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culture writer, vox. they/she/&c., bad at bios. hug a trans kid, stan yibo. writing songs for the death of gender.

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5 years
oh no i accidentally started watching the gay exorcists for journalism and i've never seen a fool flirt so hard for so little reward oh my god ahaha
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GUYS GUYS WHY ARE WE NOT ALL CALLING THE NIGHT KING COLDEMORT
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This defense of Depp actually neatly sums up the fundamental problem with the Harry Potter franchise in 2017, which is that it wants to present vague allegorical idealism without actually battling real-world systemic oppression or acknowledging its role within the real world
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'Fantastic Beasts' director defends keeping Johnny Depp despite controversy: ‘He’s full of decency’ — Exclusive
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Yesterday 3 trans Vox writers spoke against the Harper's list, and all of us have now been directly targeted (and harassed as a result) by one of the writers on it. Just us, no other critics of the list. I want to be very clear about who benefits & who doesn't from this "debate."
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4 years
Today sucked. The Harper's letter is a dehumanizing transphobic whisper network masquerading as reasoned intellectual debate. Everyone who signed it has contributed to the real harm that its legion of transphobic signatories have brought to real trans people, especially teens.
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Me listening to Moon: god what a happy cheerful sweet-spirited bop The lyrics for Moon: My heart is a black sea but I will self-sacrificially do everything only for you in the hope that I can shine some light into your life Me:
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@brokeymcpoverty I once had a friend mansplain to my roommate how to ~correctly~ pronounce her own name bc he thought she was doing it wrong
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Fic writers, *please* do not do this. AO3 functions because of the social contract we all make to tag accurately and fairly. Baiting readers with deliberately fake tags for ships is a complete asshole move that undermines the whole system.
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At one point during Mad Max there are 12 women on screen and they all have speaking roles & none of them are talking about a man.
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2016 is officially so bad that the This Is Fine Meme is no longer Fine.
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NYC councilwoman Rosenthal: NYC is "prepared to run this city without federal dollars if that's what it takes" to protect immigrants.
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@liviecampbell Don't forget Noomi Rapace literally has a life-saving alien abortion in Prometheus
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But his dig about Hannah Gadsby does highlight the point of my article. Gadsby used her comedy platform in order to talk about how being constantly dehumanized wears away the soul. She broke what to Chappelle is the cardinal rule of comedy and stopped taking the fucking joke.
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5 years
The moral of this story: fans, appreciate the Archive of Our Own. Be thankful for this space where the organizational structure is *entirely* dedicated to protecting your right to write fanfiction, and where the entire project is funded, not by outside interests but by you, fans.
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What I'm learning from reactions to my fandom purity culture article is that apparently people think "shipping" is a lot more complicated than the natural impulse to cheer on two people getting together romantically, and I genuinely do not think it is!
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7 years
do you know what it's like being a queer harry potter fan waiting for queer representation in your fandom since 1999
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I wrote about the rise of the anti-fan, fandom purity culture, and how shipping — you know, that thing you do naturally, like breathing — became a weaponized tool of the culture war. Feat @llegrarosenberg and @SamAburime . Art by Ohni Lisle.
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Guys, I really, really, really don't want us to turn him into a joke. Kevin Spacey is not a joke. I keep saying this because it keeps needing to be said. Please actually READ the stories of the people he assaulted. They are terrifying.
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finally thought of the perfect Zoom background
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Daveed Diggs as Harold Hill Daveed Diggs as Tevye Daveed Diggs as Pippin Daveed Diggs as Sky Masterson & Nathan Detroit and Adelaide & Nicel
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A weird thing happened today; I got an email from someone wanting to know why there's a chapter of my most popular HP fic missing from Fiction Alley, the HP fanfic archive. And I'd completely forgotten about this. This missing chapter is a relic from a CRAZY BYGONE FANDOM ERA.
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Gadsby used comedy to deconstruct what happens when we tell a joke at someone else's expense. That's anathema to Chappelle, who wants his jokes to challenge people with privilege but who for some unearthly reason thinks trans people fall into that category
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September marks the two-year anniversary of the absolutely perfect Harper's article quoting the Martin Shkreli jury selection transcript, and I just don't want to let it pass by without a moment to look back and remember 🙏
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@GeoRebekah The reality of fascism in this country is terrifying, and It does increasingly seem like anyone can become a target at any time, simply for resisting or for fighting to uphold democracy and democratic ideals.
