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God please take all the pain away from trans women & give it to jk rowling 🙏🏽

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oh, ok, i see how it is. you “want me to make more noise in bed” but the second i pull out the bagpipes i’m “not taking this seriously”

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do you think it'll all be okay?

yeah. even if it won’t i’ve got people to love in the meantime

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so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

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WICKED Costume Design from Stage to Screen

— by Susan Hilferty — by Paul Tazewell

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you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you're lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website

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what was the best and/or your favourite film that you watched for the first time this year?

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Wicked is a story about two things first and foremost:

Finding community with and advocating for other marginalized people

Yuri

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gotta hand it to wicked because if a random salesman from fuckass Kansas in the early 1900s got isekaid into a world where everyone was convinced he was a wizard he WOULD immediately invent fascism

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"disability only exists because the world isnt accessible" idk how to tell you this but chronic pain still hurts

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one thing about cultural christianity that i don't see talked about enough is that i think it's something a lot of jews can also fall victim to. especially if you live in an area where there aren't a lot of other jews and so you don't have easy access to resources like hebrew school and synagogue and jewish centers. but also even if you do. i'm jewish, i grew up jewish, both my parents are jewish and so are their parents and so were their parents, plus i grew up and still live in a highly jewish area, where schools took off for the high holidays. most of my peers went to hebrew school, and seventh grade was universally considered bar mitzvah season. and i took those things for granted. as a kid i chose not to go to hebrew school, not to get bat mitzvahed, and so much of what i know now about judaism—about jewish culture, jewish traditions, jewish holidays, jewish values, jewish beliefs��i only learned from being on tumblr.

when i was younger, like five or six, i asked my mom what happens after you die, and she said that your soul goes to heaven. and so for years i thought heaven and hell were universal beliefs. i didn't learn that jews don't believe in heaven or hell until my late teens. and in hindsight i can see why my mom told me that—you don't really want to scare a little kid by telling them that when you die you're just dead. but still.

and i grew up celebrating christmas. not in the sense that my family would go to chinese restaurants and see a movie in theaters, but in the sense that we put up a tree and raced downstairs first thing in the morning to open presents under the tree and gather with our extended family and eat christmas ham. still, there are a lot of christmas traditions we don't partake in, like stockings and caroling and elf on the shelf. the other day i had a friend come over and i showed her how many jewish ornaments were on my christmas tree—we have a star of david, a rabbi bear, and our tree topper is a dreidel—and she said something about it being a nice intersection of cultures. and it felt weird to hear her say that. i don't blame her for it, i know she meant well, but it would make more sense for someone to say that about someone with one jewish parent and one christian parent. and like i said, both my parents are jews. christianity doesn't intersect with my jewish culture, it invades it. maybe it was sort of a wake up call for me: you can decorate a christmas tree as jewishly as you like, but at the end of the day it's still a christmas tree. and so whenever i explain to people that i didn't have a bat mitzvah or that i celebrate christmas, it makes me feel like a bad jew.

i don't mean to imply that celebrating christmas makes you less jewish, or that you should be ashamed of yourself if you do. i just feel that way about myself. it's sort of that mentality of "everyone's valid except me," how there are things you say about yourself that you would never ever say about a friend. personally i would love to stop celebrating christmas, but i don't think i'll ever be able to, because even if/when i move out, my family will keep inviting me home for the holidays. and they have every right to. my family loves christmas, they love celebrating it, and i can't force them to stop. that's their choice. this holiday sparks joy for them, but for me it just sparks frustration and fatigue. and i don't want to ruin it for them, but i do want them to understand why i'm tired of celebrating an extremely hegemonic holiday.

idk if i'm articulating this well. i'm not really involved in the "discourse" around cultural christianity to begin with, but whenever i see it talked about it's usually in reference to atheists who used to be christian. but it's a lot more pervasive than that and i don't see that acknowledged very often.

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please stop saying holiday when you mean Christmas

Changing the names of concerts and parties and vacation times and the season and decorations and pretty much everything doesn’t mean anything when the content of these things doesn’t change.

“Holiday concerts” be so fr there are 15 Christmas songs and one refrain of maoz tzur or dreidl

“Holiday aesthetic” I see red and green and white

“Holiday/winter break” it’s Christmas break. It happens around Christmas. Stores and restaurants and companies and schools close for Christmas.

“Holiday movies” you’re watching home alone.

“Happy holidays” appreciated from a cashier but that card has a Christmas tree

“Holiday spirit” joy and grace and peace? How about the spirit of fighting back against colonialist empires that try to force their culture on us?

I appreciate that this is generally a well meaning attempt to create inclusivity, but I think the populace should be doing more. In practice this often feels like a way people make themselves feel better about the fact that Christmas and Christian is so embedded into American culture in such a way that makes the months of November and December unbearable for many members of religious minorities.

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I went to the forest that makes you have multiple pronouns and accidentally touched some poison ivy there

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The other problem with the whole "Christmas is secular!" nonsense is that its other most common use is as a defense of the nonsensical double standard a lot of culturally Christian atheists have, where Christian practices and phrases are generally accepted but anything a different religious group says or does gets stigmatised as "pushing your religion on everyone" even if they're literally keeping it to themselves

It's like how homophobes see pretty much any same-sex affection as obscene but are often more than content to let actual obscenity slide as long as it's at least implicitly straight

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess