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bigboppa01 · 8 months

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ewrthings-race-repair-repeat · 7 months

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Audi 200 quattro race car

#audi #quattro #turbo #trans am #scca #ingolstadt

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coolthingsguyslike · 7 months

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#Pontiac #Firebird #Trans Am #black #turbo blue

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hififotos · 2 months

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Pontiac Trans Am 4.9 Turbo (79-81)

#pontiac #trans am #4.9 #turbo #classic #1979 #1980 #1981 #brown #screaming chicken #hi-fi fotos #hallewell

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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year

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#Me with my new 1981 Turbo Trans Am #June 1981 #Jo-DQ #oldschool

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swordofthefang · 2 years

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How extra Pontiac people be acting when someone says Camaros are better than Firebirds and we immediately have to prove them wrong

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rabbitcruiser · 8 months

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Burt Reynolds died on September 6, 2018.

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dcmcboxers · 5 months

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My shout-out to queer youtubers

Hbombs list was great but obviously not comprehensive. I watch a lot of video essayists and wanted to give a little love to the smaller channels that fall under the radar. Please feel free to add to this list!

let's talk about stuff/Sarah Zedig

If you've seen Jesse Gender's videos on the Matrix movies you may already be familiar with Sarah. She does excellent film and culture analysis with a lot of great conversations on paratext and outside influence in engaging with text. Her video on Tunic is one of my favorites.

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Pamphleteer

No one makes videos like hers, which has the side effect making them a bit hard to describe. I will link one of my favorites which describes the disconnected temporality of being older when you discover you're queer.

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Turbo Queer

Really really under watched channel. Skylar covers a lot of topics from video games, to anarchist history and modern events, to autistic life, to current politics. For a fun one check out her video on the SpongeBob strike episode.

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Kaz Rowe

Kaz does a fantastic job examining modern myths and manufactured history primarily pertaining to western Europe, Victorian & Edwardian England, and 1800-1900s US. And of course, talking about historical queerness in all its ambiguities and evolutions. I highly recommend their video on Weimar Germany.

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drapetomania

drapetomania interrogates the politics of low class and high class art and entertainment from a queer and Black perspective. Their art history videos alone cover many angles of white supremacist history I haven't seen anyone else discuss and I'm very excited to see more from them. They are also a very under viewed channel that more people should see!

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I am error

Evelynn's channel primarily discusses video games in a presentation style and voice most similar to Action Button reviews. There's something just a bit more personal here though. I hesitate to say cozy since that word has a bit of an infantilizing connotation, maybe comforting is closer. She puts an immense amount of thought and empathy into the experience of playing video games and the personal narratives we build with them.

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Swolesome

For more transmasc perspectives there's Swolesome. He has a lot of interesting insights into the more traditionally masculine and "broish" communities like fitness as well as commentary on recent trans issues.

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Shonalika

Music, disability, and aggressively non-binary. Their video on gender presentation in heavy metal was really insightful. I would also check out the video "Why I Wear Gloves" for more insight on invisible disabilities.

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Vivian Strange

Vivian delights in being a bit of a contrarian- something I really appreciate. She's probably going to challenge you and you're probably going to disagree at times, which is what makes her channel so important. Her video on Marquis De Sade is powerful and a must watch (if you can stomach the subject material, although I would encourage you to try). I haven't seen her most recent video on Saw yet but I am extremely excited to.

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#hbomberguy #james somerton #kaz rowe #sarah zedig #i am error

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seat-safety-switch · 18 days

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You might have subway trains near you. What most people don't know is that a subway train is actually a cross-bred hybrid, between a naval submarine and a train. Getting this breeding to happen is an incredibly difficult task that requires tons of specialists, which is part of why subway trains are so rare. It's also kind of gross, if you ask me, but such candid discussion of this is beyond the scope of this article.

