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Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great THE GREAT — Season 1 (2020)

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okay genuine question what do you think about the inclusivity issue in the beauty industry going on rn where we finally got poc representation in models at the cost of paler skin models by lots of brands? like nobody can tell me a trillion dollar industry with hundreds of billion earning companies can’t afford to have the whole rainbow from pasty white to ebony so i wanna know other opinions

I’m probably not the person to ask bc I don’t wear make up so this is the first I’m hearing of this 😅 but diversity by definition is about having a range of differences, not just replacing one for the other. like how instead of casting black people in traditionally white roles, filmmakers should probably just… create black roles.

but also there are probably still loads of white models being used by other brands so it’s not like the white models are completely gone

idk like I said I don’t know anything about the beauty industry 😂 but as a pasty white myself if I wanted to get some make up I probably still have lots of options available to me

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i didn't know you were trans, great you did a post about the transphobes and explaining It better

I’m not, sorry if that wasn’t clearer, but I didn’t specify my own gender identity in that post because it wasn’t about me. I said “allies” rather than “allies and trans people” specifically because I’m cis, it’s not for me to tell trans people who to be angry at.

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every metatron moment ever (49/67)

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@snowblossomtumbles your “yes and”s are how most of my ideas form and I thank you for that 😌

Every unhinged fic writer needs an equally unhinged friend who "yes ands" their ideas and encourages them to write all their most far fetched and insane stories.

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one thing I think allies don’t always understand about transphobes is they don’t think trans people exist. it’s not that they think a trans person is inherently bad, it’s that they think a trans woman* is a man, who knows he is a man, and is pretending to be a woman for nefarious purposes.

*bc they do predominantly think about trans women

that’s why trans people “just existing” upsets them, because they don’t think trans people are trying to “just exist” — they genuinely believe there’s a nefarious purpose behind it, and they really do believe they’re being feminists by opposing it.

transphobia is rampant and I believe — I need to believe — that cruelty and malice are not. people are inherently good and they want to do good and will often believe they are doing good even when they’re not because they’ve been made to believe something that’s untrue.

if a person genuinely can’t wrap their head around transness, and their defence mechanism against not understanding something is “it must be bad/wrong”, then of course they’re going to believe transness isn’t real, because it’s not a concept they can comprehend and therefore it’s not real.

but a concept they can get their head around is men being sexual predators because by god is that a real thing that most women, and many men, have real personal experience of. so of course it seems almost obvious to them that what they see as a man pretending to be a woman is a man who’s trying to assault women.

of course I’m not trying to defend anyone here. the inability to accept that just because you don’t understand something, that doesn’t mean it’s not real, is a massive character flaw, but it’s not a malicious one. and you definitely get malicious transphobes, ie politicians who weaponise it for their own gain, or washed-up authors past their prime who are obsessed and paranoid about being attacked in a bathroom by a man in a dress. but the vast majority of transphobes, I’d be willing to bet, just do not understand transness and assume that must mean it’s not real. the ability to put your hand up and say “I do not understand this but I want to, please teach me” or “I do not understand this and never will, but I will accept it” is a strength of character that not a lot of people have.

and so the solution, as always, is dialogue. to stop flinging mud at each other and remember that we all have largely the same goals — peace and safety for all — but we have differing perspectives on who/what is a threat to that safety, and as soon as we realise that the true enemy is, as always, the rich and powerful 1%, we can put aside squabbles about who pees where and focus on taking down capitalism.

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seeing posts about purity culture always make me laugh bc the purity fanatics’ heads would probably implode if they discovered one of my main stories is about an 18yo being Stockholmed into falling in love with her 60yo rapist

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summer affirmations

i am fuckable

i am the hottest lesbian in any room at any given time

something gay will happen to me in the next 24 hours

LIKE AND REBLOG TO AFFIRM

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every john gissing moment ever (29/81)

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me at the airport with my sunflower lanyard when I see someone else at the airport with their sunflower lanyard

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Here’s your friendly reminder that I was so in love with Billie as a child that when I finally came out as queer the response was just ‘yes we know, no one likes Billie piper that much’

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blorbo tag game

without naming them, post (up to) 10 gifs of characters that altered your brain chemistry

once again, not tagged but my gif was used so I count it lol

I had to force myself to limit the amount of Alan characters 😂

Tags: @muiitoloko @snowblossomtumbles @snapesno1thighrider @mc-tummy-blur @evans23 @giosnape

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There’s a fic on fanfiction(.)net that I’ve kept tabs on for years to see if it’s been updated or not. While I’m no longer even in the fandom it’s written for, it just has one of the greatest storylines I’ve ever read. Last time it was updated was 2011.

The other day, I decided to reread the entire thing and leave a very in-depth review of what I thought of each chapter. I also mentioned how I started reading it when I was 13 and am now 21, but always came back to see if it was ever finished because I loved it so dearly.

Today, said author sent me a private message saying that her analytics showed that the story was still getting views even after all these years, but no one ever bothered to leave reviews other than “update soon!!!”, so she never felt motivated enough to finish it. She said that me reviewing every single chapter with lengthy paragraphs made her cry and meant the world to her. She also mentioned that she felt encouraged to write the two remaining chapters needed to complete the story and that she would send me a message the night before she updates the fic.

I’m literally sobbing. I’m so excited :’)

Please always remember to leave a review when reading fanfiction!!! It means a lot to a writer.

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i loooooove ao3 comments!!! ao3 comments will save meeeeeee!!!!!

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I'm sorry did judge turpin just cum as a result of self-flagellating over his "guilt" at his sexual attraction to a fucking teenager

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every metatron moment ever (50/67)

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hello frens if I don’t post much fic atm it is for two reasons:

I am trying to write a Real Book ™️ and this also involves reading more Real Books™️ which is time consuming

I am trying to become a Real Lawyer™️ and this also involves reading a lot of Text Books ™️ which is time consuming

I am also going on holiday tomorrow which will either mean I won’t write much or it means I will write loads who knows ?? not I but the iPad will be coming with me so we will see what the brain decides to do as I am, as always, at its mercy