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the best part of that david lynch interview is this: 

#daddy lynch

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reposting cause this got kicked from the tags. again. tumblr’s really testing me this fine morning. made with @somethingmissingthings​ ! link in the reblogs.

#i was described as #horny but artistically so #and as an ennneagram 4 ive never felt so validated

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“…people like Jesus and Paul were not executed for saying, “Love one another.” They were killed because their understanding of love meant more than being compassionate towards individuals, although it did include that. It also meant standing against the domination systems that rule their world, and collaborating with the Spirit in the creation of a new way of life that stood in contrast to the normalcy of the wisdom of this world. Love and justice go together. Justice without love can be brutal and love without justice can be banal. Love is the heart of justice and justice is the social form of love.”

— Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon (p.205)

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It also makes me miss the hell out of my ex so if you see this hope you’re doing well

Loneliness is one hell of a powerful emotion. I have been in a pretty deep dark pit of apathy for a few weeks now, and the only thing that has broken through and gotten me to feel something has been loneliness. I can’t say that I’m happy about that, but I do have to say that I am damn grateful. It has been the only thing to get my ass out of bed, the only thing to make me finish writing a god-awful paper, the thing that got me to cry for the first time in a few weeks.

And there may be something beautiful in that, right? Because I as a human am so programed to need other humans that the only thing that is capable of fighting my depressive state is loneliness. I can’t say that I’m having fun, or that I want to be where I’m at right now. But I will say that I am grateful to have a soul that is so oriented towards other people that needing them can save me from something dark.

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Loneliness is one hell of a powerful emotion. I have been in a pretty deep dark pit of apathy for a few weeks now, and the only thing that has broken through and gotten me to feel something has been loneliness. I can’t say that I’m happy about that, but I do have to say that I am damn grateful. It has been the only thing to get my ass out of bed, the only thing to make me finish writing a god-awful paper, the thing that got me to cry for the first time in a few weeks.

And there may be something beautiful in that, right? Because I as a human am so programed to need other humans that the only thing that is capable of fighting my depressive state is loneliness. I can’t say that I’m having fun, or that I want to be where I’m at right now. But I will say that I am grateful to have a soul that is so oriented towards other people that needing them can save me from something dark.

#michy rambles #loneliness #depression #apathy

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seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is.... u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020... and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov.... and it stars natalie portman.... okay

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open a new window somewhere in the world. 

#i saw a cat!!

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The neurodivergent experience is talking about your brain as if it's a separate entity from your self

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Greetings professor, I did not do your assignment because I am mentally ill

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You work as the minor villain every new hero has to beat for their first battle.

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HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

#blm

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I cannot wait to open my own coffee shop. It’s been a dream of mine since I started drinking coffee at the end of high school. The first coffee shop that I went to that wasn’t Starbucks was a tiny shop a few minutes from my house. My mom recommended it to me. Funny, now I know more about coffee than she cares about (but she always listens to me babble about it). That first sip I had of a blackberry latte, sitting on a cozy arm chair looking at local art was magic. 

I could do this forever. 

I practically lived there; a homeschooled teenager designing my own curriculum. I have read thousands of pages sitting in that same comfy armchair.

I could do this forever. 

My parents got me a Keurig, then a coffee machine, and then I started collecting my coffee kit. Beans from Ethiopia. A coffee sock for my pour over my boyfriend got for me. A vintage Chemex that a delightful lady at a farmers market practically gave me because she could see how passionate I was.

I love all everything to do with coffee. I love finding good beans and buying from places where ethical farming and payment is a top priority. I love the way coffee smells in the morning, the way my funky garage sale kettle hums rather than whistles. I love the long names that roll off my tonuge at a new coffee shop because that is what the barista recommended, and I saw their eyes light up like mine do.

More than that, I adore the community that coffee brings. It is truly sacred in so many ways and to so many people. A cup of coffee with a long lost friend, a mentor, a date. Studying for long hours with friends. Going to a shop so often that the baristas know your order by heart. There is something absolutely magical in the community that coffee brings.

I could do that forever.

I want a coffee shop that warmly welcomes everyone. It is going to be a safe place for people of color, for queer people, for those suffering from homelessness. For those who need a friend. I am going to have classes to get people back on their feet, lectures to enrich the lives of my community. I will hire felons, teenagers, anyone that society has dismissed. Together we are stronger. I cannot wait to have my own space to show that.

