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I have officially entered a fandom that has no fic on ao3 and I don't know what to do with myself

#sunday o'rorden #she lives rent free in my mind #tiktok #glamourpossum

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From the court today. Israel IS committing a genocide.

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Source

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this reply kills me 😭

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girl with a pearl earring by johannes vermeer // anya taylor joy as alia atreides in dune: part two

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Neil!!!

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🦔

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

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This isn't just Australia and NZ who are struggling and it's not just ADHD patients. These meds are used by lots of people other conditions too! I take them to manage Narcolepsy and it is basically the only thing that allows me to function at all normally.

This most recent shortage has been going on since April 2023 and there was another shortage shortly before that. It's massive issue

the usa shouldn’t be the political and economic focal point of the entire fucking planet, actually

#medicine #usa #uk #adhd #narcolepsy

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“Aegon is a great example of neglect and indulgence. This is the medieval version of the millionaire’s prodigal son. His mother was fifteen, and his father never paid any attention to him. His father deeply, deeply loved Aemma and Rhaenyra and was [only] having [more] kids to carry on the line. He really didn’t want Aegon—he wanted Baelon, the son that killed his first wife.” - Ryan Condal

Tom Glynn-Carney as Aegon ii Targaryen in House of the Dragon

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Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?

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what are your thoughts on donghua jinlong's industry standard glycine?

They say it's the best quality and your number one choice. I need the facts. Is what they're saying true?

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this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings

mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.

the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social caste system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.

the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.

then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.

then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.

i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.

the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.

they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.

the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.

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True facts.

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nightwing being hurt in the field, and over comms he can’t get out what was wrong, nearly in shock, and jason puts on his best batman™️ voice and says “robin, report.”

and it snaps dick out of it enough to say concussion, possible broken ribs, and a gash in his side.

no one talks about it, and then a year later, damian does the same thing to tim

#ohh #oof #bby #Dick Grayson #Jason Todd

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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.