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Daniel Villarreal
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Hybrid queer witch-rad fae satyr 🧚🏽‍♂️🐏 journalist gaymer 🎮 pun-loving wrestler 🤼 psych & film slut + antifa (come & get me, Trump) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹☮️♎️☯️👾 Sex work is real work 💃🏽🕺🏽 PDX via TX 🤙🏾🤠 UBI. Now @ LGBTQ Nation (past work @ Vox, Vice, Newsweek, NBCNews, etc). 📝
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Always: Be gay. Do crime. 👠🍆🍑🌮💦
Large red all-caps and drop shadow letters say “We support sluts and whores on this page” on top of a backdrop of cartoon pink and red roses and green leaves bedazzled with sparkling dew drops
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Happy Halloween! This year, I dressed as “Rainbow” for a friend’s party. My beard was painted with blue tempura paint, blow-dried and set with hairspray to prevent flaking (and some edible glitter sprayed on me for extra effect.) It washed right out — so much fun 🎃🥳🌈💅🏾 Have fun & be safe, y’all! 👻
Me in a long blue wig and blue beard, rainbow fishnet armlets and tights, and a rainbow sequin dress. My head is tilted and eyes open in a mock-thoughtful gesture. Me in a long blue wig and blue beard, rainbow fishnet armlets and tights, and a rainbow sequin dress. My hand is near my mouth in a playful mock surprise expression
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Oh rad! One of the very few Black characters in the entire Legend of Zelda video game series appears as a fairy in the 2002 installment, “The Wind Waker.” 😲🧚🏾‍♀️✨
An image of a fairy in Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The fairy, who rose from a clam shell and is surrounded by light blue and pink bubbles, has four arms, long white hair and a long gown, and dark brown skin. Link’s back is visible as a green stocking cap, short yellow hair, pale white ears, a green shirt, and a mirror shield w blue trim. The fairy says, “The Faeries in this fountain shall easier we when you grow fatigued from your battles come here to be refreshed.”
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The body is a gateway to the mind is a gateway to the body. I will worship at the altar of physical beauty, which is internal as well as external, so I may know myself, my sensuality, and my capability more fully. This is part of Lady Aphrodite’s message to me.
A statuette of Aphrodite shows her clothed, rising from a clam shell, her hands in her hair as a dolphin adores her from the water at her feet
October 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Finally defeated the original NES Legend of Zelda second quest and holy shit, I couldn’t have done it without online guides and maps. Holy hell. But now my 10-year-old self can die happy. (No, this screenshot is not of my actual game, sadly.)
A game screen of the final boss room in the original Legend of Zelda 8-but game shows Link in green shooting a silver arrow at Ganon, a large bodied brown pigman monster shirtcocking it with a skull and boots, in a white room with floor tiling in the shape of a skull.
September 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Apparently there were a bunch of parts in the Nutcracker Suite that I had never heard before and HOLY SHIT ALL THE HOLIDAY FEELS ❄️⛄️🎁🎄🐁 #realshit
Four theatre bitches hang out w each other winter style. I’m drunk.
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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This tweet from “Bum Chillups aka Spencer Hall” (@edsbs) says “Again, follow your dreams, because unqualified idiots are paid to do things they shouldn’t be doing every day, why not you.” The publication date at the bottom of the tweet says was published at 9:26 am on Sept. 16, 2016
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Another quasi-gay moment from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” Season 2, Episode 16 has Kitara suggesting that her brother Sokka kiss the male vigilante Jet to jog his memory (after Sokka first suggests that she try the same thing). Gay 😜💋
An animated cartoon of a teenage girl dressed in light blue with her hands on her hips saying “Maybe you should kiss him, Sokka,” to a teen boy on the right looking at her while wearing a light blue outfit with his arms crossed across his chest. Beside him a young black-haired girl in a pale yellow outfit and green/yellow headband stands. Between the girl and boy wearing blue is a seated boy with short brown hair wearing a red jacket with grey sleeves and shoulder guards.
September 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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How did I forget about this iconic lesbian kiss between Toph and Suki from Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2, Episode 12. (Yes, I realize Toph is blind and thought she was kissing Sokka for rescuing her from drowning, BUT STILL!!) 😜
This colored cartoon screenshot shows a young girl with short black hair and bangs wearing a yellow and green hairband and bracelet, and a green short-sleeve shirt and khaki vest kissing a longer haired brunette girl who is wearing a green robe, white face makeup with red eye shadow and lipstick, and a golden headdress with two lines crossing behind a square. The two are shoulder deep in a body of blue water and the subtitle beneath them says “mwah!”
September 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This song is so infinitely chill 🌸 youtu.be/v6Ry-hra1eY?...
