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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

11 months

Hi new followers, I’m Rowan! I make video essays about history/culture through a queer lens! 🌈 my videos: 💙 support my work: 📧 hire me as a speaker: rowanellisyoutube @outlook .com 👀my other projects:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

7 years

"do gay teens really need to see themselves happy on screen?" is literally the worst take of all time

TIME

@TIME

7 years

"‘Love Simon’ is a groundbreaking gay movie. But do today's teens actually need it?"

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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7 years

voice over at the end of every terrible gay teen movie written by The Straights™: "So that's what happened. In a way... we ALL came out. Britney came out as a maths geek. Brendon came out as an artist. And I- well - I came out... as me." *pop punk music plays credits roll*

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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2 years

reminder: protecting queer people who aren’t “out” will always be more important than your desire to prove yourself as some kind of morally righteous judge of strangers’ lives and identity

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

If you think Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant were married in Glass Onion just because one of them is a detective, dresses fun, and they live together - you are legally obligated to also believe all iterations of Holmes and Watson are a couple. That’s just science.

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

I SEE YOU @AliceOseman !!!! #Heartstopper 💙🌈

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

Very excited for the deepfake AIs to create irreversible mistrust in public figures through fake videos that no one believes aren’t real and that we can’t prove aren’t true 👌👌👌

Lionel Page

@page_eco

5 years

Amazing: AI used to animate heads using only one picture. By Samsung AI lab, ht @DmitryUlyanovML

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5 years

"you mean this whole time i actually *have* been this bad thing people have been calling me?" wow what a fucking mood

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@danielhowell

5 years

Basically I'm Gay

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

This year’s character pumpkin is… FRESH CUT GRASS from @CriticalRole and @samriegel ! #criticalrolefanart

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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8 years

Each bridge was organised by a diff. liberation movement coming together in solidarity in London 😭 #fucktrump

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

truly LOSING MY MIND at isaac reading gareth thomas' autobiography as they watch charlie play rugby - a true ally 😌✌️ #Heartstopper

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

🌈NEW VIDEO 🌈 Heartstopper: The Future of Queer Teen TV Let's talk teen media, coming out, and lgbtq+ romance... watch here:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

the replies 😂

Captain Marvel

@captainmarvel

5 years

Friends who save the world together, stay together. #BestFriendsDay #CaptainMarvel

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

at this point i consider it the height of comedy that the mcu finally acknowledged one of its characters was a queer, and he's already dead

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2 years

queer ally task of the day: talk to other straight and cis in your life about how monkeypox is NOT an STD - and the dangers of headlines like this that have grossly queerphobic implications that many don’t even think to question/examine…

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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4 years

I'm researching for a video about why D&D is so popular with LGBTQ+ players and would love to interview some queer people in the TTRPG world - any recommendations of people who might have interesting stuff to say about this?

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

6 years

Dear Friends, when I say “let’s meet up for coffee!” please know in my soul I wish I was saying “I don’t even drink coffee, let’s go wander around IKEA for a few hours and buy a succulent and some Swedish meatballs” because that is my idea of a fun time.

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

jackass is queer cinema

habitual line-stepper

@alaskastardust

5 years

Interviewer: fellas, is it gay t— Cast of Jackass: absolutely, with pride

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3 years

any percy jackson fans out there - your crops are about to be fucking WATERED 😭👌

Percy Jackson News

@updatespercy

3 years

Daphne Oliver will be a writer for the #PercyJackson live action series on #DisneyPlus . She has worked on ‘Black Sails’ with Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz, Sails showrunners who are also leading the Percy Jackson series. She is also working on Hulu’s thriller: ‘The Old Man.’

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

i think there's probably a lot of people who think they are "☺️ supportive ☺️" of people with mental health issues - until people's mental health effects or inconveniences them

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3 years

I was lucky enough to see the first two eps of HEARTSTOPPER this evening - it was so incredible - we were all laughing and cheering and squealing the whole way through, can’t wait for the full season to drop on Friday!! 🌈😭

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2 years

IT'S HAPPENING!! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!!

