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WE DO NOT DESERVE BROOKLYN 99!!!

This show is too good, if you aren’t already watching it, start now. Jake and Amy and Captain Holt and Kevin are two of my favorite tv couples of all time!

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Lars and the Real Girl (2007) dir. Craig Gillespie

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Lars and the Real Girl is my mom’s favorite movie, and she’s tried to explain it to me a few times, but I never got the gist because 1. like we said in class today, it’s a very strange premise if you haven’t watched the film before and 2. my mom can’t talk too much about the movie without crying. I’m just like my mom, a big ol’ softie, and this movie made me cry about 6 times, there are just so many things that I find beyond touching in this film. Karen’s immediate and constant kindness, acceptance, and willingness to help Lars was touching, as was the community coming together to help Bianca feel welcome in town.

The scenes that really got me were those where Lars and Bianca are alone together, most specifically after the party when Lars is crying and says he’s fine, just happy. He must have felt more loved and accepted in his newer and more open state than he ever had before, and it just WARMS MY HEART. I’m so pleased with how Lars developed over the course of the movie. 

“Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is, and how to spell my name.”

Lars and the Real Girl (2007) dir. Craig Gillespie

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I’m in…

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I’m always ready to destroy some bi erasure 

List of bisexuals whose identities are erased by the media.

P!nk

Anne Frank

Megan Fox

Billie Joe Armstrong

Snooki

Drew Barrymore

Angelina Jolie

Azealia Banks

Kesha

Fergie

Lady Gaga

Madonna

Clive Davis

Anna Paquin

Bai Ling

Carrie Brownstein

Evan Rachel Wood

Amber Heard

Frenchie Davis

Vanessa Carlton

Jillian Michaels

Freddie Mercury (debatable, but considering he had had a long-term relationship with Mary Austin and he tended to keep quiet on matters of his private life, we’ll never know for sure)

All or which have either been given the name “gay” or “straight“ by the media despite coming out. There are more than two sexualities and this is a fact that most people (even on Tumblr nowadays) forget. People tend to assume that since someone is with a person of the same gender, they’re gay. (Or vice versa in Angelina or P!nk’s case) This is incorrect to assume because you’re erasing their identities in the process. The people on this list aren’t gay or straight, they’re bisexual. No matter how much the media tries to erase that.

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I watched this music video and I think I’ve just fallen in love?? It’s such a masterpiece!! Also, if you’re going to watch this one watch Make Me Feel.

♫ Pink like the inside of your, baby / Pink like the walls and the doors, maybe / Pink like your fingers in my, maybe / Pink is the truth you can’t hide / Pink like your tongue going round, baby / Pink like the sun going down, maybe / Pink like the holes in your heart, baby / Pink is my favourite part ♫

Janelle Monáe & Tessa Thompson in the official video for PYNK

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The kids will be all right- even if y’all get divorced!

One of the things I found most irksome in The Kids are All Right and slightly in our class discussion is the concept that the kids will only be all right if the parents stay together. Whoa. The relationship between Nic and Jules is one that’s shown to be not entirely supportive, understanding, or even entirely respectful from the very beginning. Yet the idea that at the end there’s a gleam of hope that they may stay together, and this equating to the kids being “all right” is pretty damaging in my opinion, this coming from someone with 3 loving and supportive parents. 

Divorce! Isn’t! Always! Bad! Especially if the relationship between the two parents is so toxic that it’s affecting the rest of their family. 

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Didn’t even know people are not allowed to give blood if they are gay

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I have a lot of feelings about The Shape of Water, and this gif set sums up most of them

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Here’s the post I was talking about in class! 

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OKAY Brooklyn 99 is one of my favorite shows right now, and I think it has two of the best relationships on tv- Captain Holt and Kevin [pictured here] and Jake and Amy. AND there’s a bi charcter! BI! She says “I’m bi” there’s a whole episode where she comes out to her family it’s so wonderful. Just watch Brooklyn 99

If you’re gonna do a throat punch, it is key that you say something cool afterwards, like, ‘Choke on that.’ Right, but they’re not choking. They’re experiencing airway trauma.

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‘Men are taught not to be emotional’

Pal men are taught to throw tables across the room if they’re angry and punch people who mildly disrespect them— all of these things are emotional responses they’re just incongruous with what we consider emotional to be i.e. a sniffling teenage girl. Men are super emotional. They’re selfishly emotional. They’re so emotional that they *have* to let any living creature around them feel the pain they feel inside even for a sec.

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I GOOGLED THE BI SONG!! I can’t believe it’s real, it makes me so happy. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e7844P77Is

I’ve watched a lot of tv and only ever encountered two characters who straight-up say “I’m bi”. Maybe I’m not watching the right kind of television, but this song was a pretty big deal to me. Representation matters!

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Why you should be watching?

It’s a musical comedy that pokes fun at every possible genre of music (check this out for an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-BYK-f154)

The main characters in the show are two plus-sized women, one of whom is Jewish. Her Jewish heritage is mentioned several times and it’s an important plot point.

Not only that, but the creator of the show is a Jewish woman. So while the show does employ Jewish stereotypes they’re usually used in the sense of reclaiming them.

The show accurately portrays the diversity of the San Gabriel Valley in California. There are multiple filipino and latino characters who take prominence in the story. Again, at least in the case of the filipino characters, their heritage is touched upon. 

Rachel Bloom is an actress and producer in a relatively high-budgeted series, but her career as a comedian started on YouTube. By supporting this show, you’re supporting the YouTube community as a whole, setting an example of how they can succeed in other media.

One of the most touching and realistic portrayals of mental illness out there. Rebecca’s mental illness isn’t used as a cheap explanation for her behavior, nor is it portrayed as funny. But at the same time, she’s not written as someone who can’t function in neurotypical society. 

One of the characters is canonically bisexual. He not only realizes his bisexuality onscreen, actually says the word bisexual, he sings a song about it. It’s over the top and it’s beautiful.

Harry Potter reference in the middle of a Chicago-style number about revenge and sex.

“I’m like a sexy fashion cactus” is an actual quote in this show.

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did you know there are bisexual flowers and they’re perfect

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Stop teaching children that there is only one person out there meant for them. Let it be easier for people to let their toxic relationships go without fear of losing “The One”.

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T H I S!! I remember a few classes ago talking about the fetishization of queer women in the media, and especially in porn [where everything is fetishized, but to have a relationship between two women catered to the straight male gaze is borderline insulting]. I was browsing the “queer” tag on tumblr and came across this story, and oh my gosh I agree with their point 100%.

Sexuality, despite the root word, is not just sex! A sexuality is not a commodity! It’s not a badge for your friends to be like “yeah, I have a gay/lesbian best friend”! It’s just a part of life. 

[Also shoutout to whoever I’m reblogging this from- sorry those people were creeps and I hope you find a great woman!!]

boobies

i hope i grabbed your attention.

so, i came out to some of the guys i know today. not important people, just classmates, to get used to saying “yes” when someone asks if i’m a lesbian. but what upset me was how predatory their gazes suddenly turned when i said it.

i always knew people fetishize women loving women, but didn’t realise it how hurtful it really is until today.

you know, it’s not all about sex. little of it is about sex, in fact.

i just want to find a woman i will love.

i want to bring her flowers, adopt a puppy with her, wake up to her next to me. to make her pancakes that she loves so much, read to her in a language she doesn’t understand but finds beautiful anyway. to steal her clothes, hold her hand, kiss her tears away, laugh with her until i can’t breathe.

to put a glittering ring on her finger one day.

i’m not a fetish. i’m a human being. so treat me like one, and don’t tell me you would “love to have a lesbian friend”.