#coffee #coffee shop #hopes and dreams #rant #michy speaks #queer

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My dude I TOTALLY agree. I’ve just been wrestling with the question of ‘am I a pacifist or do I just want to protect others’ for Years and I think that’s my final conclusion. I respect the hell out of anyone who is truly and entirely nonviolent and also would love cartoons of them

I’m getting really tired of the wise serene pacifist trope in fiction. Every committed pacifist, prison abolitionist, antiwar activist, etc I’ve ever met in real life has been vibrating with compressed rage at all times. Do you know what it’s like to believe deeply in your heart that doing harm to others is wrong and the goal of society should be to alleviate suffering for all people and live in the United States of America? IT’S NOT FUN. Show Us The Pissed-Off Pacifists. 

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I’m getting really tired of the wise serene pacifist trope in fiction. Every committed pacifist, prison abolitionist, antiwar activist, etc I’ve ever met in real life has been vibrating with compressed rage at all times. Do you know what it’s like to believe deeply in your heart that doing harm to others is wrong and the goal of society should be to alleviate suffering for all people and live in the United States of America? IT’S NOT FUN. Show Us The Pissed-Off Pacifists. 

#see this is why I can't lable myself a pacifist #I believe in justice and fairness for all #so if I have to physically fight some people who disagree with that #get me a fucking sword

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I go to a VERY conservative Christian school (like, afraid to tell people I’m queer kinda place). I would rather walk up to a stranger and tell them that I am not female and not straight than not a virgin. I am a pretty strong Christian I would say, but this place freaks me out on so many levels.

People here get married YOUNG. Some of it’s good- my best friend is getting married this summer to her boyfriend of three years. They’re both 22. Their relationship is amazing and I know they’re going to be fine. But the divorce rate coming out of this school is staggering. People jump into relationships because they want to have sex. Most people truly believe that if you have sex before marriage you are a terrible person. I’ve heard people say that if you even masturbate, you’re going to hell. So of course people jump into marriages. It’s the only way that they feel that they can satisfy the (very normal) desire they have. And then life happens. They spend a few years outside of college and realize the person they married has changed, or they weren’t sexually compatible, or blah blah blah. It’s horrible and sad. Purity culture doesn’t leads to healthy relationships after marriage. It leads to divorce and heartbreak and shame. 

I personally can’t wait to have kids to try and teach them about sex in a more positive way. 

As someone who was exposed to a lot of problematic fic and porn very young, you are absolutely right and anyone who wants to hide all Bad Things™ from kids has (a) never met a kid and (b) is setting kids up to fail.

Yeeeeah. I’ve mentioned working with a lot of young Christian adults lately? And honestly, fandom’s purity culture is still only a pale echo of what churches teach all the time. Forget qualifiers like “deviant”–they’re teaching all the incredibly vulnerable children in their care that thinking about sex AT ALL under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES is a TERRIBLE HORRIBLE NO GOOD VERY BAD SIN.

Pastors will fend off suggestions that we, uh… educate them about sex in any way, shape, or form, since that makes them less vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation, by saying, “You might as well give them instructions on how to rob a bank!”

Like, my dudes and ma’ams… that would only be an apt comparison if you raised your children with the belief that their highest happiness in life was one day finding the perfect bank to rob and committing the perfect heist.

be gay do crime

In a system where marriage is set up as the highest goal of most people’s lives, teenagers are VERY ANXIOUS about learning how to succeed at it, and so many churches and parents feed them absolute HORSESHIT instead of concepts like… “If you’re not enjoying the sex you’re having you should probably talk to someone about it” and “It’s not your partner’s job to make you feel happy at all times and it’s a bad idea to get mad at them for failing to do this.”

And meanwhile we have so many fucking stories about people who did EVERYTHING RIGHT in this system and got absolutely robbed of any sort of healthy sexual relationship. I’m seriously not kidding when I say this is a system that routinely produces adults who are like, “I’m so ashamed… sometimes when I’m driving or working or whatever… I get aroused at the thought of tenderly making love to my husband/wife… I’ve asked God to take away these terrible feelings but I’m afraid I’m just tainted forever… My spouse would be so disgusted with me if he/she found out.”

And I’m sitting here like “Am I REALLY going to have to help someone come out as straight for the SECOND TIME THIS MONTH? Oh my god, I wanted to work in a Christian environment because I wanted to help LGBTQ+ Christians, but at least THEY fucking know their churches are full of shit on this topic! Somebody get in here and advocate for the sexual rights of cishets, Jesus help me.”

#sex #christianity #purity culture