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I’ve had a copy of this toy rat for maybe 4 years now and his name is Darcell and I love him.

Saw this while browsing Spotlight yesterday :)

I'm so fuckign care her

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Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

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One thing I did not expect from this year was for me to develop an attraction to wings. This is a new low.

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Just got back from a business program

@cupids-chamber @c3lestialstars

Reblog tag game:

What are you currently doing besides tumblr?

I’m watching a drunk commentary on the movie Robots (the commentators are literally drunk— allegedly on wine)

@lazyowl @triforce-of-mischief @squigglywindy

@whatcouldpossiblyg0wr0ng don’t think I didn’t see you like my post (don’t be shy, jump in)

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a little pumpkin 🧡

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What Lestat doesn't understand is that Louis has no desire to divorce himself from his blackness or 'his people'. Lestat thinks if he embraces being a vampire, he won't have to be limited by his race anymore, which Lestat does see causes Louis pain and discrimination, but Louis doesn't want to be removed from his humanity. And his humanity is inherently entangled with his race.

Louis doesn't just want to remain a man. He wants to remain a black man.

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Yes its our friend *JEALOUSY *

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there is something so special about seeing iwtv posts reaching 10k notes bc we deserve it so bad. been shuffling the same 10 tom cruise posts since high school

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My dear lgbt+ kids,

Here is a hug for the ones who don't have friends.

I've seen posts like this before and I noticed that people often jump to the following scenarios:

An lgbt+ person who only has cishet friends, a neurodivergent person who only has neurotypical friends, and similar situations

Someone who only has long-distance/online friends

Someone who has friends but is closeted and therefore can't share a big part of their life with them

Various other situations in which someone has friends but still feels lonely

All these situations can be incredibly alienating and it's important to talk about that. Feeling lonely when you are not alone, that's a really painful feeling. If you relate to that, you also get a hug!

But it's wrong to assume that everyone has friends and that the only possible explanation for feeling like you don't have any is that you feel disconnected from them for some reason. By jumping to these scenarios we jump right over the people who literally do not have friends.

"Oh, I am sure you have friends! You just can't see how much they love you" sounds like positivity - but it's simply not true for everyone.

Some people feel like friendship just naturally happens. But the reality is that it actually requires a lot of things: You need to have regular contact with other people in some way (the first barrier for people who live isolated lives for any reason - think about people who rarely leave their home due to illness or disability, people who take care of a bedbound family member, people who work long hours from home...), you need to be able to reach out and connect to these people (another big barrier - think about nonverbal people, people who struggle with basic social skills due to neurodivergence or disability, people with very low self-esteem, people who made traumatic experiences and are fearful of new people, people with social anxiety, people who don't speak the language of the country they live in...) and then you also need to know how to keep the conversation/connection alive for long enough to turn a friendly contact into a friendship. Lastly, you need the pure luck of meeting people who are interested in friendship with you!

Another mean thing about friendship is that it can be much easier to "just naturally" make friends if you already have some. Someone who has friends may meet the friends of their friends and also become close to them, they may go to places with their friends they wouldn't go to on their own and meet new people there etc. Someone who doesn't have friends can't rely on those opportunities.

Plus, friendship is a skill that can get rusty! Think about people who spent months or even years in a hospital, prison, rehab facility etc. - when they get out, they may feel like they forgot how to make friends outside of that setting.

Long story short: Having no friends is a lived reality for many people right now. If you are one of them, I see you and I never want to invalidate your reality by assuming that you just feel lonely despite having friends.

With all my love,

Your Tumblr Dad

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I hate ice breakers so much “tell us one thing about yourself” do I look like I know myself

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reblog if you want anonymous opinions of you

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