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@charles_jensen

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Genre is a construct. Memoir: SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES (May 2024, @sfwp ) Poems: @UAkronPress @TinderboxEdns ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ He/him

Long Beach, CA
Joined September 2016
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Heyo the secretโ€™s out and my next book is coming at you May 2024! In each chapter, I weave together an experience from my life with a discussion of a single film, covering ground from MEAN GIRLS & THE HUNGER GAMES to THE DESCENT & SCREAM! Pre-order now:
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What if the Bennifer marriage repairs the timeline and resets us to 2004?
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I want to celebrate what I just read in a job posting: "Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, (1/2)
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Hi Iโ€™m 43 today ๐ŸŽ‚
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WITHOUT GOOGLING Name a famous historic battle.
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Whatโ€™s a line delivery youโ€™ll never forget?
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Just really hope no one missed this
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Homosexuality
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in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
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The pandemic taught me that if you give me permission to stay home for two years Iโ€™ll never want to leave my house again
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I got an essay rejected and then a few days later an email that said, โ€œSorry, we couldnโ€™t stop talking about your essay and if itโ€™s still available we want it.โ€ Which is honestly one of the best acceptances Iโ€™ve gotten???
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@BromonaQuimby Hereโ€™s a gift link
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I turn 42 today ๐ŸŽ‚โค๏ธ๐ŸŽŠ
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Hi I turned 45 today ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‰
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I turned 44 today โœŒ๏ธ
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Coming out as a gay who thinks Liza Minnelli should have an Emmy for every year she was on Arrested Development
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What four albums saved your life in high school? Album covers only. No commentary. ๐Ÿ‘‡
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You cannot be "fiscally conservative" and "socially liberal." All fiscal policy is social policy. Where money goes and what it funds affect every life in this country and in some cases the world. If you're peddling this belief, examine yourself and what you actually stand for.
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It feels weird to tweet this and weird not to mention it. My partner and I broke up and Iโ€™m moving out today. We are devastated and grieving. If you have a person you love in your life, hold them and tell them so.
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Can anyone confirm if the daylight was saved, was all of this for nothing
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I got tired of not having an animal that describes what kind of gay I am so I invented dolphins. We are lean and smooth, playful, and too smart to put up with bullshit. It has been said we are also just gay sharks
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This is my bebรฉ
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@TheRealDav1D Uh isnโ€™t this just video running backward
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Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman is the entire tweet
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Being a writer
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Gays! Please remember you *always* have 2 options: โ€ข Being kind to other gays โ€ข Being jerks to other gays and reinforcing the homophobia we already face at the hands of others If you can't be kind, you can always say nothing! ALL THESE OPTIONS COME AT NO COST TO YOU
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The term โ€œhomosexualityโ€ first appeared in 1869. โ€œHeterosexualityโ€ first appeared in 1892. We were here first, jerks!
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I heard on a podcast this week that Angel is "widely accepted" to be better than Buffy and unfortunately I don't know what happened after that because I set my car on fire and left it by the side of the road
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Iโ€™m 46 today, a sentence that feels incredibly incorrect each time I say it
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Pleased to announce my hair now qualifies as โ€œfull of secretsโ€
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Two months of quarantine got me looking like I never made it through the wilderness
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Got a haircut and managed to come out looking even more like a cop?
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Felt cute/existential dread
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My book is real!!
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Gay culture is getting laughed at by bullies your whole childhood, then glowing up and laughing at your bullies while their lives fall apart for the next 5 decades
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I got a letter yesterday saying the government reviewed my student loan payments again under TEPSLF and cleared away the rest ($20k) of my student debtโ€ฆ like Iโ€™m student debt-free. Like no more payments. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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We saw you from across the parking lot and
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Hi hello I got a new phone โค๏ธ
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Wish you were here
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This message brought to you by @mlsprhr
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Imagine the universe where Aunt Ada Brook is an immortal being who, more than a century after The Gilded Age, finally gets to explore her same sex desires under the pseudonym Miranda Hobbes
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Five years. Special thank you to Propecia.
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We said goodbye to Arden this morning. My sixteen years with her meant everything to me. Iโ€™m grateful I had the last 2 years at home with her, and more beautiful memories than I can count.
