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The Exit by Conan Gray is Theo x Boris from the Goldfinch in a way that i cannot explain
#there was an edit but i couldnt find it😭#if anyone does please inform me#also i havent read the book#should i?#i will anyway#the goldfinch#boris pavlikovsky#boris x theo#boreo#theo x boris#the goldfinch book#conan gray#the exit#conan gray songs#books#films#theo decker#theodore decker
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ekky saying "i didnt know they were coming" in concerns to practise being open either suggest staff do not tell players when it happens (not fucking likely) or ekky just does not pay attention to anything at all which makes this paul quote
even funnier in retrospect and not a "pauls just joking around you know how he is" moment as he tends to do no this man just DOES NOT LISTEN???
#ekky resident air head#things go through one ear and out the other#he does not go on social media at all i know this so his only reliable source of information for these things IS QUITE LITERALLY THE SOURCE#AND HE STILL DOESNT KNOW??????#id like to have what shes having please#earn your A#babe we do not pay you the big bucks to think about anything other than hockey and it shows#shes here to be pretty okay leave her alone shes our show dog with a good pedigree we prance around <3#i love the ongoing saga that is paul says an absurd thing about someone. that someone goes oh hes just joking around.#and then a few weeks later we learn its actually the truth.#best example of this is paul going you know ruutu (assistant coach) is harder on the finns than anybody else.#then ruutu going no pauls just embellishing you know how he is 😄😄 and then you talk to the finns#and theyre like well... the only reason hes not “harder” on anyone else is because he knows finnish better#(so he can express himself more in that language which is why he comes off as very polite in english)#and im like paul you son of a bitch youve done it again you were right old man#trust paul until you cant trust paul you get me?#anyways ekky... just here to be pretty indeed...
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Do you think Wei wuxian listens to weezer?
I don't know...I don't know...I really don't know.....
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan sizhui#blood#I mean this in the most sincerest way possible: This ask has become my 'does bruno mars is gay' to me and anyone in close enough proximity#I first read this after having just woken up and it rattled me so intensely#would he???? I don't know??? It's dad music but it also sort of works for someone a little bit out of step with time?#I'm a bit of a wwx kinnie and I love music but I don't really have any headcanons for what modern music he'd like#other than 'unironically classical music and its one of the first things he bonds with lwj over as teens'#(they get into very heated arguments about composers and arrangements)#but also. the concept of wwx really liking wheezer to the point its the first thing he's gotta check in on after 13 years dead?#*that* did me in real good#I hope people enjoy this one as much as I did#'Does wwx listen to wheezer' Please oh god wheezer and mdzs fans please come together to tell me what songs wwx would like#my money is on 'lost in the woods' its so campy#EDIT: just been informed weezer doesnt have an H in it..this is how much i know. thank u everyone who left weezer recs in comments and tags
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I love my dumb OCs so much ...
I think I have rambled about them before so to spare you! A tl;dr version that you can also skip:
Shilva can turn into a dragon. Vikrahm goes on an adventure and meets Pops. Pops is a famous dragonslayer who refuses to tell anyone his name and never collects reward money unless needed at that time. Shilva and Pops get married. They both do not tell Vik his name though so he resorts to a threat and is shocked when it actually works. "I didn't expect to get this far idk what to do now" kinda vibes.
