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Things that leveled me up as a Dyke Pt. 2

When I had dyke sex in the parking lot of the fire and brimstone church I grew up in

When a girl drew protective sigils on my arm for weeks after she overheard me tearing apart her old roommate for saying transphobic shit about her

When the sleep study doctor told me I have a medically large tongue and my wife shouted "I KNEW IT"

When the butch at the hardware store told me the shelf cutting machine broke and we spent 20min cutting shelves with bolt cutters for my wife's closet.

At the RenFaire, my wife tried the knife throwing but couldn't get it, then got huffy when I told her how to do it. She handed me the last knife and told me it's not that easy. I did not tell her I threw knives a lot as a kid, so with all her bags and jewelry balanced in one arm, I flipped the knife a couple times and sunk it into the wooden target guy. Felt like a damn hallmark movie and I loved it.

When an Aussie woman in a hotel lobby asked me to please please keep talking because she was fascinated by my american southern accent. I called her darlin and she blushed.

When my wife's grandfather was fine with her being a lesbian largely because I was such a big help with the cattle

When I moved an iron bedframe into the garden for my wife's coworker and she asked how long we'd been together. The answer was that morning. We'd been going steady for about an hour.

When I taught my wife how to waltz

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FOMO is when it snows 10 inches in your hometown in the south where that’s unheard of and you don’t get to see your dogs who have never seen snow lose their shit in person

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I am whatever gender has the shortest line at the bathroom

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What’s your core memory of watching the Lord of the Rings films for the first time because I will never forget how my extremely South Asian dad — during the emotionally climatic scene where Arwen is riding to the Havens and sees a vision of her son — paused, pointed, and said “Mashallah, Sister Arwen has accepted the hijab, alhamdulillah, praise be to god” and giggled for a good five minutes 😭

last time i shared this in a uni tolkien club someone called him a misogynistic fundamentalist because irl tolkien clubs are fucking deranged so please let me clarify that he was, in fact, joking.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Journalists interrupt and berate Blinken on Gaza policy.

Several journalists who are outspoken critics of US support for Israel loudly lambasted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the war on Gaza on Thursday, repeatedly interrupting his final press conference as he sought to defend his handling of the 15-month-old war.

“Criminal! Why aren’t you in The Hague,” shouted Sam Husseini, an independent journalist and longtime critic of Washington’s approach to the world, before being physically dragged outside of the briefing room.

“Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?” Max Blumenthal, editor of the Grayzone, an outlet that strongly criticizes many aspects of US foreign policy, called out to Blinken before being escorted out.

(source)

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i like that elijah wood's nails are kinda fucked up in the lord of the rings movies. they offered him a hand double but he insisted on doing it with his real hands. to me it adds a lot to frodo's character. his hands are all jacked up, but not like sam's are. sam's hands are laborer hands, calloused and dirty. frodo is a landowner who by all means should have soft delicate poet hands. but instead the nails are "chewed down to the quick" as sir ian mckellan describes it in behind-the-scenes commentary. they're beat up from self-inflicted wounds. there's an invisible struggle there that foreshadows and parallels his struggle with the ring and how its power eats him up from the inside. he could have had a soft life. he could have had prettyboy hands. but instead he has this terrible burden he can't save himself from, one that tears him up from the inside out.

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Want to know if y’all’s families went on beach trips, camping trips, or ski trips

Personally I was part of a beach family. Also let me know where you grew up/fun stories in the tags :3

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>be me >have anxiety disorder >first day of biology class >"break into groups" >fuck my stupid baka life >he gives us a paper with a list of terms on it >"everyone pick one to research and we'll talk abt it thursday (casual) (dont get scared)" >gets scared >see one that looks cool >someone else takes it >see another that looks cool >someone else takes it >most of the rest of the terms are latin scientific names >dont know what they mean >choose least threatening one (it looked familiar) >professor asks which we chose >i say mine >he asks if i know what it means >immediately i think its something bad bc why else would he ask if i knew what it was (he had also asked other ppl who chose scientific terms. btw) >"i think so?" >class over >leave >making up worst possible scenarios in my head >what if its something embarrassing. like what if its an std. and i have to talk abt it in front of the class. what if its like. pseudoscience that my professor believes in for some reason. and ive trapped myself into sharing pseudoscience even though im ideologically opposed to it. what if >finish walking to library >sit down >pull out phone >hands shaking >google mus musculus >House mice.

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Technically true.

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part of my job as archivist for a LGBTQ center involves working with an interviewing elder queers, and the disconnect between our generation and theirs is so upsettingly palpable. so many young queers think that elders aren't up-to-date on identity politics and are "set in their ways" when it comes to understanding the nuances of gender and sexuality, but that is so incredibly far from the truth.

if anything, the real problem is in the reverse. young queers aren't giving the time of day to our elders and its only alienating all of us from our shared history. just about every elder I've spoken to is doing their best to understand how our identity politics have evolved and is actively supportive of our generation adding our language and experiences to our sprawling rainbow tapestry.

there is also this strange idea that elder queers no longer contribute to that tapestry, that their time is gone and its only the youth making progress. but again, that prevailing idea is just alienating our generations from one another. most elders I've spoken to are extremely active in the community and work hard to do what they can to preserve our histories and assist in current activism.

the fact of the matter is that we are losing our elders, both to time and estrangement, and it is critical that we make conscious efforts to bridge the gap before its too late.

TLDR: We have to do better when it comes to including queer elders in our current activism. They are our history, they are our family, and we need to give them the same love they give to us.

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me having a weird time: man this weird time sucks! i don't feel like myself! i wish i was having a normal time!

me having a normal time: well the weird time did have a certain je ne sais quoi...

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What about side by side with a friend?

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“Hey, look. I got the hammer. And it only took me, like, what? 10 seconds. 11 tops.”

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I think that everyone should be forced to hear a lecture on the value of modern, post modern, and abstract art before being allowed in an art museum