human disaster

24, pan, she/they

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[thswrtchdthng]

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

[ralfmaximus]

Loss can now legally vote

[remnantglow]

you know, i generally prefer ebooks over physical books (for convenience sake), but there is exactly one exception: old gay scifi. because there is Something about holding an old, visibly used copy of a book like that. seeing the age of it, the wear and tear, and knowing there were gay people writing my most beloved genre, and there were characters like me in it and readers like me who got to see themselves as heroes in these stories years, even whole decades before i was even born. there's just Something about it

[remnantglow]

@xeylah !!! always!!! here's some of the best i've read so far:

The World Well Lost by Theodore Sturgeon (1953) - this one's actually a short story, but i cannot overstate how important it was in terms of breaking the taboo around depictions of homosexuality in scifi; it's often regarded as the first piece of SF to portray gay people in a sensitive, sympathetic manner. it's also online! it's too short to describe without spoiling, so, please just go read it

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (1966) - fun, beautifully written space opera with casually bi&polyam charas :) (honestly tho, anything by Delany is so good, this is just my favourite from the stuff i've read so far)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) - self explanatory i think

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (1976) - gut-wrenching novel abt a forcefully institutionalized woman who is able to time-travel to a hopeful, utopian (and queer-normative) but uncertain future

The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed (*published under the name Raphael Carter) (1996) - rly raw and devastating cyberpunk novel about a lesbian news reporter living under a dystopian regime (this one might be a little difficult to track down these days bc it's out of print, but it's getting a reprint next year - in the meantime DM me if you'd like an EPUB!)

also, beyond Samuel R. Delany, 2 gay SF authors I'd recommend checking out are David Gerrold and Melissa Scott! what I've read of Gerrold (The Man Who Folded Himself, Moonstar Odyssey) has generally been more flawed&messy than the books i've listed, but still decent and undeniably groundbreaking in terms of its depictions of LGBT charas in scifi at the time, and Melissa Scott is the queen of 90s lesbian scifi (though i'm just reading my first book by her rn, so i can't recommend specific titles)

[kaiasky]

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

[biggestzam]

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

[kaiasky]

i want you on my team holy shit

[almostsweetmuse-deactivated2023]

obsessed with this man...

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[romint-drake]

How it started

How it's going

[famouspainterwombat]

[itsbenedict]

#france in shambles. automation truly comes for us all.

[minotauri]

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

[justcatposts]

Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower 

(via)

[hottiewitabloggie]

they’re? just? sitting there ???

[ladycavalier]

it makes it 100% better that i can’t understand her, i feel like i’m hearing what cats hear

[socialistexan]

[crtter]

Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:

*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”

Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.

[sleepytoycollection]

figure I started with -> figure I ended with

[queenofsquids]

love a good before n after

[maliciousindungeon]

[sleepytoycollection]

Happy Pride Everyone

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

Follow for more Batshit Moments in Australian politics!

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

[jaskiers-sweetkiss]

Me when it’s Monday

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[only-cat-memes]