#my characters#tbh the first one was actually drawn during the art stream last night but I didnt post it#i figured i could post it with the big pic and then hate coloring so much i opted for just doodles today#also the siblings just both have purple tongues and fangs and are not vampiric or anything#they just got fangs because i like em aesthetically#vik is such a funny gremlin to me cause he just does not inform anyone he travels with that he is fireproof#and his bff mage buddy specializes in fire magic#and vik is like hey hey can you teach me some fire magic please i think itd be super cool#and he sucks at magic RIP#he barely makes a flicker but it does come in handy once#also when vik says hes gonna play fetch since he can shoot farther its because as kids#he learned how to shoot a bow in order to play long distance fetch with a dragon (his sister)#cause she basically got the zoomies and flying helped soooo long distance fetch#shilva is a bundle of sunshine and i love her#me patting pops on the head - this old man can fit so much trauma in his life#he can take a threat of being called big brother and say that is the straw on the camels back#hes suffered enough dont make him suffer that
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ON TODAY'S EPISODE OF: I Have Too Much Free Time, Free-Will, And A Pair Of Hands
(Og/Pre-edit versions below the cut)
#MASSIVE DISCLAIMER: I am not of a culture or ethnicity that traditionally does Henna tattoos nor did my research yield much information#So please don't take any of what I have shown here as accurate representation#Rather as simply politely inspired#Additionally#If anyone has enough patience to educate me on such things so I can update Nahida's design to be more accurate please feel free to#tighnari#nahida#genshin impact#sumeru#genshin fanart#genshin redesign#genshin tighnari#genshin nahida#genshin
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im about to fall asleep but first of all are there any deanna scholars who can tell me what her qualifications are namely does she have a PhD or would it be in character for her to pursue one? cause I feel like what with her not wearing uniform til tng s7 she's not really counted among the science blues but psychology is a science right? so she's a scientist? part of me feels like she was relegated out of the scientist role due to sexism but then also part of me feels like focusing on being a practicing counselor rather than research scientist is like a career choice that rejects elitism and could be an important character point. also judging by how Ezri was written there's a precedent for trek writers having a tenuous grasp of what a counselor actually does sometimes so.
#does this character reject societal notions of what success should look like (published papers etc). in favour of working directly with peop#or did the writers think a woman should help people with their feelings without showing her do things like write a thesis on how feelings w#if anyone has information. lore. beta canon. please let me know!#ghitlhpu'wij#deanna
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Hello, Monica, Do you have any idea about Title's -Chueam's lil bro- role OF? He is present in the intro but appeared in the series once in passing and cries in the trailer. It seemed to me that this is a significant character -possibly ex sand- but for now Title is being kept in the basement. Good day for you!
hello, anon!!!
you know, now that you mention it.... i honestly have no idea what his role in the story is supposed to be ;;;;;;
part of me feels like he's not necessarily gonna come into play in the main plot, as in.... idk if i can explain myself but like, take gap for example: he actively affects the story by filming his hook-up with boston, but drake is not in the main credits of the show. on the other hand, jennie and tee are in the main credits, but for now yo and plug haven't been directly involved in the boys' messes. they are, however, familiar with all the characters, and by owning the bar where a lot of the action takes place, they often get caught in the crossfire
i think atom's role is gonna be more similar to yo and plug's rather than gap's: he probably won't influence the plot with his actions (so i find it unlikely he's gonna turn out to be sand's ex, if only because i think chueam would know sand and top if that were the case), but because he is chueam's brother maybe he will get caught in the crossfire too. i find it strange, for example, that in the only brief scene he showed up in they took the time to point out he has a girlfriend. maybe something will happen with her, or maybe he's gonna be at the party in the next episode and somehow get involved with the drugs
tl;dr: i personally don't think he's gonna be a very significant character, plot wise, but i feel like he will somehow have to deal with the fall-out of the boys' actions and that's why he's crying in the trailer
#DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE BE HONEST WITH ME ;;;;;;;#hopefully i could somehow answer your question in a somewhat coherent way ;;;;;#if anyone has any other ideas or more informations please feel free to leave them in the replies so anon can see them!!!!#thank you for thinking of me to ask this anon and have a good day too!!!!!#only friends the series#title kirati#m: ask#english is no longer a language at this point and my brain is mush so i apologize for any mistakes ;;;;;;
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i have so much information about this random man’s sex life now because people in their late 20s LOVE telling me too much about their lives and i love listening to people be insane
