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When asking the question of "was x historical figure queer?" the answer needs to be "it's fucking complicated, but because modern queer identities didn't exist for them, we need to take their identity and experience for what it is and not make it into a modern thing that it isn't."

We need to be looking at historic queer people in shrimp colors of queerness and romance, basically.

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well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

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THIS IS NOT REAL. If you get this comment, they’re just trying to get you to delete your fic.

1) I would have gotten some kind of email from Ao3 if this was true

2) this comment is formatted to be perfect to tack onto any fic they choose

3) ALSO why on earth would Ao3 get rid of entire fandoms off the site? Even if they WERE inactive? Who knows if others will be ‘late’ to the fandom and want some fic to read. Who knows if someone wants to come back to their 6 year old account only to find most of their fics deleted.

I’m lucky to be a reasonable adult who has seen tricks like these who also had a very kind person comment their own doubts.

Please let your Ao3 friends know <3

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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I think teens need to be able to go to trusted adults and say “I saw something in a porn video that freaked me out and now I’m worried I’ll have to do it too” and then the adult can say “it’s ok to be nervous about sex, but remember that you don’t have to do ANYTHING you don’t want to do, ever, no exceptions” and this should be an ongoing conversation to remind young people that sexual desire isn’t monolithic and they are not uniquely weird, cowardly, or undesirable for expressing their feelings, and they deserve sexual partners who prioritize consent & autonomy always

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recent events got me thinking

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"Single people are on average less healthy, less financially stable, and overall less satisfied with life than partnered and married people are. This must mean that monogamous relationships and marriage are the solution to society's problems"

Huh, it's almost like society, both socially and financially, is set up to specifically benefit people who have monogamous relationships and get married and punish people who don't partner or get married. It's almost like there are financial benefits that exist specifically to incentivize people to get married and have kids and be a nuclear family. It's almost like it was very culturally normal until very very very recently to just not have any deeper platonic relationships after you get married, meaning that single people past a certain age just get left behind and get treated as spinsters or loser bachelors. It's like life just is not designed for single people to be able to easily participate and survive while still being single. Huh, very weird. I'm sure marriage will fix this.

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hooooly fucking shit I founds the most shark plush ever

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Jewish aces like myself are already familiar with the commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” that is often present in theological discourse, while pelted with the historical trauma of the Holocaust and the pressure placed on any Jew with a uterus to biologically make up for those losses.

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You know what? Forget the discourse. This is no longer my hill to die on.

You wanna ship canonically aspec characters because “aro/ace people can still date/have sex”? Okay, then. LET’S DO IT.  I wanna see an aromantic character with an alloromantic love interest. I wanna see that confession of undying love and the moment when the aro character says they will never feel the same way—not romantically.

I wanna see the asexual character with their allosexual partner. I wanna see that moment when the ace characters tries sex with their partner for the first time because they want to make them happy only to realize that they are 100% sex repulsed.

I wanna see the two demiromantics who don’t even know if what they feel is romantic attraction, but they adore each other and just want to make healthy snacks together and destroy each other at Mario Kart.

I wanna see the two aces who love sensual affection and are figuring out what they define as sexual or not.

I wanna see the romance + sex neutral aroace who happily and consensually does whatever makes their partner happy…but their partner still struggles with feeling undesired. 

Oh, babe. You thought shipping an aspec character would be just like shipping an allo character? 

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when youre tired on public transit and start thinking "let me rest my eyes a bit" thats the devil talking

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...are you crying?

Dimension 20 Cast Test Their Basic Culinary Skills

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Firmly believe no one is doing female characters like Emily Axford. She’s a fucking legend.

starting to feel some kind of way about marya as a character. a girl who was a prodigy, who entered a horrifically dangerous profession at a very young age, where no one questioned the dangers she was facing because she was intelligent and sky-eyed. but still a child, really. and a child who, through risking her life constantly, got to leave an island made of discarded trash, remnants of a war that likely wiped out generations all for the wealth of two nations that have already fallen. and eventually one day that girl became a woman and didnt realize the cruelty done to her until she saw firsthand the worst possible fate that could have befallen her. only it didnt happen to her, it fell upon a girl as young as she had been, who she herself ushered into the sky. you may as well have done it yourself. you may as well have killed the girl you used to be.