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7 years

I made a succulent cake because I am the most basic

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4 years

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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5 years

honestly so pumped for this trash movie that i'm already looking forward to the inevitable sequel where she is transported back to his world instead

Netflix Queue

@netflixqueue

5 years

He's her knight in shining armor. No, seriously. He's a medieval knight transported to modern day and she's got to help get him back to his own time. Vanessa Hudgens stars in The Knight Before Christmas, premiering November 21

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@HeyRowanEllis

6 years

#PutItInTheMovieNotInThePressTour

The Mary Sue

@TheMarySue

6 years

'Solo: A Star Wars Story' screenwriter says that Lando Calrissian's sexuality is fluid

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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6 years

just a fun reminder: a piece of media can make some people feel seen and represented while also making others feel frustrated and trivialised. marginalised people are not a monolith and neither side is wrong or bad for those personal feelings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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3 years

please i beg of you all i want for pride month is an end to discourse give me peace for one god forsaken month

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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2 years

for anyone looking for asexual rep - the new netflix show heartbreak high has it, and it's one of the main characters 👀

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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7 years

Just two 40 year old lesbians taking their owl to the vet...

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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1 year

📣 Film/TV content creators wanting to support the strikes! I just got an email back from SAG after asking for clarity on how our content fits into this... Seems pretty clear that "promo" also includes reviews/critiques in any online form - even if unpaid.

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

7 years

"I can't believe Love, Simon is the first movie about a gay teenager!" me: hold my beer

thepooluk

@thepooluk

7 years

Love, Simon is not the first film about an LGBTQ+ teen. Not even close. Here are 62 more... @heyrowanellis

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

8 years

🏳️‍🌈 New Video 🏳️‍🌈 YouTube's anti-LGBT "restricted content mode" and why it's so dangerous.

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

it's asexual awareness week - so i guess here are three videos about asexuals by an asexual to make you aware of asexuals... (mini thread🧵)

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

disguising hostile architecture as accessible design is very much not it 🙃

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

so the our flag means death video is turning into quite something...

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

xiran is the definition of a "bestseller success story" - and still they are in this position - author pay is a central flaw of the entire publishing industry that perpetuates a lot of its other issues...

xiranjayzhao.bsky.social 🍉🌻

@XiranJayZhao

3 years

Today an interviewer asked me why I decided to launch a second series before the Iron Widow one was done and I honestly had no answer except that I didn't get paid enough for Iron Widow to stay above the poverty line so I had to kick off a second series real fast 😂

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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6 years

@doddleoddle @DanielJLayton life comes at you fast

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5 years

everyone complaining when brand accounts “try to act like people” need to understand they are all run by depressed gays just trying to bring some joy into this capitalist hellscape send tweet

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4 years

tw food we don't talk enough about how, for a lot of people, food is a decision between these options: - affordable and quick but unhealthy - quick and healthy but expensive - affordable and healthy but time consuming

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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7 years

violet baudelaire is a queer girl with an impeccable aesthetic: confirmed yet again

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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5 years

If anyone was waiting to see what their friends thought of this film before deciding to see it - I am now your friend, and I can tell you whole heartedly GO SEE IT!

Variety

@Variety

5 years

#BirdsofPrey landed the worst opening weekend for any film in the DC Extended Universe

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4 years

fyi it doesn't matter how politely you say "i don't hate gay people, it's okay to have gay thoughts, just don't act on them ☺️" it's still ~hOmOpHoBiA~

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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5 years

reasons why "just talk about your mental health ☺️" campaigns are nice sounding but insufficient and empty in reality (a mini thread)

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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4 years

dear straight couples - i *promise* you will not die if you stop holding hands for 5 seconds to walk single file on a footpath in a global pandemic ✨

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6 years

Fyi if they make a live action Hunchback and Peter Capaldi doesn’t play Frollo I’m rioting

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

7 years

The Harry Potter epilogue being set in 2017 means that Albus Severus Potter has 100% dabbed while casting a spell

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

🌈 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 🌈 I wrote a book! 😭✌️ #HereAndQueerBook is the queer girl's guide to life I needed when I was a teenager - coming out (no pun intended) 3rd May 2022! Pre-order here to be the first to read:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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2 years

@hamishsteele I cannot believe we got another “it’s not a gay love story it’s just a love story” press tour quote in the year of our lord 2022???

