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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#gnarwhalz #I am one of their 14 monthly listeners

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shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.

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i subscribe to the 'kallus doesn't cut his hair again after joining the rebellion' book club

#WAHHHHHHH #alexsandr kallus #sw:r #Star Wars

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SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

#BABYGIRLLLLLL #bucky barnes #ca:tws #marvel

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i’ve decided i’m making my own fatphobia test bechdel style, curious if people have any additions

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#HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABYGIRL #he’s 78 #peepaw ass #Daken #Daken akihiro #akihiro #fang #marvel #marvel comics #Wolverine #dark Wolverine #I want everyone to know it’s his birfday

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Akihiro Hellfire Gala 2023 Design by Kris Anka

#happy birthday here’s my babygirl in his best fit ever #daken akihiro

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There's a myth repeated by both the left and right that we don't have records of what Nazis destroyed in the book burnings. Historians know some but not all of the literature. Much of it discussed queer/trans issues. Here are some examples of what Nazis didn't want you to know:

Among the most impactful transgender books Nazis burned was Magnus Hirschfeld's 1910 Die Transvestiten. The book focused on the history and politics of transgender people. Thankfully, it was a bestseller and original copies existed outside Germany. transreads.org/dietransvestiten2/

Some texts were permanently lost during Nazi book burnings. The Institute for Sexual Science held singular copies of trans medical records and surgical techniques. Nazis famously destroyed Karl Baer's files. Baer was among the first trans/intersex people to get medical treatment. His 1907 autobiography, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years, thankfully survived. It is available in English at transreads.org/a-mans-maiden-years

We will never recover many texts Nazis destroyed. Felix Abraham, Richard Muhsam, & Ludwig Levy-Lenz's now-lost writings on gender-affirming medicine would have helped drastically improve care. Some of their research survived, but we do not know the extent of their lost techniques.

Nazis burned Magnus Hirschfeld's 5-volume Geschlechtskunde ("Sex Studies"). It included lengthy descriptions of the history, politics, and treatment of queer/trans people. A few copies still exist, including this gorgeous print of the illustrated Volume 4 I saw in the New York Public Library archives.

Nazis didn't only destroy books but also films, photographs, and 3D ephemera like sculptures. They burned copies of many important queer/trans films, including Different from the Others (now partially restored) and an adaptation of Karl Baer's autobiography, A Man’s Girlhood (fully lost).

Destroying literature, film, and culture is the foundation of fascism. If you wonder what you would have done in 1933, now is the time to prove you would have acted. It never ends with books.

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What I need for White Americans (ppl in general really, but I'm talking to the U.S.) to understand about Americans of Color is that You don't know Us, but We know YOU.

We've spent generations upon generations of our entire lives learning YOUR social norms, forced to assimilate to YOUR idea of society. We live and learn entirely separate cultures, but we also learn from birth what it means to have to cater to Whiteness in America. It's why I can name so many famous movies with white casts, but most white people didn't even know where "Bye Felicia" came from. It's why I was raised to professionally Code Switch from childhood, but grown white people struggle to even grasp the basics of the grammar of AAVE. It's why people who speak different languages think they have to give up their own mother tongue just to function in this country.

It's why you all are so uncomfortable with the idea of people of color questioning and rejecting what seems "normal" to you- and to be honest, I actually think older white generations are better at admitting this than younger ones. It's because what you know as normal is usually not "normal"- it's White. Whiteness is just as loud as any other presentation of race in this country, you just don't see it that way because everyone else has been forced to maintain your comfort. The entire system is built around it, and you don't even know it.

It's why it frustrates white Americans of some marginalization- queer, disabled, neurodivergent- because you do not have access to the "norm" as it is shown to you. But that frustration- literally everyone of color (who shares those identities btw) lives under that understanding.

Idk, I didn't really have a direction. I just think it's wild how so many conversations require this... Constant Verbal Leveling of the Playing Field simply because Whiteness blinds white people to what things ACTUALLY look like out here.

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at least there are pansies and fairies and faggots and dykes and transsexuals on this earth. thank god.

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another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

#gonna start throwing wet boba at rude customers

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#me and you both Audrey

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the woman was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks before October. Her mother died of cancer a month earlier. Anood was supposed to leave for Egypt for treatment, but was refused to leave Gaza after October. help them as much as you can.

Please guys save her life 😭

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Just marry the belle and be done! X-MEN ‘97 — Remember It (S01E05)

#I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH I COULD THROW UP #kurt wagner #remy lebeau #x men 97