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D e a t h is a g i r l.

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What makes Cytherea/Gideon so hot is that not only is Cytherea fucking her boss' daughter as a power move while grooming her to be a human sacrifice, she's also withholding all this life-changing information from her just for funsies

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uh hey that person you just reblogged from used to be in our discord server but we had to kick them out because they admitted to watching t*m and j*rry... that show features violence and as such glorifies it.... when we confronted them all they said was "wtf its a show about a cat and a mouse"... if you dont believe me theres a whole callout post that features their name age and street address so you can go to their house and check... anyways you should unfollow them before people start thinking you like problematic media too :/ just trying to help

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so don’t get me wrong because a lot of arthurian stuff is super misogynistic. but it’s never really in the damsel in distress way you expect. like the most helpless damsel is lancelot trapped and crying in a tower, completely useless, until this random girl who made him behead a guy in front of her fifty pages ago rolls up with a pickax and rope and is like “ok I’m minecrafting you out of here.” and this works.

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I’VE BLOWN APART MY LIFE FOR YOU (gideon nav/kiriona gaia)

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PLEASE THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

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Kamloops, BC

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yeah this is a self-evident biological hierarchy. that's why we have to enforce it with violence

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more ronan

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How the fuck does the gangsey ever get homework done. Does gansey go home after almost being shot by whelk like mon dieu!!!! I've got a ten page essay!!!

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Noah’s death is a tragedy specifically because that 2000s emo boy is forced to spend his afterlife in his fucking school uniform and not his emo drip. devastating.

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I don't post much personal stuff here, but I'm proud of the work I've done for howmanycigarettes, so I want to recommend that people check it out.

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“From the joking that went on among the actors painting the theater lobby that afternoon, I learned that ‘coming out’ meant having your first homosexual experience. And what you came into, of course, was homosexual society. [...] The origins of the term were debutante cotillions, those sprawling, formal society balls where, squired by equally young and uncomfortable cousins, brothers, or schoolmates, young ladies of sixteen or so ‘came out’ into society. [...] During that afternoon’s painting, I first learned what ‘a camp’ was—the color scheme the directors had chosen for the theater (peach, gold, and azure), for one. I also learned that ‘to camp’ (and the gerund ‘camping’) denoted dressing up in drag and, by extension, acting in a particularly effeminate manner, either in private or in public—flouting the notions of the straight world by flaunting the customs of the queer one. The noun form was the base form: ‘Oh, my dear, she is such a camp!’ (‘she,’ in such cases, almost always referring to a male.) Etymologically, of course, ‘camp’ was an apocopation of ‘camp follower.’ Camp followers were the women, frequently prostitutes, who followed the armies across Europe from military camp to military camp. Since the military have always had a special place in homosexual mythology, and presumably because the advent of a large group of young, generally womenless men was as good an excuse as any for cross-dressing among the local male populace so inclined, the then-new meaning of the term—’to go out and camp it up’; ‘to have a mad camp’ (and ‘a mad camp’ was the phrase most commonly in use)—gained currency in England during World War I and had been brought back to the United States by American soldiers. Calling something ‘a camp’ followed the same linguistic template as calling a funny experience ‘a riot.’ Indeed the two were often synonymous.

[…]

Differences are what create individuals. Identities are what create groups and categories. Identities are thus conditions of comparative simplicity that complex individuals might move toward but (fortunately) never achieve—until society, tired of the complexity of so much individual difference, finally, one way or the other, imposes an identity on us.

Identities are thus, by their nature, reductive. (You do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become like someone else.) Without identities, yes, language would be impossible (because categories would not be possible, and language requires categories). Still, in terms of persons, identity remains a highly problematic sort of reduction and cultural imposition.

