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The song My Lover Man by Bruce Springsteen is going to Super Hell for all kinds of queer crimes and non toxic masculinity crimes

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#Bruce Springsteen #my lover man #super hell #song #this song is so gay #it doesn’t matter how it was intended #it’s al about how it came out #pun intended

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I’m Meggie. Both my grandmothers were named Margaret, but one went by Megan and the other Maggie so that makes me Meggie. 🤷🏼‍♀️

tag game: what would your name be if your parents had named you like edward and bella named renesmee (renée + esme) 

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Can Americans please not bring Irish Gaelic names into white names discourse?

Irish is the native language of Irish people. It’s an ancient language that is on the brink of extinction as a direct result of colonialism and cultural and physical genocide.

Names like Saoirse (freedom), Áine (radiant), Aoife (beautiful) etc are traditional Irish names. They’re spelt “funny” because Irish is a different language from English, and has some sounds that aren’t found in the English language.

It’s not the same thing as edgy white Americans naming their kid Kathylyn instead of Kathleen to try to be different

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You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) by Bruce Springsteen is going to super hell for ace crimes

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#you can look (but you better not touch) #bruce springsteen #the river #super hell #your fave is going to super hell #ace crimes #it’s ace #because I’m ace and gay and I say so

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Holyhead is 100% real. I’m from there.

But it’s not British. Technically. It’s on Holy Island, which is off Ynys Môn (or if you’re English, Anglesey), which is off Britain; the Welsh part. Which uh... used to be a lot more Welsh. 😒

I’ll explain further.

You see, you have the British Isles

Then you have the United Kingdom

And then you have Great Britain itself

And this is Wales, one of the Home Nations

I hope that explains it; we in Holyhead are 100% Welsh. We are definitely from the UK (for now). We are from the British Isles. We can be called British. But we are not British. Technically.

Also, it’s not a great place to live. I have no idea why people romanticise it so much on this hellsite. I wanna get out of here while I can - it’s literally my biggest wish. So many boarded up shops. So many shut down factories still not demolished because they can’t as the toxins released in demolition would kill us all. Such high rates of cancer. So many shut down schools turned into unaffordable holiday homes for the English. So many illicit drugs. My neighbours are all drug dealers, terrorists, child molesters, granny bashers, and burglars. I want out. I hate it here.

Things in the HP series that as a kid I thought were part of the fictional worldbuilding but turned out were actually just British

Things that, when I was eight years old, I thought were part of the fictional magical world, but I later learned were actually just British:

—Prefects/Head Boys. In the first few books I was actually pretty confused as a kid about what exactly prefects were and what their job was, which in hindsight should have clued me in that the author didn't invent them. There's never really a point where it stops and explains prefects, it assumes you're already familiar with the concept.

—School Houses. For the longest time I thought that was just another example of the wizarding world being backward and illogical, partly because it's such an on-its-face horrible idea (who the hell looked at teenagers and decided they needed more petty tribalism about arbitrary bullshit?), but it turns out that's a real thing British schools do.

— Treacle Tart. I thought this was like Pumpkin Pasties or Cauldron Cakes, I found out this was a real thing like last year. Still have never actually seen one.

— The town of Holyhead. I thought it was a fictional magical village like Hogsmeade, but turns out it's a real place.

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It’s my birthday today! (Aug 7th)

not a dream

If today is your birthday, happy birthday to you!

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Cymraeg dw i hefyd

This is absolutely happening. The Crime and Policing Bill is real, yo. It even bans one person protests. It’s seriously disturbing.

In unequivocal terms, the UK is a police state. We have just lost our right to protest (if they are deemed ‘annoying’ - which will be interpreted to be any protest the government doesn’t like). This means anyone in the UK might face prison for exercising our right to protest. 

Please, please I’m begging non UK folks- to simply know this.

If the right to protest was lost in the US it’d be all over the internet. But nobody is here for UK folks. 

This is just as trans people and gay people and marginalised races and poor people are being hit with economic and social harm and are more likely to protest. 

Know about us- make sure the UK government is shamed for what it is doing. In the meantime, the UK citizens have some violence to plan. 

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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album is going to super hell for various gay crimes including having protest songs on it, having a few songs be pretty sexy, the misunderstood nature of the title song, and of course the album cover itself - which is definitely not straight.

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#I had to do this #bruce springsteen #the boss #born in the USA #super hell #gay crimes #your fave is going to super hell #sorry Bruce Springsteen #I still love you

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I want one of these.

#ooo

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Doesn’t mean the LGB Alliance isn’t a transphobic hate group. Because it is. There is a T in LGBT+ for a reason. Also, the LGB Alliance, despite having a B in there, isn’t so fond of bi people either. It’s just transphobic, biphobic, aphobic, enbyphobic homosexuals. And TERFs. Of course. This is TERFland we’re talking about.

Just because you’re part of one minority, doesn’t mean you can’t oppress another.

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Disgraceful that the UK Charity Commission has granted a hate group charity status - but it also doesn’t comply with their own regulation.

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I believe I’ve posted about this before at some point. But I so hate how Americans use Welsh names incorrectly (Bronnwynn is not a name. Brynn is not a name, nor is Bryn a girls name - also, it means hill. Seren is not short for Serena. Dylan is not pronounced like Dillon). This is my culture and it’s being stolen and disrespected. If you’re going to use Welsh names, please, do it properly. Learn the the spelling. Learn the pronunciation. Learn the significance.

