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[spikeswilliam]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 3.08 | “Lovers Walk”

[cronegloam]

buffy textposts again

[viikkah]

David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson behind the scenes of The X-Files

[viikkah]

David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson behind the scenes of The X-Files

[teatimewithgiles]

Rupert Giles + Tumblr text posts

[thelilywhite]

My insurance made me switch up my pharmacy and all my psych meds have been put in limbo in the process

Currently at the level of unwell where I move my neck wrong and burst into tears. Read one tweet and am bawling. Focus for several hours and then feel absolutely wrecked by discomfort and can’t do anything. I’m so isolated and when I do go to work I have to perform in such a way that makes me feel so emotional and tapped out after. I have tools for this and I think despite it all, I’m doing ok

But I know it’s a problem when I’m crying this much about the small things. Fuck

[thelilywhite]

Finally reading “Girls Can Kiss Now” and Jill Gutowitz is speaking to my soul. I’ve been yearning for this kind of book for ever 😊

[viikkah]

David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson behind the scenes of The X-Files

[dailyflicks]

The X-Files 3.22 | Quagmire

[c9x-deactivated20230223]

An Art Nouveau silver & plated fairy lamp Moritz Hacker circa 1905

[bumbleboa]

People who don't let their cats sleep on their beds might never experience the feeling of your cat headbutting their way into being the little spoon and then proceeding to purr so loudly, you have to raise the volume of the video you've been watching on your phone.

I've been chosen. Favored by the Gods. Happiness is stored in the little ball of fur doing his best impression of an old lawnmower in my arms.

[cryptotheism]

I like that kids just have trans classmates now and don't give a shit. It's like having a classmate with red hair to them. Like "Mildly notable, anyway back to Fortnite"

[bees-with-swords]

In high school (3 years ago), I used they/them pronouns. The popular girls all used my pronouns. I was objectively weird and uncool, too, but they told me I was a good listener. They invited me to hang out or study with them. They offered me weed. We sat outside at prom and talked about the nature of high school and the future. I never felt unwelcome. I was never a joke.

The popular girls who invited me to hang out had boyfriends who had never used a pronoun in their lives. And suddenly there was peer pressure to be their best self and understand others. So these guys with big trucks and a spot on a sports team, they'd be offering me a ride to the bus stop and asking me questions about gender.

High school is getting better because high schoolers are getting better. Young people are awkward and stupid but many of them are still more empathetic and understanding than their parents.

[thelilywhite]

I see the enormous blossoming of queer youths in the high school and middle school where I work. The GSA has about 90 members and 60 or so regularly attend the lunches they host. And because we are in TN, but a private school, it's really one of the only schools where this kind of diversity and expression is acceptable in a classroom setting--because we live under the laws of Bill Lee, metro schools are a far more hostile place for these students. A good amount of queer HS kids I speak with during classes tell me they transferred because they were kicked out of too many catholic or public schools here. You guess why

Anyway, I started working there 6 years ago and the first time I walked down the hallways and heard some young ones discussing their friend's pronoun change with them, and it was such a tender and wholesome moment I teared up as I continued down the hall.

As much as I worry about this world, knowing that these kids are alright, they have happy queer adults all around them and are safe and out in such a vulnerable time and age, it's something that makes me genuinely happy. It's my positive light when I feel dark

[space-feminist]

it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept

[space-feminist]

incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:

...we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic. 

(emphasis mine)

[dentes-mentis]

"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."

(from "Whose feminism is it, anyway?" by Emi Koyama)

[stele3]

This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.

[cryptotheism]

It is our duty to spiritualize the periodic table

[pantestudines]

Carbon, the bridge, that which can be anything, the bond maker, the peace bringer, it of substance and warmth and strength and body

Oxygen, the destroyer, it who breaks and it who breaks and it who burns, the spark of the entropy that is life

Hydrogen, the pure, the begining, it who made all else, the one point kept, the capper of carbons ends, the ignition of oxygens fire

[cryptotheism]

You. You get me.

[literallymechanical]

I’ve stood inside a fusion reactor and brushed gloved fingers across graphite shielding tiles that still shimmered from exposure to fusing hydrogen. I've stared into a furnace and watched plumes of carbon nanotubes coalesce out of invisible vapor.

I can't even begin to imagine anything more awe-inspiring than the nuclear binding energy of helium. If I weren't jewish, I wouldn't mind doing a religion to it. Obviously there's nothing supernatural there, but it's still magical, you know?

[cryptotheism]

You get it.

[cryptotheism]

A Toast to the Alchemists by Laura Giplin

[mouseshouses]

This year everyone is getting a tail sock

[disarmluna]

Aubrey Plaza in White Lotus Season 2

[stjohnstarling]

Lighthouses are an underrated form of wizard tower. A grey-bearded old man spends all of his time tending to a light that must never go out, for if it does it will bring disaster? What else could that be?