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I highly recommend that everyone grieving the election results takes some time away from the Internet in these upcoming days. Genuinely, log off, go out into nature if you can, read a book, draw or paint or knit or work out or whatever you can do offline. Even watch a comforting show or movie from childhood. Get offline. Clear your head. Take some deep breaths. It sounds silly, but it might seriously help.

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If I have to see one more “we survived him before we can do it again” post I’m going to scream.

So many people didn’t. So many more people are going to die. Women are going to bleed out in parking lots because doctors are scared to give them the abortion they need. Migrates are going to die in detention centers. Kids are going to have their parents ripped away in mass deportations. Potentially millions of people are going to lose their healthcare.

Yes, we keep fighting, but don’t say we survived before. A lot of people didn’t.

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

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shoutout to the best mendel ever

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It's my birthday.. I'm Rachamim, you might know me for my culturally inspired art of trans men and personal work. I'm disabled and my art is my only livelihood. With social media stuff falling apart everywhere things have gotten pretty rough this year.. For my birthday consider just sharing that I exist and where to find me?

Thank you for the years of kindness to my work, it's been a nice decade sharing my art on Tumblr. I really appreciate y'all. ❤️

+ Patreon + Insta + Bluesky + Ko-fi

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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖞𝖗𝖊 ⦃ 📔 ⦄

In the summer of 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (Byron’s personal physician) all vacationed together on Lake Geneva, having a legendary ghost story competition that was the impetus for incredible books such as Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). The Vampyre takes inspiration from Byron's unfinished story, published either as The Fragment or The Burial: A Fragment. In his work, Polidori expands and adds on to the Byronic narrative, creating a masterful, tragic, and entertaining story of the monster and the hunted.

𝕻𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰:

⚜ William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Italian woman at the Fountain, 1869 ⚜ William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr. — The Locket, 1911 ⚜ David Roberts — Interior of the Cathedral, Pisa, 1859 ⚜ Eugene Delacroix — The Vampire, 1825

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Yves Pires, the kiss

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if you are a person of color and are struggling to understand or express your own gender because you do not and/or cannot conform to white beauty & gender standards you're not alone and you do not have to warp yourself to suit someone else's narrative- every culture on this planet has their own relationship with biological sex & gender and you do not have to mold yourself to suit gender roles that literally just don't exist in your cultures, or don't make sense to you

you do not have to try to change your face, hair or body to match standards that don't apply to you. you are allowed to approach gender in your own way, in whatever ways make sense to you. it's your life, your gender, your culture, your expression. you don't have to screw yourself over like that. good luck in finding the real you, you'll find them

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Some of yall needed to hear this

Credits to @/mattxiv on Instagram

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I absolutely adore falsettos as a show for many reasons but the actual music is really what gets me. The instrumentals, musical motifs for characters, the melodies that are NEVER boring and most of all the harmonies???? Oh i’m insane, william finn you are a genius

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'plucking off daisy petals', 2023, inspired by the painting "Paolo and Francesca", 1894, by Frank Dicksee 

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I was talking about love, not lust. Lust is only physical intimacy. I want him to truly accept me in his heart. 刻在你心底的名字 Your Name Engraved Herein 2020┃Liu Kuang Hui

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If you live in the US and can vote, please do. Now, more than ever, it's so necessary. We can either have someone for president who staged a political coup on the White House because he didn't win the last election, OR someone who, while doesn't have perfect policies, cares about the country itself over her own needs. Trump only cares about himself. Do you really want someone who said that we need to "target the enemy within" for president? Think about where else you've heard that sentiment before for a moment. Please, please, please, vote. It's already a very close poll, but Harris is in the lead. I know she's not perfect, but Trump has tried to literally overthrow the government in a bad way; who knows what else he'll do when he's back in power.

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I can't ever be normal whilst watching Father to Son because I think back to how Christian Borle said that he never really wanted kids, so playing a father like Marvin was a challenge because of it. but he thought back to all of the good times he had with his father before he died, and that's how he would perform it - being a son to play a father. fuck Falsettos like actually I blame my friend who introduced it to me

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yea idk i drew this between 1 and 2 AM

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Falsettos, anyone?