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[essentialsclothing35]

Fear of God Essentials 3M Logo Pullover Hoodie Grey

[purpurussy]

I feel like the "dan is bi" anon is trolling but just in case they're genuinely confused: yes dan said in BIG that he loved and felt attracted to his high school gf (although he also made it pretty clear that they did not have sex so idk where anon is getting the idea that he has slept with "multiple women" 💀), and he alluded to his attraction not being confined to a specific gender in the part where he talked about labels, but you're completely taking all of that wildly out of context and missing the point of the whole video by calling him bi. I feel like this is probably the part that's frying their brain:

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!)

But firstly, imo it was very clear from BIG, as well as other stuff he's said over the years, that he just doesn't like labels. Which I find very valid, it took me a long time to figure out how to label myself. I still don't know what my gender is lmao but I started saying "bi" for my sexuality because it's a widely-used term that gets the point across. And I think that's the thing here: he came to the conclusion that the labels "gay" and "queer" are the best descriptors of his identity, which do the most accurate job of approximating something extremely psychologically complex and multilayered and nuanced in a simple everyday term that gets the point across to other people.

Obviously words mean things and it doesn't make sense to just pick a label at random (like for example it wouldn't make sense for me to identify as a lesbian, since I definitely feel attraction to men as well as women and everything outside the binary, and am interested in acting on that attraction at times, so I wouldn't be conveying accurate information to other people if I used the label lesbian for myself) but a label is just supposed to serve the task of conveying relevant information to other people (if a lesbian feels some kind of abstract attraction to dan and phil, that doesn't mean that the alphabet council needs to immediately revoke their lesbian card!! Since the word "lesbian" still does a perfectly good job of conveying relevant information to other people. Likewise if a straight dude has a fun little gay dalliance with his college roommate, but has absolutely 0 interest in men beyond that incident, it wouldn't be remotely necessary for him to start calling himself bi if he didn't want to, because what would be the point in that if he's only interested in women? Like if he told a gay dude who found him attractive that he's bi, only to backtrack... Do you see what I'm saying here?). It's perfectly valid for Dan to use "gay" and "queer" as umbrella terms that in his opinion do the best job of describing him, out of the language that's available. If he's like essentially a kinsey >5 and decided to just round it off to a 6 at this point, who are you to tell him he can't lmao

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!

Human sexuality is often way too complicated to boil it down to a single label in a way that doesn't erase any of its nuance, and I feel like this is something he's struggled with in the past, especially with him being a public figure. He's mentioned multiple times that feeling like he had to choose a label was a factor that prolonged his decision to come out.

And this is not even getting into the impact that his trauma from his childhood and also from spending a chunk of his formative years in the public eye probably had on the way he identifies or the way he chooses to label himself. It clearly took so much courage and strength for him to finally be able to call himself gay/queer please have some respect for our brave troops

Ultimately the point is that he uses the labels "gay" and "queer", not "bi", and it really shouldn't be difficult to respect that. It's also not biphobic for him to choose not use the label "bi" (again speaking as someone who uses that label). It's just that he feels "gay"/"queer" are better descriptors for him and nobody gets to determine that except him!! :) He wants people to know he's gay so he calls himself gay and that's that on that.

There are definitely people on here who are way smarter and more well-educated than me who would've done a much better job eloquently discussing this topic without rambling all over the place but that's my take (if anyone would like to add to this please do so, I'm always open to learn more about topics like this. And I'm also not saying that the way I see it is the only objectively correct opinion, but anon is definitely wrong so 💀). Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[newtkelly]

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[the-physicality]

2007, conference finals phoenix vs san antonio

[fizzlehead]

if i could see all my friends tonight

(an homage to riverdale's many friendships set to one of my favorite songs)

[regina-cordium]

WIFI'S WORKING

[happywebdesign]

Comme Si

[elegyofthemoon]

MY BEAUTIFUL BOY WHO I WOULD DESTROY THE WORLD FOR

[beesorcery]

i redesigned this shirt and now you can put it on your body

here it is, the final culmination of my fun cool graphic design project where i replace cities with 8balls!! If you want to follow along the process you can check out these posts: one, two, and three :D

if you are interested in wearing this as a shirt i made a teepublic! (edit for anyone who remembers this: the teepublic listing got dmca’d lol. however,) you can also download the files from google drive if you would like to print the design yourself

thanks for following along!! i have really had a lot of fun doing this (and just following 2our in general, the vibes were sweet) and i'm glad other people enjoyed it too :)

(better quality images under the cut <3)

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

sighhh so I just blocked a post from someone who was complaining about people donating to ao3 & implying that those people should be instead giving their money to fundraisers/charity And I'm sorry but are we still fucking doing the whole 'heartless! This man had time to build a beautiful birdhouse instead of solving this child's murder' shtick!?! Like fuck off lol

[skinnypaleangryperson]

Tumblr has made me so jaded and bitter. I desperately need an app to share a unique personalities and creativity, not a place where people just consume and don't care about anything but consumption and politics and arguments about various other superficial vapid things that don't matter like every other app.

Or even just a personality, I would take that too. The world could be so bright and interesting and my mental issues with clear up like anything if I could just meet people that I spiritually connected with, which happens maybe every once every blue moon but it's only those blue moons that keep me going.

[lesbiangiratina]

Young/human/pre-horrors testament seems to be pretty common in doujinshi btw.

Sometimes mid-horrors too. Yaaaaaaaaay

[thebusylilbee]

there isn't one single word about the current ICJ hearing on the front pages of major french newspaper websites... you literally would not know it's even happening if you trusted those websites to inform you it's crazy

[solipseismic]

my fatal flaw is that. i will use any occasion to. buy more tea.

[yugocar]

an average tumblr user apparenty lives in the 19th century when defending realism in art was a hot revolutionary take

[meownotgood]

PLEEEASE go over how you use Mercari JP 🙏🏻

of course!!! so basically, in order to shop on mercari jp and buy things from japan, you have to use a proxy service. the proxy website will be the middle man, you give them money and they buy it for you + have it shipped to their warehouse. then, you can pay for it to be shipped to you internationally.

the two main websites most people use are buyee and neokyo. I've tried both, and I prefer buyee but you're welcome to give neokyo a try!! it's basically the same service I just find buyee easier to use haha. also buyee has a discord server, there's many helpful people in there so if you ever have trouble or have a question, you can ask them :>

first, you'll want to make an account on buyee. you'll be prompted to enter your info, also keep in mind that you need to use a card that allows international purchases or paypal!!! then, you'll see all the tabs at the top, you just have to click shopping and you can see mercari. you can also shop at other japanese sites!! rakuten and rakuma also have a lot of anime merch

when you search for an item, you'll have to search in japanese, or you can use the auto translate feature to translate what you want for you. you can search a characters name, the name of an anime, or what you want specifically, like "plush" or "acrylic stand". after you buy an item, it will be shipped to the buyee warehouse. you can see all the items you have stored at their warehouse by clicking package information. when you're ready to ship your items, you'll select all the packages you want and hit consolidate. after a few days, buyee will consolidate all of your items into one box, and then it is ready to ship!!! (don't forget that you'll have to pay for shipping! so if you get a lot of items, the shipping could be expensive)