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iamanartichoke · 9 months
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.
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starry-bi-sky · 26 days
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i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.
He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.
And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.
And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.
Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.
Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."
There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.
It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.
Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.
At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.
"Do you like to do anything?"
Nothing. Just silence.
Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.
Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.
Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.
And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.
He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.
Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.
So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.
"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"
"Don't."
He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.
Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"
"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."
It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"
The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."
Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."
And they fall back into silence.
Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."
He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.
(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)
At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.
Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.
("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")
(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)
(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)
It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."
The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."
The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.
When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.
Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.
"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."
When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.
Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.
#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc prompt#man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two#bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives#or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another#this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b#i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode#danny is the first son#tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand#Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it#Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to#them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad.#oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores#out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant#distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for#safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a#fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap#most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than#sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said#'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you'#danny doesn't know he's batman btw#starry rambles.#was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if#anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it#and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta
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timslaughlin · 3 months
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Tim's home in San Francisco
Based on his address, seen here:
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Neighborhood:
20th Street is located in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. It is "serenely nestled in the middle of the Mission District". It is on the eastern side of San Francisco.
During the 1960s, Potrero Hill became a hub for many artists and members of the LGBT community. It was desirable for its location and affordable rent at the time. It was a thirteen minute bike ride from 20th Street to Castro-Mission Health Center.
Also, just some fun information: 20th Street is also a six minute car ride to San Francisco General Hospital. By foot, it's eighteen minutes. By bike, it's five minutes. I'll bet Jerome let Hawk borrow a bike so he could get there as fast as possible.
Congressional Districts:
From February 18, 1964 to January 3, 1975, his congressional district was the 5th district.
Then, due to redistricting in 1975, from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1993, his congressional district was the 6th district.
During the 60s, 70s, and early 80s, his congressmen were brothers Phillip and John Burton. From 1983 and onward, his congresswoman was Barbara Boxer. All three of them were democrats.
State Senatorial Districts:
From January 2, 1967 to November 30, 1976, his senatorial district was the 9th district.
Due to redistricting in 1976, from December 6, 1976 to November 30, 1984, his senatorial district was the 5th district.
Due to redistricting again in 1984, from December 3, 1984 to November 30, 1996, his senatorial district was the 3rd district. His state senator was Milton Marks, who served as both a republican and democrat.
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specterthief · 5 months
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skateboard yuri part 3 ft. miya! she's small and doing her best (as with langa her S outfit is unchanged, particularly since it's apparently cosplay in the first place)
the lineup is growing
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countess-of-edessa · 5 months
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the thing about taking advice from anyone on tiktok or instagram including catholic and christian type influencers, parenting advice, relationship advice, etc, or internalizing any stories of horrible relationships and betrayal people tell on those platforms, or reading about all the ways interpersonal relationships can end horribly and be cycled through extremely quickly on those platforms is that you are necessarily then consuming the thoughts and experiences of someone who is willing to put their face and name on a public social media platform to talk at you. and like 1% of those people have a good reason for doing so and the other 99% are completely unhinged. so everything you’re consuming has first gone through the filter of "is this person weird and insane enough to make Instagram reels of themselves crying?" and if the answer is yes maybe their advice doesn’t apply to your life because you’re a normal person who would not do that.
#i don’t know if this makes sense but it’s something i was thinking about today#not that i really live my life according to Instagram reel advice but as a human being when i see something stated as fact i naturally seek#out the parts of it I believe or compare it to my current worldview#and when that person seems to have a lot of “clout” for discussing spiritual things….idk sometimes I’m like wait is this true? should i#believe this? and other times I’m like well is this a real pattern of behavior that can be observed in many people from different walks of#life including my own? this thing that all men do or all women do or the way all couples will eventually behave#this makes it sound like i am constantly on social media consuming hours of content which im really not#I’ll be on a train and scroll a little bit and something gets stuck in my craw#but with me I’m always like am i rationalizing this away because i don’t want it to resonate?#and I think in the case of anything on social media the answer can almost always be no#because im like wait. why would i take advice from someone who has a public Instagram account#im not saying a stopped clock isn’t right twice a day but really how much of my perspective and life experiences can they share in#when we have this totally totally mismatched worldview#(i mean this also applies to basically anyone offering any type of life advice who isn’t catholic about that)#(but when they are Catholics doing this that gives me slightly more pause for obvious reasons I’m like we are on the same team though?)#(and we are but only kind of and i do not have to listen to you because being an Instagram influencer is still cringe in 99% of cases.)
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thornheartless · 2 months
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Occasionally loveposting about Nada on main instead of my selfship sideblog for me is the equivalent of firing a gun into the air to keep rent down. We're feral about fictional characters here, real ones only please!