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Little Women 2 Little 2 Women Little Women: Massachusetts Drift Little and Women Little 5 Little Women 6 Women 7 The F8 of the Women Little Women Presents: Jo & Meg
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Iโ€™m not like a regular dad, Iโ€™m a cool dad
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Welcome to the homosexuals just joining us
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Homosexuality
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Responding to break ups Aries: Scorched earth Taurus: Retail therapy Gemini: "Thank u next" Cancer: Talk therapy Leo: Laughing Virgo: Obsessive cleaning Libra: Meditation Scorpio: Sex therapy Sagittarius: Silent revenge Capricorn: Workaholism Aquarius: Tinder Pisces: Sobbing
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Yeah I was blond for a minute. *exhales smoke* It was 2007 and I was broken
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The ocean is fine. She says hi
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POV: Youโ€™re a Zoom meeting aka my entire October
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Trimmed the hedges. Gay power replenished.
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Squishy feelings ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Do you suppose Rose Byrne wakes up before going to work, looks at herself in the mirror, and thinks, โ€œToday Iโ€™m going to be the best part of the project Iโ€™m inโ€?
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My only contribution to the pride discourse is a wish folks would acknowledge how omnipresent and visible heterosexual sexual behavior is in our culture, how often and thoughtlessly young people encounter it, and how no one bats an eye that itโ€™s like this
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Isolation Isolation Day 1 Day 365
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Iโ€™m making browned butter chocolate chip cookies because I am my own Santa
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2019 is the Year of Lizzo Plan accordingly pls
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Pleased to report my boyfriend is not at all dramatic
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Well we did it, kids
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Had a fun, quiet evening observing the steady vanishing of my youth
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Did the heartbreak But look at change me? Maybe where I ended up
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No one: A gay person: Give her an EMMY
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Oops I did it again
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Poets will say โ€œI know a placeโ€ and then take you to the saddest moments from their childhood
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I heard LA County has a mask mandate
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Good morning to this pancake that accidentally came out in the shape of an anatomical heart
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Gay Twitter Starter Pack
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My Healthy Weight Plan has one step but is 100% effective, step 1 is you never let a scale into your house
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Whatโ€™s troubling about the Matt Damon story is that itโ€™s a news story about bigotry framed as a heartwarming redemption tale
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Hi hello Iโ€™m here for the Before-and-After feature
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Isolation, Day 5. Finding new ways to love myself.
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Woman at DMV: Do you have any kids? Me: Yeah Woman: Aw, boys? Girls? How old? Me: [uncomfortable] Well theyโ€™re all adult men on Twitter
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Natural light just hits different
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Saw a beautiful man at the grocery store today and thought, Someday when Iโ€™m ready, Iโ€™d love to meet a guy like that. Minutes later he nearly ran me over in the parking lot
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Many hairs were harmed in preparation for this selfie.
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At birth each little queer boy is given 8 spiritual Emmys they can bestow on underappreciated women during their lifetime
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The writer is someone who decides school wasnโ€™t enough homework and they actually need homework for the rest of their lives
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Local homosexual reporting for winter
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Hello 47! Or as Bill prefers to say (as it makes us closer in age) โ€œnow in my 48th yearโ€
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Twitter does my hair look ok today or should I just go back to bed
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As scruffy as Iโ€™m gonna get
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Itโ€™s not a costume.
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Iโ€™m trying to write an essay about the music video I filmed when I first moved to LA, but I canโ€™t watch it without cringing, in part because they told me to โ€œdress holiday festiveโ€ so I showed up looking very aprรจs-ski and then they handed me this to wear
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Daddyโ€™s drunk
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The Pussycat Dolls said they just want me to react
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Holidays with Dad No one: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul: My dad: Do you remember [insert name]? Me: No. My dad: Oh. No one: My dad: They died.
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Hairs: Cut Skin: Toned Beard: Razed Mustache: Fluffed Situation: Normal(ish)
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Iโ€™m declaring this my best haircut in hairstory.
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How to win Drag Race Season 11: โ€ข remove your wig, reveal wig โ€ข remove that wig, reveal scalp โ€ข remove dress, reveal another dress โ€ข remove that dress, reveal lingerie โ€ข remove face โ€ข remove eyeballs โ€ข remove all your skin โ€ข step out of your musculature โ€ข death drop
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Resting Poet Face
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Weโ€™re saying goodbye to this best boy tonight and my heart is wrecked. He is a sweet, loving, and kind companion. His decline these past months has been devastating and we are not ready to let go. Please hold us all in your thoughts.
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Comedy and Tragedy ๐ŸŽญ
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So,
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Who wore it better
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I was serving Lumberjack Zack Morris in my senior pics wasnโ€™t I
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Happy one-year anniversary to us
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Posting bundt on main
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Hi the president just assured the world he would declare war on his own people if they donโ€™t stop *checks notes* exercising their rights to speak out against the government and assemble
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Cut some hairs. Feel lighter, spiritually.
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Wow straight people really have forgotten about HIV huh
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