hey :)

[amarguerite]

🎶 there is power in a union 🎶

[huffylemon]

I love this so much

[garbage-empress]

time smells bad.

[chrome--horse]

what Synesthetic bullcrap is this now

[garbage-empress]

Listen

I accidentally leave the milk out overnight.

Milk smells bad the next day.

Why does milk smell bad?

Time gets in it.

[garbage-empress]

@ryanthecynic

[larckla]

Just realised this implies that a fridge cancels or slows time down

[garbage-empress]

As a simple experiment I will put some plutonium in my refrigerator and see if it decays slower, brb

[garbage-empress]

The results are in!

I have radiation poisoning!

[lastvalyrian]

this time it’s the opposite of Greek philosophy because you used the scientific method

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Conclusion: the scientific method gives people radiation poisoning

[saltwaffle]

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

[jetru]

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

[domicileensnared]

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

[frostyemma]

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

[raimagnolia]

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

[janekfan]

god those were lawless times. 

[the-apocryphal-one]

[unthrash-deactivated20151110]

rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

[fagtrender]

ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks

[minim-calibre]

So fucking much this.

PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do. 

PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.

I was one of them.

[counttwinkula]

#the queer youth of today has forgotten all its history and is spitting on its ancestors and i hate it (via @gaythreats​)

beautifully phrased

[vaspider]

RHPS kept a lot of us alive.

Mentally, yes, but also literally. We found community and passed resources, we found roommates and bought each other post-show food at diners. It was a way to network in places where there weren’t Queer Centers.

I’m not saying the show doesn’t have its issues. It does, and the things which are keeping you alive? They have issues, too. Nothing we make is perfect.

Someday the things you hold precious will show their age, and you can then rejoice in that, because that will mean we know more and we’re doing better.

[caustic-light]

I’d argue that RHPC is still important and absolutely boundary pushing to this day. We straight up do not have nearly enough of this energy anymore. RHPC said “You think I’m a villain? You think I’m a murder rapist transvestite? Well, honey, it’s fun when I do it.” We straight up need this energy of celebrating queer villany and queer evil and making it fun, because that, too, is an important kind of reclamation. This is a story about a vanilla straight seeming couple being involved in filth and degeneracy and horror and coming out queer and vibrant (as much as the times allowed for that story). It’s “yes, you should be afraid that we’ll turn your children against you and you should believe that we are powerful and will not hesitate to fuck shit up.” And that is an open defiance to everything pushing down on us. That is what makes RHCP important, not the fact that it had Tim Curry in sexy stockings. It exists to spit back at the people spitting in our mouths when we ask for water. And in a sea of good representation it’s important that we don’t forget to embrace reclamations of bad representation. And that we realize that a queer person embracing queerphobic stereotypes and making them an identity is in no way the same as a straight person using them to defame us.

[yallidarityforever]

The first addition reminded me that “transexual” is. Like. THE word for trans women in Spanish. Like. They’re not ignorant, it’s not conservative/regressive. The 2022 English word “transgender” translates as “transsexual” (not sure if one ’s’ or two) in 2022 Spanish. Or, at least, it does in my experience in the Southwest US. Yes, some things are offensive. Some things have always been offensive and always will be. But some things are only malicious in a certain context and are affectionate or at least neutral in other contexts.

[heyimboredtalktome]

[telltaletypist]

i get that for most people tragedy is just always gonna feel Bad to read and that informs a lot of bury your gays discourse but we must not forget that a lot of people sincerely enjoy writing and reading tragedy and queer audiences still deserve to have good tragedies written by and for them imo

[telltaletypist]

like i hope i don't have to explain that there's a difference between a lovingly crafted tragic romance by a queer author featuring characters that represent them and a shitty tv show introducing a single gay character for brownie points then immediately killing them off for shock value

[artsybookworms]

I think the PJO Disney+ series should keep the “overcoming the blonde stereotype” subplot except with Percy and it’s a recurring gag throughout the season

[shsl-leader-deactivated20250320]

neurotypical ppl be like "go do this thing" and then they get mad at you for doing what they said to do because they actually meant a Secret Thing You Should've Known TM

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Right-wingers are literally such bitches for making “Let’s Go Brandon” their badass teehee libs-owning phrase. You want me to believe you’re a maverick lone wolf alpha male owning the PC libs but don’t even the ball hair to put a sticker that says “Fuck Joe Biden” on your $70,000 2023 three axle Dodge Ram. Cuck shit.