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τραγῳδίες | Goat Songs
Sophokles tr. Anne Carson // Aeschylus tr. Robert Icke // Franny Choi // Quora answer // Richard Siken // source not found // Muse Lee & Aaron Reed // Richard Siken
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loki-zen · 1 year
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i don’t want this to feel like a dig at anyone specific (but it’s hard when you have my kind of memory/brain, that will be prompted to think/write about such things only when an example has recently come up), but tumblr pet peeve of mine:
when I mention something, or in particular when I mention not knowing the answer to something or pondering something, and somebody chimes in with “well, I took five minutes to google about it (or five minutes to wildly speculate hypothesise about it), and it’s probably this!”
because.. and like if we don’t really know each other i guess you have no way of knowing this, but. I can google. I have a postgraduate degree in looking shit up, as it happens. I can speculate. If it’s on my mind enough to Post about it, then I almost certainly have done all of that already.
And I’m really interested in what you have to say! But only if you’ve put at least as much thought/effort into it as I have. and ideally more, so I can learn things from you!
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torchickentacos · 1 year
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hot take but I think that those youtubers who 'expose' alleged mental illness or medical condition fakers are doing more harm for the rhetoric surrounding mental illness-and the people who really have it-than the people supposedly faking it to begin with.
#i mean neither are good but like#what they do is set a precedent of doubt whenever someone makes (mental) illness claims#it sets a precedent of finding and uncovering people who fake it and is just very bad imo.#inevitably i think this makes life ahrder for people who experience these conditions#especially for those who myabe have it but don't check off every symptom#and have to worry about maybe being seen as a faker since they don't have the msot extreme or visible case#idk. just rambling#worth noting this usually goes for things i do not have so i cannot in detail give opinions on specific diagnoses that this trend applies t#to*#however i do stand by this opinion as of right now#at worst. fakers spread misinformation and monetize/benefit from mental illness they do not have#at worst the people who expose this set a societal and online culture revolving around finding out who's REALLY got things#and who REALLY experiences it#which just. is icky. you aren't entitled to knowing anything about anyone's medical history.#plus imo if someone goes out of their way to fake something for attention then. there's probably a mentally ill brain doing it#like ok you don't have whatever you're claiming but like. mentally well people don't fake things like that usually#is this a cold take?????? like if i'm wrong then i AM open to other opinions and i'll change mine#but my initial opinion on this is it icks me out#inabber this is a pointed message. iirc he also made amber heard jokes#which like. i think no matter what side you're on with that#maybe. don't joke about domestic abuse. or alleged abuse if that's your stance on it.#like either way that's just shitty#ANYWAYS.
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the dustox thing
Okay I'm gonna stop being sassy for a minute and actually talk about this because i dont want people to actually get angry at me. Anyone who is capable of raising a wurmple into a beautifly is capable of raising and managing a dustox. I am not saying this out of malice or contempt, this is basically fact. Let me explain. First things first, wurmple evolve extremely quickly. You barely have to do any training before they build their cocoon, and it's usually only a week or two before they emerge. Despite what some people seem to think, bug pokemon like this don't just lose their survival instincts when you feed them for a little bit. In fact, that's EXACTLY what we do for endangered pokemon. You take in some newborns, protect and raise them, and then set them free. That's like... the entire thing that zoos do. Did you guys's elementary schools not do that thing where you raise some caterpie? Secondly, dustox care is shockingly easily, especially relative to Beautifly. Dustox eat a diet entirely consisting of tree leaves. Unless you live in an area filled entirely with trees that are toxic to bug pokemon, you're not gonna have a hard time raising one. Beautifly actually require a TON of care, because they eat pollen and nectar - which requires a substantial flower population to maintain - and they can get injured if you look at them the wrong way. (Seriously, look at some beauty contest fails online. It's kind of pathetic.) And finally, the poison dust thing. The petalburg woods are filled with hundreds if not thousands of dustox. The petalburg woods are also an extremely common place for children to explore and encounter wild pokemon. Do you know what would make those things completely incompatible? If dustox could poison kids to death just by flying by them. Dustox poison is there to deter predators. Unless youre eating a handful of the stuff (which yes, some teens do and it sends them to the hospital) you aren't going to be hurt by it. So no, a kid who catches a wurmple trying to get a beautifly isn't at risk of death just because the cocoon was purple rather than white. In conclusion, stop catching wurms because you want the flying thing with a bunch of colors. Know what you're doing when you catch a pokemon to raise, and if it matters that much to do just catch a silcoon or fully evolved beautifly.
