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1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

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Just a reminder that it is not your vet’s job to report if your pet got into recreational drugs. We aren’t snitches, we have no obligation to report drug use. We do, however, want to save your pet so please be honest with us about what your pet got into. It could literally be life and death for them.

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lmaoooo why is tumblr treating me like a new blog or something 😭

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i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

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Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

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You know...I'd already kind of presumed that if Rowling and I ever collided, she would dislike me. I mean, back in 2017, I wrote a 99-chapter-long fanfiction for her books that not only featured multiple fully-out-and-proud LGBT+ characters, but featured a subplot about a transgender Slytherin student where his transphobic father is a literal Death Eater who uses the Imperius Curse and later torture on his own son just to try to force him to live like a woman and consent to an arranged marriage. And Gordon Ramsay as the Potions Master instead of Slughorn, but that's beside the point.

But now that I know Jo also sees asexual people as just "straight people who don't fancy a quicky" and "[want] strangers to know they don't fancy a shag"...yeah, looks like she'd dislike me for who I am, not just what I wrote in the past with the naive thought that I could at least write in the representation Jo used to claim she always imagined for her book series' magical school.

For the record, Jo -- I personally have never felt oppressed, exactly, though part of that is due to privilege on my end. I have a good family and I live and work in a rather LGBT+-friendly environment. Then of course there's the fact that I'm a white cisgender woman who was raised largely without religion -- I think ace men and non-binary people, as well as anyone who grew up practicing religions like Mormonism that push procreation as something saintly, have significant hurtles to overcome that I haven't had to. What I have felt as an asexual person, though, is marginalization, condescension, and denial -- all of which you clearly have expressed in your recent tirade.

Marginalization - treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral.

I have been told by others that asexual people are so rare that they can't be discriminated against or even that asexuality can't even be a sexuality because they're so rare. I've seen people claim that there's no point representing asexuality when discussing LGBT issues, because they're able to "pass" as straight. (Ironically enough sometimes bi people get hit with this supposition too, which is equally bizarre to me.) I've had a guy flat-out ignore the fact that I'm openly ace and continuously make sex jokes around me and then treat me like I'm weird when I don't find them funny. I've had plenty of people kind of frown in confusion hearing me say I'm asexual and then watched the gears in their brain rotate as they try really hard to translate what I just said...because hey, go figure, the only time most people ever talk about anything being "asexual," it's about asexual reproduction in grade school biology class, rather than about any actual people being asexual. I myself had to do RESEARCH to see if asexuality defined my personal experiences -- all because it's still considered so on the fringes and unimportant that it's often ignored. And then of course I have people like you insinuating that unless I've been the victim of violence for my sexuality, then my struggles aren't important. (And yeah, um, with all due respect, Joanne, you bitch a whole lot about how "victimized" white straight cisgender women like you are, when you aren't killed en masse for your sexuality either. What leg do you have to stand on to complain so much?)

Condescension - an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain.

I've encountered people who act like me not wanting or liking sex with anyone means there's something wrong with me. I've heard multiple people, straight and otherwise, claim wrongly that asexuality is a mental illness -- including one of my own family members. There's also the stupid idea that my aromantic brethren could never possibly experience true happiness unless they break down and "hook up" with somebody because friendship and familial love is clearly inferior to romantic love. I've seen some LGBT people even scoff at the idea of asexual people being part of their community, acting like we're just self-hating straight people that want to be part of this special "club," while disregarding that ace people can sometimes want romantic relationships, not just with people of the opposite sex, but sometimes the same or even agender or non-binary people. But you know -- how could anyone know if they're homoromantic or biromantic or whatever if they don't like sex, Jo?? I'm sorry, do those men who hit up prostitutes on a weekly basis find them romantically attractive and want to build a life and home with them? No? Gasp, then you do understand romantic love and sexual attraction are two completely different things!

Denial - the action of declaring something to be untrue.

This is honestly what I see the most. People acting like asexuality isn't really a thing -- again, it's a mental illness, or individuals choosing to be celibate, or a bunch of losers who are so childish and/or ugly that they can't find someone who'll date/have sex with them. Asexuality was an orientation I didn't even know existed for all of my formative years -- I only learned about it and realized it defined me when I was in my late 20's. And yet even then, I hear stuff so often -- things about how sex is an integral part of all romantic relationships; that you can't have love without sex; that you'll like it if you just try it. A good chunk of asexual characters in media are depicted as not human (i.e. aliens or robots) and/or are just retconned by members of their fandoms as some other sexuality that makes it okay for them to write and draw sexual content for them. I still see people falsely claiming the "A" in the extended LGBTQIA+ acronym stands for "Ally," not "Asexual." And of course I still see jerkwards calling us straight people in disguise, or straight people who just want to be special, or "straight people who don't fancy a quicky," as you put it.

