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Nora! Darling! Sugar! Happy New Year! WILLIAM POWELL and MYRNA LOY in AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)

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Nora! Darling! Sugar! Happy New Year! WILLIAM POWELL and MYRNA LOY in AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)

#nick charles #nora charles #myrna loy #william powell

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2022 really looks like a fake number yknow what i mean

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Wait for it…

Wait for it…

Wait for it…

Missed it by………..ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT (1.4%)

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Betty baby hope you are having an absolutely off the shits new year in whatever afterlife there is with your husband like that guys wife in that one reddit post.

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My heart is so heavy and sad😔😭💔

#betty white #2021 just had to throw in one more blow huh?

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Like, people who identify as Queer know the word is used like a slur. Trust me, we know.

So when we say “queer is a slur” was started by terfs, maybe use some critical thinking and try to understand what we mean. That is, if you actually care about queer people and the damage terfs do, rather that just screaming “queer is a slur!” and ignoring the actual point.

Terfs did not like that queer was reclaimed. End of. This is a fact. Queer was too broad, too accepting, and embraced all the people they wanted gone. And I know y'all exclusionists feel the same but get pissed when we point it out so you deny it, but sit down and listen for a minute.

Queer was the preferred term for poc. For bisexuals. For trans people. For people with multiple identities. It neatly encapsulated everything, and was a friendly community to those who felt thrown under the bus by mainstream LGBT activism. It was a political and social statement, “you treated my like I was different and weird, and guess what? I am and that’s something to be proud of.”

So the response? “You can’t use that word. Its bad. Its a slur.”

And at the time, a lot of people rolled their eyes. Everyone knew why they didn’t like the word and brushed that off. It was fine.

So they started more subtly. “Just so you know this word is very harmful and is a slur so be careful how you use it :))) in case you didn’t know :)))) its a slur :))) friendly reminder :))) for the sake of other people of course :))))” type shit on every post involving the word, including and especially posts simply mentioning self identification.

Always worded in friendly, concerned ways, like the derailment was meant to be nice and considerate, and not about normalizing their rhetoric.

And what happened because of that was a younger generation of community kids growing up with these statements being thrown at them and absorbed on every. Single. Post. That. Mentionioned. Queer.

The result? That same generation of kids cutting it all short, removing the meant-to-be-palatable niceness, to just say “queer is a slur.”

Exactly how it was originally intended. “Queer is a slur.” People drop on posts where young queer people talk about it being a self identifier that actually fits them. “Its a slur,” they comment, with nothing else, on posts they clearly didn’t read past that word, written by people twice their age who had reclaimed it before they were even born.

Its nasty. Its disgusting. It’s plain old bigotry, whether the people saying know it or not. It is a terf tactic, plain and simple.

And no one wants to deny that it is indeed used as a slur (right along with all the rest of our identities.) No one wants to be insensitive and force it on people who haven’t reclaimed it.

But invading queer people’s posts to spit “queer is a slur” is flat out queerphobic. You do the dirty work of terfs, of cis straight oppressors, by saying in one simple sentence: “its a dirty word, there is no pride in it, you haven’t/can’t reclaim(ed) it.”

And regardless of your actual intentions, when you do this, that is EXACTLY what you are communicating and doing.

“Queer is a slur” is a terf movement. Stop fucking supporting terfs just because you want to pretend like it isn’t.

#queer #lgbtq+

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Leverage Rewatch: 1.06 The Stork Job

#those tags have me dying #i love this scene #leverage #sophie devereaux #the stork job

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Day Two Reveals

Several Yelp! Reviews of the Bridge~Port BrewPub [Podfic], Wednesday Waivers [Podfic], Peace Comes Dropping Slow [Podfic] for NienteZero

(we’ll) be home for christmas for Dee_in_between

Not Afraid to Fall (In Love) for mewCoyote

Invasion for Even_In_Winter

Just Guys Being Dudes for Sivan325

Physical Hacks for benjaminrussell

The Pneumonia Job for GinnyBloomPotter

Changing Relationship Status for sunflowerbi

Off the Grid for AlannaofRoses

The Family Job for Innytoes

Orientation for cminerva

When You’ve Done all the Normal Stuff for Dreaming_in_Circles

#leverage #leverage fic #leverage secret santa

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Part of Apple's new terms include "do not post incorrect things about religious texts" but even scholars of religious texts often disagree on the actual content or intent behind them. Apple has therefore declared itself the arbiter of the true word of God. 🤔

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Day One Reveals

You’re Gonna See Me Rise for Corriebird

Living with the Leverages for Distracted

Halloween Trio for  kiss_me_cassie

4 times the team see Eliot’s wings + 1 time he does for  LeanMeanSaltineMachine

Five Holidays for praycambrian

Sight Reading Between the Lines for Plotbunnyhunter

My friends have scars, not stars for meils121

a good day for biscuits for paperairplanesopenwindows

Risk (Gunpowder) for MoonlightBreeze

Our Mr. Wilson for seraphina_snape

The Little Sister’s First Job for sternenblumen

Something More for Souless_robot

Steal Your Heart Away for vapiddreamscape

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Today in Amusing Middle English, I came across an adjective meaning “noble” or “lovely” or “beautiful”. It can also mean, in various contexts, “graceful,” “lush,” “splendid,” “mirthful,” or “majestic”.

The adjective in question is “wlonk”.

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too many people prayed for the world to NOT end in 2012 and god panicked and started pulling out rough drafts. bonus years. side quests and horror stories. he dug up his flop era and started posting it for all to see. you fangirled too hard and now earth is running ten seasons past a perfectly written ending using unlikeable background characters and resurrecting terrible plot lines. congratulations you’ve supernaural’d the earth.

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