For years, when I had a productive life in the great rat race, I would ride the subway to work every day. After awhile, the childish joy of getting into a magic tube that shoots you across the city fades, to be replaced with annoyance at every little thing. It's five minutes late. Smells kind of weird. That guy is too loud. His kid is a weird aspect ratio. Things keep flickering at the edges of my vision, and voices nobody else can hear keep whispering that I should buy a 1980 Pontiac Trans Am Turbo. That kind of thing.

Taking a vacation helps, sure, but it doesn't get rid of this feeling. The only thing that will help is changing up your routine. A lot of people buy a car at this point, and then the routine is very different every day, because driving is highly variable even when you are just doing the same drive with the same people. Today you get brake-checked merging onto the highway, because the guy in front of you with the 4Runner is having a messy divorce. Tomorrow there will be a full-blown riot outside the city centre because someone tried to add bike lanes, and you get a rock thrown at your windshield. Next week, maybe the Tim Hortons that you're lined up in the drive-thru for catches fire because of a miscreant bagel. You get a cool story for all your coworkers every day, as opposed to "I rode in a shiny metal cylinder for the better part of an hour while doing a sudoku."

For me, I don't subscribe to that kind of thing. There's no reason to involve other people, or commuting, in your daily tale of goin'-to-work woe. Most of my automobiles are perfectly capable of creating a road horror story of their very own, just driving five blocks to the pet food store. I do, however, miss having coworkers to tell it to. My parole officer doesn't seem to care. His parole officer doesn't give any larger of a shit. That's why I've started riding the subway, and giving impromptu stump speeches about how bad things are, up there, on the surface. It gives people a story to tell about the crazy dude on the train, and anyone who actually listens is a little more reassured that they took the magic tube instead of taking their chances on the roads with people like me.

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king-crawler · 2 months

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King Candy's Trans Coding (hear me out)

The fact Turbo could've coded any look for himself, and yet he went with King Candy, an identity that embraces aspects of femininity. Gender nonconformity probably wasn't the intention- his design has more of a focus on being royal. Aka. "I'm superior to everyone." But even those outfits are more feminine-leaning, with the tights and frilly-lace fabric y'know. Not to mention his mannerisms. Being a silly clown guy is Not in fact a part of the gender binary

Also Turbo never seemed uncomfortable with his new identity as King Candy, and not only did he embrace it- He was OBSESSED with it. He put his FACE on EVERYTHING.

like what the fuck even is this.

But one thing for sure is that King Candy doesn't resemble anything like his old self. That might've been out of necessity to stay hidden, but the "hiding old self and presenting in a new way" theme is Still There. And that new presentation happens to incorporate aspects of gender expression his previous identity did Not have. (am i looking too deep into this? perhaps.)

OH BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART.

I find it interesting King Candy was never appalled by his new Cybug form. Cuz when encountering Ralph it was never: LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME...

It was: LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME :)

it was EUPHORIC for him. Because he IS a monster. "BECAUSE OF YOU RALPH, I'M NOW THE MOST POWERUL VIRUS IN THE ARCADE!!" This form finally reflects his true self and what brings him the most joy. and that just so happens to mean being parasitic, powerful, and sadistic. which. well he should work on that

But what matters is he's in a drastically different body now and he LOVES IT. this is literally the HAPPIEST he's been ALL MOVIE. Is That Not a form of Identity/Gender Euphoria.... ? ??

turbo is evil trans coded you can't convince me otherwise. also i wish i was him

#i need to . do something else #'look what you did to me' is driving me crazy.#analysis #king candy #kcb #king candybug #queer coding #wreck it ralph #cybug king candy #cuz like transformation sequences in horror movies are like OH GODDD WHAT AM I BECOMING I HATE THIS BODY GRAAAA #but for him he’s like. Teehee this is awesome + I love killing

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bigboppa01 · 1 year

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juney-blues · 3 months

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i am MORE than willing to admit that this specific issue that i have is entirely inconsequential, and that i care far too much about it because i have turbo autism and a sense of priorities divorced from reality

but i'm gonna keep talking about it anyway, it's my blog, you cannot make me log off and touch grass, i will never touch grass.

