Why should you love him whom the world hates so?

CT / 22 / he+she / tme / bizarre medieval thing / white+West Asian / previously fealtyfaggot / saoirse don Phalaistín

[hagiomoto]

Lebanon is still being bombed right now. Thousands of families are being displaced at this very moment. Please consider donating to this grassroot effort.

Mutual Aid for Lebanon

Lebanon is currently being carpet bombed by the Zionist state. We are back to our emergency response work and in dire need of funds. We are

[wearywoes]

Currently at $135,725 out of $150,000 USD! The last donation was made 3 hours ago! Please donate and share! Remember: You can give as little as a dollar and in your own currency, such as AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, or USD!

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[brainsickking]

I am sick of being like. Mentally ill but high-functioning. I'm not even having A Bad One I just hate that the kind of thing I mean by A Bad One is so severe that I live in fear of it! And I hate the hair trigger that seems to control whether or not I Have A Bad One

[damazcuz]

When all you have is a handsaw, every problem looks like a beautiful lady in a box. And you have a magician outfit. And people are watching.

[cosmicanger]

[yarrow-heather-and-hollyhock]

I love this little bit by Cathon

[brainsickking]

Shanty night tomorrow :)

[brainsickking]

[through gritted teeth] shanty night tonight :)

[brainsickking]

[wistfully but without grief] shanty night yesterday :)

[brainsickking]

Can one emulate the new tomodachi life or am I fucked forever

[brainsickking]

Shanty night tomorrow :)

[brainsickking]

[through gritted teeth] shanty night tonight :)

[larval-tear]

dude i think i might be The Other

[elliespectacular]

Happy 24-6-01!

[maxanor]

BLACK SAILS | Season 4, Episode 9, "XXXVII"

[stivkun]

Neon tetra drawn with 10in1 ballpoint pen

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Good news for people who were pissed off at me for not voting for Kamala Harris in 2024:

Currently omw to vote in the 2026 colombian presidential elections

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I am pleased to inform you that I have learned from my mistakes, grown as a person, and atoned for my sins.

I just voted for Kamala Harris in the 2026 Colombian presidential election 😁👍

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

In her song Rainbow Dress, Taylor Swift describes the position of her purported "straight sex" in relationship to what Gayle Rubin terms the charmed circle of sexuality, wherein any sexual behavior outside an accepted range can only be immoral. When it comes to the vectors of heterosexual versus homosexual and vanilla versus kinky, her "just normal sex, nothing too weird" with a "regular hunk with a beard" is positioned inside this charmed circle. Yet the most glaring exception is that her sex is public--at the gay pride parade, no less. The hunk she desires has no name, no specific relation to her, and she makes no pretense of monogamous attachment. Her apparently ironic participation at the gay pride parade draws from Michael Warner's anti-identitarian critiques of tendencies that elevate sexual orientation above other maligned sexual practices and detach queerness from sex altogether. Swift's sexuality is clearly informed by queer perspectives: the erotic fixation on ball sweat evokes gay sadomasochist "pig" subcultures, and her claim that she hates her own vagina invites a multiplicity of pleasure possibilities that do not involve direct genital stimulation. The push and pull in her lyrics between straight nomenclature and queer imagery builds upon Eve Sedgwick's critiques of heterosexual-homosexual binarism in Epistemology of the Closet, and attuned listeners know that the question of queerness "hidden inside" cannot follow such an either-or formulation.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

These lyrics are indeed troubling, but like the graphic subject matter of Jean Genet, they are meant to operate on a deeper level than the immediate revulsion they may provoke. It is more accurately an exploration of the death drive, reminiscent of other feminist performance artists such as Marina Abramović. "I hate all vaginas, even the one I got" refers to, in Lacanian terms, a conflict between the subject and the ego, which comes to its boiling point (or perhaps a cathartic resolution) through the entropic, self-shattering jouissance of straight sex at the gay pride parade.

[gothhabiba]

[ID: tags reading "#i am agog these lyrics are real #what the fuck #we shudnt b tewching [teaching] women to hate their pussies #this saddens me deeply" end ID]

[goldenspirits]

What about when she said "I wish there was straight pride", a right-wing talking point, was that queer of her? Hm? Was it a critique of the heterosexual-homosexual binarism?

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

In honor of her upcoming album, I want to take a moment to return to this post and dispell another common misconception about my favorite queer theorist and tortured poet. Taylor Swift's line about wishing there were a straight pride makes more sense in Hegelian terms, where Rainbow Dress presents a dialectic in which heterosexuality and homosexuality are defined in opposition to each other. What then would be the antithesis to straight sex at the gay pride parade? Gay sex at the straight pride parade. For Swift, straight parade parade is not a right wing talking point but an opportunity to sow chaos through gay sex. In Lee Edelman's words, “Queerness can never define an identity; it can only ever disturb one.” For more explorations of the negating power of queer sex without redemptive plots, I recommend her prior song Fuck Like a Mountain Rat.

[cyber-newtype]

imagine if for pride tesco started offering rainbow club cards and instead of saying "club card accepted" the guy said "you are accepted" and the discount was half as good to represent the lgbt wage gap