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Me: I hate gossip

Also me:

#not like i can help it🙄

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i don't know if its physically possible to ignore the dog

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people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

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mutuals you would sit on a power line like little birds with

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#VERY similar to prev #>>> #listen listen listen. if I’m wearing socks IN shoes I feel totally fine #however when I get home and take off my shoes and those socks are slightly damp from sweat? DISGUSTING. GET OFF IMMEDIATELY #I will not wear socks that have already been in my shoes for hours. #however if it is a wee bit chilly and my feet are too cold I will put on new dry cozy socks #I always prefer to be barefoot if possible tho #<<< #This. #Apart from that i also wear socks because my parrot keeps throwing seeds out of his cage and it's a sensory nightmare to walk over them #But i summer i love going fully barefoot

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-Laurel-

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A nuclear power plant built in a beautiful wheat field near a chapel. (Czech Republic)

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Caption: [A stitch with user @/sapphicyuji. The text on screen reads, " "you can't misgender cis people!", you have never had your gender questioned outside of your transness and it shows. sincerely, a trans poc".

I'm actually super glad we're having a conversation about this. The masculinization of black and brown women, because for years I felt like I endured this unique form of trauma until I realized other people went through the same thing too. And if there's one thing that I'd like to add to the conversation, there seems to be this misconception that this is something that starts at puberty. Like boys tell you you look like a man to hurt your feeling when that's so far from the case.

The first time I was purposefully misgendered was in kindergarten. I was constantly referred to by the masculine variant of my name, I was chased out of the women's restroom, and I had grown adults questioning what my biological sex was before I even knew what the difference was. And those behaviors persisted into adulthood because now if I present as anything less than 100% feminine, people will either compare me to men or animals.

And for myself and for many other brown and black women this is a life long act deliberately intended to humiliate, shame, and other us for the features we were naturally born with and I'm glad we're having a discussion on how harmful it actually is.]

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you can do more than one of these if you want

actually, you can do anything you want

live unapologetically and without restraint

#im swapping shirt and sock drawers

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someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

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do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

#this would be so funny if we did it in the terror fandom #replacing the “men” with a some poor dead sailor #it'd be months before we'd run out of dead guys!

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trans people i’m happy you’re alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m so glad you’re here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! keep doing your best!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

#oh god- don't remind me of the horrors

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