[weaver-z]

My dad once said "Let's go Brandon! Lol" in an attempt to rile me up and I very calmly said "You know you can just say fuck Joe Biden, right?" and he looked so shocked and embarrassed lmao

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

because the right has developed a worship of their leaders. It is incomprehensible to them that you might vote for someone and still think they are a piece of shit asshole.

[wilwheaton]

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[bucksangel]

this is immensely funny to me

[theconcealedweapon]

Also, where is the line drawn, and how does a child know when that line is crossed? Parents who spank never seem to be able to answer that. So even if spanking is somehow not "real abuse", it definitely makes "real abuse" easier.

[snugglebunchesofeyes]

They fucking can't. Like, even as a kid I didn't have the vocab or interpersonal relationships with my relatives for them to understand that someone was abusing me (and my siblings). I tried a couple times, "Grammy is mean." "How?" " She hits me." "You must have done something wrong."

That ended the discussion. Didn't ask how. Didn't press. Just because that's how they were raised. So when she finally died and everyone was making nice eulogies of stuff on FB and Instagram that stretched across our family, my sister snapped in half and wrote basically an expos'e about it. She said how cruel she was, how she threw things,how as a six yr old she had to hide or throw away things so we wouldn't get out asses beat. Nike flip flops, belts, wooden spoons, sneakers. There's a list of things and I sincerely thought it was because we just went to the beach/lake so much and that's why there were so many missing flipflops.

And then I got blamed for not speaking up about the abuse. "If it were really that bad, why didn't jazzy say anything." I did. I was like, eight. I said, "Grammy is mean. She hits me."

And they said I was bad and deserved it. So that set the precedent for me to shut up and take it for another decade and some change. It literally hardwired fight or flight in me that as a 20-something year old, my palms would sweat and I'd get tunnel vision when I had to drive my grandmother places.

[otherwindow]

[otherwindow]

Iconic seafarer beards became a trend to scare away pesky mermaids.

Mermaid, seeing a bald pirate: Zero threat…! Mermaid, seeing a hairy, bearded pirate: If I get too close their face tentacles will eat me…!

[otherwindow]

Most mermaids only grow short beards as not to scare baby mermaids (longer beards look like the tentacled mouths of hungry squids and octopuses).

Pirates use this innate fear to their advantage to protect themselves from mermaids, hence the iconic beards and hat:

[ninjanaomi]

I like how this is presented as factual information

[water-of-the-bong-deactivated20]

because it is

[slashmarks]

Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.

Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.

Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.

And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…

[theaudientvoid]

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

[guccifloralsuits]

when I say 5 years ago I mean 2015 and when I say 10 years ago I mean 2007 and when I say 20 years ago I mean 1980. Hope this helps!

[taibhsearachd]

I meant to make a longer post about this, might do at some point, but I just need to point out… that at one point in history… in an era that’s technically considered “prehistory”, because no one had writing at this point, at the very beginning of something we can generously call cities…

A family of four could spend three weeks harvesting the grain that grew wild around them, and they would not have to do that again for an entire year. (As a note: this wild grain? literally could never stand up to modern crops, which have been selectively bred since then for yield and hardiness and etc.) They didn’t have to pay rent, because that wasn’t a thing yet. They didn’t have to pay for water, because water’s fucking WATER, everyone has a right to it. Three weeks of (admittedly hard, probably “leave your body aching” labor), and your family is fed for an entire year. Yeah, you definitely want to supplement that with gardening and buying some meat from your neighbor who raises goats, but your whole family can fully live on three weeks of work.

And we, in this day and age, where we can absolutely produce enough food to make sure no one goes hungry, act as if working yourself to death is a virtue, because our ancestors had it worse… Our oldest ancestors worked very little just to get by. The idea that you will always have to be at work constantly just to live… that’s new, and that’s absurd. Those ancient people I’m talking about, who could get a year’s worth of sustenance for a few weeks of work… they painted their walls with the most beautiful murals. All of them did, in every house we can reconstruct. They had free time and the ability to artistically improve their space, and they did that. In the oldest city we know of.

They didn’t have to work eight hours a day to live their lives. That’s entirely artificial, absurd, capitalistic bullshit. Humans were built to work as little as possible for maximum benefit to the individual and the group… and somehow that’s become warped into spending our lives working for the bare minimum so a few billionaires can live like god-kings. None of this is natural. None of it is inherent. This *can* be overturned and made into a new form that actually respects the humanity of the individual.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

[brownbess-deactivated20231007]

Bulllshit

[taibhsearachd]

…look I’m sorry verifiable archaeological facts are triggering to you or whatever but that is not my problem.