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I like baking, reading, building. And various other things.
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itneedsmoregays

Steven Universe: Eh, I don't really feel like saying "girlfriend" or "wife". Maybe they're together. They have a special connection...

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. "My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I..." "I'm texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business." "Luz's new GF showed her..."

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raulziito

Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.

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missgreeneyartz

These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.

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renthony

Risked her job, hell, it's an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids' cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.

Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it "wasn't progressive enough" and was "giving in to stereotypes" to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, "fuck you, you can't pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding."

Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP--Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar's brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe's success.

I'm not even 30 years old yet and I'm still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn't that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I'd see it. Fucking ever.

So let's stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?

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kingofthewilderwest

So often older shows that seem pitifully lackluster by today's audience's standards were hard-fought, BIG-ASS DEALS in their contemporary context. (And for the record, calling SU or something like Korra 'older' to me feels bizarre af, I'm 28, this is all new to me in some ways. This is all extraordinary and the opposite of lackluster.) What you're seeing is an extraordinary amount of progress over the last mere ten years. Don't knock it.

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spoonylu

Literally saw a bumper on Nickelodeon celebrating Pride Month last year and had my mind blown. This would've been UNHEARD OF when I was a kid. No one ever talked about queerness AT ALL in kids' cartoons, gay people were a JOKE in the 90s. Zoomers don't know how good they have it.

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survivingcapitalism
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Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL
This weekend, the pirate e-book site welcomed users back with unique domains.
arstechnica.com
Last fall, the US Department of Justice pushed the e-book pirate site Z-Library onto the dark web after charging its alleged operators with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering. Back then, Z-Library users—including many college students who relied on the site as a source for free textbooks—weren’t sure if Z-Library would be able to keep operating. That’s why this weekend, thousands of Z-Library fans rejoiced when Z-Library officially staged its comeback on public-access Internet—by launching a universal login page and setting up secret personal domains for users.
A Z-Library blog post from Saturday viewed by 21,000 users announced the “great news” and prompted users to access Z-Library using their regular login credentials at a new link. Once users log in, they’re redirected to a personal domain they can use to access close to 12 million free e-books on Z-Library without using encrypted networks like Tor. A second domain is also sent by email. At the time of login, users are prompted to check a box promising, “I will keep my domains in secret.”
TorrentFreak reported that Z-Library’s tactic of assigning unique domains creates “a technical setup that anticipates future enforcement action” and will help the site mitigate disruptions by deploying backup domains as needed to avert domain seizures. In November, US officials seized 200 domain names connected to Z-Library, TorrentFreak reported, and to prevent officials from succeeding with future enforcement actions, Z-Library is now depending on users to keep their personal domains private.
“Don’t disclose your personal domain and don’t share the link to your domain, as it is protected with your own password and cannot be accessed by other users,” Z-Library wrote in the blog post.
Ars could not immediately reach Z-Library to comment, but a test confirmed that it is now possible to log in to Z-Library without using Tor or an encrypted I2P network layer. Ars also confirmed that Z-Library is currently assigning two personal domains per user.
Z-Library said in its blog post that not all users currently have access to the universal login page but that the site is working on a solution. For now, any users who experience issues accessing Z-Library to retrieve their personal domains can still “use TOR/I2P to log in to your account, copy the URL of your personal domain and use it in your regular browser,” Z-Library advised.
Time will tell if Z-Library’s strategy will be effective at stopping authorities globally from blocking Z-Library. It’s likely that any authorities monitoring the pirate site are already aware of some of Z-Library’s new domains, TorrentFreak reported. To help users keep tabs on what’s happening with the site, including news on domains, Z-Library set up a Telegram channel.
The e-book pirate site’s comeback will likely not be celebrated by authors, many of whom complained to a US trade representative last October that “accessing pirate e-book sites is easier than ever” and is causing “incalculable and truly devastating” income loss to publishers and authors.
But hundreds of users welcomed the site’s return, with people posting enthusiastic comments on Z-Library’s blog, like “I can’t live without Z-Library” and “this resource is invaluable!”
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gqa1

Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

​this worked last night lets go for round two

Ok legit don’t believe in this shit but when you wims posted about Christmas miracles… one of my ex roommate’s drunk guests left a $20 bill inside the couch I found when cleaning… kept it. Christmas miracle. I need another miracle.

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kronkk

Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!

Hey guys, I have an update, and there's a few lies going around in the notes so I figured I'd clear those up while I was here:

First of all, no, I did not "confirm it was was fake" on Twitter, I originally posted this video to a private but fairly big discord, someone there took it and put in on Twitter and later told everyone it was a joke because they were getting quite tweeted too much. That person is not me, I don't even have a Twitter

Second. Apparently this is something called cesium, it's super radioactive and that's why the container is so heavy and thick. I ended up having a really bad burn on my hand after I messed with it for a few more days, they ended up having to take some of the muscle off of it and a ways up my wrist to try and save my arm, this is what it looks like when I unwrap the bandages (I'm not going to show the hand because it looks WAY worse🤢 and I don't want to make yall puke)

Anyway, be careful what you buy from strange guys at flea markets! They might just be trying to kill you!

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r4cs0
#rocks