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blue ~ ‘95 ~ ✡︎ ~ she/they~ bi/ace reader|writer|dreamer|giffer|ao3 welcome to my multifandom h(e)aven navigation crying about female characters that deserved better (since 2012) the mai to my ty lee

[elvencantation]

enjoy my first cql video! (spoilers for the whole series)

[androidtrashfire]

I just spent an hour+ watching the new PBS Documentaries "When Southern Tourism Whitewashes History" on Youtube, and it is really good and important, and also major content warnings for racism, holy fuck

[androidtrashfire]

And the fucking LGBTQ+ benefit drag show they held at that one house??? And that fucking man— I'm sorry, spoilers or whatever, but jfc.

Anyway can we please throw away the pleasant fiction that we as white queers are automatically unbigoted and specifically less racist? It's 2026, how bout we all go read a book

[androidtrashfire]

Because she’s a white woman, Herbert thinks some residents were more comfortable revealing their true selves to her — including Garner. In the film, he jokes that gay men are the only people with “the money and the taste” to take care of Natchez’s historic homes and also host an LGBTQ benefit at Choctaw Hall. But he also freely drops the N-word while the cameras are rolling. “Just because he’s been oppressed doesn’t mean he cannot be an oppressor,” Herbert says. “The way he clutches on to his whiteness is so revealing.”

From this post about the documentary: https://www.contrariannews.org/p/how-the-battle-over-american-history

[jabberwockypie]

[elvencantation]

it is your one job to eat this

-quote of the day

[elvencantation]

#on it 👍 #*eats the post* (via @spocksbedsidemanner)

[elvencantation]

my new favorite cuties!!!!

[elvencantation]

it is your one job to eat this

-quote of the day

[j-tee]

Bug…..

[knightsickness]

i do think its funny armand is inexplicably english. the rp accent of a guy born in india raised in venice who lived in paris for 400 years is to communicate non-diagetically that hes evil

[knightsickness]

if you’re the arch nemesis of a frenchman for multiple centuries you turn english

[koreajew]

jewish + rromani lgbt solidarity!

ok to reblog and use!

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[afriblaq]

Gordon Parks captured the Jim Crow South with a quiet, devastating clarity—using his camera as both witness and weapon. Through intimate portraits and everyday scenes, he exposed the cruelty of segregation not with sensationalism but with humanity, dignity, and truth. Parks showed Black life in the South as it was lived: tender, resilient, disciplined, and determined, even under oppressive laws. His photographs didn’t just document injustice—they challenged America to see what it preferred to ignore.

Photos via: @gordonparksfoundation

[wirenettle]

I see your bloodymary and i raise you: The Hail Mary Diaries

[yearofdoodles]

YAY FOR 500 FOLLOWERS THATS HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!! 🎉 maybe for doodle requests, mb in some colourful clothes? presaux or art gifted them to it perhaps? dealers choice if it actually likes them or not

It definitely likes them

[prokopetz]

Not only is having worldbuilding threads that are mentioned once and never picked up again not a flaw in fantasy media, I'd go so far as to say that a lack of such threads is a flaw. If everything ties up in one neat little package, you're missing the point of fantasy worldbuilding. Like, don't do it on every page, or your setting is going to be an overstuffed mess, but every so often you are not only allowed but obligated to casually drop some utterly batshit worldbuilding detail and then just never follow up on it. Maybe some rocks are sentient. You don't owe your reader an explanation. Just fucking go for it.

[saintofpride201]

We really fucked up when we made checkov's gun mandatory instead of just a high recommendation.

[unsolids-your-snake]

Chekov's gun not chekov's armory

[securityunit-ese]

Illustration for the fic Shut the fuck up. I'm not letting you go - a prompt fill for the Murderbot and Mensah March Madness event.

It's only March 1st. How many more can I upload before the event closes at the end of the month? 🫠

[kettle-bird]

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

[ASR | AC | RP | NE]

[buffalo-tracks]

Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.

The Wretched of the Earth

Discourse On Colonialism

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

Borderlands/La Frontera

As We Have Always Done

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library:

[briarhide]

In light of some of the many things happening across the world this year, I thought this Pride Month needed a special illustration.

Happy Pride Month, may we all stay safe, look after each other, and keep painting our rainbows, no matter what. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️