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I want old aros so badly. I want a history. I want a future. I want tales of lives that I understand. I want to see myself in a future where I’m happy and comfortable.

But I don’t have that, so I’ll have to build it.

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I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at the UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion

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And what about it

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Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

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your fanfiction is valid

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🖤🩶 ASEXUAL AWARENESS WEEK 🤍💜

This Asexual Awareness Week I wanted to highlight some books that I don’t share here as often because I either haven’t read them yet, don’t own a physical copy, or have only very recently acquired a physical copy and most of my posts like this are stacks and flatlays.

So this time we have a graphic! Yay! (I really hate making graphics someone teach me how to choose backgrounds and fonts)

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Books featured:

Slide 2 (read and loved):

- Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews

- Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

- The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will by Maya MacGregor

- A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles

- How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

- The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman

- The Siren, the Song and the Spy by Maggie Toluda Hall

- Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp

Slide 3 (tbr):

- City of Strife by Claudie Arsenault

- Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

- Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari

- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan MacGuire

- The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann

- Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

- The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

- Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & CO Callahan

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ATTENTION NEW TUMBLR USERS: This website is different from twitter and there are actually four (4) things that every blog needs. Go to the woods and fetch the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold

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Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,

and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself

These things can coexist

Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate

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People really say "being forced to participate in someone's kink without consent" to mean seeing a gay dude in public. Please get real

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