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Georgia Tennant on instagram - with the background song Fuck You by Lily Allen ❤

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has this one been done yet

Three types of protagonists:

Pursues reasonable goals with unreasonable methods  

Has sensible plans, but tremendously fucks up the execution  

Relentlessly competent in pursuit of goals that are objectively deranged

Let's get cozy, friend.

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people should appreciate how hard it is committing to a bit that nobody really cares about

The difference between 👀 and 👁️👁️ to me

everyone say thank you to meryl streep for providing a mamma mia and devil wears prada reunion at the same event 🙏🏻

MARGOT ROBBIE 81st Golden Globe Awards — Backstage (January 07, 2024)

KAREN GILLAN. 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards.

FLORENCE PUGH before the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2024 via Adir Abergel's Instagram

I do love Pedro having clips in his hair

I think once fit and Pac officially get together they get way more clingy so tubbo immediately gets more annoying

QSMP, the first minecraft server where two straight dudes roleplayed a gay relationship so fucking well their actual gay friend became very homophobic.

Wholesome. (And her dress is gorgeous.)

@goldenglobes: How to survive a zombie apocalypse: stay away from mushrooms and stay together like bunnies! #GoldenGlobes

White feminism is when there are a gazillion gifs made of Taylor Swift attending the Golden Globes 2k24 for doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing but none for Lily Gladstone the first Indigenous American woman to win a fucking Golden Globe. Go girl, give is nothing 😘✌🏼

Jo Koy shat the bed. Then, when his monolog bombed, he blamed other writers. #SmallMan

I was discussing with a mate what actively makes a piece of media Queer as opposed to just featuring same-gender attraction.

I am a big fan of Queer being a verb as well as an adjective.

I wouldn’t call Romeo and Juliet queer because while it’s transgressive within the frame of the narrative, it’s *not* transgressive within the wider cultural framing? A young hetero couple from different sides of a conflict being married was so incredibly acceptable that it was a long-established practice for establishing peace - to the extent that the Friar even mentions that within the text as part of his reason for facilitating the marriage outside the strict norms of parental consent and acceptance?

Plus the whole framing of choice-led marriage as a force for societal harmony was such an influential trope at that particular period, particularly within Elizabethan England’s newly Protestant culture? Virginity was no longer prized the way it had been in a more Catholic culture, nor was the remote idealisation of courtly love. Instead you get a young different-gender couple who choose *married love*. In the context this was written, this was almost the *opposite* of Queer.

I’d say that, for a text to be Queer, it needs to not only transgress both norms internal and external to the text, but also flip those norms in a way that actively invites the reader to reconsider those norms in a new light? It’s why I’d call so many of Shakespeare’s comedies queer in a way Romeo and Juliet isn’t, because, even though everything goes hetero at the end to fit theatrical conventions about comedies ending with a marriage, they are this space where gender becomes fluid and playful, and *that’s* what you walk away with the impression of from the play? The hetero endings are so enforced it’s kind of deliberately ridiculous?

It’s why I feel Queerness includes readings and depictions of disability that aren’t any of the standard boxes that it is so often shoved into in media. If a disabled character isn’t “inspiring”, or “pitiable”; if they’re not artificially helpless, or completely unaffected by their disability, and, more than anything, if *they* are the centre of the text, with genuine agency, and the text is about *them*, not about their effect on abled characters, that definitely queers a text to me.

And *more* so if it centres their desires and their desirability as a character. Not that they can’t be asexual; asexuality is *very* queer, but if they are not *artificially* desexualised, as disabled characters so often are.

I just saw that Shakespeare is trending, then i remembered

He mentioned Palestine in Othello

Othello was published in 1622, thats 401 years ago

four hundred one years ago

"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip."

- Act 4, Scene 3