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Today sucked. The Harper's letter is a dehumanizing transphobic whisper network masquerading as reasoned intellectual debate. Everyone who signed it has contributed to the real harm that its legion of transphobic signatories have brought to real trans people, especially teens.
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@SleepyOktobur I'm so sorry that you have had to fight members of your own family just to receive health care, much less fight members of the press who have violated your privacy a d tried to turn you into a talking point. I'm just so sorry about all of this. thank you for sharing this.
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Brent, former hater of good dogs, now has a @dog_rates -approved puppy of his own
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Thinking about how you go from being a J.K. Rowling who's moral and progressive for her time to a JKR who's gently insisting trans people are delusional, and I really think her trajectory is one many many white liberals have undergone over the last 10-20 years.
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I AM SCREAMING. One of the sources for Naomi Wolf's apparently terribly researched new book was THE GUY WHO WROTE DICKENS/DOSTOEVSKY FANFIC, PASSED IT OFF AS SCHOLARLY WORK, AND MADE SOCKPUPPETS OF HIMSELF TO TRY TO FOOL ACADEMIA INTO THINKING IT WAS LEGIT
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There's no sixth sense for harassment, but I do think that a certain kind of male geekdom, the entitled nerdboy culture whose humor is often dismissive of deviance, diversity, & non-traditional fandom that Chris Hardwick embodies, absolutely rewards/promotes abusive behavior
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I truly have NO idea where Chappelle is getting this new idea that his fight is between himself and corporate interests, and not the queer/trans communities he spent an entire stand-up special attacking. (1/3)
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Variety
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Dave Chappelle has spoken out about the controversy over his Netflix special “The Closer” in a new standup video, saying that he is willing to meet with the transgender employees of the streamer.
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lol what do you call Bran Stark warging himself into the Night King so the NK will be linked to him and he'll be vulnerable in the Battle of Winterfell A Hodorcrux
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spare me from people who think queer fanfic just became deviant yesterday and they have to save it from itself, instead of realizing they've just been steadily eroding a wild feral forest of perversion and turning it into a tamer, more boring garden largely of borrowed het tropes
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B) these actors are OLD. Jude Law is 45 and Johnny Depp is 54. What kind of message is it sending to kids if this hugely influential franchise has middle-aged Dumbledore still being tentative about his sexuality — or is still skirting around/hinting about an adult man's sex life?
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look google i just wanted photos but i'm not saying no
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A) JKR explicitly *said* Dumbledore falls in love with Grindelwald *before* he figures out that Grindelwald is a genocidal evil Nazi, which means if Dumbledore's not explicitly in love with him in the next movie it's gonna be seriously WTF. also:
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I can't believe I'm upset on behalf of The Prom, a musical I found quite flawed, but it deserves better than James Corden playing the complex role of an aging queer man confronting & transcending a childhood of ostracism. Barry should have been played by someone who lived that.
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I would argue that at its core, shipping is rooted in the same human impulse that drives us to throw giant public celebrations about it when two people fall in love and get married! Shipping collectivizes that celebration without the expense or excuse of a wedding.
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🧵Journalists signing up on mastodon at the journa[.]host server should know that through no deliberate fault (that i can tell), the server has quickly gained a reputation for transphobia and has been widely banned/blocked.
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I have zero time for people (esp men) in 2017 discovering and making basic af arguments about the legitimacy of fanfiction that women have hashed out for decades. We're on to next-level remix culture & ya'll are debating whether Shakespeare wrote fic like it's 1997
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What’s so scary about a well-reported piece on trans issues that upholds medical consensus and doesn’t cast doubt on whether trans people should exist?
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Something about seeing Buzzfeed roundly mocking Tumblr's $3 million sale leaves a really bitter taste in my mouth given that Buzzfeed directly skimmed off the top of Tumblr culture for profit for years. (Then abruptly fired the woman responsible for their Tumblr symbiosis. Ugh.)
