Dayna Ingram

Speculative fiction writer and bad ass queer woman. Author of All Good Children and Eat Your Heart Out. Don't tell my wife I bought more books.

[shitantichoiceprotesterssay]

“Christians are called to inflict pain…”

Finally, some honesty

[dayna-ingram-blog]

Tag yourself. I'm the pagan victim culture.

[bestdogmemes]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via GeauxTiger)

[luxwing]

Beauty and the Beast but they’re lesbians

[luxwing]

And the Beast is still this 8 foot tall hulking monster with horns and massive claws and fangs and when she turns back into human she’s still buff as shit and her girlfriend is small and they open a library together also the candle and the clock are gay

[goharley]

This is what people mean when they talk about the “gay agenda” if you want a story about gay people make your own don’t steal someone elses idea

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Alright, listen up you sorry excuse for a burnt crepe

The animated version of Beauty and the Beast is dedicated “To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful.”

Why?

Because the lyricist for the movie was Howard Ashman, a gay man who died of AIDS, only a few months before the release of the movie.

The version of the story you love has always had queerness in it.

It’s a story written by a gay man dying of AIDS, of someone who was cursed, whose time was running out and their death was coming, and the world wanted to hasten it along instead of helping, instead of loving him and understanding that he was never truly a monster.

It’s never belonged to you, not all the way. The soul of the Beast is queer.

“Oh, but the original version of the fairy-tale”

Fine, fuck you.

Gay version of the Little Mermaid, then.

You know, the one which was written by Hans Christian Andersen, a gay man who watched the love of his life marry a woman.

The original version story ends in tragedy, but with the idea that while the mermaid could not be with the man she loved, she does eventually gain a soul and find peace, when he was a gay man in a time when that felt denied to him.

Disney changed the ending of the Little Mermaid, the lyrics of which were also written by Howard Ashman, and gave her a true happy ending.

Now, let’s honour the inherent queerness of the story and acknowledge that we are in a time when gay people can be happy, they can be with the ones who we love, and make that the story.

Damn right that’s part of gay agenda. Gays in space. Gay mermaids. Gay Beasts. Gays goddamn everywhere there’s a good story, because it’s about damn time.

Watch as we take over every story that you thought belonged to you and make them delightfully, blatantly, queer, just to fuck with you, specifically.

Happily ever after.

[ahgoeff]

Cinematography I’m gay for: the Confident Woman Walk

[ekjohnston]

@allofthefeelings: #Moana#Wonder Woman#we’ve found two of the four#where are confident lady walk earth and air?

[drst]

Furiosa is Earth right?

[ekjohnston]

YOU ARE CORRECT.

[swimthroughthefires]

SOMEONE UPLOAD THE APPROPRIATE ICON PLEASE!

[v8roadworrier]

[justlookatthosesausages]

we need to find the confident lady walk of Air !!!

[apolline-lucy]

got it. 

[lbardugo-deactivated20210617]

It got better. 

[ladyhawkmemeguy]

this seems highly relevant to our interests.

[dayna-ingram-blog]

This is tops.

[bob-artist]

I just made the mistake of sneezing in my bedroom.  The birds now know that I’m awake, and Morning Scream Fest has begun.

[bob-artist]

Morning Scream Fest usually starts between 7 and 8am at my house.  Today at 7:35, I realized it had been awfully quiet.  Had I just been so quiet working at my computer that the birds didn’t realize I was awake?  So I performed an experiment.  Out of nowhere, I started yelling, “BIRDS!  BIRDS!  BIRDS!”  And then I yelled their names.

And I was met with ABSOLUTE SILENCE from the birds.

Then I ran down to check on them because I was like “they’re not screaming, wtf are they okay???” and I started to get worried.  But they were totally fine and awake.  Just confused.  Apparently birds don’t know what to do if you scream in the morning before they do.

But then I realized the horrible truth.

I had become one of them.

I am one of them now.

I scream.

[ithelpstodream]

[ratfrogs]

I made icons in response to tumblr’s censorship of the lgbt+ community because apparently our existence is “sensitive content.”

- feel free to use them for whatever you wish!