#he was bisexual and boy did i get to hear all about his dilemmas of whether he should settle down with a man or a woman#i havent approved his request to follow me on instagram yet bc like listen . i have so much information about him now .#it feels Odd ! it does !!! he doesn’t know that much about me but he does know i haven’t ever been in a relationship which ALSO feels like#too much information……….#anyway idt he was flirting with me fr bc he has a woman who he’s seeing atm who he’s very into he tells me#but he did keep saying how beautiful i was which was very sweet but he kept being like ‘IN THE LEAST FLIRTATIOUS WAY but also i would but#also no but also ANYWAY UR BEAUTIFUL’ and it was fucking weird#anyway weird experiences i love being sober when everyone else is drunk i do genuinely think it’s so much fun#ALSO A GUY FROM MY FUCKING HISTORY CLASS WAS THERE???? horrible#i went to a gig alone and then a friend of a friend spotted me and asked if i wanted to come talk to HER friends#and then introduced me to this guy who is in my fucking classsssssssss#and then idk there were suddenly about 10 other ppl n one of them was the man who i now know too much about xoxo#i do now it seems . have a person to buy acid from if i ever want to do that though#anyway the band was actually kinda good n i’d love to see them again but idrk if i want to see everyone else that i talked to last night#again which makes it difficult bc most of them knew at least one person in the band#I DID get to meet the band and kinda sorta go out with them tho bc of this which was fun#lead singer was absolutely shitfaced and bought an $8.50 pie and i have never seen someone so horrified and happy at the same time#if anyone even thinks they know what band this is about or that they know me irl please unfollow immediately#except ofc the ppl who i have met intentionally irl <3
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what the absolute hell was the empiressona discord. this is a genuine question if anyone knows things about it I would love to know. I just found out about it's existence and I feel like an archaeologist asking for ancient texts
#I was tlaking to a friend and went 'it'd be funny if there was a discord server where people pretned to be empires citizens'#so I went looking for an empires discord#and found multiple mentions of an empiressona discord#naturally my curiosity was piqued#so I went on a journey to find out how to join it#and I did find a link. from 2 years ago#so clearly that wasn't enough#I went to google instead. perhaps it had more informating on darker places#such as twitter or; god forbid; reddit#I come accross a video called 'the fall of the empiressona discord'#I am once more incredibly intrigued#turns out scott himself joined it for a day#I then decide to try to see if the old link works#if only for the opportunity of exploring a likely dead landscape#alas; it does not work#so I come to tumblr instead and make this post#documenting my journey in case future me ever stumbles accross this#and if anyone has information please tell me I am SO curious
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guys I have a great idea what if there were websites for certain colleges and what if when you clicked on "more information" on the website they, hear me out here, actually worked instead of just bringing you to the "work-integrated learning" page again for the 40th time have the people who made this website ever USED html I'm going jnsnae
#not wven just colleges#hey BAO website it'd be cool if you told me how to GET my licence instead of just telling me what they are#hey#hey can I have have the information please#does anyone know how to do a college medical requirement form if I have no medical health provider do I need to get ohip for this shit😭#I can. worry about this later.#its not like I need to pick highschool requirements or anythijg#elective#s#im going to eploxed
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I need to reblog with tags but I'm on mobile so please check out the the tags they not mine but op's
Short DPXDC Prompts #980
The information blackout on Amity is taking its toll on Amity Parkers. The GIW are getting more violent, the ghosts are getting more dangerous in order to not get caught by the GIW, Inviso-Bill is nowhere to be found. Paulina starts calling anyone and everyone that she knows from outside of town. No one answers her pleas. She manages to get a list of contacts her grandfather had during his time in the military. She’s ran out of options. She hopes to god one of these numbers work. She dials. And waits. The phone rings and rings and rings and- “Hello, Alfred Pennyworth. How may I be of service?”
#dpxdc#oh fuck yeah#Paulina stammers through a quick plea for help hoping this old man won’t hang up on her#mentioning that she got this number through her grandfather#Alfred is silent for a moment before letting someone know he’ll be taking a break for a phone call#in the background everyone is perplexed because Alfred rarely does this#but paulina hears that he’s stepping away from his family to talk to her and sobs in relief#this is farther than she’s gotten with anyone else#the GIW are monitoring outgoing phone signals so honestly it’s a miracle this guy even picked up#even with Fenton tech boosting her signal some of the calls just failed#Paulina quickly blurts out her name and location so Alfred has that information#then runs down a quick list of everything going on and why they need help. badly.#‘-and I know this sounds ridiculous Mr. Pennyworth but you have to believe me#but everything has gone to shit! the GIW declared martial law and took over the police station and mayors office#and we have no access to the outside world. I don’t even know what day it is! we lost track weeks ago!’#Paulina isn’t even giving Alfred a second to speak#there’s heavy thumping and sirens approaching in the distance and paulina starts talking faster#‘Shit the guys in white are here! remember what I told you and please send us help! both our living and afterlives are at stake here!’#Paulina begs and hangs up right as some agents break her door down shouting at her to hand over her phone#Alfred is just#there#what did he just listen to?#either this was an extremely elaborate prank or there was an entire town in danger#and the future of the town rested on the shoulders of some high schoolers. some of which have already disappeared#from how this young lady sounded Alfred would bet this was no prank#Alfred hangs up his side of the line and immediately informs Bruce he’ll be taking a special vacation#the other bats are welcome to join him but they might be uncomfortable since he’ll actively be breaking Bruce’s ‘no killing’ rule#everyone is a little shocked at this statement#they knew Alfred didn’t obey the rule but blatantly saying he was going on a trip to kill someone? fuck yeah they’re coming#anyone who pissed off Alfred is someone they need to investigate
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I have obtained a new oc and in the process I've already signed myself up for needing to make at least 3 new ocs for his story which he now has despite me initially Intending for him to be a side character for a different side character to hang out with. My townhouse has over 200 characters on it.
