If you are the type of person who tells people over the internet to either "accept death" or kill themselves, do not follow me. Do not interact with my posts.
As a person who has struggled with mental health issues myself, I find that behavior an insult not just to my morals but the core of my very being.
If you think whatever political stance you have justifies telling random people on the internet to either "accept death" or to commit suicide, you are WRONG.
Block me if you have to, but you are still WRONG.
Because if you knew what it was like to have suicidal thoughts, you wouldn't wish them on the worst people you know. You wouldn't wish them on your worst enemies.
Sebastian IS queer!
The writers leaving his bisexuality on the cutting room floor does not erase that. If anything, it only makes him more queer.
Having your sexuality ignored by other people for the sake of (their convenience) is one of the most bisexual experiences there is!
And so is, arguably, being dismissed as "straight".
Every year since 2023, I've done this. And now it's time again! I'm posting this already in april so that people interested can have plenty of time to start getting inspired.
These prompts can be used for anything you like: Writing, art, edits, simple headcanon posts... ✨vibes✨
You can choose to do something every day for a month, or just do a couple of prompts that interest you. There is no rule to actually post the prompt on the specific day either. Just do in whatever order you like, and do what you feel like.
You might already get inspired by some prompts, but if there's a certain prompt that you have questions on, I'll give a full rundown of all of them under the cut + some explanations/suggestions for them <3 (you can of course ignore my suggestions/explanations entirely and do your own thing! It's all free!)
Have fun! See you in june! <3
1. Two moms
Some people have two moms! If this is about two women who are about to be moms, about the kid living with their two moms or maybe someone from an outside perspective of the family is completely up to you! <3
2. Prideful baking
A popular prompt from previous years! Are they baking for a pride event? Are things getting fruity in the kitchen? We'll see...
3. Secret
What is the secret? Someone's crush? Someone's identity? Or is it... something completely else? Up to you to decide!
4. Sleepover
Things can get quite... intimate... at a sleepover. Especially when you're both the same gender and one of you is crushing on the other.
Though it could also be a very platonic sleepover where something else happens. Maybe someone comes out! Or maybe it's a queer group having a movie night and sleeping on the floor! Anything can happen at a sleepover!
5. At a pride parade
What happens at the pride parade? Did someone get lost in the crowd? Has someone painted the flag wrong? Who do they meet? Which people go together?
6. Two dads
Some people have two dads! If this is about two men who are about to be dads, about the kid living with their two dads or maybe someone from an outside perspective of the family is completely up to you! <3
7. Alternate universe
What if there was a universe where they were the opposite gender? Imagine an AU where they got together with someone else. Or MAYBE they live in a fantasy world now, or live in the modern era! So much possibilities with an alternate universe!
8. Coming out
It can be scary... but it can also be one of the bravest things you can do. Who did they come out to? How did they react?
9. Early signs
Sometimes you look back at your childhood and realize... there sure were signs :,D So, let's dig back into someone's childhood and see some moments. Or, why not see this from an adult's perspective seeing themselves in a young kid.
10. Everyone knows
The question is... WHAT does everyone know? And is there still someone who DOESN'T know? How did people figure it out if no one told them? Or HAS someone told them? What if everyone knows except for the person, or several people, involved :o
11. Pronoun change
You may notice some prompts are similar, and that's mostly in case someone wants to do a similar concept with several things and don't want to decide on just one. Maybe you could use the "coming out" prompt for someone coming out as gay and then this one for someone coming out as trans. Or have BOTH prompts be trans coming outs. Or: this is not a coming out at all, just someone updating about their pronouns and it's no biggie!
12. No labels
No labels on the relationship? No label on your identity? No label on lunchbox? You decide!
13. Alternate time period
Imagine if they fell in love, but it was 100 years ago... or 300 years into the future. Imagine if they were as gay as they are now but it's the 1960s on a roller rink. There's a lot of concepts to be made!
14. Crush
To have a crush can be nice, but also dreadful. Who's the crush? Do you think they feel the same?
15. Confession
Is it a love confession? A confession about their identity they haven't told anyone else? A confession about what they did last summer? A confession that yes, they were the one who ate up all the chips in the cabinet! So much to confess!
16. Are they dating or not?
SERIOUSLY!!! WE NEED TO KNOW!! Shenanigans ensue to find this out!
17. Proposal
Will they say yes?
18. Wedding
They're gonna tie the knot and live happily ever after! Unless you're someone angsty (though I myself don't want to be so angsty in pride month, but everyone is different!)
19. Party
Anything can happen at a party. Secrets can be revealed. If it's a "grown up" party maybe some things will be said during the influence of something...
OR it's just a pride themed party and everyone is having a gay old time and no drama happens at all!
