Red Ghost

You ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a Red! he/him/his

[assignedmale]

[queerazonbooks]

Today we remember the 49 lives lost and countless others forever changed on June 12, 2016, at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. What was meant to be a night of joy, music, and pride became one of unimaginable tragedy.

We honor the memory of those we lost—most of them young, queer, and Latinx—and we stand with the survivors, the families, and the community still healing.

Let this day be a reminder: queer joy is powerful, queer spaces are sacred, and love must always outshine hate.

[liberalsarecool]

Ownership meant a physical copy. Now you own nothing and can't find what you want across multiple streaming platforms.

Bring back headphones that plug in. Bring back expandable memory. Bring back owning media.

[assignedmale]

[mckitterick]

[pukicho]

Parents are giving their children names no one has ever spoken out loud before

[pukicho]

Was it Human?

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

apparently they almost went with weston

[allidrawscomics]

Baby Name Consultant is the type of job title you'd see people claim to have on HGTV while nitpicking 3 different multi-million dollar houses.

[stalinxtrotskytoxicyaoi]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere

[liberalsarecool]

Every racist MAGA/GOP/KKK slippery slope prediction is worthless.

[assignedmale]

[lesvegas]

environmental storytelling

[anarchistmemedistro]

“profession” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

[depsidase]

[captain-price-returns]

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[mysharona1987]

[captain-price-returns]

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.