#rat rambles#oc posting#he doesn't have an official name yet but he is my silly billy and I love him#also take every him with an asterisk again he's like super new (I just got him today)#although several elements of his story so far have been things Ive been wanting to do for a while so thats a part of why I have so many#ideas for him already since its some stuff I've been wanting to play around with for a while#the real reason he has a chokehold on me rn is that I tripped and made him my 500 thousanth character with identity issues#I <3 characters with a fucked up relationship with their sense of self and what it even means to be themself#oh hes also a magic cat world character because thats what like 90% of my ocs are from at this point lol#and another goop related guy but this time not directly related to every other goop guy#he doesnt interact with any of them or even know most of them exist#long story short hes a robot who used to not be a robot but remembers nothing abt his life before he turned himself into a robot#all he has as reference is a mostly ruined journal his past self kept that is almost entirely unreadable due to it getting soaked in goop#he knows that this was self inflicted and his approximate age but that's abt it in terms of useful information#early story is mostly just him traveling alone trying to see if anyone nearby knows who he is but after going through like 5 or so towns he#starts to get more worried and upset about the whole situation and starts trying to look into some different missing person reports in#hopes that he can find one of himself#he runs out of the savings he had on him pretty quickly though so he had to figure out how to stay afloat while doing his research#'luckily' he meets a man while looking into one case he found who was willing to let him stick around at his place while looking into it#this guy had some investment in these dissapearances because he suspected that they related to his father and hoped to find any sort of#window in what he was up to since he hadnt seen him since he ran away at around 17#spoilers his dad is cake this is still connected to cake nonsense because everything in this world fucking does but the main boy himself#actually has no ties to cake or his activities so thats smth at least#but yeah long story short things get. real bad for my boy after the first few months of staying at this guy's place.#yknow how risa in the future was often used as a weapon of war using some unstable chemicals? yeah guess where that started.#mr daddy issue haver over here may understand that his dad is a bad person but evidently that doesnt stop him from being not much better#currently Im planning on having main boy escape eventually and get stuck in the non magic world where he meets april but that could change#it depends on if I want him to interact with the other stories going on at all or not#I probably wont but I would like to leave myself some wiggle room to let him meet more side characters#like (looks with big sad wet eyes) ginger maybe? please? please april? let me see your sister? that you havent seen in years? please?
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Sometimes I just read something on the internet and just want to put my head in a blender so I don’t have to deal with that shit anymore
#so many people have such black and white views on things it makes me want to gnaw my limbs off#please people learn more about nuance and don’t send death threats to people you don’t agree with even if they are shitty people#all sending death threats does is tell people that ‘wow the people who disagree with me are so evil and cruel therefore everyone with that#view is also evil and I am the good guy here!’#I will not elaborate on what this is about nor will anyone be able to pry that information out of me#ramblings#the internet was a mistake#not tagging anything specific here tbh
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𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝
— a rafe cameron one shot
✰ when y/n gets her boyfriend to partake in a viral tiktok trend.
rating: sfw — cw: none
anyone who had a phone and internet access knew of the viral couple’s trend, and y/n was no exception. endless sickeningly sweet videos flooded her feed of men effortlessly lifting their girlfriends onto their shoulders, some ending with them toppling over into a heap of laughter; it left a warm, fuzzy feeling in the pit of her stomach and she, too, wanted the first hand experience.
she knew rafe better than anyone; being recorded doing some silly trend for the world to see simply wasn’t something he’d be willing to do. despite that fact, she knew it wouldn’t hurt too terribly to propose the idea. so, with little hesitation, she made her request known.
