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just went to solo therapy with the couples therapist we were seeing and she thinks i'm fascinating which is like. on the same level as a nurse telling you you've got good veins

#therapy was invented by big therapist and it involves therapists telling their patients they should be therapists as recruitment and then #those therapists recruit more therapists via therapy so those therapists will recruit more therapists via therapy etc.

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just went to solo therapy with the couples therapist we were seeing and she thinks i'm fascinating which is like. on the same level as a nurse telling you you've got good veins

#currently have a dog and a cat sat on my lap making it inpossible for me to do much #so i made a meme on my phone #enjoy i guess?

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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'Giving up out of fear without being asked' is how MAGA took over the Republican Party.

#this is because cheney chaired the january sixth committee btw #world recommend usamericans rewatch those hearings btw #people seem to have forgotten everything about january 6th

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When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

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hey bud, would you mind pinning me to something and letting me struggle against your weight for a while? it’s good for my mental health

#nbc hannibal

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I am so happy I found and followed you. You are like a little deranged ray sunshine on my dash. Thank you, Willy G’s Willy, for your service.

omgg I hope i'm not just a tumblr you all follow, but a little deranged ray of sunshine on your dash 🌞

#deraynged

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obviously trans people identifying as their gender is not a delusion, but the rhetoric of “don’t expect us to go along with a delusion.” that transphobes spouse is… not advised for delusions either. it is not a strangers call to make, and challenging delusions does actually cause a level of distress that may be entirely unjustifiable and unneeded.

#ive heard it used for hallucinations either #and as someone who experiences hallucinations (though theyre not psychiatric) #it does not help me to just keep saying ''there isnt [X] in the room'' #like i know that david but that doesnt really change the fact that its there #like if im having one of the pretty common hallucinations for me of just a sort of general sense of motion in the corner of my eye #and i have to say cross a road. id much prefer someone to just tell me when its safe to cross the road rather than repeatedly telling me #there is no motion because im crossing a road there is just going to be motion there in general in some sense #people seem to think that if they say ''theres nothing there'' the hallucination magically disappears #it does not

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#to be fair to jigsaw #he didn't start jigsawing just because of the hate in his heart #there was certainly hate in his heart #but he and his wife did lose their unborn son when one of the patients at his wifes rehab clinic slammed a door into her pregnant belly #and he did get diagnosed with terminal brain cancer #and he did have a request for an experimental treatment denied by his insurance #and he did survive a suicide attempt where he drove his car off a cliff or something #and his wife did break up with him #he had a lot of motivations but the one that broke the camels back was the suicide attempt #because he was like oh hey i nearly died via suicide and now im not suicidal anymore #other people should try it #like your friend who did lsd and wants everyone else to try it too #and then he targeted people he thought weren't appreciating their lives enough #like drug addicts or mentally ill people or people forced into skeevy jobs due to poverty or sex workers who were forced into it by poverty #or guys about to cheat on their wives or overachieving cops or teenage delinquents or dirty cops or fake doctors scamming cancer patients or #people forced into helping with the scam by poverty and/or drug addicts or neo-nazis or the head of that insurance company #et cetera #thinking about it the neo nazis might have been a different jigsaw

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‘DON’T TALK TO THE MEDIA ABOUT DIY HRT’

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#i have a very soft spot for 2000s to early 2010 game shows #and probably some 90s ones too #mostly because i grew up on them #shoutout to challenge #one of the best tv channels of all time #unfortunately most of them will have at least 1 of these 3 things: #1) overt misogyny that is never addressed and you just have to deal with it #2) the kind of homophobia that would kill a gleek on the spot #3) that very specific brand of unnecessary cruelty that permeated all of 2000s media like a creative gas leak #also youll see fashion that are so 2000s specific that if a time traveller arrived in the 2000s theyd know what era theyre in immediately #and celebrities who have all but disappeared off the surface of the planet #like joe swash #whats he up to these days? i havent heard his name in years. is he still kicking about or...?

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"being queer is about love" hmm actually being queer is about defying societal norms about gender and sexuality and does not depend on feeling love at all

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first of all I really appreciate your perspective on a lot of the i/p conflict issues. I don't follow a ton of people who post about it, but you are one of them, and I have a lot of respect for your thoughts about it.

