Welcome to me.

CA. 26. Gay. My Instagram is dicktaco

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when people on social media share something and just comment “This.” its like yeah ok….That

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“this” is how straight people say “wig”

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y’all do know “wig” isn’t a gay thing, right … y’all literally stole it from black people and throw a fit when you’re called out on it. “wig” is aave, it’s not yours, it was never yours, it’s not fucking “stan twitter language”, so no, it’s not how “straight people say ‘wig’”, because “wig” was never a “gay thing” in the first place.

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This is so annoyingly messy. I know this comes as a shock to some of u'all but Black Gay people exist. And they make up AAVE that straight (black) people leech on to & white gay people co-opt. Which eventually makes its way into “mainstream” lingo Yalls faves like SHADE and READ etc was being created &used by black LGBT since before Paris Was Burning was even released. So honestly, none of yall can lay claim to Queer Aave because you all stole it in the first place. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Scream

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So this was in the Boston globe, and if I hadn’t read it myself I would have thought it was an Onion article. The lady wants walls again because now when she is working in the kitchen, her husband is in full view sitting watching TV and doing nothing. When they had walls, she was basically less aware of how ignored she was while being a hard-working woman and housewife. They don’t need walls, they need a marriage counselor.

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😂😂😂

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In hopes of inspiring younger generations, NASA created this series of gorgeous retro travel posters that encourage you to imagine a future where common space travel is a legitimate possibility. Source

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I wanna decorate my son’s room with these

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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014)

“In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. “

By Patricia Hruby Powell, art: Christian Robinson

Get it  now here 

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Sing to me your sweet lullaby.

via @dalmatian.freddie

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blue root

herbal, Italy 15th century

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library (@upennmanuscripts), LJS 419, fol. 42r

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oddish.

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Boyle: You’ve told us this story many times. Holt: And you’ll hear it again!

– Me, talking to everyone about Mulder and Scully. Again. And again…

The X-Files: Pilot (1x01)  |  The X-Files: Existence (8x21)  |  Brooklyn Nine-Nine: He Said, She Said (6x08)

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Washoe was a chimp who was taught sign language.

One of Washoe’s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:

“People who should be there for her and aren’t are often given the cold shoulder—her way of informing them that she’s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing “MY BABY DIED.” Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat’s eyes again and carefully signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.“ [23]

Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.

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more about Washoe:

after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoe’s enclosure and signed “i have a baby for you.” Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing “baby” over and over again. then she signed “my baby.”

the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoe’s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing “baby” apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.

*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.

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Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.

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now if y’all don’t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face

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