Blue Gorgon

Organic Xennial Artist of Cosmic Seas, Neon Wilds, and Queer Cryptids. AuDHD They/Them Trans-Agender Landlocked Ocean Alien 👽 Nature Nerd Science Hippy 🖖 Frustrated Idealist Curious Absurdist Prints, Merch, & Commission info at Www.BlueGorgon.net

[scarletandgreyexotics]

You guys still like Vega blels, right?

Red tailed green rat snake / Gonyosoma oxycephalum

[tabitha1917]

[filmgifs]

“I always thought of the family in terms of a certain archetypal foursome. Adelaide is the leader, the captain. Zora is the warrior. She acts before she thinks and she kicks ass. Gabe is the fool, even though on the surface he looks like he might be the leader or the warrior. And Jason is the wizard. He’s the magician. I have this kinda concept of Jason that he can sorta see through the veil. You can see these moments where he’s observing his mother and he’s meant to be a little step ahead of us, the most clever of us that’s sorta figuring out there’s something more to Adelaide’s story than we see.”

- Jordan Peele’s commentary on Jason and Adelaide’s relationship in Us (2019) 

[catsnuggler]

Not enough people know the Mormons believe Native Americans are Jewish people who turned away from God and got cursed by having their skin darkened, or that Mormons literally have Manifest Destiny right there in the text, no extrapolation. I'm not Native at all, but frankly, it's one of the most disgusting things of that faith that caused me to utterly reject it. It is a vile religion that is white supremacist to its very core.

[catsnuggler]

I know most everyone sees Mormons only as annoying missionaries who won’t get out of your face (including in the third world, where missionary work is a vital part of the colonization process), and some folks vaguely know they’re also big homophobes, and that is true, but they’re so much worse than, eh, “only” all that. They’re rabidly anti-communist, highly patriarchal, incredibly homophobic and transphobic, and highly nationalist - obedience to the state is one of their articles of faith, and it isn’t in there as a token gesture so they can get into most any country unmolested, either.

To be sure, most Mormons aren’t Nazis and don’t have favorable views of Nazis, but they are about as reactionary as Nazis, particularly with their obedience to the church hierarchy. Mormons like the conservative who hates everyone the fascists hate, but hates the fascists because “I’m an American, and we Americans love democracy and hate fascists,” obviously knowing nothing about, say, Chile in 1973, or how NATO was totally cool all that time working with Spain while Franco was still in charge, or how American industrialists coordinated with the Nazis before the war, or literally anything about the deeper history of America and fascism. But whether they know how fascist they are or not, they’re comfortable doing fascism, and a hiccup away from realizing they really do fundamentally agree with fascism, so long as their “prophet” is in charge.

I guess what I’m saying is, by all means, poke fun at Mormons, and make jokes about them. They really are ridiculous, and I agree as someone who was, unfortunately, raised as one. But they’re not only a joke, they’re also a threat wherever they are in numbers.

[coyotesmokebreak]

A note on mormon beliefs about natives: they believe that by marrying natives and having children with us that they can “restore” us to our supposed previous esteem.

A small excerpt from one of Joseph Smiths “revelations”

“For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and Just”

[wizardfail]

i was raised mormon + its genuinely horrifying. like 

they also own the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii and several elementary and secondary schools in mexico and the pacific islands. given the information previously provided in this post, this is particularly alarming.

during the obama romney election the leaders of the church sent out a letter to be read in every congregation that was like...remember to vote in a way that god would appreciate or else :) he may be upset w you :)

they also have $32 billion in business assets that they handle through church-owned finance companies (look up Deseret Management Corporation) so they don’t have to report their expenses. their holdings include swaths of land in utah, america’s 14th largest radio chain, and utah’s largest newspaper. oh and they’re just sitting on SO MUCH FUCKING LAND WHY DO HTYE OWN SO MUCH LAND????

tl;dr: the church’s racist rhetoric doesn’t just encourage racism in its members. church assets are actively used to “educate” + convert indigenous people and maintain political control in utah

[mysharona1987]

[cooterburger]

Midsommar (2019)

[annshibden]

this is the reason why i love cinema 🌺🍀🌹

[oahsis-deactivated20191030]

Medusa (detail) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

[figdays]

“Medusa” Pin // JessicaMcRoryArt 

[pixelcurious]

@bluegorgon

[catchymemes]

[sssquiddles]

[serene-elysium]

another pic, different angle

[randomklutz]

^ important

[probsjosh]

big boy

[tincansamurai]

michaelangelo could put all that work into perspective tricks and he still couldn’t sculpt a titty

[dr-gloom]

he was gay cut him some slack

[saddest-cat-hours]

[amyofthemyscira]

Bacchino Malato (Caravaggio, 1593)

[rocktheholygrail]

There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you can’t win.