The screenshot shows an album cover from The Soundcarriers for a song called “Low Light.” The album cover shows a sparse forest field with four to five thin-trunked trees during the daytime (light blur sky, no clouds), the ground is thick with green tufts of purple flowers low to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Never forget: Right-wing extremists kill people far more often than left-wing ones. Trump wants to hide this fact bc he’s totally okay w political violence committed by his side.
The text reads: “ Trump administration US Justice Department removed study finding far right extremist commit “far more“ violence. Report finding right wing extremist have killed more Americans and other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DOJ website.”
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Norah, a black terrier, IS FUCKING HUGE AND HIS EYES TONGUE AND FIRRY SNOUT ARE READY FOR SOME SERIOUS FUCKING SHOPPING ACTION!!!
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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BE AWARE! - Check in with yourself! Know what is and isn’t yours! 🤓🧠🧳
The black sign hanging on a brick wall has an orange STOP sign and the words, “Stop! are you carrying other people’s baggage? Make sure all memories you carry are your own.” In a white square taking up more than half of the signs lower half, there’s an image of a human brain with legs and shoes, wearing glasses and holding a rectangular briefcase in each hand.
September 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Real homies know the ultimate The Simpsons move is Bart and Lisa doing their “Okie Dokie” screaming move. 💥Takes out enemies like crazy. Also, does the 25¢ give you 2 or 4 lives? For real! Tell meeee!!!
Lisa and Bart Simpson hold hands and attack enemies in the graveyard — their ultimate attack.
September 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The thing about this Tapper cabinet is whether it takes two or three taps to fill the glass and send it coasting down the bar. This version in Denver Colorado made me do both depending on my pressure on the joystick. And I hated it
The marquee of a video game cabinet for the game Tapper by Bally Midway. It is a game about to bring Budweiser beer to patrons of different venues
September 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Denver doesn’t disappoint 💍🏙️😆
A daytime billboard showing a white woman’s hands touching her buttocks in light blue jeans. She has pale pink press-on nails and a diamond ring on the ring finger of each hand. The accompanying text reads: We sell big ASS diamonds. The diamond reserve.” The Ss in ASS are dollar signs.
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Just hanging out w my big bear pal in Denver last night.
A giant blue bear sculpture presses its front paws against a glass sided building while I, a bearded bald Mexican guy in glasses, blue jeans, and a burgundy t-shirt flexes my arms above me in a grove of small trees.
September 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Thinking of you …🥛🐺 💖
Statue of the young brothers Remus and Romulus feeding from the she-wolf’s shaggy wolf teats as her turned head bears its teeth
September 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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LEAVING THE US BC OF TRUMP? - If so, please PM me, I'd like to talk to you (for an article I'm writing).
An image of two dark blue U.S. passports laying on an U.S. flag
September 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I love building my old school 8 -bit NES library 😺👾 I have over 100 games now, including these fun-to-play classics. (I try not to buy any ones that are not at least fun to play. I’ve been playing since these games first came out!)
A photo of four Nintendo entertainment system cartridges, including: MegaMan three, Tetris two, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles part three: the Manhattan Project, and Lolo.
August 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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WEAPONS (2025): A 3rd-grade teacher explores her 17 students' overnight disappearance. Not as scary as "Barbarian," but still a strong slow burn horror w/ surprising intertwined POVs. Director says it's an allegory about traumatizing influences that destroy community safety. #300CharacterFilmReviews
Actress Julia Garner as Justine Gandy, a bespectacled young teacher. Here, she looks behind her while standing in a darkened elementary school hallway while holding a binder.
August 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Love is a revolutionary act, my queer and cis-het siblings 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎❤️‍🔥 keep at it 😘
This bell hooks quote reads, “Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism.” The tweet was posted by Sankara Media.
August 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Prepare for lots more of this. Also, extreme heat makes people quite sluggish and irrationally angry. It’s gonna be a wild terrible ride 🔥🌎🥵💀
A screenshot from The Guardian, a UK publication, says “More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county.” The article’s deck states, “August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day.” The screenshot contains an image of a bright sun in an orange sky above the silhouette of a skyline with a small airplane flying overhead.
August 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Taste the rainbow, dawg 🐶🌈😝
A photo of me, a bald scruffy Mexican with a hairy chest and armpits in khaki shorts and glasses, laying on a linoleum floor with a rainbow light falling upon me while a dog (a corgi hound mix) licks my face and I smile and lean my face away).
August 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I love living in Portland. Where else can you find a posted flier for T4T Jello wrestling that says “faggots only” and “wet hot sticky trans summer”? 🤼‍♂️🌞😜
A red white and blue flier advertising T4T jello wrestling. It shows a red and black silhouette of two long-haired people in bikinis and a referee lifting up one of their hands in victory, all standing on top of a red jello mold. It also says “bikinis not required”, “BYOB”, “21+”, and “proceeds go to charity.” A QR code at the image’s center goes to a sign-up website.
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM