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my drama list 🍊 my gifs

[barsilaybdroer]

daily clicks for palestine

donate to feed refugees in rafah

spreadsheet of gofundmes to evacuate families

fundraiser for esims for gaza

orgs to donate to

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[itsblosseybitch]

Made a new poster! :)

[zwoelffarben]

[loveridden1999]

starting a collection

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

[greelin]

“must everything be homoerotic” no. but many things are, you will find

[greelin]

and if not, rest assured. I will find a way

[daily-weasel]

[mammalidentifier]

Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)

[professorsparklepants]

#it fucken sumny (via @mindfulwrath)

[feminist-space]

[official-lucifers-child]

the wemther brothers

[eldritchenthusiast]

You wanna watch some football?

[gdeozhav]

··· More will follow. I love you so much.

··· I don't understand what is going on. I don't know who I am or where I am. I'm all by myself. Who are you? I love you too.

[corpsejerky]

have a happy rest of your immortal life

[mechobj]

Who are you? I love you too.

[targetedknowledge]

[april]

ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

[iwantadamusername]

⚠︎ Tip

Nap lengths are always randomised.

[armandageddon]

who gives a shit if the heated rivalry actors are queer or not. if they're queer then good for them for getting to play queer roles and if they're straight but this cheerfully willing to have hot sweaty gay sex with other men on television for our entertainment then more power to them too. other straight men should take notes. whats the issue here again

[skull-bearer]

[glitterary]

I remember—2006, approximately—watching Queer as Folk with a friend from high school. We were both queer, both closeted except to close friends. We had the door closed and were ready to slam the laptop shut at a second’s notice, because if his parents realised what he was watching, he would get in trouble.

There was a scene where two male characters were kissing passionately, and my friend turned to me almost breathlessly, saying “They’re both straight in real life, isn’t that amazing?”

For all I know, either or both of those actors might have turned out to be queer, but that’s not what mattered. In that moment, to both of us, it meant so much that two straight guys were willing to risk their future careers to give us some representation that was almost non-existent at the time. 

It's because of actors (straight or closeted) taking those risks that we have the much more queer-friendly media landscape we do now. And it's still a risk for actors to disclose their queerness, or take queer roles, if only because shows telling queer stories still get disproportionately cancelled. I don't give a flying fuck whether the actors are queer. What matters is that they’re telling stories that matter to us, and the more people there are who are willing to do that, the better our lives become.

[catcrumb]

[gaydelgard]

i hear a good lyric and start mentally holding up blorbos like im in the home depot paint aisle comparing swatches

[greelin]

you have to understand. There are several things wrong with me

[greelin]

maybe even more