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

I cannot believe we got another “it’s not a gay love story, it’s just a love story” press tour quote in the year of our lord 2022???

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@HeyRowanEllis

1 year

The replies and quote tweets here are a prime example of why education around our ace and aro experiences/identities is so vital 🙃

Yasmin Benoit, MSc

@theyasminbenoit

1 year

Asexual people deserve equal rights. We deserve legal recognition. We deserve protection. Thank you @stonewalluk for allowing me to march with you again at #PrideInLondon today & for helping me to bring about this change. 💜🖤 #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike #IStandWithStonewALL

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4 years

🌈 NEW VIDEO 🌈 Why Is D&D So Popular With LGBT Nerds? (featuring some special guests!) Watch here:

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@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

dan's coming out video - proving once again that the queers are champions of using dark humour and finger guns to phew away the trauma

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1 year

what, and i cannot stress this enough, the fuck

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

1 year

Fearing discrimination for being gay should not be enough to qualify for international refugee protection, Suella Braverman to say in US speech

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6 years

definitive proof captain marvel is gay (an 11 minute spoiler-filled rant with diagrams)

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

In the last Harry Potter book it is revealed that Harry hasn’t actually fully unpacked his trunk since first year, and that is a real fucking mood tbh

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@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

consider this: florence is the young penniless artist and timothee is the impetuous rich narrator

Taylor Simonds

@tay_simonds

5 years

Under no circumstances do I want a Titanic remake but consider: Titanic remake with Florence Pugh and Timothee Chalamet

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My precious LGBTQ+ friends who couldn't march today b/c of danger and mental illness and staying closeted for your own safety... I see you 💜

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7 years

If you spread misinformation but then realise you were wrong, and are truly sorry- remove the source of misinformation and CORRECT IT LOUDER

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3 years

not me crying hysterically over the new episode of ALLEGED comedy gameshow Game Changer on @dropout 😤 😤 😤

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@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

i stg the first thing i'm doing when this pandemic is over is finding a friend who will let me lie with my head in their lap as they stroke my hair - bonus points if it's at a picnic on a sunny day and i can listen to everyone laughing and chatting

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

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3 years

buddy i literally could not think of anything better

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

i'm only an hour into #ExandriaUnlimited but the party ~vibe~ is very much four first year uni students at freshers week and the one mature student ( @matthewmercer ) who's been at the uni for like 8 years and is not taking his role as fresher rep very seriously

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6 years

😒 😒 😒

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

🌈 NEW VIDEO 🌈 The Top LGBTQ+ TV Shows Coming in 2022! (there's a lot you guys!!) Watch here:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

new video coming later this month... guess the topic 👀

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

historical lesbian movie bingo ™️

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4 years

the four horsemen of the superwholocklin-pocalypse

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3 years

men making a point to talk about how the captain carter episode of #WhatIf is their least favourite is my new red flag tbh

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7 years

straight girls at pride after watching a season of drag race and the queer eye reboot

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

Truly is there anything more devastating than seeing a girl from your school who used be a homophobic bully getting gay married before you

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@HeyRowanEllis

6 years

@memefan2000 @thisisyear1987 seems like quality depression banter to me - sometimes a banging group chat pun name is what gets you through 😅

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

Sir I am a lesbian

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@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

my new video about why d&d is so popular with queer people is going to be premiering tomorrow evening - and includes some special guests 👀

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@HeyRowanEllis

7 years

@stevieboebi @millselle fuuuuuck this is literally the most glorious video- don't forget to check your confirmation email, it has the handbook and agenda attached 💜

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4 years

might have a little cry later

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@Hello_Tailor when you feminism so hard you punt the gay right out of the gayest book in existence 😔

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6 years

The Gays™️: yeah sex is cool but have you ever sat in a group doing the latest personality quiz?

