thelastlightningbug

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sorry all i post about lately is circus its also all i think about and all i talk about in real life im not super interesting at the moment but i can tell u a lot of stuff about carabiner misuse

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yes i have homework but if i really have to do it then why are there all these academic articles on circus arts available freely to read online. what about that.

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i have been reading this book called "circus bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance" and its kinda blowing my mind. the acts this author describes and how they were received by the public are so out there sometimes, even for today. there was one horseback act where a woman dressed in naked male drag (including a mustache) to recreate a poem in which a young man who seduces a nobleman's wife is tied naked to a horse as punishment and like. it's giving folsom street fair circa 1860. and then this woman in the 80s is like "men like female aerialists because it permits them to fantasize about becoming women". Huh?!!????

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Captain America and Superman are Jewish responses to the Nazi idea of the ubermensch that ask different, but equally compelling questions in response to it. Captain America asks "what if the ubermensch was real, and he loved Jews?" and Superman asks "what if the ubermensch was real, and he was a Jew?"

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that poll going around about if you think that anyone has ever had a crush on you and 29% of people voted that in their opinion no one had a crush on them in any grade… like in the gentlest way your self hate has made you delusional. it doesnt matter who you are or what you look like undoubtedly as a human being on this earth at one point someone has been buying what you’re selling. you may not have known but beauty like all art is a deeply personal and variable experience and i promise you somewhere on this green wide earth someone wants to fuck you nasty style. trust and believe in yourself baby girl

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running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness

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it’s mid-november, which means you can now see college students in the wild with some of the Worst facial hair ever attempted to be grown

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i’m listening to a guy explaining marxist ideas of class incredibly badly and very loud in the dining hall and it’s pissing me off so bad

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your daily reminder that this is a microblogging website and not every post you see is a sweeping well thought-out hot take for you to consider and many posts are in fact vent posts that blew up on accident

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i keep buying product and yet i still never really feel good?

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i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

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tumblr is full of posts reminding people to stretch and drink water and brush their teeth but i have never once seen a post reminding people to wipe the grime off their glasses and as someone who walks around half blind not because of my astigmatism but because of my own greasy fingers that’s a reminder i could use a lot

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i've had dance me to the end of love so stuck in my head for the past few days. been thinking about the circus show I was just a part of, how important making art is but also simultaneously feeling a lot of dread at how to even begin to continue that practice right now

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

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i hate some of this retro fashion inspo on pinterest i know you are not nine and a half heads tall bitch you’re stretching your photos on the Y axis bc you’re an insecure man afraid flares will make you look short and wearing platform heels will make you gay. i am five feet and four inches tall can we feed the little 70s gnomes as well please

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walking into my schools dining hall dressed as carmen from the bear has to be up there in terms of top 15 embarrassing experiences

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ID: a yellow hat that says “solvem probler”. End ID