when i was a kid i wanted to be a famous youtuber like dan and phil so that people would gay ship me with my irl best friend and we would be sooo weirded out by it and laugh and make videos joking about it but secretly it would make her realize her repressed gay crush on me and i'd help her through her gay crisis and then we would have a sickeningly sweet sappy romance and read fanfiction about ourselves together... anyways just found out she's married to a guy in the mafia now so i probably don't have a chance
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yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well
so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support
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Both the hunger games before and now the ballad of songbirds and snakes proves that the young adult genre can produce some genuinely good storytelling while also examining social issues without talking down to its audience, which makes the ungodly amount of popular bad ya novels all the more embarrassing.
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KEEP RESISTING!! KEEP FIGHTING!!! DON'T STOP UNTIL PALESTINE IS FREE! 📢📢📢📢
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she is so unspeakably lovely.
hello little monster, now bound to my soul. do not worry or be afraid. of course i will cradle you with gentle hands
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I am truly and deeply and genuinely obsessed with the way Jackles talks about Castiel's goodbye. Because objectively he shouldn't be that much affected by it????? Misha? Sure. He played Cas for 12 years. And it was Castiel's final send-off that he fought HARD for. But Jensen????? Why???? After all, it wasn't HIS character's send-off??? and yet. Every time he mentions the confession he does it unprompted. And he speaks about it with so much genuine care and affection. And respect. And pride. HE HAD IT RECORDED ON HIS PHONE!!! and he actually watched the recording. And he mentions Castiel's goodbye whenever asked about difficult scenes to play alongside Dean's death scene??? Like. when asked about the hardest scenes to play he talks about Dean's goodbye obviously BUT ALSO about Castiel's goodbye. He calls it PIVOTAL and BRILLIANT. And its so clear how affected he was by it. Because he "cared deeply" about the character (Cas) and the actor (Misha). This is genuinely so unhinged. Insane man.
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we need to STOP assuming songs are autobiographical. i would say it's the taylorswiftification of popular music but also like even taylor swift is like hey these songs are fictional narratives that aren't about me and then her entire fanbase still acts like they're her personal experience. man. treat songwriting like creative writing and dont make assumptions. this is what mitski is always talking about, devaluing women's art in particular by saying it's like a diary rather than an intentional craft. and art that is vulnerable and personal and like a diary is of course valuable but you have no way of knowing if that's the case if the artist doesnt share and frankly as a music listener its none of your business if it's "true" or not
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