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*eminem voice* *falls into a hole in a sewer grate before saying anything*

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you have to make it homoerotic and weird

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once again thinking about this guy at the pigeon museum who was giving a little presentation about pigeon mating habits or something, and takes one look at me and my partner and immediately goes "oh and pigeons can be GAY, too!!!"

#need to attend. pigeon museum

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you ever think about harrows history with the sixth house. palamedes basically said her theory was wrong, told her he expected more from her, cared for her for half a year then died with the final word. i bet shell be seething

#tlt

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A little gall on gall.

#tlt

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long distance relationship visits are so awesome and idyllic and beautiful i sure hope there isn’t a part of it where eventually it ends

#well i still have four more days and today only feels especially sad bc working all day .. #but there’s much time and much life ahead .. but wah #will be dog sitting when she leaves so at least i’ll have a companion in the apartment #it’s been a year since i’ve been the one being visited so empty apartment will have a kick to it !! but i am so strong and brave ..

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just wanted to post about the books unbanned initiative — it allows teens/college students to get library cards in the following cities:

brooklyn public library (ages 13-21) — email [email protected] to get your free card

seattle public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

boston public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

la county library (ages 13-18; california only) — sign up here

san diego public library (ages 12 -26) — sign up here

brooklyn public library, seattle public library, boston public library and la county library all use libby, whereas the san diego public library uses cloud library.

there's also the queer liberation library, which is a free digital library you can sign up for here. anyone with a US mailing address can apply for this one, and there's no age limit!

#library card

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House M.D. | 4x12 Don't Ever Change

#house md

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"Is the beauty for you or for everyone?" Environmental poster from the Belarusian SSR, 1986

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PREFACE TO MY POST: I’m not arguing with someone who says fanfiction as a medium is better than published books. It’s a better use of both our time not to argue gives you more time to read omegaverse me more time to do Anything Else.

POST: it’s so funny when someone trots out I got tired of reading books by old white men. I Find Better And More Representation In Fanfiction than Published Books! Because representation is so clearly standing in for the phrase “white gay/bi man”.

POINT ONE. it’s straight up not hard to find books by people with different perspectives. I could go to Libby dot com right now and find 3 different reading lists put together by the library to encourage you, the patron, to diversify your reading. Even when I don’t use those lists and I’m just going by clicking on covers I like I end up reading a variety of authors bc. They’re writing good books that are ending up on most popular lists that float their way to the top of recommendations. There are plenty of tools in place that guide you to books Not Written by old white men, Not About old white men. Libraries make it very very very easy to expand your palette. They want you to expand your palette soooo bad they want you to do it purposefully and if not purposefully, they’ll at least make it easy for you to do accidentally.

POINT TWO. if you are talking about fanfiction and you Aren’t using representation as shorthand for “white man but he’s gay” then the amount of fanfiction with “representation” is shit fucking all. On every axis. Nothing about women nothing about people of color. Women of color RIGHT out. I think I honestly would respect the stance of “oh I read fanfic instead of books because they’re easier, similar, and mostly about homosexuality” than I would the faux posturing of Its Praxis for me to read the diverse representation of ao3 top 100 (97 m/m) (3 f/f) (every character is white).

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some of the tables i’ve encountered this summer

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does a tweet ever bring you hope