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It’s not over. It’s not fucking over. Until they steal the breath from our lungs and the last of us has given up or given in, nothing is finished.

Today’s to-do list:

1) Take care of yourself.

2) Take care of each other.

3) Start planning.

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to be fully honest this new trend of remaking and sanitizing not only gothic fiction and its genres (hill house, dorian grey, turn of the screw) and horror movies more generally (carrie, the exorcist) point to much more serious cultural movement than the death of art or the death of horror as a genre in the mainstream. specifically it is gesturing to a sanitizing effect in which cultural authority has now deemed the subversive as worthy of living but only if it is a) commodified and b) divested of all its subversive elements. we can play-act at feminism, trans inclusion, and anti-racism as long as it serves a corporate interest and does not actually challenge cultural authorities. we can adopt its aesthetics as something to be sold without actually inhabiting it ideologically. it is the newest manifestation of cultural authorities anesthetizing effect on anything that threatens it and it is becoming more and more prevalent. anyway i want to beat mike flanagan with hammers

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This? A sex thing? No you don’t understand— it’s actually a gender thing. Sex and gender are different, you know!

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i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.

the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.

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there’s something that’s incredible about the intersectionality and flexibility of werewolves as metaphor.

anger issues? werewolf. intrusive thoughts? werewolf. unresolved trauma? werewolf. rejection by society? werewolf. autism? werewolf. transgenderism? werewolf. queer expression of any sort? werewolf. plurality? werewolf. dissociation? werewolf. repression of any sort? werewolf. abuse cycles? werewolf. emotion so strong it physically changes you? werewolf!!!

really doing it all

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As a society, we need to bring back the Nintendo 3DS

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one thing that really gets me as someone embedded in the production of scientific knowledge is that very few scientists truly interrogate what it means to work for the public good when science has long been unable to answer the whitey on the moon problem. ie, many known public health interventions are cheap and would save lives. they don't get deployed for political reasons. what does it mean about you that you still locate the public good in scientific research funded by the same political incentives that denied those same public health interventions? it means you're a mark.

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I think it says a lot about Jekyll’s character how passive he is to violence and yet how uncomfortable he is with its consequences.

By the end of the Full Statement, at his most obsessive, his phobias and intrusive thoughts mostly revolve around the possibility of not being able to control Mr. Hyde (control he has willingly relinquished by third-personing him!), not about violence; Hyde spends his time trapped in the laboratory going out of his way to assert dominance, as if to further prove to himself he isn’t dependent on the potion like Jekyll is. When he cries after the Carew murder, yes, it’s partly out of regret, but also partly out of relief, because now he has a good reason to not consume again.

It’s interesting how Jekyll doesn’t fear hurting Utterson and Lanyon because he would never do that, even at his most selfish (being Hyde) (they’re his friends!)… at least not consciously. In my opinion Hyde only wanted to flaunt the potion before Lanyon, well aware it would shatter his worldview, but unaware that it could very much kill him! No, he fears being caught, being found out, being tried and imprisoned. But mostly, losing his reputation. Ending up at a dissecting table and not under a marble slab.

And later he fears Hyde is acting on his own volition, watching him, standing too close to him, the only person in the world that knows of his sins— that knows Dr. Jekyll isn’t the saintly figure he so desperately hopes to be remembered as. What makes him hate his creation so much is that it knows him intimately. Jekyll’s last lucid thought is that he will never again be in control of what happens to him. That now it’s all up to Hyde, and who cares if Hyde is him— he doesn’t look it, doesn’t even act it. And Jekyll is fine with suicide as he is fine with murder, because that’s what Hyde does the instant he gets the chance or feels he has to.

The one fear that is always, constantly, consistently in his mind, invoked regularly in Jekyll’s narration, is Hyde being executed…

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self portrait

(He/him) 🏳️‍⚧️

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Girl who is perceived as a threat no matter how nice and polite she is

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Not to post about the same thing as everyone else but Gravity Falls is such a fun show. It’s charming and weird, it’s actually funny, and it aged pretty well, because the humor holds up. Like all nice things, the ungrateful fandom ruins it by accusing cartoon children of being evil manipulators for feeling sad about summer ending, but if you block everyone on the internet, it’s a fun show to enjoy by yourself.

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how is being a trans woman not feminist as hell. what isn't feminist about someone who wants to be a woman, someone who desires womanhood, someone who views womanhood in a positive light, someone who views womanhood as a blessing, someone who wants to fight to be a woman in a society that tells us that being a woman is bad because women are stupid, weak and defenseless.

how is it not feminist as hell to say no to that and to want to uplift one's self and other women by proving that's not the case. how is it not feminist to want to encourage other people who view womanhood as a positive and welcoming thing to walk that path. in a world where we tell people being a woman is a bad thing, someone who still fights to be that gender despite everyone trying to hold them back and to tell them nobody WANTS to be a woman, this is one of the most feminist things you can do.

to stand tall and say that you're a woman despite what people tell you, that you're a woman despite how you look, sound, and act, to correct other people when they say that nobody wants to be a woman or that being a woman is a bad thing or a tragedy, to be there for other women and to remind them they're not stupid, weak, sex toys, or useless... this is all feminism. this is all passion for womanhood and making sure women are taken care of... trans womanhood is quite literally the peak of feminist ideals and behaviors- don't get it twisted.

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The first rule of writing sci-fi is to actually familiarize yourself with the genre conventions so it's not just a fair to middling action movie that happens to be in space. The second rule of sci-fi is get freaky

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I, as a trans woman, do not know what it is to be a man. I know what it’s like to be surrounded by men, to be picked apart by them, to have masculinity enforced on me and to have my femininity degraded. I know what it’s like to be targeted for punishment, physically and sexually, for my femininity, for a girlhood the boys and men could see in me, to be queerbashed, to have my head slammed into hard surfaces, to have my genitals fondled, to be injured in all kinds of small and repetitive ways with things like pens, compasses, and so on.

I know what it’s like to be assumed to be a man, and to be abused because I am not. I know what it’s like to be separated from my female friends as a young child because my status as a ‘boy’ meant that I needed to be placed with the other boys, the ones who degraded me and hurt me. I know what it’s like to be beaten and burned. I know what it’s like to have teachers make an example of me because I cannot conform. I know what it’s like to be made afraid of being around other people, because people means abuse.

But I don’t know what it is to be a man. Even after everything they tried, I wasn’t one.

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A collection, for a well loved garf

A bonus picture for anyone who wants it

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