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shirts that go hard: rock n' roll edition

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There is no shame in never becoming fluent in your target language(s). Learning a new language even a little bit is great. Having the ability to communicate even a little bit is great. Learning about the culture(s) is great. You're doing great. Enjoy the experience.

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Frog amulet/seal, Egypt, Late Period, 1069-664 BC

from The Louvre

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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

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For Challenge Monday:

Hijack Heaven with Another Memory by kdqt314. Ongoing fic, updated roughly every other week.

Hijack Heaven with Another Memory by kdqt314

Rating: Explicit

86,255 words, 16/16 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not to Use

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Vecna is Defeated (Stranger Things), Post-Vecna (Stranger Things), Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Friendship, Dead Eddie Munson, don't worry he's still here, Grief/Mourning, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Gay Eddie Munson, Eventual Smut, The Party as Family (Stranger Things), Hand Jobs, Masturbation, Voyeurism, Oral Sex, Sleepy Cuddles, Anal Sex, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Isolation, Depression, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Lying to Everyone, Steve's doing his best here

Summary:

After Vecna is defeated, Steve finds himself struggling to come to terms with the feelings he has about Eddie. It might be easier if the guy wasn't haunting him.

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also might as well share some of my older art for will byers day

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Anne Hathaway photographed by Mert Alas for Interview Magazine (2011)

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I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

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TRAMELL TILLMAN as SETH MILCHICK in Severance (season two).

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Bear Nation (2010). Excerpt from a documentary about the gay bear community.

[ID: A bear with a flat top haircut and a grey beard sits in a chair, speaking to the interviewer. He is wearing a grey top. He has hairy arms, a hairy chest, and is heavy-set. He says, “I call the bear community The Goonies of the gay community. ‘Cause they accept almost anything, and they want you to be comfortable. I just think it’s really important that people know they’ve got a place to go.” He becomes emotional, tearing up. “Society can be very mean. All I want to do is have a chance to find somebody to love. Live a pretty normal life. And enjoy it. And be able to shine. And the bear community allows you that." END ID.]

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the way ppl have designated cuddling as a purely romantic thing and is weird outside of that context has done widespread damage to our pack animal nature

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Man, kids are the worst.

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a treasure found antiquing today

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The plains spadefoot (Spea bombifrons) is toadally cute. But did you know that this stout amphibian, which inhabits arid regions of western North America, is an “explosive” breeder? Hundreds of individuals gather en masse to mate. Afterwards, females can lay as many as 2,000 eggs! These eggs might hatch in as few as two days, and the resulting tadpoles can develop rapidly, sometimes maturing in just 13 days. This species reproduces after warm heavy rains.

Photo: Andrew DuBois, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr

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Bound Leather Zine, ph. Steven Harwick.