This is why people in my community have a day celebrating them and seeking to promote awareness about them. People like you, Jo Rowling, are why we have International Asexuality Day. And I frankly wish that your own book series' hero could give you a proper hex to the face. After all -- Harry Potter was never afraid to stand up to a bully.

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I know in my heart q!BBH has been responsible for like at least 100 separate urban legends around the QSMP’s globe all throughout history . he’s the unseen beast that’s been devastating the local population of farm animals and leaving nothing but their ravaged remains behind . he’s the ominous, too-tall, shadowed figure with glowing white eyes that you spot in a forest and shakily recount in your story for the latest edition of the town’s newspaper . he’s the ink-black man with the sharp, creepy grin that you encounter alone in the dead of night, who offers you a shady deal that’s rumored to leave people cursed . he’s the silhouette that you swear you see standing beside your dying loved one for just a moment that disappears before you can even fully process that he was there . he’s clawed footprints and hundred-year old campfire stories and mangled deer corpses and grainy photos and omens of death and exaggerated tales of encountering satan himself …. and no one knows that all of these stories are actually about just one guy !

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You know this is stupid but I can’t remember if John Wick actually *says* his wife is dead or if it was just heavily implied

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Pangi: "im gonna take off my cloak and I don't want to look so you tell me how it looks"

Tina: "that is wild to hear out of context"

Pangi: "badboyhalo I'm going to take if my clothes and you tell me how it looks"

Bad: "yeah go ahead and strip for me"

Pangi: "yeah okay"

Bad: "... You sure are taking a long time to take your clothes off"

Pangi: "alright I'm done, how does it look"

Bad: "wow it's bigger than I thought"

*Tina and Pangi laugh*

Pangi: "no Bad that's my penis"

Bad: "I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CORRUPTION, LANGUAGE"

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Elvis are you immortal ?

Woah mama my time in the desert has made me immune to the sands of time

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ever think about how aside from Rhodey, not even Tony's own team were really on his side because it was that garbage

Natasha, T'Challa and Vision either defected or half assed it because his lady love takes rightful priority, and T'Challa was only there on "team Iron Man" as an enemy of my enemy thing

And Peter didn't even know what was going on and was no doubt kept in the dark because if he had known he'd have been team Cap in an instant

Like...the whole set up and following films establish that Tony was not on the right side of history there his own team were like nah

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Things Technoblade did/said in the Potato Wars:

“But I wasn’t farming potatoes for profit, I was farming them for honor, for glory.”

Potato War 1: “But what could I do? Farm potatoes by hand?” Literally the first sentence of Potato War 2 “So I was farming potatoes by hand-”

Technoblade trying to figure out how to defeat his enemies and his first two thoughts are Research and then Sabotage

He knew that the cost of finishing the potato wars instead of collaborating with Dream was hitting his next milestone (3 mil) and he still did it

He sold like all of this special items just so that he could sell them to buy fucking potato minions

“Whitelisted wha  do you want fro  me” 

He single handedly crashed the market price for potatoes

Bought an alt to infiltrate squid-kid’s anti-Technoblade guild

Named the alt “potato” in french

He says that he joined smp earth to throw off squid kid. Is this a joke? Does anyone know?? Like he would do that but also what the fuck?

Figured out that he could use his skeleton horse pet to trample squid kid’s crops but didn’t because he’s a good person it was inefficient 

Had over 5x as much productivity farming potatoes by hand as squid kid.

Not because squid is lazy, just bc Technoblade is a legend

Ah yes, the stages of escalation in the Potato War:

Research

Sabotage 

Espionage

Psychological warfare

Propaganda

Torture

Grief

Psychological warfare is allowed but bullying is NOT if you say something mean about squid-kid Technoblade will personally show up in your closet at night like a sleep paralysis demon

The amount of math and genuine usage of the scientific method in minecraft shouldnt be allowed

HE IS BUT A PUPPET, AND I THE PUPPETEER

death note who

people thought technoblade was botting bc he was that dedicated

All I’m saying is that if you are a new Technoblade fan and you haven’t seen the Potato Wars you’re missing out on an incredibly important part of his channel and you should liveblog it because i want to laugh at your reactions

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

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was told by both my doctors that “virtually any pharmacy can get your blood pressure measured” bc i needed the stats for medication. went all over the city to like 6 different pharmacies trying to find a place with no luck. the FIRST fire station we go to instantly has every tool we need and more. truly a reminder that fire fighters are the best and somehow even cooler than you already imagine them to be

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Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them

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End of an era, Phil has added Dadza as a blocked term in his chat.