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a little autobiographical piece about the internet

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So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

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Jake Gyllenhaal Plays with Puppies While Answering Fan Questions

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the contrast between the final fights in Homecoming and Far From Home brings me great joy.

HOMECOMING: Peter low-key gets his ass beat. Like it's understandable because he was already injured and it's his first real supervillain fight but still... like... he loses that fight. Vulture beats him until he stops moving and raises his limp body to finish him off. All he has to do in that moment is shove his wing through Peter's heart and Peter Parker and Spider-Man become tragic cautionary tales for future would-be vigilantes. It's Vulture's decision to go after the loot instead that saves Peter's life; Peter has nothing to do with it. Peter's triumph in that scene is not winning the fight, but having the essential goodness to show up at all, to lose the fight and still risk his life to save his enemy from himself. It's less about Peter being capable and more about Peter being so gosh dang good that he can't help but try to do the right thing, no matter the cost. We are left feeling that Peter is unarguably a hero, but he still has a lot to learn.

FAR FROM HOME: Peter wrecks Mysterio's shit. With no webshooters, no AI, nothing but his own enhanced strength and senses, he utterly dismantles a state of the art automated weapon and holographic protection system designed by Tony Fucking Stark himself. In a tiny confined space, he dodges gunfire from dozens of military-grade weaponized drones, punching, slamming, smashing, and ripping them apart with his bare hands. WITH HIS EYES CLOSED. At the end, he stands absolutely triumphant, not even looking as he deflects Beck's last-ditch effort to murder him. We have already established that Peter is good, so this scene finally and firmly establishes that Peter is capable, that he is strong, smart, and fucking badass enough to defend the world in his mentor's absence. He has grown by leaps and bounds from the first movie, and stepped out of Tony's shadow to become a hero in his own right.

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Victoria and Thomas performing I Wanna Be Your Slave at Polsat SuperHit Festiwal 2021

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What is or isn't a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

"Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma" doesn't contain a slur, but "What are you, some kind of fag?" does.

"Queer studies", "the queer community" and "I'm queer"? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a "dirty queer"? Slur.

"Be gay, do crimes" and "He's gay" ≠ slur, but "Ew, that's so gay" = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking "q slur" bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren't using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

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Måneskin in Sopot, Poland | June 26, 2021

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I love that God is a woman in good omens but why and what did you think Terry whould think about that

If you're going to have a human being play God, you should get a good actor, and Frances McDormand is as good as they come.

Do you mean, would Terry have thought that someone needs to have a penis in order to voice an immortal, intangible being bigger than the universe? Or would he have thought that they need XY chromosomes? Or would have have been satisfied if he knew that the actor identifies as male and dissatisfied if he thought they identified as female?

I don't think Terry would have given a moment's thought to whether or not Frances McDormand could play God in Good Omens, but he would probably have interrogated the human need to ask your question in interesting ways.

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PRIDE IN MILAN (ITALY) 🌈

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Victoria De Angelis | Polsat SuperHit Festiwal 2021

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