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a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints

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from the archives of octavia butler

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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i was looking at those old style postcards (you know the ones) and i thought... what if the homestuck lands had a version of them? i was gonna do something scenic but it ended up being jade throwing a snowball at dave's head, oh well

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#THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS I KNOW YHEY WENT THROUGH A LOT BUT THEY LOVE EACH OTHER

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this is gonna sound stupid but Doc Scratch is a dirk splinter?

yep!

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#guys look away i am a horrible person

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I have to confess I'm always a bit fascinated when I see an artist posting huge quantities of Homestuck fanart, then I creep their archive and it turns out they only got into it, like, last month. It's interesting to see how people interpret the various characters' designs without the context of fifteen years worth of fandom discourse bullshit constraining them. A decade ago that blonde Vriska would have gotten them hounded off the Internet, and now it's just a thing you can do!

#wdym humanstuck blonde vriska isn't canon she is SO blonde

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On the "Hey U Guys" podcast in March, Noel paid tribute to his Dick Turpin predecessor!

Noel: “Horrible Histories is such an amazing show because, you know, they really go all over the shop! And they do lots of little twists and turns.”

#everyone thinks they know the story of dick turpin's highway glory but my past was far more gory i was no saint #you think life is one big antic my profession is romantic well hate to be pedantic but it ain't #actual lyrical genius

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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

#anna karenina. i KNOW i'll love it because it's my jam in every way but i can't bring myself to pick it up

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"i use it/its pronouns" is actually a code word for "i am a really cool and epic person" so if u see someone w/ that or similar in its bio be sure to befriend it and be there for it and listen to it and hug it cuz it is so cool it deserves it!!!

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I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

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she says "oh you like that huh 😏" i tell her that's a most astute observation

#me + her

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does anyone know what kind of bug this is? is it poisonous?