“rafe?” she quipped from her place on the couch, her legs draped lazily over her boyfriends lap. “hm?” he hummed, his attention momentarily glued to the phone in his hand as he finished a text. “can we, maybe, try something?” she asked, watching as he completed his typing before tossing the device onto the coffee table with a clank.
“what’s that?” he mumbled, running a hand up her bare leg and resting it on her thigh, lightly squeezing as he gazed at her. “before you say no, just hear me out, okay?” she asked, his face quirking at the request. he nodded his head in a way that prompted her to continue, so she did.
“i wanna see if you can lift me,” she informed simply, to which rafe’s brows rose in question. “if i can lift you?” he clarified with a mild confusion, “y’know i can — do it all the time.”
“no, i mean, like—,” she fumbled with her phone for a moment, tapping at the screen before turning it to face him, “it’s for a video thing… like this.” he watched intently as a couple performed the ‘lift’ in reference and his face contorted to one of scrutiny.
“why?” he questioned, genuinely not understanding the appeal. “i don’t know, looks fun — it’s cute,” y/n mumbled with a shrug, gradually becoming less enthused. “looks kinda dumb,” he muttered honestly, completely disconnected from the internet and it’s need for spontaneous niches. “oh,” y/n spoke quietly as she stared down at the device — maybe he was right.
rafe noticed the shift in her demeanor instantly, his heart squeezing as she slouched against the armrest of the couch, a small pout pulling at her lips that she tried to fight against. he felt a pang of guilt in his chest, hating how filter-less his mouth could be. he didn’t mean come off as cold and dismissive, but he knew that he did, and often does; he also knew that he needed to fix it.
“okay, come on,” he sighed, patting her thigh before sliding her legs off his. “what?” she asked in surprise, her eyes following him as he stood. “let’s do it,” he shrugged, holding out a hand for her to take. immediately, a bright smile flooded her face as she wrapped her digits around his larger palm. “really?” she beamed as he pulled her to her feet. “yeah, i just— is that it?” he motioned to the phone in her grasp, “i just pick you up?”
“yeah,” she nodded enthusiastically with a grin, her eyes glistening as she did so and rafe couldn’t help but let his lips mimic her own. “alright, go set it up,” he instructed as he peered down at her, softly patting her hip in encouragement. she obliged quickly, propping her phone up on the coffee table and setting a timer to count them down from thirty, hoping that would allot them enough time to prepare.
“please don’t drop me,” she laughed as rafe situated his large hands around her waist, his long fingers nearly touching each other at the center of her stomach. “i’d never,” he scoffed with a soft smile, “just tell me when.”
“almost,” she muttered as she watched the numbers descend on the screen, “okay-okay, three, two, one.” instantly, she felt the hold on her body tighten as rafe effortlessly lifted her through the air; she didn’t need to jump in assistance, nor did he grunt or struggle in the slightest, carrying her gracefully as though she was a feather. she instinctively gripped his wrists as a squeal left her mouth, a melodic stream of laughter following as he propped her onto his shoulder, her body fitting perfectly on the broad surface.
the recording ended and the song looped softly in the background as rafe carefully slid her down his body, his hands resting underneath her arms as he lowered her to the ground. as soon as her feet hit the floor, she padded over to watch the perfectly imperfect recording — the framing was off, seeing as rafe was too tall to fit, and she didn’t lip-sync to the lyrics as most others had, but none of that mattered in the slightest.
“look,” she grinned, holding the phone out for rafe to see. he smiled fondly down at her, his eyes flickering between her face as she watched the clip and the clip itself. admittedly, he enjoyed participating, enjoying even more how giddy she was about it. “i see,” he assured with a small smile, his focus primarily on his happy girl as he rested a hand on her hip, rubbing small circles on the bone.
“i love it,” she gushed, ecstatic to have something so sweet and silly of herself and her boyfriend that she just knew she would watch over and over and over again. “good,” he murmured as he pressed a kiss to the top of her head, the moment being interrupted when his phone rang out — a call he was expecting.