why is it that people are so weirdly intent on headcanoning june egbert as Literally anything other than a trans woman y'think.

why is it that after the june egbert plot spoiler was revealed there was just a massive influx of "j egbert" "enby any pronouns genderfuck" egberts lmao, like even when you're making the character transfem you have to keep in that masculine edge, never make her a pure trans woman. "don't worry it's okay you can still call him a guy"

like i don't wanna be mean to people who genuinely take joy in that interpretation of the character for any reason, but also i do not trust this fandom's track record with being normal about trans women specifically lmao

#juney.txt #i have so many bad takes about junecourse floating around in my head #specifically about the parallels with how irl transphobia has been applied to me #and how the fandom at large has handled june egbert as a concept #''can't we just call him by his initials and keep using he/him for him?''#i;m BEYOND aware this is inconsequential bullshit that i care far too much about. but also have you considered dying for my amusement?#prolly a fitting punishment for not enjoying this character in the same way as me i think

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self-loving-vampire · 1 day

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Not denying that this is often a thing (especially in more homophobic/transphobic/sexist places) but as usual I am skeptical of any overly general statements about gendered socialization.

Some people "grew up as boys" and didn't experience much peer violence at all, even trans women are not guaranteed to have such bad experiences.

For example, I grew up as a trans woman in exactly this sort of turbo-sexist and violent culture (some of my classmates even used to go out at night to shoot at trans sex workers with paintball guns from a car) and yet the main source of violence in my life was still my parents. People my own age generally thought I'd literally kill them if they bothered me, and no one there at all had even the slightest clue I was trans either, just clearly autistic and eccentric in ways that ended up scaring them too much to punish.

And for a lot of people the situation isn't even like that to begin with. Some people are fortunate enough to just not grow up around violent abusers at all and actually enjoyed their childhoods.

And conversely, there's a lot of people who did not "grow up as boys" and still experienced extreme violence that they needed to learn to move around in some way.

This reminds me of when people make the inverse posts about how "female socialization" means you're forced to grow up submissive and accommodating under threat of violence and the posts end up revealing that they are universalizing their abusive upbringings to their whole gender. They also don't seem to know even cis men can grow up in such a way (violently authoritarian parenting seems to be the norm, if anything).

#long post

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hififotos · 7 months

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80-81 Pontiac Trans Am 4.9L Turbo

#pontiac #trans am #80s #vintage #screaming chicken #hood #decal #classic #car #4.9 #turbo #hi-fi fotos #Hallewell

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wheelsgoroundincircles · 6 months

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1977 Pontiac Grand Am

The 1977 Can Am was an appearance option on a 1977 LeMans. The styling of the Can Am was inspired by the red/white/blue 1974 Pontiac Grand Am All-American show car. Ordering a Can Am required the dealer to order an F37 LeMans Sport Coupe (louvered rear quarter windows) in Cameo White. The dealer wrote code WW3 (Can Am) on the back side of the order form, and a LeMans Sport Coupe would be built with the following equipment;

T/A 6.6 Pontiac 400 engine (Oldsmobile 403 6.6 Litre was used in high altitude areas and California), power front disc brakes, power steering, Turbo Hydra-matic trans, Rally RTS Handling Package, Grand Prix instrument cluster, GR70x15 radials, white Rally II wheels, body colored outside mirrors, and blacked out grilles. All Can Ams were built at the home plant in Pontiac, MI. Completed cars would be shipped over to Motortown Corporation for conversion into a Can Am. Once there the hood was modified to accept a shaker hood scoop, a rear spoiler was added, multi-colored stripes and black lower body tape were applied along with Can Am decals. The process took approximately 72 hours. Completed Can Ams were then shipped from Motortown back to the Pontiac assembly plant and inserted into the regular distribution system for delivery.

Only 1,377 1977 Can Ams were produced.

#Pontiac Grand Am #car #cars #muscle car #american muscle #pontiac #Grand Am

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rabbitcruiser · 2 years

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Burt Reynolds died on September 6, 2018.

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