- also send an ask if you want me to make an edit with another flag in it because I’ll do it woo

[shittyidea]

Random mode on Netflix that plays the audio for one movie and the video of a totally unrelated movie

[princess-kropotkin]

i trust him

[abomination-of-gender-deactivat]

this is what a male feminist should look like

[princess-kropotkin]

the other side says “treats and pets, not trump and pence”

[abomination-of-gender-deactivat]

GOOD SHIT

[respectfulmemes]

[lgbtcinema]

The moment that baby is born, I’m coming over every day.

Saving Face (2004) dir Alice Wu

[kakumei-no-tomoshibi]

Listen to me, my queer younglings, I don’t usually write in gifsets because it is highly damaging to the aesthetic, but this is a very important PSA. This movie is the sadly ignored, unsung hero of all light lesbian romantic comedies, and if you have not watched it, you should do that right now, at this very moment.

[shamirworm]

not to further damage anyone’s gifset aesthetic, but i also loved this movie & wanna point out why it’s one of the very few Lesbian Movies That Don’t Suck

nobody dies. it’s a low bar, but we all know how often movies and TV shows fail to make it over!

while it does include a coming out story & some related obstacles, that isn’t the entire focus of the film - it’s at least as much about the relationship between the main character and her mother as it is about queer romance, and it’s also very much about the NYC Chinese-American community. it’s not a one-note Gay Story, is what i’m saying. queer people DOING THINGS other than being queer.

it’s WOC-written, directed & starring

it’s really cute and funny

go watch it

[therealraewest]

I’m halfway through the Whedon rejected wonder woman script and honestly this shit is wild like here are the highlights so far

Every woman in the script has been described by being lovely or beautiful, except for the Amazon general bc she’s a bitch apparently and the ensemble Amazons who are described in the script as looking “barely human” so there’s that (of note is that men are described as either powerful or having kind eyes bc like idk guys deserve to be described by more than their looks apparently)

There was one girl who was introduced only to be brutally killed after like 4 lines of dialogue. One of Diana’s “girlfriends” exists only to make dick jokes and say “you’re not the only woman here who thinks a man from the sky is the answer to her prayers” (honestly wtf)

Most of Diana’s interactions with other women have been aggressive, with her insulting the general multiple times and getting in a physical fight with her mother for Steve (ending in her own mother breaking a sword on her like wow that familial affection)

Diana has been called a whore and a bitch by two separate men

She’s also spent a good chunk of time unconscious from like a single bullet so okay

Diana gets no backstory as of yet. There’s a vague mention that she spends every night praying to Athena but like… what does she do? Who is she as a person? Why does she care about the outside world? Who cares but she and Steve have an “undeniable atttaction” despite having known each other for a grand total of a half hour and him throwing a pear at her head and telling her angrily that she’s a spoiled princess (after she saved his life, mind)

Also of note is that the story starts with and follows Steve. Steve gets a tragic backstoey and a selfless personality in tragically crashing on her island while delivering supplies for refugees. A wonder woman movie that revolves around a dude. Wonderful.

There’s only one “good” character who’s described as black, and a band of aggressive soldiers in south africa who steal supplies for innocent refugees and who live in tin shacks who would have inevitably been played by black men. Also said refugees are shown as “scuttling back to the shadows” and one steals food from a young child once they get the supplies. So yeah how bout them stereotypes

Some business lady is in cahoots with Aries nephew or something who has nothing better to do than destroy 3 story buildings full of “junkies, whores and some families” to aid gentrification

God nephew shows off his teleportation powers by taking diana conveniently out of the way to a mountaintop to tell her to stay out of “his city” only to teleport her back to the city for the explicit purpose of dropping said building on her

The city they’re in is described as a cultural hub and extremely diverse but again the only character whose race is described is the one black guy and all the women have been white so far so y'know “diversity”

Honestly I stopped reading at the giant metal firebreathing worm that’s apparently a plot point and Steve tending to a shirtless Diana’s wounds (the second time she’s been unclothed in his presence) and eventually I’m gonna finish this shitfest but I’m just so thankful we got the wonder woman movie that we did bc honestly I would have cried if I’d had to sit through this in theaters

[therealraewest]

The link to the pdf is long and ugly and I’m on mobile but here’s an article that links to it if y'all wanna see for yourselves: http://www.blastr.com/2017-5-15/wonder-woman-joss-whedon-script

[therealraewest]

Alright I pushed through the last 70 pages and boy howdy y'all

At least 3 more male characters calling Diana a bitch

Diana had a scene where she decided to dance (later revealed to please a god of wine who she knew was watching) and everyone and their mom gets to sexually objectify her

