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This is what an evil boop looks like.

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In a truck stop bathroom washing my hands today and 2 boys, looked about 5 and 9, came in with their little sister who looked maybe 2. The following whispered conversation made my entire day

"We have to wait, there's a lady in here!"

"That's not a lady, he has a mustache! We can be in here!"

"Some ladies have mustaches! And she has boobs!"

"Well some guys have boobs! Like Uncle Jake!"

"Uncle Jake is fat!"

At this point I could not contain a chuckle and both whirled around with identical looks of panic on their faces. I smiled and said "it's alright for you guys to be in here so your sister has help, don't worry. And I'm both! That's why I have boobs and a mustache. Some folks are just built that way"

(In unison) "Ooooooh!"

(older boy) "So do you use Sir or Ma'am or both?"

"Both, but I prefer Sir"

"Cool! Well thanks Sir! We have to help our sister now!"

This was in a small town country truck stop and both boys had "Murica" type stuff on and neither of them had any issue at all with these concepts. Their mom approached me while I was in line about 10 minutes later and apologized for them bothering me in the bathroom (they had told her about the interaction) and she and I had a lovely little chat too. I got to introduce her to the term "intersex" and her reply was "I think I've heard of that before! I didn't know that was the word for it. Amazing how many different ways God can make people!"

Sometimes the world is good. More often than you might think, if you give it a chance. It's not all bad loves <3

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Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

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Yash Darji aka Yash Earth (Indian, based Vadodara, Gujarat, India) - Indian Flying Fox - Gujarat, Photography

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there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

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The thing they don't tell you about getting really into one specific historical period is that very quickly every conversation turns into an attempt to avoid sounding like the "horribly wet in wexford today but not as bad as in the 690s" tweet

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

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Misfits 2.04

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Behold: a cat (probably).

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WAIT WHAT THE FUCK. I JUST REMEMBERED THAT LAST NIGHT I DREAMT A JELLYFISH-LIKE EXTREMELY VENOMOUS SEA CREATURE THAT HAD LIKE A HUMAN FACE OR EYES AND THE SPECIES NAME— the species name was something along the lines of “baeve balsamied xerox” (LIKE THE FUCKING PRINTER COMPANY?????), “baeve” was like another word for brackish. I’m now kind of unsure if the middle word was balsamied but it was something like it and the name was comprised of three words and the middle one had the same letter as the first one which we’ve established was baeve.

This sea creature would cause uneasy feelings in people and would often give them the strong urge to pop one of the BBX’s eyes. But you shouldn’t, for an unspecified reason. This would make people even more uneasy.

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You may be good, but are you "fucked a man so hard he created genre re-defining art so incredible that it has reached across multiple mediums and impacted them for generations to come" good?

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forcefem and forcemasc are OUT. we’re force-emoing tonight

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there's only one thing worse than an awful book, and that is an awful book with ONE tantalisingly compelling element

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TASKMASTER S01 E05, "Little denim shorts" (2015) TASKMASTER S18 E08, "Nexus of Truth" (2024)