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It’s an Ursula k le Guin free your mind from the idea of deserving kind of day

Unrealistic

the sequel

for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme

Right??

I love the little bits of comedy where Estraven isn’t TRYING to be funny, but it’s funny to the audience. Like when he’s killing time in Orgoreyn while Genly tries to persuade the commensals and is like “I’m bored. I have nothing to do in the afternoons since leaving the fish factory. I should take up some hobbies.” Which is a perfectly reasonable sentiment, but then Estraven goes on to say that the hobbies he took up are meditation and fasting???

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Understanding Therem Harth rem ir Estraven on another level

Best of Jamie Tartt in Season 3

the fact that the ofmd girlies have been playing ARGs with a spoof David jenkins blog for months and combing the max socials daily but it took the days for the gomens crowd to notice their Nov 5 moment

AND THEN YOU DONT EVEN APPRECIATE IT

no fr like NO official promo material at all vs SO MUCH PROMO MATERIAL YOU GOT MAD AND MADE THEM DELETE SOME BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT. TOO MUCH PROMO??? FOR THE THING YOU LIKE???WEAK

the way many queer people (especially us white ones) talk about "finding" community is not that far off from how cishets discuss their search for a (somehow already perfect) "soul mate".

both communities and romantic partnerships are dynamic, unique relationships that you cultivate and adapt yourself to. they are not already-perfect end states that somehow already exist without you, which you then find and claim for yourself. the bonds that a true friendship requires, the networks of support, the fond memories, the sense of trust, the shared history -- none of those things can just pop up from thin air. they take years to build. and it is the impact of all that effort that makes them worth building.

A community is a series of relationships, & like any relationship, you build it. you create it, and recreate it, with every effort you place into it. when the effort is not made, it does not exist.

making up

Maybe they’re doing “reverse Romeo & Juliet” where Hank and Cristobal are the only ones left alive at the end.

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Painting a mirror at Pingjiang Road in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China

Not to be supporting Amazon, but if you have prime, you need to watch the Shiny Happy People documentary. It’s not just about the duggars. It offers essential details in understanding the rise of christofascism.

Please watch it. This is the kind of work that we need to support.

So I talk a lot how I grew up in a cult, and it was VERY much based on the IBLP teachings of Gothard. I never watched The Duggars, as before anything darker ever came out they gave me that old queasy feeling. Watching this confirms that feeling...yep, those were the kind of families I grew up surrounded by.

And I think it's very important for people who didn't grow up Christian, or even this KIND of Christian, to watch. Maybe I'll hear fewer well-meaning, seemingly logical but entirely off-base questions that boil down to, "well isn't this all a bit hypocritical?" To them, it NEVER is, and you'll NEVER save anyone from it or change any minds approaching them that way.

^^^

Also it’s so fucking important that people understand exactly what we’re up against because even the people who are aware that we are falling into fascism are not completely aware of how organized and insidious these ideologies and organizations are.

I know we also like to point out that these people aren’t actually following the Bible or whatever. It doesn’t matter. To them, their hatred is love. Acts of cruelty save. Saying that they aren’t Christlike and pointing out hypocrisy won’t change their minds because they have literally been trained to believe that anything that doesn’t come from their church is false.

This year, on the 31 March, we lost Gilbert Baker, gay artist and creator of the gay pride flag. Today we would celebrate his 66th birthday. Let’s remember him as the wonderful person he was.

i just want to add to this post that the last update made to the official pride flag by Glibert Baker before he passed away was THIS:

the new lavender stripe at the very top was added to represent DIVERSITY and as far as i am aware, was added in retaliation against trump’s presidency. i’ve not seen many people use this version, and it deserves to be known.

Idk who this guy is but I’m just gonna leave this here without comment and hope the audience I’m indirecting it at finally understands something for once

Peruvian whistling vessels simulating animal calls (some of the oldest found date to c. 500–300 BCE)

this is exactly how that episode went, right? [id in alt]