“i’ve gotta take this,” he informed, running his fingers under the hem of her shirt and softly grazing the skin before breaking the contact. he grabbed the cell from it’s place on the table, answering it with a hushed greeting before exiting the room, leaving y/n to rewatch their video again with a cheek-aching grin; her man was in-fact very jacked and oh-so kind (but only ever for her).
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The election doesn’t start tomorrow, it ends tomorrow.
If you haven’t already, please make sure you are registered to vote and know where your polling place is (vote.org is a great and easy way to get that information). Additionally, please make sure you have a way to get to your polling place. Uber and Lyft often give free or discounted rides to the polls, and this year the car rental company, Hertz, is allowing free one-day rentals to get to the polls. More information on that here.
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Please vote tomorrow if you have not already. It’s so important, and choosing not to vote or voting for a third party is a vote for extremist measures. Vote down the ballot, and do not let anyone bully you into voting one certain way.
What we are seeing throughout this election cycle (and the last two election cycles) is entirely abnormal. The bullying we see from a certain side and its supporters is childish and dangerous. They spew false information, make racist remarks, and sexualize and discriminate fellow candidates. No single presidential candidate is completely and wholly good, so criticize accordingly.
Vote with those you love in mind, vote with your safety in mind, and vote for those who will be affected for decades to come. Vote for someone who speaks coherently, not for someone who is, let’s be honest, not cognitively alright — and that is the bare minimum of the issue.
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Pride banned Jews?!?
So it's that time of year again that I see people circulating stuff that is completely fabricated about what they imagine happened at Chicago Dyke March in 2017.
First, Dyke March is not Pride. It is not meant to be apolitical or single-issue. It is explicitly anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, and, yes, antizionist. It's not the big mainstream pride Parade that has corporate sponsors (and ads for gay tourism in Israel), it's a small radical grassroots demonstration.
Ok now that that's out of the way, they did not "ban Jews". I was there. They did not "ban Jewish symbols". They did not ask anyone to leave because of their Jewish pride flag.
What actually happened was three women who turned out to be employed by Israeli pinkwashing operation A Wider Bridge participated in the march with a rainbow flag that featured a blue star of david in the center. I remember seeing it and disliking it bc it gave me Zionist vibes but neither I nor anyone else bothered them about it.
After the march there was a cookout in the park. The women were asked to leave by a Jewish member of the Dyke March Collective after several hours of hanging out at the cookout because they were harassing other marchgoers.
Immediately publications like Forward, Tablet, JTA, as well as more mainstream publications started running stories making wild untrue claims which you can still read if you Google it because none of these were ever corrected or retracted. It's clear that these AWB agents had press releases pre-written and ready to fire as soon as they managed to provoke any reaction that they could spin into a controversy.
The photos that ran along with these headlines were also misleading. One of them showed a photo of a rainbow flag with a white star in the center. The star on the flag I saw was blue, and the shade of the star has specific political connotations. Showing a different flag with the politically significant color removed is extremely misleading. The one that was carried in the march (and which, again, wasn't banned!) looked like this:
Another banner image, this one in a New York Times article, showed a young woman with dark curly hair holding a sign that says "this is who we are". She was clearly chosen to feature because of her stereotypically Jewish features. The article implies that she is one of the supposedly banned Jews. This is false. You know how I know? Bc that was the friend I was there with that day! She does not identify as Jewish, she looks like that bc she is Italian, and she had no idea she was being photographed!
I had a hat decorated with red and black stars of David, and the following year a bunch of us wore Workers Circle sashes with Yiddish text (which uses the Hebrew alphabet) as well. No one who wasn't employed by a Zionist organization was asked to leave or even questioned about anything related to Zionism or Jewish identity.
I'm resigning myself to the fact that this is going to get dug up and passed around every year and people will believe what they want to believe, but if you hear claims that some queer group "banned Jews" or something similar, please look at the source for the information and if possible try to talk to actual Jewish people who participate in the community events being discussed. And if you hear this about Chicago Dyke March in specific, please correct people. I feel like I'm going insane when this many people are insisting that what I saw and experienced wasn't real and pointing to the barrage of misleading articles as what I should believe over my own experiences.
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