As a type of worm myself

They/she/he. Old enough to grow moss. You'll figure this out as you go

[anniflamma]

The Princess jumps up and smothers you in a joyful embrace. Eugh.

[lynxexists980]

I would have probably not said anything but the only people talking about this are all racist as shit.

If you are using Henry Nowak's death to 'prove' that white people are somehow oppressed fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

You are actively going against his families' wishes. They have literally stated they do not want his death to be used to create division.

Don't compare it to George Floyd I know for fucking certain you did not give a shit about George Floyd you have no right to compare it to George Floyd when I can tell you did not care. Don't say shit like white lives matter you fundamentally misunderstand why black lives matter exists as a movement. I know for certain you people would not care if he wasn't white.

The police can still be to blame without it being that they have some anti-white bias. Maybe we should consider the fact that the police have the power to arrest someone who is dying and that maybe they shouldn't have that power.

Yes the police are to blame for his death, they were negligent. Doesn't mean it's some reverse racism bullshit.

I hope he rests in peace. Im so so sorry the far right only saw your death as cannon fodder to be racist.

[lizardsister]

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

[aprilslady]

Discord servers are sooooo incompatible with ADHD conversation styles it drives me nuts. Like you will respond to someone in line with the topic they are talking about and then someone goes "Ummmmm you need to move this to the other channel because this isn't the Purpose of this channel" and it's like cool I am not gonna do that. Because that is basically starting a whole new conversation and the entire flow has been disrupted now. But I am glad you're having fun? God fucking forbid you say that to anyone though because that is literally their gospel and I'm like...look not every conversation needs to be prescriptive. That's not how human connection works. The conversation will come back if you just let it unfold naturally, or if you're that bothered you can just try and gently connect it to whatever the desired subject of the channel is to make things neater. But in literally any other social environment expecting folks to pack up and move their conversation to another room as soon as it drifts off topic is just weird and controlling. Like. This isn't an academic conference.

[mornington-the-crescent]

June 1st

[breelandwalker]

Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.

If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.

How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)

Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.

HOWEVER.

The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.

Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.

The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.

You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.

Sincerely, An Elder Queer

[impostoradult]

Agreed, and also, it has always struck me as a little bit of a double-standard in queer politics when people used to point out the exclusion of queerness from mainstream capitalist products as evidence of their marginalization (e.g., there are no m/m or f/f wedding cards)

Yet, when they start being included, they are like “well, that’s just capitalism taking advantage of us, so it doesn’t count.” Like, you can’t use your EXCLUSION from something as evidence of general societal marginalization and then claim that once you’ve started to be included, it is politically meaningless. You don’t really get to have it both ways. That’s moving the political goal posts.

I get that we shouldn’t consider Target pride merchandise as like the pinnacle of queer politics or even the pinnacle of queer inclusion. I get that inclusion in capitalist intuitions is a very ambivalent form of social progress. But the truth is, capitalism is a big part of what creates our social reality right now (unfortunately).

Capitalism makes TV shows, and movies, and books, and ads, and greeting cards, and toys, and clothing, and, and…

When every single aspect of commercial social reality excludes queerness, that DOES create a real sense of social alienation. I don’t love that capitalism is responsible for creating so much of our collective social reality. But granting that it does, I think we’re forced to accept that our inclusion in it IS politically and socially important.

And yes we should still be trying to resist capitalism as the primary means of meeting human needs. But we can resist treating capitalism as an inevitability or an inherent good, AND ALSO acknowledge that our inclusion within it remains politically important while it still holds so much power and responsibility for creating our shared reality.

[prokopetz]

You'd think fandom communities would be more sympathetic to webcomics whose update schedules slow to a crawl in the home stretch, given how many of us have multi-part fanfics where we've been "getting around to" finishing and posting the final chapter since 2017.

[flowerbleedme]

My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

[flowerbleedme]

I asked for a pastry at the coffee shop. When I raised my card up to pay, he simply said "you're good." and waved it away. I wondered why. I wondered what made him think I deserved to have my order be free. Sparing me those two dollars.

Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.

The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.

It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.

Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.

But it doesn't really matter. He'd deserve a tip anyway. Because it's never just us hurting.

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[kriosv]

[cobbbvanth]

We're a team, a group. Group of the two of us. And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't.

#their pronouns are we/us/our

Crowley & Aziraphale in GOOD OMENS

[sapphicsgalaxy]

thoschei is something that can be so personal likeeee. there’s something so insane about them. not beloved but beloathed. they literally cannot live without the other and they Both hate it but like 🤷 dearly loathed ykwim.

[themanwhooncedweltinavault]

[cartoonlover826]

Fakest idgafer in history

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse colors are easy. For example, the left horse is flaxen liver chestnut and the right horse is silver dapple

Left is flaxen chestnut and right is golden palomino

Left is perlino and right is amber champagne

Left is dun and right is buckskin

Like I said, easy!

[horsefigureoftheday]

Markings too!

Sabino vs Overo

Snowflake vs Birdcatcher

Leopard vs Manchado

Few Spot vs Dominant White

Roan vs Varnish

[pheita]

Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

[indecisive-behaviors]

An addition:

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a project you already completed. Sometimes ideas really are just that good and deserve to be used more than once.

[mytrinketsandknickknacks]

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

[kalbi-duamm]