Colonialism stinks.

Can Americans please not bring Irish Gaelic names into white names discourse?

Irish is the native language of Irish people. It’s an ancient language that is on the brink of extinction as a direct result of colonialism and cultural and physical genocide.

Names like Saoirse (freedom), Áine (radiant), Aoife (beautiful) etc are traditional Irish names. They’re spelt “funny” because Irish is a different language from English, and has some sounds that aren’t found in the English language.

It’s not the same thing as edgy white Americans naming their kid Kathylyn instead of Kathleen to try to be different

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Oh my god. I loved this show when I was a teen. I wondered what happened to it. And then I just... forgot about it.

Absolutely gonna seek it out again.

Why are they kissing through plastic wrap? o:

oh my god you dont know what pushing daisies is!!!! people dont know what pushing daisies is!!!!! oh my GOD anon strap in

okay picture this

Brian Fuller’s original 2007 magical realism romantic comedy with a dash of morbidity (after all, this is Brian Fuller we’re talking abt) & fairytale elements

as this review describes: “Characters & plot like Lemony Snicket, sets like Tim Burton, shots like Wes Anderson, rapid witty dialogue like Gilmore Girls, and costumes like uh, frickin’ magic.” 

everything is Super Saturated All The Time and the costume design is literally flawless

starring: asexual bakery man, very tall very kind and himbo-adjacent, has low-level necromantic powers named Ned

Ned is, for convoluted reasons, the accomplice of a film noir detective named after a fish (Emerson Cod) who looks like a hardass but secretly loves pop-up books and knitting

Ned the bakery man is a Piemaker and works in and owns a building that looks like this

(there are novelty cherry lighting fixtures)

he has a dog, who is undead, bc aforementioned necromantic bakery boy has the unique skill of being able to touch dead things and bring them back to life 

he and Emerson Cod touch murder victims, ask them who killed them, and then collect the reward. easy get-money-quick-scheme, UNTIL

Ned’s childhood crush and my life’s icon, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, gets murdered on a cruise

he touches her once (ONCE) and is never able to touch her again, lest his necromantic powers zap her back to death. hence:

contact-free romance ensues.

 I highly recommend the show for: asexuals, demisexuals, dog people, people who like pie, fashion & costume design enthusiasts, anyone who’s a fan of film noir, people who like pie and dogs and mermaids

literally this show is my absolute all time favorite PLEASE watch it

you can watch both seasons for free here

literally if you’ve ever cared for my opinion at all please watch at least the first episode i beg of u

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If you need a good laugh:

Just some tragically ill-informed men mansplaining the female body.

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That’s astronomy, and it’s a legitimate science as a branch of physics. It also uses maths and chemistry and it aims to study celestial bodies, such as stars, planets, nebulae, galaxies, comets, asteroids, black holes, and meteors, among other things, in order to understand the universe around us. Think NASA. Studying constellations, as in as they are in the sky, also falls under astronomy.

Astrology is star signs and zodiac stuff that claims to be what your entire personality is based around.

They’re, sadly, often confused with each other. So...

Astrology ≠ Astronomy.

Admitting my star sign was a mistake.

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You know you’re getting old when you hear the Pokémon theme and your first reaction is to burst out crying for your childhood.

#Pokémon #childhood #getting old #lol

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“With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands. There is power in a union.”

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I’m just going to leave this here before I get on with my day.

If you are a gay woman, especially if you are a cis lesbian, you need to understand that a lot of lesbian discourse is deeply rooted in transmisogyny, or else is just super transmisogynistic.

A lot of it, from terminology to things commonly said in support of lesbians. ‘Compulsory heterosexuality’ (coined by a TERF for TERFs), joking that you don’t want anything to do with a penis, equating penises to manhood, equating having a vagina to womanhood, any kind of biological essentialist garbage really (also popular in feminist circles), and loads of other garbage. And it’s recycled, often unknowingly, with the thought of empowering lesbians or making safer spaces for women.

It’s dangerous to trans women. And it is incredibly pervasive in lesbian communities, because TERFs have been sitting around lesbian communities for so long, spreading their hatred of trans women and their poisonous lines of thought. It sticks easily. It is so easy to pass on to more vulnerable people like younger lesbians, women who are scared they’re ‘not real lesbians’, any woman who’s ever been badly hurt by a man. They soak up the TERF rhetoric like a sponge because they want to be valid, because they don’t want to be hurt anymore. I should know. I was there before, at numerous times in my past, completely unaware of what was being spoonfed to me. It’s incredibly common, even in spaces that are supposedly TERF-free.

That’s why a lot of people, when they meet cis lesbians they don’t know, are cautious and may fear they’re meeting a TERF. This is not lesbophobia. This is not anti-feminism. This is a defense against exposing oneself to violent transmisogynists.

Even if you do not consider yourself a TERF, even if you are pretty sure you support trans women, you need to be aware of this. You need to pay attention when someone points out, “Hey, this is TERF stuff.” You need to listen. And you really don’t want to go trying to “reclaim” stuff created by TERFs if you’re a cis woman, because these things were not created for you and snatched away, these things were created as weapons and then handed to you so you could go do their bloody work.

Way too many people get hurt by perpetuating transmisogyny, and it needs to stop wherever grows. It takes more than saying “I am not a TERF” and “TERFs, don’t follow” on your blog description to do that.