i thought you were smaller

So I wanted to look up the bisexual manifesto since so many panphobic bi people keep telling me to go read it. I figured "you know what? Why not. Let's see what they think is so important that I need to read this".

Turns out, panphobes, I think you need to reread your own manifesto.

This is a picture of the full manifesto, as published in the original magazine. I'd like to highlight a few things.

This is the part that everyone always references and tells pans we need to read.

But, you forgot the next paragraph:

'Many of us choose not to label ourselves at all, and find the word bisexual to be inadequate and too limiting.'

The Bisexual Manifesto itself supports the existence of other mspec identities.

Where do I even begin with TSR? How it is possible for one book to bless us with SO MUCH QUALITY CAUTHOR CONTENT?? 

Just. just look at this shit. I can’t believe this is even legal.

Mat doesn’t even have that many POV chapters in this one and he STILL manages to fit in at least fifty instances of “rand keeps pulling me to him”

he literally uses that exact phrasing at one point. I can’t 

seriously I never get tired of it

“Rand gave Mat a smile that made the pair of them look like boys when Mat returned it” IM SOBBING

and this when Rand, as Lord Of Tear, is about to make a Big Declaration, keeping everyone in suspense, literally all the things Mat has been complaining about for MONTHS— and he smiles back at him Like That anyway—

Mat follows Rand everywhere in this book and I know it’s because of the Pattern but, listen, all I’m saying is,,, the Pattern ships it

“Sometimes Mat almost wished Rand would decide whether he was mad or not and get it over with.” Mat no

RHUIDEAN. JUST. ALL OF RHUIDEAN.

Where do I even start with Rhuidean?

“Get ahold of yourself, Rand. You didn’t go crazy in the last minute.”

Mat being a tsundere about waiting for Rand

“I’m not going to come running in to save you!” “Sure fam”

And Rand laughing at him because he knOWS

Rand’s extremely dubious CPR

Seriously. It gives me anxiety

Rand honey that is not how you resuscitate people what are you doing—

it works though

Anyway

Mat constantly getting annoyed at Rand for making his coins land on their sides

Rand purposefully making the coin fall against what Mat wanted to keep him out of danger

“You leave me alone and I’ll strangle you, Dragon Reborn or no” IM FUCKING WEEPING

I could go on for days about the quality of Tsundere Mat in this book but you get the idea

Not Cauthor related but I love that Mat’s first words after literally dying and coming back are, “those flaming sons of goats”

“You always get me in trouble” - Mat, conveniently forgetting the dozens of times he got Rand in trouble in EotW alone

THE FUCKING BRANDY STORY

Listen Mat and Rand stealing brandy and getting drunk together when they were thirteen and then just falling asleep together is SO CUTE FIGHT ME

Both of them sitting silently alone and watching the valley together for a WHOLE DAY

“What are you going to do now?” “Something you would like. I’m going to break the rules.” “No I mean like for dinner cause like im really hungry and-”

And then Rand starts laughing and laughing and my crops have been watered, my children fed, my skin cleared—

He laughs a lot around Mat in this book. Most of it is crazy saidin laughing, but. still.

Rand wishing for Mat’s company on the journey to Cold Rocks Hold

(although Mat kind of avoids him at that time)

But whenever Mat does come over it’s to be friendly and make Rand laugh

Right after the attack by the Dragkhar and the Myddral, Rand doesn’t even pause to get rid of his fire-sword, literally the fiRST thing he does is find Mat and ask if he’s alright

‘“Oh, I’m right behind you, Rand.” The worst of it was, it felt right saying that.’

Look me in the goddamn eyes and tell me that that’s just because of the Pattern. I will Fight

And by the end he just seems to accept it

“You have any objections to my coming with you?”

Literally there is no reason for him to go into Alcair Dal with Rand,,, no one told him to, it’s honestly more dangerous if he does,,,

But at this point he’s like “fuck it guess this is my life now”

Mat frantically beckoning Rand to get away when things start going south at Alcair Dal. Like I can just imagine his internal monologue at that point going “burn you, burn me, burn this place, burn these people, burn the pattern, burn—”

And then he’s so happy to see him when Rand returns from his… portal… thing

ffs even their horses hang out together in this book

And there’s so much more, in little moments and throwaway sentences, but if I tried to list it all this post would be as long as the color of the sky post. Just… TSR is so good. I want to reread the whole thing right now. 

This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download. 

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TV comedian and soon-to-be Late Show host Stephen Colbert announced Thursday that he would fund all grant requests from South Carolina on the crowdfunding site Donorschoose.org, worth $800,000. [x]

a fucking legend