[rocktheholygrail]

#CHIDI WAS RIGHT

[cosmik-homo]

The Good Place really went with making their new Point ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ and I respect that

[geekandmisandry]

You know what I hate about toxic heterosexual culture? The way others try and force it on people.

Like, heterosexuals are so used to it that they just....do that, to other couples, usually younger ones.

My partner and I are read as straight as treated as some sort of willing participants in this.

Like the other night, after dinner at family's house I started collecting dishes to wash them, because I'm at someone's house and that is how I was raised.

Now, boyfriend knows I'm allergic to dishsoap so he comes up and insists on doing it for me, I'm grateful and pick up a towel to dry the dishes. It was a nice moment actually, he's seen me break out in rashes and itchy awful hive things that stick around for weeks.

But to the older heterosexual couples it became fodder for how I "owned" him, he was whipped and down trodden etc. When I said, meekly (I was a little taken aback by the "haha you volunteer to do the dishes and then make him do it" when I hadn't even volunteered, I was just quietly collecting dishes and starting the process) said that he had insisted, the joke became about how he probably vaguely suggested and I pounced on it or that he would be in "big trouble" if he didn't suggest it.

I didn't bother saying I was allergic to dishsoap, I've been saying that since I was 10 and no one believed me, I could already had the jokes they would make about the "allergy", so I just shut up and kept wiping dishes and putting them away.

But this isn't new, my last relationship was also previously read as cis/het and it was always like, if I asked my partner to do anything for me it was met with "see if you can get your balls out of her purse while you're at it".

Like if the hets wanna have this culture, fine, do you. If you want to act like any kindness or request is emasculating servitude and that women are harpies, whatever. But don't try and push your miserable dynamics onto everyone else.

[megan-is-aa]

I look forward to a cultural shift when it comes to this. The amount of times I've had to tell older women that I like hanging out with my husband only to see their shock is

sad

[prime4pe]

I have to deal with toxic masculinity Every. Fucking. Day. because apparently I can't help or do anything for my wife without a million questions to see if I'm whipped. Like why would marry someone and not lift a finger for them

[geekandmisandry]

This. My boyfriend is very helpful and does his share of chores, and often more depending on my mobility. His care, kindness and consideration is because we love each other, his desire to do the dishes was not out of fear, but out of love because he doesn't like seeing me with blisters on my fingers.

The kindness and respect that couples show to each other should not be subject to mockery just because it looks unfamiliar.

[villlaneve]

Someone: Harley Quinn is straight and only in love with the Joker!!

Me: ?

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?!?!?!?!??!?!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Just look at these heterosexual gal pals literally having sex with each other right there on panel

Just like all straight women who are just really good Platonic Friends do

This is so straight oh my gosh

[nocloudsintheskye]

So straight it burns.

[highfunctioningfool]

[queerpeers]

People create binaries. Black and white, good and evil, male and female, gay and straight, normal and abnormal, and even things as ridiculous as cats and dogs. But you know what? This comes from a place of insecurity. If humans don’t understand, if we can’t compartmentalize, we get overwhelmed and confused.

The gender binary is wholly human-made. The sexuality dichotomy is a myth. Many of us are working to dismantle these arbitrary categories, but those who resist are afraid. The same people condemning “safe spaces” are too preoccupied by their own fears to open their eyes to the world changing and adapting.

People are going to be rude, intolerant, and violent in more ways than one. But they’re the weak ones. And they’re the ones who are going to be proven wrong.

[potbelliedgeek-deactivated20150]

So my mom is shopping in a supermarket, wearing a full hijab and jilbab (commonly misnamed as a burka) and the whole time she is there, this kid is staring at her. Won’t stop staring. Just looking with wide-eyed shock. The lil feller isn’t any older than four. She doesn’t think much of it, she is used to far worse than just a few stares. Until the very end when the kid and his mom are behind her in the checkout, and he leans up and whispers loudly: “I LOVE YOU BATMAN”

[shadow-of-a-whisper]

This is so pure and adorable

[doodlez4life-blog]

Oh the memories. I sorta did this when I was a kid, I was like 5 my mom was picking me up from kindergarten. There was a Muslim boy in my school, so his mother picked him up wearing the hijab and the jilbab, I saw her and I was amazed. Not because she was Muslim. No I deadass thought this lady was a ninja. So I continued to frantically tap my mother and pointed and said “mommy it’s a ninja!” The lady over heard me, my mom tried to quite me, until this lady did an actual ninja pose. I flipped my shit that day in kindergarten.