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file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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Mister Rogers

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it disturbs me that a significant number of people think that the issue with sexual violence, gendered violence, and misogyny is sexual desire rather than dehumanization, so they are relentlessly suspicious of others' (and their own) desires while simultaneously never at all interrogating others' (and their own) dehumanizing beliefs about other people, both within and outside of sexual contexts

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Life Story

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People forget that in the Disney fairy tale films, wishes and dreams represented hope: specifically, hope for a better future when current times were tough. The movies were made for people who lived through the Great Depression and Second World War. Snow White and Cinderella were survivors of abuse who wanted to be loved, Pinocchio wanted to become and be recognized as a real person, Bambi and Dumbo lost their mothers and had to find their own ways in the world. But these characters all held onto hope via their wishes and dreams.

So it feels a little demoralizing when modern Disney films try to deconstruct "wishes and dreams" as passive acts. They're trying to tell people to pick themselves up by the bootstraps, because nothing's gonna change unless you change something. Which is true, I guess.

But deconstructing wishes and dreams feels a bit like deconstructing hope itself. And maybe I'm reaching with that connection, but it doesn't sit right with me.

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I’m reading that new memoir about working at Facebook,”Careless People,” and it’s just fucking insane.

At one point Facebook wanted to be an international hub for organ donation. The “Lean In” lady asked why she couldn’t go down to Mexico and buy a kidney if her four year old needs one. This is literally on p.57. What the fuck else is going to be in this book if that is on page 57

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Thought I was getting negative feedback on my art from someone who said they hated one of my paintings but turns out they just hated how uncomfortable it made them feel when that is exactly how it was supposed to make them feel so really it's a compliment

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i just have to know what happened to the ui/ux designers at firaxis between civ6 and civ7

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Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

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remember when dash drama looked like this

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slow & steady - get there when you’re ready.

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they said you were cruel

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is anyone else legit creeped out by people who will comment on every single political facebook post you share? i'm pretty quiet there and don't post often, but like. every. single. post. has the same family member grousing in the comments (and half of them have another person too).

like dude, it is 11pm on a tuesday. i don't want to fight with you about this because you have something to prove.

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the best starker fics are the ones that don't forget that Peter is Spider-Man

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Can I tell you guys about the fucked up meat van that comes through my neighborhood like it’s an ice cream truck because I’m thinking about it again and it’s haunting me