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Like really
Are you kidding me
Happy pride month! This website’s staff hates you
Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
I'm losing my fucking mind, what a banger, put some dirty bass on that and it would hit the gay party scene like a third plane
This goes so fucking hard
Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1
ITS TIME
[Video description: A short clip from the show Make Some Noise. Erika Ishii, imitating Ebenezer Scrooge, points dramatically and yells, "You, boy! What day is it?" Brennan responds, "It's pride, bitch!" End description.]
this about sums up rulette 2
Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona
i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d
noticed the two types of people in the tags
airpods are literally such a massive downgrade like remember when headphones cost £2 didn’t need charging didn’t randomly disconnect and didn’t get lost all the time. remember when tech kinda worked for kinda cheap
remember when phones just fucking had headphone jacks
Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.
… I just realised that some of my mutuals are Too Young to get flashbacks from this. I hate the internet.
Robot Unicorn Attack is from 2010. The window for ‘ancient’ keeps getting smaller. Anyway, All your base are belong to us.
I’m a simple person, i see the delightful duo that are flamboyant and nerdy Erasure, and reblog to share the love. Whether you discovered them via a scrubs episode or a flash animation, seek out more. It’s all wierd and wonderful.
Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.
Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.
No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.
He didn't do it.
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
Before June I have to share one of my favorite tiktoks
reblog if you're a sick individual who's attracted to women over 30
I'll just post everything related to Grand Regent Debbie AU at once because I forgot
My cemetery’s in Key Biscayne. It’s one of the prettiest in the world. The sky is blue, palm trees, rolling hills. The one is Los Copa’s really sh*t. [sigh] What a pain in the ass you are. And it’s true: you’re not young, you’re not new, and you do make people laugh. And me? I’m still with you because you make me laugh. So you know what I got to do? I got to sell my plot in Key Biscayne so I can get one next to you in that shithole Los Copa, so I never miss a laugh. Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as Armand and Albert in The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols
– Animorphs: The Reunion, K.A. Applegate
[“After making a speech about stereotypes in media to a roomful of older teenage students in 2016, I was invited to stay for lunch. As we ate, the conversation turned to how difficult it was to confront classmates about difficult topics such as racism, heteronormativity, gender identity, and sexism. “What do I do,” asked one girl, “when boys I’ve known since kindergarten are standing next to me in the hallway laughing at a rape joke? Worse, when they do it standing next to a girl who they know has been assaulted?”
We went over some strategies: for example, cultivating a network of boys who understood the importance of bystander intervention and could use the fact that they were boys to speak to their peers in a way that girls could not. There was, in the group of more than three dozen students, only one boy. He raised his hand. “I think you would convince more boys if you said things in a nicer way,” he suggested. “I just think that you sound too angry.” His was a typical rerouting from discussing the cause of our anger, which he undoubtedly felt uncomfortably implicated in, to condemning our expression as counterproductive.
In 2016, researchers Octavia Calder-Dawe and Nicola Gavey from New Zealand’s University of Auckland worked closely with a group of teenage students to learn what they thought about everyday sexism. They concluded that the adolescents lived in a general environment in which “gender equality is taken for granted and the possibility of enduring sexism is firmly rejected.” If asked directly, students described sexism as affecting men and women equally. The students they surveyed went out of their way, regardless of gender, to stress symmetry in sexism’s effects. But despite the drive to make things equal, boys and girls parted ways when asked to describe actual incidents of sexism or violence.
Sexism against boys and men was discussed primarily in rhetorical, theoretical, and speculative ways, whereas sexism against girls and women was shared in painful individual or witnessed incidents. When students were asked “Where, if anywhere, does sexism come up in your everyday life?” girls told personal stories of sexual harassment or violence, denigrating humor, and demeaning stereotyping. The boys, however, provided mainly hypotheticals. All of the students reported witnessing acts of sexism against girls and women. There were virtually no actual examples of antimale sexism. Instead, students focused, for instance, on stereotypes in advertising.
People who deny sexism will always be more hostile to your anger than to what is actually causing your anger. A lot of the difficulty of denial is that women’s inequality is woven into men’s identities in early childhood. Teenage boys are heavily invested in masculinity and achieving it. They can and do suffer real penalties when they don’t.
Earning money and keeping people safe are basic responsibilities of manhood. Women’s equality—in the form of work, sexual liberation, public power—generates gender-role stress. Four in nine men say that because of greater gender equality and labor competition, it’s harder to be a man today. Men whose wives threaten to earn as much or more than they do, work more hours. When women make more money, they do less housework. Men with higher-earning wives are more likely to have erectile dysfunction and depression.
It’s not only money, though, but the idea that men are supposed to protect. Hearing about street and sexual harassment and threats of assault directly challenge a man’s ability to keep “his” woman safe. This triggers not only confusion, doubt, or anger but also stress and feelings of inadequacy. When women are honest about these issues, their honesty can be experienced as a threat to masculine identity. The core issue is that, no matter where you may live in the world, dominant norms of masculinity are actively constructed out of women’s vulnerabilities. What are “real men” if they can’t protect women? What are “real men” if women can provide financially for themselves and their families?
In addition, talking about sexual harassment and violence means that men have to face their own vulnerability—and, sometimes, their own sexual assaults as boys. Most assaults that men experience happen in childhood, and they are smothered in shame and trauma, not in the least because being violated is considered feminizing.
Much of the denial we encounter is constructed to protect these masculine ideals. Even when men overcome these threats to their identity, masculinity and male centrality reassert themselves. Fathers are often particularly surprised when they learn that their daughters will face sexism and that their own privileges or attempts to protect them will not be sufficient to offset the impacts. A common response is to empathize by defining women, the ultimate in unhelpful patriarchal thinking, relationally: “My daughter, my wife, my sister, my mother.” This defines women not by their rights or as individuals but as extensions of men and their rights. Women have a right to walk, go to school, look nice, and work unmolested by entitled bores, independent of their relationship to a man.
This frame of reference is also apparent in denials that almost always begin with “Women over there . . .” That might mean across town or in another state or country. Instead of listening to what is being said to them, people who have probably rarely before expressed concern about “women over there” respond by pointing out that there are women who are poorer and sicker. Who have acid thrown on them. Who are more likely to be abused, raped, and beaten. Without fail, when women and girls point to forms of oppression in their lives, someone has this response—a polite way of saying, effectively, “Shut up, and be grateful we treat you as well as we do.” This line of thought is, at its foundation, an argument about men, not women. It asserts the superiority of some men over others who treat “their” women less well, as in, “Consider yourself lucky that we are not selling you on Amazon.”
Women are not in competition with other women for their human rights. My rights are not relative to another woman’s pain and vulnerability. They should not be contingent on affiliative male status.”]
soraya chemaly, from rage becomes her: the power of women’s anger, 2018
I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things, or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.
This has always existed to an extent but it used to be very siloed and only noticeably prevalent in certain fandoms and everyone else in fandom spaces generally agreed that it wasn’t healthy to act like that. Now it’s seemingly every fandom with an online presence and it’s all happening much more publicly than ye olde Trekkie forum.
I do think that the increase in access to creatives through social media, extended promotional cycles where you do a thousand interviews and all of them get clipped for instagram and tiktok, and an increase in entertainment and fandom aggregate social media accounts which keep people updated on all of those clips and every second of the creative process has had a big hand in creating this sense of ownership that audience members feel. It makes us feel like we’re on the team because we think we know so much. But we are not and we don’t.