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bumblebeebats · 10 months
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The IRS LOOOVE to ask me questions like
Have you ever:
never not received dividends of a divisionary nature through the operation of a state or federal corporal mutual fund, and paid pecuniary expenses related to Article 805A(b).e, or
been gifted more than $2,000,000 cash or the equivalent in yachts or racing horses from a foreign monarch, and
not been actively involved in assessing fewer than two digital assets prior to 2021, or not more that two non-relational nontaxable assets after Jun 7th, 2022 (see Schedule 8, box 17a)
☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Other
#& before anyone tries to recommend me some nice simple online tax preparation thing; srry but i am legally not allowed to#bc I'm a dual citizen living abroad 🙃 So I have to pay an accountant $500/year to fill it out for me instead#Hey Americans! Did u know if you ever permanently move abroad you actually still have to file US tax returns for the rest of your life?#And report the balances of all your bank accounts to the US government? With potential fines of tens of thousands of dollars#PER year PER form that you don't fill out?#Fun fact: this also applies in many many cases if you were born abroad to a US parent and have never even been to the US!!!#Fun fact: the US government doesn't tell you this! There are thousands of people all over the world#who are considered tax evaders by the US and stand to be immediately arrested or fined the minute they set foot on US soil!!!#Most of this is hardly ever enforced ofc bc the IRS simply doesn't have the manpower to do so#but it's a handy little sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every US citizen all over the world#so that if anyone ever steps out of line - whoopsieee! looks like you haven't been filing your FBARs huh?#Would be a pity if you were extradited and arrested for tax evasion :)#One more fun fact: apart from the US the only other country to require lifelong taxation and tax filing from its citizens abroad is Eritrea#a totalitarian dictatorship with one of the worst human rights records in the world#But thank god the America is such a paragon of freedom and democracy <3 🙃🙃🙃
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donthugmeimscared · 2 months
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Idfwu if u don't say thank u to nice cashiers after ur transaction
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shopcat · 5 months
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YOU KNOWWW i think. people need to be more comfortable with just not liking things and using their big grown up words. like you can have serious real world reasons to hate a piece of media whether it be in content or the creator or even just the annoying fanbase or that it's currently popular and therefore Everywhere but the way people go about this entire thing as a whole is just so fucking weird to me atp
like the whole thing with "irredeemable media" is insane even if i and i would say most of us agree there ARE things you can't be a fan of without either embracing or dismissing real world bigotry and enacting harm but jesus christ man sometimes you can just tell people are treating their little tumblr mutuals circles as a Perfect pure circle of untouched perfect media and then the kicker is half of the shit that circle are into is equally as ~Problematic~ as whatever it is they're blocking people over ...
like curate ur online space or whatever but can you at least self reflect a little or something and realise it isn't a morality race of who gets into heaven first for posting about something on fucking tumblr. i have no idea how people actually care this much about something to be honest. people will also defend nonstop their own right to the "critical consumption" of something but then literally flatline the inability to process maybe other people do that too as well...
like practically everything made on earth has flaws and valid criticisms that should be addressed and not ignored + people have different levels of tolerance and intolerance to something that isn't more or less valid than someone else's bc we all have different lived experiences and are in fact unique individuals + there is no such thing as a pure piece of media that only good people like. and i find it deeply stupid to encourage this but never actually apply it ?? like being critical of something has somehow just turned into "everyone who likes this is now x and y/happily supports x and y and because i've said that i'm now a good person" and it's literally just tumblr.com/dashboard the whole time 😭 anyway like once again i literally have severe ocd and the autism morality and even i'm not as black and white as some of the ppl on this site that's crazy...
#🐾#this could apply to literallt so much which is the entire point but like i don't know#like a lot of the things i like have glaring flaws some more prominent than others#and some more EXAGGERATED than others ...#and i do have a threshold for what i consider acceptable to continue being a fan of smth for but man. it's crazy#and even then i'm not a fucking loser and if someone posts about it i'm not going to banish them to hell for it bc it doesn't matter#unless it's smth particularly bad but like ykwim#LIKE OKAY wrt our flag the criticism of using actual historical figures is like obviously perfectly normal to have#but it's also like. that criticism applies to all ''pirate'' media and is not unique to our flag#but what is unique to it is it's not even a historically accurate show like come on they say ''lol'' and half of them wear modern clothes😭#there's people that exist that didn't exist irl for like a hundred years it's a stupid comedy using a baseline#and i DO think it's still a valid criticism bc yeah it's true they could've used it as inspo and made their own characters#but like. they did anyway. it's a fantasy ahistorical retelling that the creator acknowledges is nothing like the real world counterparts#and the creator also CONDEMNS the real life counterparts and the actors don't even know anything about them#and with that i think the only issue is the continuation of acting like those men were good people and shit like those idiots who left#flowers on one of their graves bc of the show. ridiculous shit#and i also know the nature and history of woobification and how it affects this i just don't think it's really the case Tbh#also end of the day like 90% of the people who hate it so just hate it for being annoying so just like fucking say that don't be a pussy#also i'm not being condescending when i say the different tolerances thing like#i think anyone can have entirely reasonable reasons to hate something and honour hating it and such#but then i think acting like everyone on earth cannot possibly hold space for that whilst continuing to be a fan and respectfully being#actually in the literal sense Critical as in Having criticism then it tends to snowball#like no one has to be comfortable with anything it's literally fine
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i-wakeupstrange · 2 months
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just remembered that bnl's catchy little song about being groomed (shoebox) was, like, pretty popular
but no one listened to the lyrics
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ghostlypawn · 9 months
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can someone help me find a quote i saw on twitter a few weeks ago i think it was from midnight mass and was about something about raindrops and prayers and how the sound of rain must be how god hears our prayers???????/
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peribytes · 1 year
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it’s sooo weird that if people aren’t seen as feminine enough, their perceived Certified Woman card gets taken away. as a nonpassing transman i couldn’t tell you how many times i’ve been called a man or ‘sir’ in public, not in the knowing, respectful way but intended as an insult.
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