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thank u earth for leather & fur & sex & pottery & laughter & rain & the lilac bush & hay in a field & cows to eat the hay & thank u earth for a perfect view of the moon

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really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

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A collection, for a well loved garf

A bonus picture for anyone who wants it

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"You can't force characters to do things that they don't want to do. And when you do that, you end up with a lousy story. Characters are not chess pieces. You cannot move them wherever you want to because that's what you feel like doing today. If you're writing properly in my opinion, your characters become like your friends. I tell students all the time as a learning exercise; write a story about your best friend. You'll find it so easy to write because you know that person so well. 'He's going to behave like this, she's going to react like that.' and the book writes itself at that point. Now your characters should be your best friends. But when you take a character and make them do something that's entirely against their nature, you wind up with a story that people will not buy into. Because they know it doesn't make sense. They know its false, they know you are forcing a character to do something that is NOT something they would do. I once wrote a book and had to delete 45 pages because I had made the character do something that he didn't want to do. And from then on he wasn't cooperating with the book anymore. I couldn't predict his behavior because I had already made him do something that was out of character. The hardest part of writing is like pushing a sled up a hill because you're just getting to know your characters who they are and what they care about, but once you know that you're at the top of the hill and they'll just sleigh right down. Because then they'll tell you the story and you just type it up." - Greg Farshtey aka the author of the many Lego's Bionicle books.

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take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

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Louise Glück, from “Stars”, Poems: 1962–2020

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little tiny update! currently living my best cs major life. very excited to start working with professors in applied artificial intelligence and machine learning and maybe hopefully become a roboticist! :)

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How to be a trans ally 101, from To Wong Foo (1995)

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Bread and Butter - Gayle Brandeis

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Peace and love on the planet earth

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French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi

Female Mimics magazine 1965

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September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James