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Hi, welcome to my blog! I’m Emma, a 22-year-old linguistics soon-to-be-grad student, Hufflepuff, and biromantic homo-gray-asexual cis woman (she/her). I'm one of the moderators of femslashrevolution. Check out my tags page (link III to the left) to get an idea of what fandoms/other stuff I tend to post, and feel free to send me an ask or something if you have any questions or just want to chat! :)

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ok, I’ve been debating whether to post this here, but I guess I will:

I'm over at lyurinjessit now  edit: I have reclaimed my old url wugsandhugs for the new blog

I’m following way less people on the new account, both to decrease the general amount of stuff on my dash (and therefore the amount of time I can spend on it) and to remove myself from some aspects of tumblr discourse that were stressing me out too much

this means that, if I haven’t already followed you from that blog, I’m probably not going to. In a lot of cases this was a really hard decision, esp when it came to some really old mutuals I decided not to refollow. I want to make it clear that this is not anything personal if I’m not following you, it’s just a result of one or both of the above reasons

so basically I’m telling you guys about the new blog so you know what’s up and can have the option to follow me if you want. I’m obviously not going to ask or expect any of you to follow me, but you’re welcome to do so if you’d like to?

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now that my queue’s run out and this will therefore stay at the top of my blog, I’ll say this again and more definitively:

this blog is on indefinite hiatus

I’ve discovered that it’s pretty cool to actually think about how I’m using my time instead of just mindlessly coming to this website by default and staying for hours!

(I think I will come back to tumblr at some point, because there are definitely things I appreciate about it, but I’m not doing it yet, and when I do I might make a new blog so I can be following significantly fewer people without having to unfollow like 300 of you)

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The Cluster [6/8] - Nomi Marks

[aquaristlifeforme]

Ryer and I do EXACTLY the same thing when someone wakes us up.

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holyromanhomo

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS!????

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Omggggggg

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my fave babes nomi and amanita from sense8, who i love so much but also like??? a loving, healthy, fiercely supportive interracial lesbian couple featuring a trans woman actually played by a trans woman should be a requirement for every show tbh, but until that day, WATCH SENSE8 YOU GUYS

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I didn’t know you liked tortoises.

I love them. They make an absolutely delicious soup stock.

[dramaticfoils]

u cannot honestly tell me that the holyhead harpies aren’t a staple of lesbian witch culture, to the point where “does she root/play for the harpies?” is a euphemism for asking if a woman is gay. this is 100% fact.

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Morning On Mars

 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter

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I’ve never hit the reblog button so fast. This is gorgeous..

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i don’t reblog good space pics often because there are a lot of them, but yeah.

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okay I promised I’d stay out of the latest bi women/lesbians Who Is More Oppressed Debate, but:

Feeling like you are “actually” queer is really important to a lot of people and a lot of people wish they were more queer so they’d be more ‘sure they weren’t faking it’. if you think this is not a consequence of societal homophobia then I’m not sure what you think societal homophobia does. 

There are lots of people for whom being terrified to act on their same-sex attraction (because they believe they are/people will think they are faking it, going through a phase, or attention-seeking) is their dominant experience of homophobia and I definitely don’t think it’s a lesser, minor or harmless one. 

Arguments over who is more oppressed/more queer/more privileged/whatever inevitably intensify the fear of Not Really Counting for a lot of the people involved. It’s hard to hear about how you’re privileged for whatever reason and not read it as an effort to declare you Not Really One Of Us. I think a lot of peoples’ ‘no you’re privileged/I’m oppressed/you’re xphobic’ posts are really a cry of “my existence is authentic I can kiss girls I’m not faking anything I count’ and if we could all read each other’s cries of pain as such these conversations would be a lot more constructive.

There are a lot of girls who don’t know if they’re bi or gay and a lot of people who IDed as one or the other for a time and are now the other, or neither. there are a lot of girls who are out as different things in different social contexts. the whole idea that this is a dichotomy seems pretty mistaken.

If we got an answer, magically, to the Who Is More Privileged question - if New Horizons reaches Pluto and notices a giant plaque engraved on the planet’s surface that says “[X] Girls Are More Privileged. Sincerely, God.” -  what would that change? It wouldn’t change your experience. It wouldn’t change mine. It wouldn’t mean that every [X] girl is more oppressed than every [Y] girl, so even if you wanted to restrict LGBT+ spaces to the most oppressed people (and why would you want to do that!!???!) you still couldn’t do that by excluding a category of people. It wouldn’t change anything and that means, as a question, I don’t think it’s even worth answering.

making bi girls feel unwelcome in LGBT+ spaces makes them KISS GIRLS LESS OFTEN my fellow lesbians I just need to point out that this is is a CATASTROPHIC STRATEGIC FAILURE on our part

[actuallyclintbarton]

This post is 100000% true, the bi girls vs lesbians who is more oppressed debate is just bullshit let’s agree that ALL OF YOU/US (i am not a girl but societally am read as one and so get treated like one) ARE OPPRESSED AND WE’RE NOT AT THE OPPRESSION OLYMPICS but i gotta say

the OP made me laugh and also made a good point.

“making bi girls feel unwelcome in LGBT+ spaces makes them KISS GIRLS LESS OFTEN my fellow lesbians I just need to point out that this is a CATASTROPHIC STRATEGIC FAILURE on our part”

I mean come on.

If you’re a lady who likes kissing ladies, why the hell does it matter if the lady you’re kissing also would enjoy kissing a guy if she weren’t with you?

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laughy sapphy

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“Care for a dance?”

[goldenfools]

Sophie Turner for Glamour Mexico (July 2015)

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“What is wrong with me and why am I not following Natasha Negovanlis on Twitter?!“ [x]

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so I’m going on semi-hiatus--I’ve uninstalled the mobile app and set my browser to only allow me on tumblr 15 mins per day, so I won’t have to entirely lose touch but, well, won’t spend more than 15 mins per day on here

this is partly to distance myself from the toxicity and stress I’ve been dealing with lately, but also just because I’m starting grad school and semi-adulting life and maybe less time on tumblr will mean I find more time to do other things I want and need to do (or maybe I’ll just spend more time watching tv, we’ll see)

no idea how long this will last. maybe I’ll change my mind and come back in a week, maybe I never will... we’ll see how this goes :)

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