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learning that constantly thinking about and analyzing and interpreting my traumas isn’t actually healing . and don’t get me wrong its made me a very effective communicator and emotionally intelligent person. but actually im supposed to be moving on and experiencing new things and happiness and stuff and not just compulsively reliving and recontextualizing the past. oops!

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I really hope young folks just discovering Leverage understand that in 2008 a Tesla meant basically the opposite of what it means in 2025. They were so exciting. We were so hopeful.

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A hill i will die standing on is that picky eaters deserve respect and accommodation and to eat food they enjoy too. Sensory issues, disliked flavors, allergies, intolerances, cultural differences, religious restrictions, moral or political choices, they all deserve to be given consideration if you know you're gonna be cooking for them and to not be excluded from the fundamental right to food & access to the many important social bonding acitivities centered around food

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Stayin cool

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weird how quick fascists went from “the world is overpopulated. close your legs. stop having kids.” to “pop out 3 babies right now. you have no choice. you have to. it’s your duty and your only purpose.” when they realized they might not have enough vulnerable individuals to exploit in the labor force if the birth rate continues declining

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hi sorry im new to being insane about fall out boy. what was the original lyric sheet like..? or whats happening with the lyric sheet stuff?

HELLO ANON IT IS SO EXCITING TO GET TO YELL ABOUT THIS

For. Ever. For 20 years since FUTCT came out, people noticed a difference in the sung lyrics and the lyrics sheet.

Sugar is a queer song anyway--"sleeping in or sleeping for the wrong team", e.g.--but people noticed that Patrick sings

"watching you two from the closet wishing to be the friction in your jeans"

(which. From the closet. Yes yes.)

But the lyrics sheet has the line as:

"wishing to be the friction in HIS jeans"

Which!!!!! Is!!!!! Mmmm!!!!!!!!!

Everyone assumed "his jeans" was the original line and someone made them change it--the label, probably--because it was the oughts and homophobia was just. Like That.

But no.

Pete changed the lyrics *to be more overtly queer.* It doesn't matter what Patrick mumble-sang, Pete fixed it in post in the lyrics sheet. Nobody took that away from him or tried to hide it--he put it in what he considered to be the most important place. He said what he really meant.

I can't find a scan of the og lyrics booklet, but here's a screenshot from an article in rolling stone from 2006 that references it:

EDIT: scan of the og lyrics booklet!

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by far the strangest part of the British government deciding to enact a sword hunt is that the policy they've put together is very clear about only banning "ninja swords" and "zombie-style knives." you're allowed to have a sword for fencing, or a machete for farm and garden work, or a zweihander for historical re-enactment purposes, but if you have a wakizashi your ass is fucking GRASS

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season 1 vs. season 7

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colonialism did not create the gender binary grahhh there were hundreds if not thousands of pre-colonial societies that believed in some cultural cognate of man and woman and enforced those notions as normative. Yes some had gender-transgressive cohorts within them (mostly trans women) but there were and are clear rules that often delineated them as lesser peoples.

what colonialism *did* do was enforce the specific european cultural context of man and woman to nonwestern societies, something that was in fact aided by the pre-existing sex binaries in those cultures!

I have seen like 3 posts today implying or outright stating that binary gender did not exist outside of europe pre-colonialism and I need you all to understand That Is Insane, Untrue, And Unhelpful!

Do not twist my words; I do not say this to cast undue shadow on non european nations and peoples pre-colonialism, nor do I say this to absolve europe of culpability in modern (trans)misogyny! I say this because the fight against misogyny is a global one and the accuracy of our adversity is important to its discussion and dismantling!

There is a running undercurrent in a lot of popular faux-progressive thought that the only real enactors and benefactors of oppression are those who sit at the pinnacle of all axes, but this is false and a blatant rhetorical trap! I benefit from my whiteness despite being disadvantaged on the axes of class, gender, and trans status! Privilege is neither a math equation to be zeroed out nor is it an albatross around your neck to be mopily brought up on every occasion! In this sense all men (all men) ALL MEN benefit from misogyny! A minority man being affected by racism/classism/ableism/etc. still retains advantage over women on the axis of gender because patriarchy is global!

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We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"