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re the rap music stuff and the "can you ever name an author who's a black woman?" discourse

it's relentless

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firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

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options for when you see a tumblr post that makes you embarrassed:

quietly do something less embarrassing, in this case literally just fuckin edit your tbr and start on the vanishing half or something, i dunno

head immediately to batmanisagatewaydrug's inbox do not pass go do not collect $200 and pour out your heart and soul and all your diagnoses and make sure EVERYONE on the internet knows that you DON'T read Black women but it's NOT your fault it's because you have adhd and autism and your left toe fell off in a mysterious frostbite incident last May also you only read fanfic anyway and everyone knows all fanfic authors are white and so YOU'RE actually the problem in this scenario and FURTHERMORE--

yeah. yeah.

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Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

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Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

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"prostate cancer exists so actually AGAB is useful in this context"

*looks at the common uses of one of my HRT medications* yeah sounds legit we should all listen to this guy

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Do people know that in the time it takes to write a paragraph trying to excuse their lack of knowledge they can instead go "wow, I can't name any black women authors in the genre I have been reading lately" google cozy mysteries black women authors, get a list, and then check one of them out on libby? It takes like 2 minutes. (Also, if you can't name any black women authors, and have no intention of changing that, you can just scroll on. The world doesn't need to know.)

the world does NOT need to know!!!

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it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store

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Anytime someone irl recommends me a new show to watch, there's a 90% chance that the show has a cop character they really want me to like.

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at least once a day you should read a poem that slices you clean in half. and then you go to the post office or something

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obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

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I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

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Rewatching The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself again and theoretically, could Nathan have like, sucked his family blood from Gabriel's shirt in the final episode?

Like how much blood do you need to consume to not die? Could he have licked the blood stains on Gabriel's shirt and/or skin, and skated by? I was thinking hypothetically here but now I'm realising there's a fic to be written around this scenario.

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Considering how often I hear them, I'm curious as to jokes about Prince Andrew and sweat are a common thing outside the UK or if it's just a UK thing.

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I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.