Nobody told me I'd have to title this thing.

Welcome to the passions and passing fancies of Des, a queer enby making my way through life in Ontario. I use they/them pronouns (usually). I'm 25, white, physically able, and neurodivergent. Please enjoy trying to figure out what this blog is about - I definitely don't know.

[knightlyhoods-deactivated202404]

this has got to be THE funniest sentence ive seen all day im gonna cry

[quaadude]

Me getting my name called to get my order at Starbucks

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I'm going to fucking lose it I'm in my "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS" sweatshirt and my professor said "is that a motley crew reference" and I said "my shirt? No it's a lesbian reference" and she said "oh good I hate that song"

[startrekislgbt]

checking out a fandom you’re not in specifically because they have one ship you like

[mieczyslawstilniski]

this is the best buzzfeed article i’ve ever read i literally teared up i just!!!

[tatterdemalionamberite]

Museum Cat is clearly, like… prestige class of Bookstore Cat

[reuters]

With a large chin, a prominent slightly arched nose and delicate lips, the “face” of England’s King Richard III was unveiled on Tuesday, a day after researchers confirmed his remains had finally been found after 500 years.

A team of university archaeologists and scientists announced on Monday that a skeleton discovered last September underneath a council parking lot in Leicester was indeed that of Richard, the last English king to die in battle, in 1485.

Devotees of Richard, who have long campaigned to restore his reputation, proudly revealed a 3D reconstruction of the long-lost monarch’s head on Tuesday, introducing him to reporters as “His Grace Richard Plantagenet, King of England and France, Lord of Ireland”.

READ ON: Face of Richard III, England’s “king in the car park”, revealed

[nadiacreek]

[te-amo-corazon]

i am so happy we all thought the same thing

[jotonomy]

I respect this, but every single time I see ANYTHING about Richard III and his bones, I think of this documentary:

In which the like…head of the Richard III Defense Club absolutely loses her shirt because she was convinced that the scoliosis and whithered arm were ‘bad press’ because people didn’t like Richard III. 

When the examination proves them to be true she has to leave the room to compose herself.

I will tell you, I appreciate passions. But the attractiveness of a historical figure is not a hill I ever expected to see a person die upon. 

(Also, SO ABLEIST and not okay???? I’m not??? sure??? what??? part??? of him??? having??? scoliosis??? and a weak arm??? make him??? less??? likable???)

[amuseoffyre]

To be fair, historically, there is historical media precedent of people being “abnormal” or with some physical and/or psychological problem to make them monstrous villains. Bond films still do this to this day and when the Tudor propaganda machine wanted to blacken Richard’s name, in an era when Kings were meant to be the embodiment of strength and goodness, turning him into a limping hunchback villain was Shakespeare doing the standard media approach.

The difference being that, in this particular case, he took Richard’s well-remembered medical condition and turned it up to eleven. Yes, Richard did have one shoulder slightly higher than the other, but we’re two generations down the line and naaaaaah, no one else my age’ll remember that it was only a mild aberration of his shoulder. Let’s turn that into a full blown twisted back that is his entire motivation.

I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them

Technically, they’re not wrong about it being bad press, because it was. Shakespeare made him a very physically and visibly disabled villain. It came as such a shock to them that the bad press was based in reality and that Richard was actually not the embodiment of physical perfection they decided that he must be. They forgot that some people around in Shakespeare’s time would have remembered Richard. There probably were nasty jokes about him, just like there are jokes now about William’s thinning hair and Harry’s red hair (and/or legitimacy).

However, if you want to see something nifty (and I wish I could find a link, because it was awesome), they did a documentary some time later about a man with a similar degree of scoliosis as Richard III being dressed up and trying riding and armour and things like that, to see how someone with scoliosis would have coped. And what do you know? The armour served as a support truss and apparently made things easier for him, which he was really excited about. Also, they think Richard had a special saddle made to ensure stability on horseback, much like Kaiser Wilhelm did in the early 20th century.

I love that they went digging to see how Richard came to be reputed as this fierce and stalwart soldier by working out what mechanisms were put in place to help him deal with his scoliosis. The man died in battle and even his enemies reported he was fighting like a lion until the end. Unfortunately, ableists are useless at seeing past the “disabled” part.

