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livelovecaliforniadreams · 1 year

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youngestdaughteroftheuniverse · 1 year

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Doctor Who - The Happiness Patrol (1988)

#doctor who #classic who #doctor who classic #the happiness patrol #seventh doctor #ace mcshane #my gifs #i love this episode so much #and this quote #seven always had the best lines #might gif more of this episode idk

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ashtrayfloors · 1 year

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One of the clearest memories that I have of my first relationship is lying in bed with my then-girlfriend, our bodies intertwined and pressed together as closely as possible. In that moment, my most fervent desire was that she and I could somehow be even closer. That we could exist physically together without any boundary or separation. I still feel that familiar pang sometimes: the hunger for impossible intimacy, a desire to be known completely without first having to be seen and scrutinized. As I have come to know myself better, this fantasy of perfect intimacy has revealed itself to be inextricably intertwined with the problem of gender. Gender, among its other applications, is the primary framework through which desire and romantic intimacy are understood. We are gay or straight or bisexual or pansexual or asexual: we desire men, or women, or all genders, or no one at all. But if I am nothing, if I am without gender, how can I ever be desired? Is intimacy possible—that is, is it legible as intimacy—without some kind of interplay between femininity and masculinity?

—Carrow Narby, from “Indescribable” (It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, The Feminist Press, 2022)

#quotations #carrow narby #it came from the closet #gender #sexuality #intimacy #recently read #though carrow is agender and i am not #as a nonbinary person i relate to a lot of what carrow wrote in this essay #just like all the stuff about how as any kind of non-binarily-gendered person (whether that's no gender or many or fluidity etc.)#you can't opt out of gender entirely or even make yourself necessarily legible as your gender/lack thereof #because people are still going to ascribe their idea(l)s of masculinity/femininity onto you #and this quote #the stuff about wanting to be so close to another person that you meld into one?#yeah i have definitely felt that

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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"I'd rather serve as a knight and ride to battle and glory"

Medea, Euripides// GOT's House of the dragon 1.01 The Heirs Of The Dragon

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daily-spooky · 1 month

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emotionalwords · 4 months

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i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

#Words #emotional words #lit #quotes #life quotes #spilled ink

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octoberloved · 8 months

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ur-daily-inspiration · 1 month

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#art #draw #drawing #words #quotes #books #book quotes #flowers #flowercore #naturecore #cottagecore #aesthetic #artists on tumblr

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septemberkisses · 4 months

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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soracities · 2 months

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #typography #essays and articles #id included #ismatu gwendolyn #youve been traumatized into hating reading and it makes you easier to oppress #threadings #m #x

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lucidloving · 7 months

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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notbecauseofvictories · 3 months

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A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

#no wonder the company has to secretly manipulate you #(which is my career tag; it is a quote from a tv show fyi)#(there was some confusion about that! it's from better off ted. just. so you know.)

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becomingvecna · 5 months

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