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I literally observe and mentally save conversations to use as references

"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

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This site needs a mandatory reading comprehension test before you join

"Your identity is valid but your past being raised as a man still matters"

trans girl whose memories from before HRT are a sort of unreal haze: uh huh. how interesting. sure. yeah. okay. cool beans.

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I really, really need to know why my past self followed a thirst trap Tumblr blog. What possessed me to do this.

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also: The director acts like a bird and stands like a ferret

His sits on his stool at the podium like a bird perching on a tree branch. But then also leans against the back of the podium without his stool like his bones just melted in a fraction of a second. If there's something behind him he will lean against it like his body doesn't have any supporting structure to go along with it. I've seen him fully just melt into his chair during dinner time at band camp, talking to leadership. He also whistles like a bird to get our attention and fully looks like an irate cockatoo when he's upset

A list of things about our (concert) band program because I'm tired and running off of three hours of sleep and anxiety so why tf not:

No brass spit stains on the floor. The brass have been using thrice-folded paper towels since the 1980's.

We have 267 people total this year. Last year we had 300. We're the largest program in the city, probably in the entire country.

One part of our logo is shaped like a sixteenth note. The other part is shaped like a bass clef

Our pre-order tickets for the concerts each semester are 25$. They get bumped up to 35$ at the door (which is actually about the same price you would pay for a balcony corner seat at the philharmonic)

We have soundboards decorating the walls depicting various past activities/fundraisers

The aforementioned past activities/fundraisers include: Candy grams, 3 day overnight band camp, the concerts, annual skating events, annual spooky events, annual bake sales, and the multiple fundraisers named after our director

Both our director and leadership stay afterschool in the band room until around 9-10pm. I swear I saw this man give leadership his credit card at one point.

You'd think our director couldn't care less about us, given how he acts during rehearsals, but his laptop background is literally of the graduating class of 2022. Every news article he's been in he speaks of his students like a proud parent.

Every generation of grade ten comes in terrified of him. Every generation of grade eleven returns feeling annoyed with him. Every generation of grade twelve leaves feeling like they've been complemented in a weird, round-about way for three years.

Being in the band program also means that somehow, you start getting into our director's massive network. You meet your clinician one week and the next week you suddenly know every single name of the philharmonic performers.

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A list of things about our (concert) band program because I'm tired and running off of three hours of sleep and anxiety so why tf not:

No brass spit stains on the floor. The brass have been using thrice-folded paper towels since the 1980's.

We have 267 people total this year. Last year we had 300. We're the largest program in the city, probably in the entire country.

One part of our logo is shaped like a sixteenth note. The other part is shaped like a bass clef

Our pre-order tickets for the concerts each semester are 25$. They get bumped up to 35$ at the door (which is actually about the same price you would pay for a balcony corner seat at the philharmonic)

We have soundboards decorating the walls depicting various past activities/fundraisers

The aforementioned past activities/fundraisers include: Candy grams, 3 day overnight band camp, the concerts, annual skating events, annual spooky events, annual bake sales, and the multiple fundraisers named after our director

Both our director and leadership stay afterschool in the band room until around 9-10pm. I swear I saw this man give leadership his credit card at one point.

You'd think our director couldn't care less about us, given how he acts during rehearsals, but his laptop background is literally of the graduating class of 2022. Every news article he's been in he speaks of his students like a proud parent.

Every generation of grade ten comes in terrified of him. Every generation of grade eleven returns feeling annoyed with him. Every generation of grade twelve leaves feeling like they've been complemented in a weird, round-about way for three years.

Being in the band program also means that somehow, you start getting into our director's massive network. You meet your clinician one week and the next week you suddenly know every single name of the philharmonic performers.

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The Bat may not kill but every single person in the underground knows that the robins might and the butler most certainly will

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The Salvation Army can well and go salvage itself some morals and corruption pesticide

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

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Brendan Lee Mulligan would drop kick the entire subreddit

the Dropout fandom’s response to hundreds of transfems saying “hey, i noticed that Dropout doesn’t feature a lot of transfeminine people on their shows outside of drag queens, and that’s frustrating & concerning for transfeminine fans” has been so telling; like i feel like literally everybody that i’ve seen criticising Dropout has been very fair, measured & to be frank, have been very charitable with their commentary — but the cis & otherwise TME fans getting defensive have harassed me, told me i was “screaming from the sidelines” and trying to “cancel Sam Reich”, sent me hatemail — i got a rape threat. over Dropout!!! and this is just the stuff that *i* got.

glike, if the platform and fandom is as progressive & inclusive as they say than by and large they should be welcoming on criticisms about the amount of X demographic they have on their shows, especially when transfems have been pointing this out for literally years at this point.

on the flip side of this, it’s been amazing seeing so many transfems & a whole bunch of cis and TME allies to transfems speak uk and say “i noticed that too and it’s so fucked up” — i’ve been overwhelmed by how many people have responded saying they felt the same way. my request for you is to keep talking about it, and put your criticisms in the tag. people on Dropout use this website, they use the tags themselves — to be perfectly honest i have it on pretty good authority that people from Dropout have already seen some of the criticisms in question. the tags are used to promote the shows & engage with the audience, so it is legitimately meaningful to talk about how you feel unrepresented and tag it with #Dropout and #Dropout tv imo!

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WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME WE COULD DO THAT?????

[tumblr] WHY DO YOU JUST HAVE THIS FEATURE LAYING AROUND

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I think we should bring back all the gay slang of history that fell out of use

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Where’s that badger firefighter guy when you need him

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“In the 90’s I blah blah blah blah blah”

You claim to be a ‘true’ butch from the 90s yet you sound like you don’t what the term “Bambi lesbians” means.

I'm really tired of the trend of using one's desire (or lack of) to put their mouth anywhere as a measure of sexual orientation.

Some people don't do oral or open mouth kissing, and it doesn't mean they're incapable of attraction. It has no correlation with attraction at all. You can love someone and want to have sex with them without it including any oral activities on either side.

Y'all are fucking obsessed with trying to performatively out-queer each other, and it only hurts the whole community in the end.

Bonus unsurprising aphobia

Do better.

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Other social media sites are weird because if you start spam liking someone’s account you get blocked and their account gets show banned

Whereas Tumblr, the trash pit of raccoons on fire, has people combing through the blogs of their murals and aggressively giving them notes every day

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Forgot I took these pictures

Cold foggy morning that feels like the set of a Tim Burton movie

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I’m burning them

Everyone involved in this should be catapulted into the sun.

A new publisher plans to churn out 8000 books in 2025 using AI. Everything about this from the massive waste of energy to the absence of any creative curiosity is utterly fucking depressing.