[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[whatthebodygraspsnot]

i love shane calling ilya “baby” but what i REALLY love is shane calling ilya “babe”. it’s not often and there are few variants of it, but the conditions have to be right. for example:

1. jealous hotel gym shane: there’s some guy or girl trying to move in on his man and he is NOT having that, stomping over to them with a sneaky ass smack and a “hey babe come spot me on the leg press.” obviously ilya’s on his heels so fast it makes the other person’s head spin. 2. extra tired/overworked shane: it has to be excessive. he needs to be walking with his eyes closed. falling asleep standing up. my man is three-fourths passed out on ilya’s shoulder, who’s trying to gently move them in the direction of the bedroom while fielding grumbles and groans and “mmmbabe, cmon…” right into his shirt. 10/10 petname. less syllables. easy to whine. 3. douchebag frat boy shane: there’s this thing that comes outta him under the right conditions, which are: too much beer, too many other dudes, competition of some sort, backwards cap. someone ropes him into beer pong and it turns out he’s really good at beer pong. the best there’s ever been, probably. they’re calling him the beer pong phenom. anyway he’s soooo good and ilya’s trying to gossip with him about something and shane lets out some variant of “yeah babe one sec” and ilya thinks he should be annoyed until he watches him sink the ball first try (he doesn’t break the news to shane that that one's called the bitch cup)

[unicorndeathrace]

Petrova Line

[fractally]

I think it’s both Shane’s worst nightmare and also lowkey a fantasy of his to imagine Ilya being outed and Shane having to swoop in to rescue him. I think that boy has more than a little savior complex the way he agonizes over Ilya’s citizenship more than Ilya even does

I think a persistent daydream of his is like oh no what if Ilya was outed by an evil ex boyfriend (that fucking coach’s son probably…) and Shane had to use his considerable resources and influence to protect him like oh no. Maybe they’d even have to get married right away. Maybe Ilya would need to move in to hide from the scrutiny. Maybe he’d be sad all the time and Shane would have to hug him and pet his hair. Hmm

[fantasaria]

#I don’t think Shane is proud of this constellation of fantasies#but they’re both a little fucked up with it#they both like boarding each other :)#and I think Ilya doesn’t get this at all like he thinks Shane would freak and drop him in this scenario#and Shane’s like vibrating like Ilya what if what if. just spitballing here but like#what if you just never go outside again and live in my house forever#what if we both go to the cottage and you’re just there. what if I keep you there#not like chained to the radiator obviously that would be fucking crazy hahahahahaaha. yeah#but maybe to my bedposts? maybe? just thinking out loud

(op's tags)

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

ilya telling shane about irina and how they were best friends and he hung out with her all the time and he was her protector and he would skip school on her bad days to brush her hair and make sure she ate something even if it was just tea and she was an angel and you know shane is calculating how best to gently bring up to his husband that that doesn’t sound like it was very fair to child ilya without ilya reacting like a wild fucking animal

[iwrotemrtambourineman]

ilya comes back from therapy with galina like three months after this fight (of course it was a fight) and with the same candor as ashley padilla in the mom confession sketch goes i’m only going to say this once and i’m only going to say it if after i do you promise you will not react no talking no faces no nothing and shane’s on the couch reading like uh. what’s going on? and ilya goes what i have to tell you. Is that I think I was treated unfairly. By my mom. and of course shane makes a face and ilya is reacting like a wild fucking animal

[wizardarchetypes]

absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.

i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.

so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.

this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.

the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":

these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.

then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.

our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.

And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?

The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.

Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.

it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.

[wizardarchetypes]

I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.

[klamv-art]

Fitzloved ✨✨

[edwarbteach]

JUNE THE THIRD, AN EXCELLENT DAY!

[cloudabserk]

grace is like rocky be honest am i too clingy? and rocky is like grace i would mind meld with you if i could.

[clytemnestraaa]

if Hayden hadn’t outed them publicly how do you think they’d go about it after getting married ?

tastefully worded borderline ambiguous post on shane’s instagram featuring photos of them together on various scenic hikes standing at least 3 feet apart in every shot. followed by a tourist’s photo of them in ibiza with ilya with the worst sunburn of his life fully lobster red with both hands down the back of shane’s swim trunks grabbing his bare ass. followed by a tweet published on ilya’s twitter at 3:31am and deleted at 4:47am that reads YES I SUCK COCK YOUR MOTHER WAS GREAT TEACHER

[creations-by-chaosfay]

I rrally enjoy making Pride-related things

Rainbows are in a separate post.

The above are all a single commission.

Please, share your Pride-related textile projects.

[bedlund]

okay NOW we're having fun

[cloudabserk]

boob pillow

[theboredbori]

Another day another ‘Bori makes a Fools Fate animatic to a song by a rock band’

I said I might have to do something with these lyrics back in March and finally got to it, you can see the moment I gave up on cleaning it up too much bc I could not be assed anymore haha

Posted some stills from this last week going ‘Im not finishing it this is hard and I dont wanna do it’ and then I finished it bc Im not a quitter 💪 and also bc I started putting a lot less effort later on (not that I was putting too much effort into it in the first place lmao)

Anywayssss hope you guys see The Vision, I hate drawing people kissing with a burning passion but at least the dragon looks cool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ taking creative liberties by making Fitz kiss Beloved back bc who says he didn’t 🤨🤨🤨 maybe he does but I don’t trust that bitch anyways

[cloudabserk]

grace wakes up out of his coma and immediately puts on a skirt and starts exclusively going by his very feminine last name. he said if i’m stranded alone in space i’m gonna have some fun with gender.

[cloudabserk]

the aliens even use she/her pronouns for grace

[werewolf-transgenderism]

Lady Patience, writing a treatise on the healing properties of local herbs and plants, just before meeting Burrich for the first time and demanding he remove a splinter from her foot :)