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@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

just a lil reminder: you might think "everyone's sexuality is fluid" is an *inclusive* thing to think but it is very much not

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@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

#InternationalAsexualityDay

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@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

this legit feels like a photo history students in 40 years are going to have as a source in their exam paper

Emma 🇵🇸

@emmabethgall

5 years

Three generations of social distancing as my dad meets his grandson for the first time 😭😭😭

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7 years

shout out to brooklyn 99 and the good place for giving me the only straight couples i care about

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@HeyRowanEllis

1 year

I see people comparing this to Section 28, but IMO it is worse - this isn't about creating a lack of info and support, it is an actively dangerous breakdown of safeguarding for vulnerable children...

Harry Cole

@MrHarryCole

1 year

EXC: Schools trans guidance revealed - with @NatashaC - No pronoun or uniform change without parental consent - No hiding changes from parents - Head can say no to protect other kids - Competitive sport protected - gender questioning pupils banned

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3 years

me and my 1000 piece son

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4 years

I said what I said - if you want characters who are perfect the whole time what’s the fucking point

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

ok, ok, you win, i'll do a video about the new gay pirate show (that healed my soul, then broke my heart into a hundred pieces 😌)

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

5 years

Honestly I just want to meet Oscar Isaac and thank him for his tireless work in exposing the truth

𖤐͙⁺˚･༓

@padmestrap

5 years

btw oscar isaac is really not stopping he brings up stormpilot in basically every tros interview 🖤

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2 years

I hate to break it to the people replying and quotetweeting that this is a “weird take” - it’s not a “take” at all, it’s a joke 🤙

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@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

@AliceOseman Not to give your more on your plate but I think you’re gonna have to write another season or two bestie 👀

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

8 months

someone has to already be working on some kind of video essay or documentary about the rise/fall/rise again of @dropout , right? 👀

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

does anyone have a "what a small world" moment that can top me sharing a taxi in the middle of nowhere in mexico with a woman, who was reading a book about vaginismus, that has a passage specifically about my vagina in it?

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4 years

going immediately from queerbaiting to bury your gays with no payoff in between is the most fucking #Supernatural thing i stg

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

⚫️🌑 NEW VIDEO ⚪️🟣 The Rise of Asexual Representation (aka let's talk about (and cringe at) ace characters on screen...) Watch here:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

2 years

another win for the lesbians

Trin 🐢♥️

@MythicalLlamaXO

2 years

OMG LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON CANON IN THE MOVIES LETS GOOOOOO

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3 years

new video coming at the end of this week...

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@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

me: i wonder if i'll ever be able to do youtube full time... my adsense:

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Rowan Ellis (updates only)

@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

i will not make a video about the importance of jojo siwa coming out i will not make a video about the importance of jojo siwa coming out i will not make a video about the importance of jojo siwa coming out

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@HeyRowanEllis

3 years

unlikely adult guardian and precociously prickly and traumatised child is a truly elite fictional story set up

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@HeyRowanEllis

4 years

honestly fuck section 28 and it's origins in homophobic rhetoric - it is not perverted or wrong to ackknowledge that some LGBTQ+ people first know they are LGBTQ+ when they are under-18 - just check this hashtag: #ifirstknewIwasLGBTQ

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@HeyRowanEllis

7 years

The pilot of Sunshine Lesbian and The Resting BitchFace will be coming very soon 😅

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@HeyRowanEllis

1 year

i have somehow managed to get an invite to an official barbie screening today and i literally have nothing suitable to wear i am so ashamed

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