I've got my antifa card here somewhere...

Just another friendly neighborhood spiderman with no fucks to spare

[halorvic]

It is pride month. How is the shark?

Gettin’ by 👍

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Have a good day lil shark :D

[lost-long-ago]

[ID: three drawings of a shark, forming a three-panel comic.

Drawing 1: the shark is lying on its side, mouth open, in what appears to be a dejected pose. A thought bubble containing a messy dark spiral scribble (commonly used to suggest depressed thoughts) hovers over the shark

Drawing 2: the shark is lying in the same position, with a similar thought bubble over its head. A red octopus wearing a pride flag scarf has appeared and is looking at the shark. The shark does not appear to react to the octopus’s presence.

Drawing 3: the shark is lying in the same position, with a similar thought bubble over its head. The octopus is gone. The pride flag scarf is now looped around the shark, below its open mouth and above its caudal fins.

/end ID]

[bisexualshakespeare]

Has that octopus always been there???

[sebsketchs]

sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

[tcustodisart]

Happy Pride Month!

Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.

[morggo]

Happy Pride Month.

Hi-Res Prints and Editable PSDs: https://ko-fi.com/s/c16fb83091

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmorgan/

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[nem23]

[endreal]

Apparently there was some kind of race scheduled at a local park or something so I've been trying to avoid the main trail but a little while ago when I had to cross near it I overheard the following shouted exchange

Higher feminine voice: woo, look at you go! You're jogging! Keep it up!

Lower masculine voice (panting): you know it! Last place is still a place, baby!

And goddamn if that didn't rewire my brain a little bit.

Last place is still a place, baby.

[ladysisyphus]

I know of a trail racing company that gives the slowest racer who finishes every race a DFL award: Dead Fucking Last. I was a little taken aback by this until I had it explained to me that those last-place finishers are pretty much uniformly people for whom finishing at all was an accomplishment: people undergoing cancer treatments, absolute beginners, runners in their eighties, extremely pregnant people, you get the idea. Moreover, what you see as this person crosses the finish line is all these sporty trail racers, many of whom finished the race literal hours earlier, cheering their hearts out because they respect that, yes, DFL is still a place, baby.

[sbbaxx]

Ok, I’m gonna rant a second here.

I am not a fan of romantasy, I don’t enjoy it so I don’t read it and you know what? That is a perfectly viable and dare I say preferable way of dealing with it than bemoaning the ‘devaluation’ of literature because a bunch of women and girls found something they liked and it happens to have a lot of sex in it.

We live in a world where we are expected to have no attention span, to think less, to imagine less. If someone is reading ANYTHING enthusiastically it should be celebrated just the same way we celebrate audiobooks for their accessibility and graphic novels for their appeal to those who may be intimidated by large chunks of text or just PREFER the format.

Literature is not separate from popular fiction and it never has been. The books we read as classics were published with the intention of making money not just art that is how it has always worked. The fact that this type of story is making a lot of money right now and is therefore getting a lot of attention and shelf space is not concerning.

What is concerning is the puritanical and frankly misogynistic idea that because there’s sex in it that it is inherently lesser than other books and it’s therefore only suitable for lesser people or that only lesser people would enjoy it.

Snobbishness masquerading as intellectual concern is still snobbishness.

Also I know more than a few women who read it in addition to other things. It’s almost like if you see someone at a sushi restaurant a couple times that doesn’t mean that they only eat sushi. They just really like it and that’s fucking fine!

There is no ‘fast food’ there is no ‘fine dining’ there is only what you will eat and what you won’t. So pick the thing that feeds you best and let everyone else do the same.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

[dykeselfcest]

idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

[look-something-shiny-redux]

My then-coworker was pregnant with her second child. One day she mentioned being terrified she'd go into labor at three in the morning and no one would be available to take care of her toddler while she went to the hospital.

"I know it's stupid," she said, "but I can't stop thinking about it."

"Call me if that happens, " I said, because we lived 15 minutes away from each other. "I'll run over and watch her until her grandparents get there."

And I didn't think too much of it at the time, but after my coworker came back from maternity leave she told me that this conversation, where some girl from work promised to give up a couple hours of sleep if her family had an emergency, was the reason she was able to sleep at night for the rest of the pregnancy.

[the-real-seebs]

What's interesting about this is that you didn't actually get called, and you didn't have to run anywhere at 3AM. You just had to be willing to if it happened.

So often, it's not even that you have to do anything; you just have to make it clear that if you would if it became necessary.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[sprouttheambassador]

running errands like kurt vonnegut

[sprouttheambassador]

⬆️ like so

[yardsards]

[image transcription:

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?

And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Let's all get up and move around a bit right now... or at least dance.]

[thefugitivesaint]

Happy May Day all. Solidarity and all that jazz.  For your brain, some history on May Day and how it came to be: 1. The Zinn Education Project:  May 4, 1886: Haymarket Tragedy

2. IWW Historical Archives:  The Brief Origins of May Day

3. NPR : What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[limeshade]

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: a redrawing of the "this is fine" comic. The dog has gotten a fire extinguisher and has started putting out the flames. Caption: It's Not fine, and you have a responsibility to act. /end]

[cryptotheism]

For the last like 2000 years you could get pussy just by being a guy. Now with divorce and the pill and women having jobs and bank accounts and shit, things have changed. If youre a dude and you want pussy you actually have to ask nicely. This will lead to the collapse of several nation states.