Roman version of the Greek god of wine showed up with a creepy two-way-mirror club and proceeded to slam Diana into the bar for backtalking him (she just kinda took this like Diana come ON)

There’s a whole montage of her beating up crack dealers and looking for some dude named “Kleen” that includes liberating a bunch of helpless Asian women and ends with a little girl asking her to help her get her cat out of a tree and Diana dismissively telling her to climb it herself

They end up breaking into business lady’s office and it ends in a firefight in which some random IT guy gets shot and Steve proceeds to guilt the fuck out of Diana for it like they didn’t just get out of a montage of her saving a bunch of lives

He then tells her that if she tries to fight Ares nephew she’ll be the cause of the city being destroyed (like they bad guys aren’t already destroying the city with a giant fire worm) and tells her that she’s not a hero bc she can go back home to paradise anytime and Whedon blows his 1 pg-13 f bomb to have Steve call Diana a “fucking tourist”

The immediate scene after includes Diana kneeling and submitting and putting on chains that sap her power so discount rent-a-demigod doesn’t slit Steve’s throat even tho honestly I want him to at this point

Discount demigod then takes Diana to the middle of a jungle while shackled and tells her to survive as long as she can and just leaves her there

There’s a montage of Diana being absolutely useless in the survival category like wtf you’re telling me fucking wonder woman can’t get a mango off a tree without twisting her ankle

She’s rescued by subjugated commoners who don’t speak English so of course she doesn’t understand them and also There’s more drugs bc apparently every small village must be used by a cartel to smuggle drugs

This concludes with some small child revealing to her that she’s been spying on Diana for Diana’s mom and this breach of privacy is apparently enough for a dehydrated, feverish, starving Diana to beat up 3 druglords and snap her magic chains off

Little girl who Diana can’t understand proceeds to gift Diana the invisible jet which I’m still confused about (and also apparently her mom left a second wonder woman suit in the jet for her and this is mentioned in the script)

Meanwhile Steve and company live stream discount Loki on the internet and this pisses him off enough to blow their plan of using giant worm to level the city and he just sics the worm on them

Invisible jet vs Alaskan bull worm FIGHT

Also of note the Alaskan bull worm can fly apparently

Diana defeats Ares nephew by dragging him through a building and then throwing a spear at Steve bc she knew he’d apparate in front of him

Oh also drug lord Kleen became a good guy bc Diana gave him a pep talk in a night club so that happened

Ares is pissed and proceeds to call Diana “woman” and “girl” instead of her name and basically just storms off in a hissy for

All in all 1/10 bc I laughed like once bc Steve ran into the invisible jet but yeah we’re in the good timeline where this never got produced

[thebibliosphere]

…*pinches bridge of nose* what the ever loving fuck did I just read.

[dayna-ingram-blog]

Holy frak. No thank you. I choose to remember only the best eps of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, please and thank you.

[brainstatic]

You know what, zero fucking pity. Marco Rubio said he decided to run for reelection in 2016 because the Pulse shooting made him afraid the government might take gun rights away. Yes, he thought the gun in the shooting was the real victim. Their first and only piece of legislation in response to Sandy Hook was to make it illegal to sue the gun manufacturers. Republicans are the dauntless guardians of gun violence in America. But now they’re crying. They have my thoughts and prayers.

[msblackfires]

Furthermore, I don’t buy these measured responses from the GOP. I have no doubt that this event will be twisted in a way to curtail our democratic processes. They dont give a flying fuck when children are victims of gun violence, I’m not gonna shed a fucking tear for these heartless pieces of shit.

[adrianricker]

I love drawing cute scenes.

[lochichichi]

I know I don’t usually reblog things here but please more people look at this amazing thing.

[aleasesrestaurant]

So cute I can’t stand it

[dayna-ingram-blog]

💚💜💙❤️

[sapphos]

This pride month I want to recognize all the people who want to go to Pride, but cannot. Whether its accessibility, being closeted or in a homophobic/transphobic situation, or any other reason, I see you and I want you to know that people are thinking of you and value your place in these communities. We will continue working to break down the barriers that prevent everyone from coming, and in the meantime, you are thought of and loved, and your presence is missed.

[trans-parenting]

How to be an LGBT ally, during Pride Month and beyond

Straight people at a Pride event are like guests at a wedding. It's not about you.

Some simple, but good advice.