I've noticed you've referred to the current situation in I/p as apartheid and genocide. Would you mind sharing some resources on why those words are relevant? I have personally been suspicious that the use of those words is usually an attempt to make the bad things Israel is doing the Worst things because of antisemitism. I admit I've been loathe to look for resources on it myself because so many of them are very antisemitic, and I wouldn't ask you to do it if I didn't think you already had. If I'm wrong and you don't have anything in particular to share, please don't feel like you have to take on a whole emotional burden!

Chag Sameach. I hope your Pesach is full of light and life!

so, i use the term apartheid because it seems to well encapsulate the movement restrictions palestinians face in the west bank. as well as the fact that they and west bank settlers function differently under israel's legal system. also the fact that they can get work permits into israel proper but can't move there.

as for the term genocide, here is the UN definition:

one of the criteria listed is destroying a group of people "in whole or in part," and i do think this qualifies as "in part." a lot of people object to the definition being applicable because one of the requirements is "intent" but here's where things get squirrelly for me. what defines intent? does "we are going to drop a bomb to kill a hamas operative and are explicitly fine with some number of civilians dying, and also, implicitly, this is in large part because we don't care about those civilians because of their ethnicity" intent? you could argue it's not. you could also argue that it is.

crucially this is all in the context of a situation where palestinians in gaza were ethnically cleansed there from other places by a state that was pretty explicitly trying to create a country for a particular ethnic group, and where the dynamics involved in that are still absolutely at play. that's what tips my hand into seeing this in a different light than other urban warfare.

also, egypt and israel's choice not to allow palestinians in gaza to escape really makes it seem like they're trying to kettle them there in order to enact violence. you could say it's because they don't want hamas fighters to escape too, but... if they're escaping, wouldn't that mean israel has won? it doesn't make sense.

anyway. i can understand why people don't use that term. but this is why i generally do.

#i really find starlights commentary and informative posts about the i/p situation to be some of the most comprehensive commentary on it #theres a lot of people who are very well meaning but so eager in that well-meaningness that they reblog anything that seems to be on ''their #side'' without fact checking it or scanning it for any dog whistles or anything like that #also a lot of tokenising of jews who are pro palestine to ward off accusations of antisemitism rather than listening to those jews #theres also a lot of seemingly well-meaning activism that fails to further the intended cause because it hasnt been thought through #like theres a lot of calls to repeat the techniques levelled against south africa during apartheid without taking the time to examine the #material conditions of both situations #starlights posts are very much not like that and very much show someone who is well read and educated on this situation #if anyones reading these tags hi i recommend following starlightomatic or at least reading through some of their perspective on i/p

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this post is dedicated to my mutuals who are still my mutuals despite the horrors

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Propaganda

Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen)—This woman. I have been obsessed with her for years. I know the urban legend is a popular one at this point of her walking around set in her underwear when her pants were stolen and she was left with only a skirt, but the pants thing is honestly enough for her to be the hottest in the room in my book. She refused to wear anything else at a time when the public in general and especially the studios did not like that. She was independent, stubborn, and so so very capable. Competency kink anyone? Also, if you want one final way that Katharine's entire life was saying "fuck you" to the establishment, it started young! Her mother took her to suffrage events, and she never got rid of that attitude of justice. I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of all the ways she was such a badass that I'm turning into a rambling mess instead.

Gene Tierney (Laura, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Leave Her to Heaven)— The class, the elegance. The way she walks into frame and immediately all focus is on her. She had a pretty lengthy struggle with mental health that she describes in her book, which I think made her all the more sensitive in portraying characters like in leave her to heaven. Also she dumped JFK so

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Katharine Hepburn propaganda:

I'm sure one million people will submit her as an iconic Hollywood star but that iconicness might lead people to forget just how insanely hot she was like she had it ALL she was skilled she was funny she was smart she was beautiful AND she was likely bisexual

The single word I would use to explain Katherine Hepburn's appeal is *range*. In her acting career, that meant covering all the ground between lush period dramas and the comedies she did with Carey Grant and Spencer Tracey. In terms of hotness, it meant an uncanny ability to bring anything from a Dietrich-esque androgyny to some of the best Classic Hollywood Glamour you will ever see.