Through the late sixties a sensation-hungry media began rummaging through various marginal social areas for new and exciting vocabulary. In almost every case, once a new term was found an almost complete change in meaning occurred as the term was applied to more or less bourgeois experiences and concerns. ‘Rap’ had already been appropriated from the world of down-and-out amphetamine druggies [...] ‘camp’ had already been borrowed from gay slang, largely in the wake of a popular 1964 Partisan Review essay by Susan Sontag (“Notes on ‘Camp’”), after which it all but lost its meaning of ‘cross-dressing’ and became a general synonym for ‘just too much.’ Spurred on by June ‘69’s Stonewall Riots and the rapid formation right afterward of the Gay Liberation Front, the term ‘coming out’ over the next eighteen months changed its meaning radically.

Gay Liberation proponents began to speak about ‘coming out’ of ‘the closet’—the first time either the words or the concepts had been linked. [...]

The logic of coming out—in this new sense—was impeccable. Sixteen and seventeen years before, the House Un-American Activities Committee, along with its hounding of Communists, had been equally vigilant in its crusade against homosexuals. HUAC’s logic was that homosexuals were security risks because we were susceptible to blackmail. Said the Gay Liberationists, if we’re ‘out,’ nobody can blackmail us and nobody can accuse us of being blackmailable. So let them all know who we are, how many of us there are, and that we’re proud to be what we are.

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As a result of Stonewall and the redefinition of coming out, I had to consider that while I approved vigorously of coming out as a necessary strategy to avoid blackmail and to promote liberation, there seemed to be an oppressive aspect of surveillance and containment intertwined with it, especially when compared to the term’s older meaning. Before, one came out into the gay community. Now, coming out had become something entirely aimed at straights. Its initial meaning had been a matter of bodily performance. (It involved coming.) Now it had become a purely verbal one. Despite its political goals, was this change really as beneficial as it was touted to be? Since it had been a case of displacing a term rather than adding a term, hadn’t we lost something in that displacement?

We heard the phrase more and more; it became almost a single word. The straight media began to take it over. [...] I found myself wanting to stop people every time they began to say the phrase—to slow them, startle them with a slash struck down between the words, make them consider what each word meant separately, remind them of all the possible meanings—historical, new, and revolutionary—that the two could be packed with, either apart or joined.”

—Samuel R. Delany, “Coming / Out” in Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. 1996

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Underrated moments in AFTG upon reread:

- Allison calling Kevin’s tattoo a tramp stamp

- Seth laughing his ass off upon hearing Riko was on the Kathy Ferdinand show

- Nicky suggesting Allison and Kevin hook up and they both react with intense disgust

- Aaron shrugging to Neil coming back absolutely battered from Evermore

- Kevin wanting to ask what Neil and Andrew talked about at Eden’s twilight after Andrew confessed to Neil, then seeing Neil’s face and being like “you know what? Not my business.”

- Dan, Allison and Renee basically fake dating platonically their first year to defy the sexist guys on their team

- Neil finding math interesting

- Kevin giving Neil the most scathing elevator look that Neil feels shame about his wardrobe for the first and only time

- Dan punching a Raven in the dick after they made a sexual comment about her past

- Matt’s mother being so grateful to Andrew for getting Matt clean that she pays Aaron’s bail

- Nicky calling Kevin a brat

- Wymack making Dan the first female captain despite the rampant misogyny in Exy

- Andrew stroking Neil’s back after Neil stood up for Kevin at Kathy’s Interview

- Wymack and Matt being the original Andreil shippers

- Neil giving Kevin his binder before going to Evermore like HELLO???? That was some INSANE trust

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my best friend/fiancé and i have been together for over 20 years, we both love Studio Ghibli and i wanted to make a few pieces to celebrate our upcoming queer platonic wedding 💕 (she’s pan/polyam and cis, i’m aro/ace and nonbinary)

if you’d like to donate and help two queer brown babes celebrate their special day, check out our gofundme  update: the gofundme was fully funded and we had an incredible wedding! thank you so much to everyone that made our special day possible!!!

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“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”

— Jack Kerouac (via hedonistpoet)

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"can we normalize-" NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!