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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

#i own an iron but not an ironing board i just put a towel down on my desk #and i do use it but not like. for every load of laundry. i do not have the energy for that #i use it for sewing projects and when something specifically needs to look professional #my parents were the iron every load of laundry type though so ironing was often on my list of chores as a kid #zillenial

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I’ll never forget reading that tracy chapman interview about fast cars when she basically said it’s funny how people thing it’s based on my life but I’m a lesbian from the city yall straight girls stay safe tho <3

#......i'll be honest i just assumed it was about her life but the person with the fast car was also a girl #it never specifies man

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#les anges dans nos campagnes is one of those songs that i just cannot hear referenced without immediately wanting to sing it #its just got such a fun verse structure and then yeah you get an 18 syllable gloria! #(i do this one with my mum at christmas - hence why i don't know the english version sorry - and she likes to harmonise on top its great)

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#always on shuffle being able to predict what song comes next grates at my brain #but whether that's whole library playlist or album depends on the vibe

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#genuinely no preference #i can type just as well on either

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Unfollowing bc you called rent mediocre

I just think the AIDS crisis has been explored in a more interesting fashion in other pieces of media

#i mean that's fair #i studied all three in my class on queer theatre #so i've written essays comparing them #and like i like rent #but both the other two were more memorable in terms of pieces exploring the aids crisis #(rent's stronger in terms of its interesting characters but you could kinda put them in any setting)

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(to the tune of working on the railroad) iiive been working on the railrooad

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

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I feel like people don't understand what fetishization really means & it has a lot of well intentioned lefty types like afraid of being attracted to people

#once again saying that the problem with fetishizing is when you start seeing the trait more than the person #being attracted to a particular trait and seeking it out = fine #seeing everybody with that trait as a sex object and not a unique person in their own right who is worthy of respect = problem

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

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people on my "making AUs for OCs" post keep going like "oh you mean like a STORY? like a BOOK? OP that's just a STORY!!" like no you don't get it. you don't get how much my friends and i play with our ocs like dolls. we're talking swap AUs. homestuck classpecting. MLP AUs. evil AU. "so just making stories" you're like a little baby to me. leave my sight

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The queer community is full of hurt people.

This can lead to a knee-jerk reaction when we hear someone else say "I am hurt". We look at them and say "shut up, you're not as hurt as me because you have X privilege".

This leads to femme afab queers being told "you can pass and hide as cishet, you're not as hurt as queer women who look queer, you're just complying with the patriarchy's ideals for beauty, you're hurting the queer community, you're anti feminist."

It leads to masc afab people, whether trans men or nonbinary or genderqueer etc, being told everything from "you're not as hurt, you can pass as a cis man" to "you have no desire to transition, you still look like a girl, shut up".

It leads to trans amab people who are nonbinary or genderqueer or agender etc, who still dress or look "masculine", being told that they are "unsafe" for queer spaces, that they don't belong at a "women and nonbinary meeting", that they are "basically just cis men trying to escape accountability".

It leads to asexuals being told "you don't even feel sexual attraction, the thing we're ostracized for! how could you possibly be oppressed? You're just straight and a prude" and aromantics being told "you're just straight and like casual sex, get over yourself" and both being told "you're just a cishet who wants to steal resources".

I have heard every single kind of queer person say "I have been harmed and ostracized by the queer community". Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and mspec people, trans people, aroace people - every single one of us has expressed feeling ostracized by our own community.

On the plus side, this means you're not alone. Your group isn't the only one facing this. You have allies!! Other queer people who have gone through what you've gone through!

We need queer unity. We need to stop attacking each other. If you feel the urge to say "shut up, my group has been hurt MORE", go take a walk. Remember that every single one of us has been hurt.

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#get one of my flatmates to put it outside #i never wanna kill a bug bc it's not their fault they're in here (and also i probably couldn't anyway) #but i have a deep rooted instinctual fear of bugs where i can't be anywhere they could hypothetically touch me #it literally works like the 5e fear condition i gotta keep them in eyesight if possible and i can't willingly move closer #so like if there's a spider all the way over on the other side of the room? okay. im slightly nervous but thats fine they can be there #a spider close enough to jump at me or fall from the ceiling onto me? Problem #so yeah when i lived alone i had more than one morning of sorry i missed your class there was a cicada between me and the exit #but now i have people willing to remove the bug for me and no one needs to get hurt!

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women’s right to respect isnt determined by how fuckable you think they are btw

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pls reblog for sample size etc

#tablet with screen #i tried no screen but my dyspraxia just doesn't work with it #so yeah i got a cintiq in 2016 #was expensive but it's been well worth the investment bc it's still going strong