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maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time

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"It's ok to disappoint people." has got to be MOST powerful, life changing advice I have ever heard.

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What if nothing-Tiber

So there's gossip about some version of kinktober over on twitter adding a bunch of nonsensical rules this year, and I am fascinated. Studying this like a bug.

Like, what the hell.

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shakespeare was ahead of his time

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Smiling and kicking my feet.

lestat de lioncourt as lelio/harlequin <3

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i love thinking about the character! *actively pacing around the room, breathing heavily, on the verge of tears*

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Bonus: it often distracts/confuses the people who are actively malicious.

People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

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“Lestat is so silly” “Lestat is so unserious” SILENCE! That man is actually so dead fucking serious 24/7, he just so happens to also be a FOOL

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we’reくコ:彡 entering squid territory

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We have this problem. My husband's brain would say MOAR DICE!

I had to tell my magpie brain not to buy any more dice, we have too many dice, we don't need more dice, we don't play table tops games, we don't even look at the dice we already have, we store them in an opaque sack in a drawer because we have no room to display them anywhere, don't waste our money on more dice!!!

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Lestat would, however, love the Colourpop Twilight collab, especially the glittery highlighters.

Back during the time when it was popular to bash Twilight for both legitimate reasons (Edward being borderline abusive to Bella, the whole child grooming plot point in Breaking Dawn, etc.) and not (REAL VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE THATS GAY), I saw this meme on Facebook where it was Louis and Lestat from Interview With The Vampire commenting on Edward’s sparkling and making fun of him for being gay. Like… Buddy My Guy. My Fair Dude. My Dear Sweet Homophobic Idiot. Not only are the Vampires in IWTV super duper gay, you’re lying to yourself if you think Lestat wouldn’t slam dunk his entire body into a tub of glitter on any given occasion. You Fool. You Imbecile.

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100% Wholesome Content

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Right there, out in front.

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Art matters.

They should invent a being a writer that doesn't come with being isolated and diminishing returns on what you are given back compared to how much you give

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The hottest of hot Lucifer sculptures was shunned by the church that commissioned it, so they commissioned another. The second one was even hotter.

Some were drawing yaoi on churches or sculpting the hottest Lucifer but point still stands

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I wouldn't tell someone to go to Meow Wolf stoned af but you wouldn't catch me not telling them either.

Guys. Guys. I went to Meow Wolf in Denver and I need to live there forever

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someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography so i'd like to be annoying for a little longer:

-there are enormous problems with exploitation in the porn industry that harm and endanger the people within it, and that harm is carried out mostly against women and minorities

-this is Bad

-however the last century of passing laws against pornography hasn't actually helped any of those problems, and what sex workers tend to advocate for is the legitimization of their labor, so that they can then access the same protections and regulations that people in other industries can access

-for instance football players, miners, roofers, and warehouse workers are also exploited and endangered by their professions, have to work long hours, and can end up traumatized and disabled by unregulated and unsafe working conditions. these people are used up and thrown away by powerful bosses they can't individually challenge.

-however because these industries are not de facto illegal to participate in, when these people form unions and demand better working conditions, they can at least fight for their rights.

-sex workers, who engage in heavily stigmatized work that's also often illegal, have little recourse to demand better treatment.

-even if you don't like porn, and especially if you don't like porn, if you care about the women who are exploited in pornography, you need to advocate for the legality of pornography.

-the more illegal the porn industry is, the less safe and fair it is, and people will still be working in it, no matter how illegal it is.

-again: the porn industry should be regulated like any other industry and subject to laws guaranteeing fair compensation for labor, safe working conditions, and legal resources for workers suffering exploitation and abuse.

-once it is legal to do sex work, then women can bring charges against the men who have broken their contracts and abused them.

-and that is why i push back against posts saying that pornography is evil. it is an entertainment product, made by people, to meet an ongoing demand. criminalizing the consumption and production of it may slightly lessen the demand at the incredible cost of endangering everyone involved. and i think that is what's evil.