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hi my names kai and i shitpost in earnest | he/they 20s | ao3 -> cosmokid
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you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)
he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.
he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.
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"my phone doesn't have a headphone jack, so I have no choice but to listen to tiktoks at full volume in public spaces" (':
there even exist split ones that let you charge and listen at the same time like in right top picture (':
they're like $3-10 (':
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double checking the pdf im about to send to make sure the invoice i just scanned didn't magically turn into a full frontal nude image
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i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”
#in the uk#video on demand services only have to legally provide subtitles on 80% of their programs#because the government will happily give us a percentage regarding how many rights d/Deaf people have#and also for all disabled people#80% of rights is all we need huh#only 10% have to have audio description and 5% for signed interpretation
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He did an amazing job. He deserves a round of applause 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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We live in the cursed timeline
#fun (?) fact: alex jones pissed off the neo nazis in his fanbase on 4/20 this year by criticising hitler#it was such a weird thing for him to do?#like alex dude#most of your fanbase is neo nazis#youve had neo nazis on your show multiple times#you have spouting neo nazi talking points for years#why are you turning a new leaf on the nazis now?#like if its genuine - which its probably not - then good for you i guess?#but it was such a random thing to happen
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They should add a feature to this website where you can browse someone’s blog by inputting a short phrase and then a search algorithm would retrieve all the posts containing it
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is it okay if my 12 yr old little brother asks you something??
i guess?
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This Pride I hope that all of you never ever forget that no amount of sanitizing your sex life or sanding down of your LGBT edges will make bigots accept you. So, don’t debase yourself by capitulating an inch to them, especially in ways that throw your fellow community members under the bus.
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NEVER THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY!
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#btw this applies to everyone in the uk refusing to vote for labour#like yes the system is a little different but at the end of the day in most areas it is a two party system#and if you don't vote for labour#the Tories will win that seat#and they'll win enough seats to get over the line some way or another#and all those people you claim to care about?#yeah. we're gonna suffer#but thank god your fucking conscience is clear
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So sick of heteronormativity and amatonormativity rn. I hate that "can men and women be friends" is even a question. I hate "there's no platonic explanation for that". I hate the way people assume I must secretly be romantically interested in my friends because "why else would a man talk to a woman?" I hate this cage that we've built for ourselves.
#i think one of the issues with the phrase ''there's no platonic explanation for that''#is that it would often be used as shorthand to communicate that something was either queercoding or queerbaiting#it would be said in lieu of ''if these characters were a man and a woman rather than two men/two women their dynamic would be read as#romantic rather than platonic''#as in the way this is written and shot and scored implies romance but that is disregarded because its two women or two men#like it's a lot easier to say ''there's no platonic explanation for that'' than to explain what i just tried to communicate#but the problem is that if you're not aware of it being shorthand or if it's not being used as shorthand#suddenly it becomes incredibly dismissive and reinforces amatonormative biases#often you'd use the phrase ''theres no platonic explanation for that'' not to describe the act itself but how it was portrayed#theres a supergirl seen where lena basically buys kara an entire florists worth of flowers where many would say ''theres no platonic#explanation for that'' and the ''that'' is not referring to the act of buying flowers for someone because you can and should buy your#friends flowers if they like flowers#rather the ''that'' is the way the scene is shot using the cinematic language one tends to use to communicate romance and the music swells#and it's all romance coded but it's not textually romance#also btw a lot of people would use the phrase this way without really knowing what they meant because like weve all seen films and weve all#seen romance in film so we all find ourselves reacting to it the way we would a romantic arc except its not.#one of those things you don't have the words to explain#''theres no platonic explanation for that'' would also mean ''ive seen platonic relationships in film and this isn't that but i dont know#why or how''#but anyway this all to say that when the phrase starts to be used for dynamics where at most this is a will they or won't they#it suddenly now communicates that romantic relationships are to be elevated above all else#what was originally used as a response to queerbaiting or the lack of any queer rep on screen#became yet another reminder that some of us are too queer or are the wrong kind of queer
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Do not blame me for who I am. The doctor prescribed me 20 mL of #william afton twice a day.
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