mean girls the movie (2004) is obviously super gay and doesn't know it, in the way every teen movie from the 90s and 00s was super gay and didn't know it. that was part of the fun. bring it on. empire records. 10 things i hate about you/lesbian icon patrick verona. but how to explain mean girls the musical (2018), which SHOULD know how gay it is, but somehow DOESN'T

related: the only valid mean girls futurefic to me is when regina george is still an unrepentant maniac. i get that some people enjoy cute character rehabilitation but i am bamboozled by its prevalence in the little stories we tell each other here on the internet. garbage woman representation is also important. regina should be a human adult monster, that's her job. if we must rehabilitate her, i think at BEST we just channel her sociopathy somewhere constructive, like crime. wheres my mean girls nonfiction where janis runs into regina dyeing her hair in a gas station bathroom bc she is faking her own murder and framing her idiot husband about it

you know, regina's "she's channeling her aggression into sports!" arc never really worked for me because regina george's problem isn't JUST aggression and evil, her problem is being about 100 times smarter than everybody else and getting absolutely no joy out of it!!!! to be a hot teen girl is to be told you have power. to be a SMART hot teen girl is to discover that what "power" you have is no currency. it is something people tell you you have so that they can either 1. blame you for things or 2. wriggle into your light. it takes the heat off the people with actual power (ADULTS), and it gives you nothing that lasts!!! "you are the most powerful shark in this inflatable dog pool." wow, thank you so much! this is great! i love having the """power""" to, at best, destroy my own environment and then die to spite you!!! but the only vengeance you can get for this fucking GROSS DECEPTION is on other hapless teens who are no worthy prey and whose pain provides no lasting satisfaction. and that is why i will write a novel where she marries and destroys a thinly-veiled mark zuckerberg analogue

hey now...

Couldn't have nailed me any harder to the floor if you had a fucking hammer.

I… I don’t know how to feel about this

hell yeah that's my jam! 🥰💛

Shoot for the 'hurt/no comfort' stars, and, even if you miss, you'll land at 'earn your happy ending'

Hold on i need to ask my friend Claudia, who is a college student and edits wikipedia something real quick...

THIS IS MY FRIEND CLAUDIA

Perfect evening, perfect day!

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Judge Cannon wants to catch and kill this case.

A judge appointed by Trump should not have this much influence over a Trump criminal case.

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ABOUT BISEXUALITY

that purple in the middle is not the right saturation, it doesn't fit with the other two colors and it drives me crazy.

all right, I think I got this, I've got dual citizenship and I have another flag we can borrow from:

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This is true bi/ace solidarity.

holy shit

This is the only correct way

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Reblog this if you had to learn cursive writing as a child

If you were ever told or were made to learn cursive writing when you were in grade school. I wanna see how many of you suffered like I did.

“Oh , you need to know this. Everything in high school needs to be turned in In cursive.”

“Everything you write in university has to be in cursive”. -high school

“I don’t give a shit as long as I can read it.” -university

“THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST BE TYPED” – University

Calligraphy as an art form is fine and good. Cursive writing should not be forced on modern school kids.

As a medical professional, it should be fucking illegal for doctors to use anything but block letters (if they absolutely cannot type it) because shitty doctor handwriting literally costs human lives. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1676338/

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

When I was in college, round about 2002 or so, I did a paper on hate groups that necessitated a couple of visits to Stormfront, a white supremacist website and message board. One of the pages on the site was a "children's page" operated by the child of Storrmfront's founder, which was a unique form of horrifying. But I also remember looking at a photo of the kid on the site and thinking, that poor fuckin' kid, what kind of chance did he ever have?

But it was just a paper and that was just a photo of a child I didn't know, so I turned in the paper and graduated and got on with life.

In 2016, @archwrites posted a link to an article by the Washington Post titled "The White Flight of Derek Black" (sorry about the paywall, Arch's post quotes some relevant parts here). I thought it looked like an interesting read: it was about a white supremacist named Derek Black and a group of campus activists at the school Black eventually attended, who set out to see if they could change his mind about race with radical kindness. In large part because of their work, Black eventually renounced white supremacy and became an antiracist.

And then I hit a photo in the article and gasped, because I recognized it. I'd seen the same photo on the Stormfront children's website. The kid I'd seen and pitied was grown up and had gotten out. Immensely satisfying to see.

But it was just a news story about someone I didn't even know, so I posted about how pleased I was to see it, and I got on with life again.

This morning, I woke to the news (sorry, it's the Daily Fail) that R. Derek Black, now 35, has just published a memoir, The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism. And in the epilogue, they come out as trans.

I can't imagine better news I could have heard about them -- that they're out, they're thriving, and they're embracing themself.

Congratulations, kid. It's a great new photo.

[ID: A recent photograph of R. Derek Black, with long curly red hair, wearing a floral collared shirt and a red cardigan, smiling for the camera.]

hope you don't mind but I found the Post article extremely good, so here's a gift link for anyone who wishes to read it in full.

Oh I don't mind at all -- that's actually great, thank you! Reblogging so people can access the article through the link.

This is UNCANNY.

@vurelly

This genre of re-enactment of video game logic/bugs/behaviour will never cease to be immensely funny

Not to mention everyone who does it is so insanely talented at portraying not only the vibes, but being dead on with the motion. I mean the courier in this alone has amazing core strength and rag dolls the EXACT way that bodies do in game. It’s honestly incredible.

An overgrown light pole in Poland

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A tweet by Twitter user @1Schoolhouse reads, "I know I don't look disabled. This may surprise you, but most of my body is on the inside… where you can't see it."

have i ever shown you guys my professor’s DNI list

this is environmental storytelling to me. i just KNOW she’s so so tired of gay cottagecore bitches

Smurfs dni

everyone shut the fuck up this is the only funny addition to this post

I need many, many more butches in leather on the red carpet.

That man about to be working over time.

Pour one out for a real one.

Reading up on him, he was a pretty cool guy. He was one of the first people to stand up to John Money about his theories of gender development and position that intersex infants should receive surgery and never be told about it using his abuse of David Reimer as ‘proof’, asserting that Money didn’t have the evidence and standing his ground even when Money straight up started screaming at him. And then later he was proven right when he got into contact with David Reimer, not only discovering proof that Money was wrong but also how abusive and horrific Money had been. He then went on to write advocating for intersex and trans rights and to avoid unnecessary procedures on intersex people without full informed consent and that intersex people are part of natural human variation and that we deserve acceptance and not to be treated like a disorder.

A quote I really like from him: ‘Nature loves diversity, society hates it’

Their side of the bed

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