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marvelousmerylstreep · 5 months

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Meryl Streep, Academy Museum Gala 2023 ✨

#meryl streep #legend #icon #queen #grandmothering #mother #mothering #look at her #queen of hollywood #academy museum #academy museum gala

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silvermoon424 · 19 days

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For the purposes of this poll please just stick to birth names! I'd like to do another poll for names people chose themselves later in life.

#names #my polls #polls #poll #tumblr polls #naming #I'm named after my great grandmother btw #my middle name is another great grandma #1k #5k #10k

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fandomsandfeminism · 11 months

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Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed

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janedroid · 1 month

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Gold leaves and chill

Sunday. It’s cooler than it has been. As is our Mother’s habit at the time of the Autumn Equinox, anticipating the breath of Winter in the distance. I pull a shawl over my knees. The cats are taking turns cuddling with me now. We’re looking forward to cocooning. Dog walkers are breaking out the layers, Melbourne black representing for the bottom half of the year. Trees of resistance scattering…

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narwhalsarefalling · 1 year

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my mother taught me to crochet when i was young. she was left handed, so she taught me how in the bathroom mirror so her hands would be in the right position.

she learned to crochet from her grandmother, who was right handed. her grandma was the one that originally used the bathroom mirror to teach her granddaughter properly.

i find something poetic about that. here in this bathroom mirror, through generations, we adapt to our young who have a different way of learning and interacting with the world

#my mom grew up in the 70s rural missouri #very much in the ‘left handedness is the devil’ era #her first grade teacher handcuffed her left hand to her desk #so i find it very sweet that my great grandmother #took the time and effort to show her grandkid how to create and crochet with her left hand #using the only methods she knew how- the bathroom mirror #the narwhal speaks #crochet

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grandmother-goblin · 3 months

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Why haven't I seen anyone talking about this?! This is adorable 😂

Astarion: "Phew, I don't think Minsc will find me - "

Minsc: "ASTARION! My old friend!"

Astarion: "SON OF A BITCH!"

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #grandmother goblin grumbles #astarion #minsc and boo

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chungledown-bimothy · 6 months

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reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.

#this whole sequence with 14 year old ame has me in tears #worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one #brennan lee mulligan #ame wbn #grandmother wren

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verawhisk · 3 months

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assigned female by the children

#astarion is my favourite grandmother character #bg3 #halsin #astarion #halstarion #doodles #bloodbear #bloodhoney #two weeks of not drawing and this is what i come up with #but will i still put it in every tag because it made me laugh?#... yes

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rosa-maltz · 6 days

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The Midwestern Princess

#art #chappell roan #i've been a little enchanted by this woman if being completely honestly #i must draw you....#red wine supernova saved my grandmother's life actually #fanart

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palipunk · 1 month

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Not posting the whole essay-long reblog about how I'm a terrible person for not supporting Biden but I think this is funny because what great great grandmother/s are you talking about? if we're talking about my Palestinian Great Great Grandmothers, I can imagine no better way to honor their memories than refusing to endorse one of the people responsible for the destruction of their homeland. Why do white tumblrinas assume everyone is just like them?

#or my seminole gg grandmothers oh my god I am not like you!!!#You want a dem president I want the US to cease to exist we are not the same

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thunderc1an · 2 months

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