerking off destroys your root chakra but they don’t tell you that destroying your root chakra is a good thing actually

#real

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EVERYBODY SHUT UP IT'S BAT APPRECIATION DAY

IF YOU ARE NOT APPRECIATING BATS THEN GET OUT OF MY FACE!!!!!!!

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#spoing