[wolfythewitch]

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

(1/2)

[onceiwashere]

alright kids, get out there and play your best game. if you win i'm taking you all out for cigarettes

[socialistexan]

[anarcho-gamerist]

[jacespunkdad]

rereading the hunger games and i CANNOT stop thinking about what haymitch and peeta’s individual interview training session must’ve gone. like

haymitch: so what’s your angle you wanna go for how do we want to portray you

peeta: I Have Been In Love With Katniss For 12 Years

haymitch: oh word?

[aaronstveit]

i know it’s been said before but no book character will literally ever be as iconic as peeta “if it weren’t for the baby” mellark. like in book 1 when he confesses to having a crush on katniss on live televsion, that’s strategic. he knows he won’t win the games but he can help keep katniss safe and send her home and get district 12 a victor. but in book 2 he’s like “well we’re all gonna die and there’s no stopping the games so i’m just gonna fuck shit up and make every capitol official’s life a living hell for as long as i can” and then he does. nobody is doing it like him

[sunfortune]

[phoneticsubstance]

[starwarsgenerator]

i wish all lesbians an ancient weapon that can cut thru anything

[thoodleoo]

when people use greek letters to look cool and use ρ as a substitute for p

[glorianas]

[wayneradiotv]

guillermo del toro’s little brother

[newtgeiszler]

every time i see this post i forget the punchline. and it’s always so fucking good

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[twiststreet]

Well, when you put it that way… (X)

[robotslenderman]

tbh I will never roll my eyes at corporate queer stuff because I remember when there was a huge spate of suicides of queer children because they thought they’d never be accepted, and that it’d never get better.

[robotslenderman]

like, as I said in the tags

yeah. corporations just want our money.

but here’s the thing: once upon a time, they didn’t. they didn’t sell to us. they were just as greedy but we were so beneath them they didn’t want money if it came from us. they asked us to leave the store. they refused to bake cakes for us. they refused to rent or sell us housing. a lot of queer kids were made homeless or DIED because they thought it’d always be that way, that the world would always hate us.

corporations being sluts for our money, and openly showing the homophobes that they prefer our money over theirs, is a GOOD THING and a sign of progress and I will die on that hill.

absolutely support small businesses and indies. but Jesus don’t flat out refuse to give money to a corporation for celebrating pride, because that’s what the homophobes literally want people to do and in this dystopic society you (and I’m dying inside as I say this) NEED corporations on your side because of the sheer scale of their influence. WE NEED THAT INFLUENCE.

use corporations as mercilessly as they use us. none of this purity bullshit. I’ll be the first in line to help strip them of their power, but they’re letting the homophobes know that that age is dying, and that has power.

[hiqueenmabs-deactivated20220819]

All this was less than 15 years ago. Please keep that in mind.

[robotslenderman]

Exactly!

Some of it is even more recent. The epidemic of queer children suicides hitting the news? That was last decade. It’d been going on for much longer than that but at one point our fight had progressed enough the media started reporting on it and the suicides even went up for a while, and I was on tumblr when that happened, that’s how recent it is.

So how can I sneer at corporations showing support widely when kids dying used to be normal?

I can’t even fully attribute the motivations corporations rainbowing up their logo as completely for money. There’s probably queer people who put their jobs on the line and fought for the company to DO that.

So whenever I see someone going “UGH the corporations are pandering to us again”?

that’s

that’s a good thing!!!! how is that NOT a good thing???

learn your history, talk to your queer elders – some of us have been fighting twenty years or longer and for many of us this is a sign that we are winning, and that a decades-long fight is paying off!

[robotslenderman]

Reblogging to add an addendum to clarify, since related stuff has been cropping up on my dash and I feel this post isn’t complete without addressing it:

If a company is rainbowing their logo up but doing homophobic shit behind closed doors, the answer is not for them to stop rainbowing up their logo, but to stop doing the homophobic shit.

If they’re doing homophobic shit absolutely call that crap out.

[librarychair]

Universal basic income would cause a massive economic boom as people who could previously barely get by decide to buy things like cars and houses and dishwashers and new clothes and employ the services of repair techs at need instead of putting it off indefinitely.

[chavisory]

When I started getting $525 a week in extra unemployment at the start of the pandemic, I spent so much money just replacing everything in my apartment that was either irreparably broken or had been driving me crazy for years.

[kendrixtermina]

srsly, most poorer  or even middle income ppl spend all they get. 

Give more money to bezos & co and they’ll just tuck it away in a tax haven or do stock buybacks. 

yet unemployment money and welfare are controversial (let alone UBI) while corporare bailouts aren’t, all because of irrational stereotypes. 

[beowulf22121]

every time I see a money post I reply with this info, and it's still true.

Give mr amazon $20 and he tucks it away, never to be seen again. zero dollars are spent, and there is no economic action.

Give me $20 and I'll buy snacks for friends at the local bakery. The bakery lady will buy coffee for her crew. The coffee shop worker who gets the rest as a tip will go buy lunch, the guy running the lunch cart will get a cab home instead of walking, and the cab driver will pick up dinner on the way home.

For the sake of sanity let's assume thats $20 per person.

that's $100 of spending that may not have happened, and therefore is considered $100 of ecenomic stimulation, even though it was the same $20 every time. Because goods and services were paid for each time.

[prismatic-bell]

Dude.

With an extra $500/mo, I could pay off my student loans.

If student loans were forgiven and I got an extra $500/mo, I could get my teeth fixed. Which because I’ve been putting them off due to lack of funds means “seven pulled, two crowned, multiple cavities filled, braces on the bottom, and seven implants because dentures are actually terrible for you.”

Imagine! I would be instantly healthier just because of $500/mo!

[weonsinnombre]

[vstheworld]

nature is healing

[mulderscully]

me: i miss 2012 tumblr

*scrolls thru @heritageposts*

me: nevermind

[heritageposts]

[william-snekspeare]

here is a sweet story for you all:

the first time I saw my grandmother after coming out and starting HRT she said “here he comes” as I stepped out of the car and then started jumping up and down saying “he! he!! I’m going to remember!!” I started to say hello and she goes “oh! your voice!! wait, let me hear you say something” I say “hi grandmother” and she smiles really big and says “oh… that is a miracle :-)”

the moral of the story is that sometimes coming out is awesome and my grandmother rules. happy pride ✨

[william-snekspeare]

My grandmother also got bored one time at thanksgiving and asked me if I wanted to go look for cool mushrooms with her in the woods so basically she just kicks ass