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“don we now our gay apparel” is a great line in our current day. put on your faggy little outfit cunt

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“Fatherless behavior” stop giving my DAD credit for all the work my MOM put into making me a terrible person!! Stop erasing women in history!!

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I'm so annoying to authority figures because I'm literally just built different. One time I escaped handcuffs on accident because of the combination of tiny hands+hyper mobility and then apologized and asked the officer to put them back on. He was *really* pissed because this was the second time this had happened during two different arrests.

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Briana Boston didn't threaten anyone.

When my grandmother was sent a death threat through text message, I reported it to the police. The officer told me that "it's not considered a death threat unless the message mentions a weapon and a deadline".

As a result, they didn't do anything. Not even a verbal warning to that person.

Or, there's a double standard when it comes to billionaires and big corporations. Who'd have thought.

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Also. Trans men. Come here. Look at me. You deserve support and celebration in your transition too. You deserve someone calling you handsome, who will walk into the men's room with you for the first time if you're scared. Just because you are a man does not mean you should be expected to do it all on your own, and it's not any 'easier' than transitioning to a woman, it's just a different set of factors. Transitioning will not make you ugly, it will make you look like you. You are not a traitor or suddenly undeserving of emotional space and compassion. You do not have to be 'strong' to be masculine. You. Do. Not. Have. To. Do. It. Alone.

So yeah. Idk who needs to hear this but celebrate the early (and late) transition trans men in your life too. Offer to teach him how to shave his face to avoid in-grown hairs if he needs it, go with him to try on shoes so he doesn't feel as self conscious if he has to go to the teen's section. Take him shopping and help him figure out his size because men's and women's clothing have entirely different standards. Be there for him. Love him. Validate him. We need it, too.

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the curse is lifted! you are no a beast no more! congratulations! but you'll never forget the way they looked at you, will you.

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Nah I really do have something to say about the weird-ass double standard when it comes to men expressing and exploring femininity. Like. Harry styles puts on a dress and you all lose your fucking minds but if a trans man so much as puts on eyeliner and doesn't bind y'all are like 'Wow all these trans 'men' walking around looking like cis women and expecting us to respect your pronouns' shut THE FUCK UP

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I think one of my fundamental weaknesses as a writer that is also weirdly a strength is that I have Short Story Disease. Don't get me wrong, I am fully capable of writing longer-form fiction but at the end of the day I am here to write about 2,000-5,000 words so potently laced with metaphor and symbolism and absolutely dripping with emotion and then I get the fuck out of there and move on to the next movie clip my brain came up with out of nowhere.

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Maybe being good at social media should not be the main qualifier for all creative work

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if you could get a free full body scan would you?

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my goal for 2025 is small simple and clear: change my whole entire life

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& you know what it actually IS lifechanging to smile at strangers & say please & thank you & goodmorning & compliment someones outfit & help someone in need & be more accepting of loving other people just because they are other people!!!

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there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look

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it’s interesting how eleanor shellstrop acts like she’s lazy when she’s actually incredibly hard working. instead of just running away, she got herself legally emancipated from her neglectful parents and worked to afford her own apartment, (as well as presumably school tuition and healthcare). she was the top salesperson at her job for multiple years. the tech startup she was a temp for wanted to hire her full-time and thought she would make a great member of the team. she threw herself into learning ethics and moral philosophy, reading incredibly difficult books multiple times in order to understand it. when she threw a party for the neighborhood residents, even tahani, who threw huge parties as a living, thought eleanor did a good job.

eleanor puts on a big show about not caring about anything, but in reality she cares so much.

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I always have a strange sort of clarity these days when reading my old 'cringe' writing -

Now why would a queer 15 year old be writing about a world where everyone is visibly tagged with the things that make them different? Why would an undiagnosed autistic spend so long describing a character who fakes their expressions and emotional reactions for the comfort of the people around them?

Death. Rebirth. The important of names, the burden of purpose, being cast out from society. All themes painfully present if you read between the lines of all the superheroes and werewolves and characters that don't know who or *what* they are.

A little boy wrote over and over again about what it means to feel like an alien, to be scrutinized and exploited for things you can't change about yourself.

Listen. I don't give a shit about the curtains- you're writing about something. People who make art are always communicating about *something* real even if that's not the story they're telling at all. Because the stories you choose to tell and why and where and how can sometimes be just as important as the actual content.

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baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

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me???? tired???? sleepy??? yes constantly