Katharine hep was so cool. The VIBES, the INDEPENDENCE,,, living life on her own terms.

she just had this.... bearing to her, this power. she could be funny, even silly (like in bringing up baby) but also so regal and elegant. she was nobody's fool and dear GOD that's so hot

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She’s not only stunningly gorgeous (those eyes that pierce your soul! a jawline you could cut glass with!) but her delivery and physical presence in roles gives off confidence and authority in such a sexy way (truly the biggest dick energy of Old Hollywood). Her fiery energy in The Philadelphia Story? Unmatched.

God she's. She's so hot y'all. She has the range!!!!! Funny and dramatic and lovely

She IS the transatlantic accent. Classically gorgeous and such a strong personality.

She's literally one of the funniest women to ever live! She goes shot for shot with Cary Grant in Philadelphia Story and we damn well love her for it! She's the most annoying creature to ever live in Bringing Up Baby but she's so insane and funny that we simply cannot help but fall in love with her (and root for her to give Grant an aneurysm!)

i know she's accounted for but i really want to be sure someone has submitted the scene in bringing up baby where she's pretending to be a gangster

She simply stuns onscreen; you cannot do anything but be captivated by her presence. Also a non-gender-conforming icon and mild tumblr celebrity by virtue of that one picture from The Warrior's Husband (stage play).

Katharine Hepburn was out here casually changing the lives of young butch lesbians with her gender swag! She wore pants even when people said she shouldn’t, she refused to marry or have kids, and she wore menswear in at LEAST one movie!

If I start thinking about her face for too long I will cry she is so so hot. Katherine is so charismatic and charming in everything she appears in - watch her adopt a leopard and fall in love with her. Also she has the biggest dick energy ever (she and her pal Lauren Bacall share that accolade). Also had an incredibly long and varied career from screw ball comedies to serious dramas - she’s a queen of the screen and I adore her.

Someone's got to mention it, but she's won the most Oscars out of any performer and is largely considered one of the greatest actresses ever. She's got an incredible voice, an incredible presence, and she absolutely steals every scene she's in. She was private person and deemed standoffish and unapproachable, but she was also profoundly concerned for people's rights and was an outspoken supporter of abortion access. Finally, the Katharine Hepburn slacks look is just iconic. I mean look at her.

(I hope someone else submits real propaganda but just in case they don't:) Cries. Screams. Wails. The woman who singlehandedly made me realize I was bi. A real "do i want to look like her. be her. or be with her.' crisis, where the answer was all three. Holy shit please all three.

Gene Tierney:

The entire plot of Laura is that a guy has to become completely obsessed with a woman after just seeing her portrait. This only works because Gene was cast in the role. I 10000% believe anyone could fall in love after seeing her face.

Those eyes! Just look at those eyes! She’s at her hottest in Leave Her To Heaven— I literally want her to ruin my life.

Absolute grade-A babe, she is the perfection incarnate.

Gene Tierney was beautiful, poised, intense. I associate her with roles where she was murderous or an intelligent woman being patronized to - like a woman on the edge! As far as I am concerned, she deserved to do whatever she wanted.

She had a slight overbite which was amazingly sexy, and a throaty voice that was very memorable as well. She’s terrific in Laura, which reminds me I should watch it again.

EYES!! Her diabolical acting in Leave Her to Heaven is just perfect, Rosamund Pike definitely took notes for her Gone Girl from her.

Oscar-nominated and simply one of the most beautiful women to ever walk this Earth.

Absolutely stunning. In Leave Her to Heaven, she reaches Rosamund-Pike-in-Gone-Girl levels of “holy fucking shit?!?!?!” She had a fling with JFK in the ‘40s and also dated the exes of Rita Hayworth and Hedy Lamarr (Prince Aly Khan and W. Howard Lee, respectively). Sadly, her daughter was born with a disability (during a time in which there were few good mainstream options for disabled children and their parents), likely because of a fan who was sick with measles and went out of her way to meet Tierney (who was pregnant) anyway. Topical! Sure would be good if people stayed home when they were sick! Anyway, she was also a Republican, which sucks. Laura and Leave Her to Heaven are great viewing though.

#i think the photos used + demographics of tumblr users is gonna cause bias #because katharine hepburn looks like so much of a lesbian in that photo