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One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

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So many issues come down to the fact that many people treat female characters as paper dolls that they can dress up however they want with absolutely no depth or complexity

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Land acknowledgments be like: I would like to acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the First Nations band we had to google before writing this an hour before the presentation on which we are learning, working and organizing today. I think it’s important to acknowledge the land because growing up as an immigrant here, I never heard the traditional names of the territories. I still don’t use them because, frankly, they’re difficult to pronounce and I don’t like learning things where I can be corrected. Indigenous people were talked about in the past tense and all the struggles they faced were in the past tense as well. It is easier to deny Indigenous people their rights if we historicize their struggles and simply pretend they don’t exist. As an activist, I would like to take this opportunity to commit myself to the struggle against the systems of oppression that have dispossessed Indigenous people of their lands and denied their rights to self-determination, work that is essential to human rights work across the world. I’m not going to invite any Indigenous voices to participate though. We invited one elder here to give us permission to guilt trip everyone in this room for five minutes, but we are making no effort to support the existing Indigenous community. We plan to continue ignoring them after patting ourselves on the back for this acknowledgement too. It’s not that we’re against adding indigenous voices, it’s just not the time and place for it. If anything, we’re for the further segregation of our cultures, because we feel guilty and uncomfortable at the poverty these communities continue to live in when we charged $100 a ticket for everyone to be here.

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Xena & Gabrielle + kisses

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And now our first trailer!!! WELCOME BACK TURNTABLE!!

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LOL okay I got this one too and I suspect they DID mean Lesbians, which frankly make me absolutely cry laughing.

Got a spam message from someone claiming to be a Gazan in need of aid (it was clearly a scam), and I'm certain they meant to write, "Dear Lebanese" (I'm Lebanese on my dad's side, and I've posted about it here). Instead, it said:

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Overwhelm...

We actually only know this term from the emotional or mental realm. That is, when someone is overwhelmed by their feelings. But originally it had a different meaning.The term comes from the middle english word whelven, which means to turn upside down, a vessel is said to be overwhelmed when she has capsized or has turned upside down in the water. 

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In the 17th century, the term capsized appeared more and more, until it finally replaced overwhelmed in nautical terms and this term slipped into the emotional world.

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betraying someone who trusts them deeply is one of the sexiest things a character can do its unparalleled. cause either the relationship is irrevocably changed and said character is completely at fault (guilt complex, hot) or it isnt and then both sides have to deal with the fact that they care about each other enough to overlook the betrayal (unceasing devotion, also hot)

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Sketches 🕊️ °˖➴

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There are parts of queer history we will never touch. People who lived quiet lives and were forgotten within a generation. Stories that were tucked under the bed and hidden from the world. Diaries that were burned with nothing to recover. Beyond the hiding, there is queerness that never had the chance to be discovered, people who felt different but never gave themselves a moment or sliver of grace to explore, much less vocalize it. This is worth mourning. It is worth cradling to your chest and feeling to the fullest devastation. More than anything else, it is worth remembering.

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If I have to hear the words "perseverance" or "resilience" one more fucking time I am going to stab someone

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Totally, Completely Fine (2023)

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Just walked into the staff room for my first opening and there’s a cat? No clue where she came from but she seems like she belongs

She does, her name is Becky

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It is soooo important that weird obsessive little girls grow up and become poets and authors

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oh so we're doing scooby doo crimes now

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Eleanor Tomlinson wore this green velvet cloak as Demelza Poldark in the 2017 third season of 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌.   But did you know the costume actually originated with the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, where Amanda Root wore it as Anne Elliot?   Learn more at Bit.ly/Acces135