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When you're gravely concerned because your boyfriend has become a demon whisperer but also very turned on because your boyfriend has become a demon whisperer 😂 #mdzs
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trust me you want me to do this meme
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Vox is getting totally ratioed by Nazis over my JKR article, so to spite them all, please click on it one more time: (The weapon we have is love, but we also have clicks lol)
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It's telling that Dynamite is BTS's first single with lyrics entirely in English. They're gunning for the Billboard chart and as I talked about here ( ) many radio stations still won't play their singles because their lyrics aren't in English.
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When you finally see your boyfriend again after like 5 months but he's accidentally become a vengeful demonic goth metal flautist #MDZS
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I genuinely feel like if you're picking up on all the textual and subtextual clues this show has been sending out since literally ep 1, you're watching an obvious unfolding love story between Shiro and Keith.
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Defending fandom is exhausting. Let's start celebrating it instead. #fandomis
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Lan Zhan: only significant others can touch the headband Lan Zhan, 5 minutes later: ... ... ... what if we bind our hands with the headband like we're in a wedding ceremony
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in this house, we make gifs of our fave when he physically reacts to the sight of his boyfriend being good with kids #mdzs
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Alex points out that La La Land is about fake happy endings. I point out that Moonlight is about second chances. :D
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The Untamed/ #mdzs is a perfect example of a legitimately queer relationship coming through loud and clear thanks to an assumed common language of coded subtext between creators and audience, in exactly the way that creators have done through decades of the Celluloid Closet.
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I keep seeing people quoting this & all I can think is that freedom has only ever worked like this for white people
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This is a brilliant passage.
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I feel like nobody believes me when i try to talk about how Twilight fangirls changed the entire publishing industry as we know it, but they did and i will literally never stop talking about it, ever
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@emteehall I'm stuck on the terrible grammar of this edit, were they just gonna publish this with this vague passive "it" hanging out here without ever saying what "it" was that was so painful and traumatic 🙃🙃
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This is Jin, a member of BTS. He's generally considered one of the hottest people in the universe, and he's a very good singer. He wrote and sang what is IMO the best song off their recent album: "Moon." It's been a huge international hit and has literally broken world records.
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Me on Wednesday: Hmm not sure about this Lan Zhan dude Me on Friday browsing thru all my #mdzs screencaps: is there any other character in this show
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A lot of people in the comments seem to be missing crucial points about this, namely that Amazon caused this by undercutting publishing prices by so much that it killed one publisher off completely and has now forced 3 more to merge to compete with it.
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BREAKING: Penguin Random House will buy Simon & Schuster. Our story is forthcoming.
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@mattsurely and yet it's still bleeding 10000% more creative and cultural excellence and energy than any other city in TN, so a cheerful fuck you to all your insta followers :)
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Vox has updated its story on the RWA to include more direct quotes of voices from the community, particularly from authors of color. We've also added additional details about the petition to recall Damon Suede.
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This moment where the HP fandom resisted the WB's takedown attempt was a huge turning point in the cultural history of fanfiction. It's now pretty much unheard of for a major franchise to target online fanfic, but that hands-off stance developed bc of fans asserting Fair Use.
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The thing about Kristen Stewart is that one of her first big influences was Jodi Foster, with whom she co-starred in Panic Room. You can see so much of Foster in so many of K-Stew's performances, but bc ppl want to demonize Twilight they wind up mocking Oscar-caliber acting craft
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IDK who @teuteuf is trying to fool, but today's Worldle is clearly the Qwantz dinosaur
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JKR’s transphobic bullshit just ruined Harry Potter, merry Christmas
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At the risk of being flamed for the next decade, I kiiiind of wonder how much of the backlash against Voltron's controversial s7 [spoiler] was spearheaded by Klance fans who don't understand that Sheith is going to become canon.
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Six hours too late, it occurs to me that linking this AO3 explainer would have been a good way to end this thread, oops
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Xichen, or as i think of him, the Legolas, has literally been trying to get his little brother to deal with his feelings for Wei for 20 episodes straight and he NEVER GIVES UP lol what a champ #MDZS
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please stop there are 45 more episodes of this lololol
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Great Con Disasters Of The Past: A Thread 1. The time a con collapsed and left 2 LotR actors sleeping on a random stranger's couch because the con organizer secretly believed he was Elijah Wood
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A Trump supporter celebrates Trump's victory earlier today on one of Reddit's alt-right nesting grounds.
