Lily. Literally.

"Аз не живея: аз горя." - П.К. Яворов

[gaysie]

this headline from 1936 is still absolutely correct.

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[thelanguagespirit]

Fat dog thing

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by throwthebookather

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[cyberbullyinc]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5XPWbOgtpU/

[lily-literally]

Credit @latulipe_ld

[commanderalexa]

i can’t with y’all 😫

[wild-cabins]

[darkacademiamlm]

dark academia + green

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On this day in music history: March 25, 1985 - “Voices Carry" by ‘Til Tuesday is released. Written by Aimee Mann, Robert Holmes, Joey Pesce and Michael Hausman, it is the debut single from the New Wave/Rock band from Boston, MA fronted by lead singer and bassist Aimee Mann. Shortly after the band receives their initial break by winning the “WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble” in their hometown, 'Til Tuesday are signed to Epic Records. The idea of what becomes the song “Voices Carry” originates with the bands lead singer, bassist and main lyricist Aimee Mann. The lyrics, having to do with relationships gone wrong (her relationship with band drummer and former boyfriend Michael Hausman in particular), are originally intended to be sung by Mann to another woman. Epic Records fearing negative reaction from radio programmers and the public to its original same sex subject matter, ask the band to change the gender of the songs love interest. Initially resistant to the idea, eventually the gender of the person Mann is singing to is changed to a man. Released two and a half months in advance of their debut album (also titled “Voices Carry”), the single is supported by a memorable music video featuring Mann in a deteriorating relationship with a wealthy and controlling boyfriend (played by actor Cully Holland), quickly becomes an MTV staple, and becomes a major pop radio hit. Entering the Billboard Hot 100 at #81 on April 13, 1985, “Voices Carry” peaks at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 13, 1985, driving sales of their debut album to Gold status in the US.

[lily-literally]

I hadn't heard this song in YEARS until Atomic Blonde (2017) brought me back.

I had no idea Aimee Mann originally wrote it to be about a lesbian relationship.

Interesting juxtaposition, considering The Coldest City (the graphic novel, which Atomic Blonde is based on) was originally written with a hetero protagonist, which -- thanks to Charlize Theron -- Lorraine Broughton is most certainly, deliciously, not.

In a way I'm glad the song and video ended up being about an asshole dude. Though people of all!! genders!! can be!! abusers!!!, I associate the song with the film and specifically with the scene where Delphine (Lorraine's lover) gets killed 🥺 From that perspective, I think of the "he" in the song as that motherfucker Percival (the double---triple?--- agent who murders sweet angel Delphine) and I imagine Lorraine warning Delphine to "keep it down, voices carry" because, well, obv Delphine has GOT to be moaning when they're fucking, I mean jesus h christ I was at the cinema watching this scene next to my DAD and I got all tingly and WET and felt an awkward vibration at the back of my neck because I didn't know what to do with my body in that moment and wanted to avoid showing any sign of horniness/discomfort to my father at all costs.

Anyway. All this to say that, clearly, I ship Lorraine and Delphine and I don't want to ruin their hot and tender relationship by associating it with a shitty, toxic lesbian relationship.

Side note: I had no idea Aimee Mann was in Til Tuesday or sang this song?! I guess I was really young when I first heard this. I discovered Aimee through the Magnolia soundtrack during my intensely depressing high school years and thought of her as "the REALLY really sad one".

Side note #2: Aimee was rly hot and rad in the 80s and she still is. #goals

[lily-literally]

Hello there.

I'm back 😈

[skeletonize]

i was looking at old photos and i wanted to show you how our story went, a little

bronwyn and i met at age 12 but i dont have any photos from then, really, but this is from grade 9 science class when we were being goofs and i was 13

this is from our first ever sleepover, we couldn’t stop laughing and we were sleeping on a mattress on the floor and we went to boston pizza and got plastic rings that we both still have (bronwyn kept hers on a necklace after that)

i went to bronwyn’s cottage for the first time in the summer after grade 9

we had our first kiss in grade 10 when i was 14 and were in a weird kind of dating limbo period

then i moved to the states and turned 15 and told bronwyn i was in love with her and we visited every chance we could and she sent me flowers and packages

then i went to junior prom with her and bronwyn cut her hair

then we had the most beautiful summer where i spent 5 weeks at her cottage and i cut my hair

then i went back to miami for 12th grade and turned 16 and bronwyn was 17 and we went to senior prom together

then i moved back to canada for university when i was turning 17 and we finally lived in the same place again and we loved each other so much and got breakfast together every day

then after a beautiful summer we started living together when i was 18 and bronwyn was 19  and we went to bahrain together and bronwyn dyed her hair brown and now i get to see her every morning and every night and we adventure in our city and have a coffee shop and love each other more than i could have thought. there were periods of scary intense darkness but we love each other so much and i’ve never been happier. i’ve known bronwyn since i was 12 and now i’m almost 19 and i love her more and more.

[skeletonize]

i’m never on here anymore, but i wanted to share that almost a month ago bronwyn and i got engaged!! under a beautiful tree on a perfect day and for the rest of my life i get to pursue her and care for her and make her laugh. i’ve said this so many times but now more than ever: if this is all i get, it’s so much more than i could have hoped for.

[hopeful-weirdo]

This makes me so happy

[castielsteenwolf]

this is the future gays want

[sarahlouiseghost]

This is amazing! 😭🙌🏻👻

[cannibal-rainbow]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

[edgar-allen-potpourri]

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

[edrec]

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

[anghraine]

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

[advanced-procrastination]

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

[tk-tako]

how did that person forget the word ‘them’

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that’s lesbian activity

[awesomacious]

Wholesome TV reporters.

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