[zonecassette]

[neoliberalsocialistxoxo]

Juggalos are a great example of how disenfranchised white people dont have to turn to racism to feel included or listened to. Like they could just be juggalos and we could all live in peace.

[acakewalkofcrocodiles]

this timeline is a fucking trip 

[tha--snazzle]

the enemy of my enemy is down with the clown.

[kioto-san]

[powerfulweak]

Based on this post 

[exceptionalcelestial]

oftentimes when you look back on media you enjoyed as a child it's like hello why did they let a 14 year old fight a dragon? but star wars holds up. luke is 19. his reaction to losing his whole family is to say "alright, let's do this. I'm gonna learn to meditate and hire a sexy drug dealer and his friend who's a furry to be my uber across the galaxy so I can blow up a fascist government" that's something only a 19 y/o would do

[andyrogyny-deactivated20190517]

Back when I was questioning my whole existence, a friend told me this, and it helped!

[queen-raye]

[image description: four panel comic. Each panel has a nonbinary person and their friend standing next to each other.

First panel: NB person, crying, says “what if i’m faking all of it?”

Second panel: Friend replies “you know … cis people tend to not really question their gender …”

Third panel: nonbinary person is now smiling, friend continues with “so if you’re thinking you’re nonbinary”

Fourth panel: nonbinary person has stopped crying, friend finishes sentence with “you probably are!”]

I don’t know if this description is formatted right but I hope it helps someone.

[mulandaily]

— requested by manbunjon

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This is a fucking stunning use of lyrics and images. I gasped the first time I saw it.

[mattelektras]

king

[destopianfuture]

"how dare this man make movies that are FUNNY"

[somnolentsuggestions]

hmmm. hmm. i think today is a day to wrap myself in a large blanket and lie very still

[prayingthefaithless]

Maybe if I stay very still the depression won’t see me

[somnolentsuggestions]

i know im op but mood

[grassfire]

every time i blindly slide the usb-c cable against the lip of my ipad looking for the tiny charge port, metal scraping against metal in my dark bedroom

i think of that stupid fucking sherlock scene every goddamn time

[jedthewolfdog]

while “zuko sent to find one single person who hasnt existed in 100 years and then he actually does” can be very funny in concept, can we just talk about how fucking heartbreaking it must be for iroh? 

like. he knows this is an impossible task. and it does happen–yes! in the first episode, so maybe we don’t even think about it that much! but when ozai tells zuko to go find the avatar, it’s an impossible task. and iroh knows this. and zuko might have everything riding on this, and he’s a kid and hasn’t learned what’s impossible yet, and so he’s plugging his ears and saying “i can do it! i can do it and then dad will love me again!”, but iroh knows the only reason this specific task was assigned is because ozai doesn’t want him. he doesn’t want him back. ozai didn’t want him to betray them so he gave him a little hope, a little “of course i could still love you, you can come back, that’s a possibility, just don’t disappoint me” because, you know, he’s an abusive dick. but iroh knows his brother, and he knows 

i think as a kid, while i loved loved iroh, it was a little hard to reconcile his silly moments with his wise moments. it’s not anymore 

i’m just thinking of the pai sho tile, and how silly it seemed at the time that it was just in his sleeve. silly old man! so forgetful 

no. no, that wasn’t it at all 

because every moment he stalled, every moment he mucked up the plan, every moment he just generally wasn’t helpful, that was another moment where he could still have a chance. where he might get through to zuko. where he could delay what was suddenly now a very real possibility: 

that ozai sent zuko away, but zuko would actually come back, expecting to be loved. and that’s what iroh didn’t want to happen. winning ozai’s love was more unrealistic than finding someone who’d been dead for 100 years, in the end 

[silver-sphere]

While watching the show it never occurred to me that Iroh was stalling to avoid the confrontation Zuko would have with his father’s undeniable rejection. I always thought it was to prevent Aang from actually being captured. to save the world- not to save Zuko. But this adds such a deep and beautiful layer to it.

[normal-horoscopes]

HEY FUCKO TAKE A DEEP BREATH IN THROUGH THE NOSE OUT THROUGH THE MOUTH IN FOR SIX HOLD FOR TWO OUT FOR EIGHT CLOSE YOUR EYES AND REPEAT YOULL FEEL BETTER

[a-trans-comic-by-me]

[a-trans-comic-by-me]