20. Song
A song can mean so much. Maybe it's the song that helped them realize their true feelings for something or someone. Maybe it's the song that's "their" song. Maybe it's someone serenading someone else? It's up to you to decide!
21. Date
What are they doing on their date? How's it going? Are they nervous or have they gone on dates before? Or maybe you mean date as the time of day! The date was June 1st!
22. Are they gay or not?
Well, we can't just ask. So we need to speculate and find clues until they reveal the answer for themselves.
23. Gender
What even is gender? Let's ask Judith Butler /j
Is the person exploring their own gender? Or their attractions to other genders? Is it the gender of a baby that is being born, or the gender of a pet?
24. Catching up
This can be a friendgroup who haven't seen each other in a while meeting at a café and see what everyone's up to. Maybe a catching up to someone you haven't seen since you graduated. Oh! They have another name now! Sweet!
Or... maybe it's just a daily catchup about their day to someone.
25. Friends
Friends are there when you need them the most. Friends can be your family sometimes. Maybe this is about queer friendgroups hanging out, or maybe it's someone seeking comfort in their friends after a bad experience. Friends are never far away! (reference from G3 My Little Pony if you can believe it)
26. Travel
Who's out travelling? A gay ol' friendgroup on a roadtrip? Two women on their honeymoon? A solo trip for someone trying to find themselves?
27. Reunion
Is it a family reunion? Friends reunion? A reunion with the past and the present (what do I know, maybe you're someone who likes to do time travel and let younger and older people meet). Is it a school reunion where they discover some people are totally different now?
28. Rainbow
It can be a symbolic rainbow. Or a literal one. Maybe a rainbow flag. Maybe the rainbow is the friends we made along the way.
29. Family
Families can look all sorts of ways! It could be a queerplatonic couple who raise foster kids together. Three dads and a little girl. A group of people who are just roomates in one giant house.
But maybe this is a story about someone's biological family who they need to visit after coming out. Or it could be someone finding a new family that they choose for themselves.
30. Future
What does the future hold? Do they grow old together? Do they keep in contact? How far into the future do you want to go?
Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).
I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.
Edit: this post is blowing up so I’m gonna shamelessly plug my art account. Follow me and I’ll draw the Godzilla lesbians @thenonbinaryfriendnamedcrumb
2nd edit: Yes. Female friends dance with eachother. But why can’t they be lesbians?? I’ve seen people on this website ship two men for astronomically less.
As summer is approaching, I’d like to remind everyone that you are not entitled to ask someone to cover up their scars, self inflicted or not. I don’t care if they’re big, I don’t care if they’re noticeable, or purple, or all over their body, or what. You can’t police people’s bodies.
This also goes for my friends with feeding tubes, ostomy bags, central lines and urinary catheters. People are allowed exist in bodies that stray from the expected norm.
My main issue with The Other Bennet Sister (both as a book and series) is that it operates on the premise that Mary actually understands and is upset that she is not as brilliant as her sisters, when Pride and Prejudice tells us explicitly that hearing herself described as 'the most accomplished girl in the neighbourhood' at the Meryton assembly is enough for her to have enjoyed a 'pleasant' evening.
I understand that Mary is somewhat of a blank slate (given how little she is in the original novel) and thus that ability to be able to project onto her would be appealing for an author because she is the most infrequently mentioned Bennet sister. But equally, she is seldom in the story because she is not particularly relevant to the plot; it's not an oversight on Austen's part. Her character is clearly defined and we have a good sense of who Mary is (selfish and sanctimonious, rather than neglected and overlooked) even if there are not entire chapters dedicated to her.
Mary Bennet is not heroine material and that is perfectly okay.
If you choose to explore the YouTube Recycle Bin (youtuber KVN AUST has great videos explaining what that is) I strongly recommend using MVI + [any four random digits] as your "lead."
Each "lead" is based on the default filename given by the device that recorded or edited the video, so different leads give different types of results. The device that gives MVI + [any four random digits] is some kind of video camera that first became common in the late 00's. Whatever it was, it wasn't something that "everyone" has and uses constantly like a smartphone.
This lead gives a lot of videos that are over 10 years old and most of them are performances, competitions, something filmed for professional reasons or for an assignment, or something that was otherwise clearly memorable/significant to the person filming.
I have learned about more kinds of dances and musical instruments than I knew even existed. There are so many random clips of festivals, clubs and gatherings with music, dancing, and costumes.
It is a button you can hit for randomized examples of human artistic expression.
I cannot recommend doing this enough. It gives the same feeling as roaming around randomly on Google Earth. And it makes you realize how the entire internet is mostly tailored to show you only people that look and speak like you. The Youtube Recycle Bin shows you people and places from throughout the world.
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.” ]
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", 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.
AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.