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@redditships This is how her husband should be making her feel at Christmas
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@ellle_em And down the stretch comes Anxiety Burrito! It's Anxiety Burrito by a nose!
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this is the tensest reunion scene in the world and i am quietly losing all my faculties over it and also hitting "back" every 10 seconds so i can really soak up all this intense tortured soulmate staring lol #mdzs
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i think someone needs to stop me from writing a Voxsplainer on how Bran Stark's winning the game of thrones is a myopic, self-aggrandizing celebration of curatorial fandom and male-dominated forms of geek culture
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The moves on this obsessed protective fucker #mdzs
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@botnikstudios "He felt a great overreaction" = the single most in-character thing ever written about Harry Potter
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And this one show, (no) thanks to Chinese censorship, ironically singlehandedly undermines decades of queer fans being told that our coded queer readings of characters was wrong and it was all platonic / just subtext / wishful thinking etc. #mdzs
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BTS’s “Dynamite” is a consummate troll of the U.S. music industry
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#MDZS this show really just took a several-episode plot detour just to have an excuse to trap its otp alone together in a cave, hand fans a *canonical ship montage*, and score it with a *canonical love song* that half of the pairing CANONICALLY TITLES WITH THEIR SHIP NAME. i'm
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@andizeisler This is a cringeworthy interview from the interview side: not a conversation, but a checklist of disconnected questions that seem like attempts to get Butler to seriously address the concerns of TERFS--as though their views are in any way legitimate. Frustrating.
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This thread is deeply frustrating to me because wow what if parents sending their sons off to college were sitting them down to say: "Hey, campus girls are going to distrust and fear you. You need to expect and accept that. Let's talk about ways you can make them feel safer."
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As a researcher who studies college sexual assault, one of the most common questions I'm asked is, "My daughter is starting college soon and I'm so concerned about campus sexual violence. What do I do as a parent?" Here's my answer:
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I think it's time to talk about something that will potentially be a major form of protest in states that ban abortions: jury nullification. A jury has the constitutionally protected right to vote "not guilty" because they believe the law itself is wrong.
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is there anyone who doesn't talk about their crush exactly like this, with this exact face 🥰 #mdzs
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In case anyone is wondering how the "Zhang Zhehan is fake" conspiracy is going (), earlier today he made a widely broadcast appearance at his mom's teashop. Conspiracists have decided all the photos/videos are using "face-swapping" or hologram technology.
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ugh he is SMILING i'm going to roll myself off a pier #mzds
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and then OF COURSE Lan Zhan just walks around carrying their two swords together in the same baldric like they're the two flannel shirts in brokeback mountain lolol h e l p #MDZS
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oh my god lan zhan just just told the rabbits goodbye because he could not speak the words to wei ying himself i'm going to eat this entire pillow #MDZS
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This show is so pure and so obviously an effort to put a queer love story into the world, whereas so often the other shows were titillation at the expense of queer representation. It's fascinating to try to figure out where the line is, and frustrating to still have to try. #MDZS
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and also I haven't even noted that after Lan Zhan met Wei Ying he gradually progressed from wearing all white to all blue, bc WWX brought him life and love, but then later when WWX sees him in the future he's back to all-white because HE'S SPENT 16 YEARS IN MOURNING FOR WWX #mdzs
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@mattsurely Memphis has been penalized for decades by the state legislature for voting democrat and being a majority Black city, and has been legally prevented by the state leg from enacting progressive city measures,
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4 years
Obsessed with cults? Me too. Here are 9 of the wildest culty rabbit holes I know.
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i love that literally everyone knows these kids are in love and just accepts it lol Jiang Cheng: When Wei didn't show up in Yiling I just assumed he ditched me to GO FIND LAN ZHAN, HIS BOYFRIEND Servants: We found Wei's sword, so IT OBVIOUSLY BELONGS TO LAN ZHAN NOW #mdzs
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