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my name keeps changing because I'm still figuring myself out

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! Urgent Mutual Aid Request !

Bee & Mason’s Urgent Moving Expenses, organized by Breanna Hawkins

With the amount of time passing, we find ourselves in a unsustainable and abusiv… Breanna Hawkins needs your support for Bee & Mason’s Urge

Hey y'all and thank you always for your endless support, even just kind words mean the most to us.

Unfortunately our post-covid housing issues are continuing but I am hoping and praying things will work out. I am taking the steps to reach out to fellow queer/black/disabled community members for aid.

Our environment is quickly and steadily becoming more and more toxic. We moved in with family due to near eviction due to my quickly worsening physical health. Now, two years later, an ambulatory wheelchair user and Mason works part time and is my caretaker. I try not to feel shame in typing this, reaching out to community due to not having a complete familial support network as a queer interracial couple- however, I find myself indulgent of hope and trust of a community who has been there for me as I have been there for it.

With the realities of a looming biopsy and the escalation of abusive behavior, we have no choice but to flee.

I will soon update this post with further details of reopening of my personal art commissions and a shop to sell some art also which will go towards moving expenses and bills, as we are desperate to move.

Donations can also be made directly via Cashapp , Paypal, or Venmo.

If you are unable to donate, please share. And kind messages and well wishes are always welcomed!

[deceptipup]

[blindbirdnerd]

i was just wondering if this had faded into the background noise of the internet yet, but nope, still very much here

[thenimbus-deactivated20200907]

this is still the best ditty.it ever made

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[hype-kaminari-kun-deactivated20]

Why Wii Fit Trainer doing yoga poses during attack in “World of Light”? Here the reason.

[mahou-shonen-alex]

SHE FUCKING TRIED TO ABUSE AN I-FRAME TO AVOID GALEEM’S LASER

[deceptipup]

[blindbirdnerd]

i was just wondering if this had faded into the background noise of the internet yet, but nope, still very much here

[thenimbus-deactivated20200907]

this is still the best ditty.it ever made

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[aquilaofarkham]

ZAGREUS // MELINOE

[proudlyunicorn]

I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr

[proudlyunicorn]

11 FUCKING THOUSAND NOTES ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WHERE ARE YOU ALL COME DATE ME

[gleerant]

ok

[gleerant]

update: we are dating

[gleerant]

update: we are married

[proudlyunicorn]

update: we knocked up

[strugglingqueer]

This is the cutest story on the entirety of Tumblr, I swear to god!!!!!

[gleerant]

Update: had a baby together

[gleerant]

Update: he’s 1 year old today

[gleerant]

Update: he’s 2 today

[anarchistmemedistro]

500k notes and neither is deactivated. tumblr legends.

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[jtightpants]

[shrimplovercat]

LOL

fucking losing it. does this guy really think theres more crypto assholes than furries in the world

[herestoyoumsholly]

#it should tell you enough about crypto that neither porn nor furries support it

[where-is-tom-scott-today]

I am under a bridge

[d-2x]

if anyone is wondering why that bridge looks so familiar, here's why.

[vexwerewolf]

I hate that this was a perfectly legitimate excuse to post Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

[tamamita]

Good season for fail women

[tamamita]

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[femmefaramir]

older lotr illustrations sometimes depict éowyn wearing ridiculously small armour. apart from the problem general sexualisation of the only female character (who really does anything), there’s another hilarious thought:

éowyn pretended to be dernhelm, a man. to fit in, she must have worn men’s armor. so the armor in the illustrations is normal for rohirrim.

therefore, all the rohirrim rode to war just like that:

[hobbit-hole]

there’s a thundering sound in the distance as the rohirrim ride into war but rather than hoofbeats it’s the collective sound of all their cheeks clapping

[delicatelytoobear]

the artist for this particular piece is Frank Frazetta and to be fair to him this is how he drew the orcs armor 

so the rohirrim comment is probably not that far off

[adhd-trash-mammal]

That’s a man who just straight up had a problem with the concept of wearing pants into battle, and I respect that

[cumaeansibyl]

male or female

hero or villain

sea or land

even in the snow

I guarantee you Frazetta’s Rohirrim were 100% pants-free

[missmollyetc]

Good Old Frank. That man loved bodies and hated clothes so much

[thebyrchentwigges]

[trist-pkmngal]

Frank Frazetta was the reason He-Man was designed like that; the producers conduct a study to see what art appeal the most to children, and Frank’s work came out on top in popularity. So everyone in He-Man is dressed the way they are directly because of Frazetta.

[snugglebunchesofeyes]

That man gave us the gift of warrior thighs and tits for everyone.

[olderthannetfic]

Ah, it has been too long since I have seen the no pants post on my dash. And yes, this is a rare case where it wasn’t some sexist nonsense but an egalitarian No Pants Agenda.

[olderthannetfic]

It’s time for my regular reblog of Gondor Needs No Pants

[mellie-mp3]

whoa dude when I heard about "radfems" I thought it would be some most radical females! 😍🤙

but these chicks are saying some bogus things about other babes 😬

[aveline-shepard]

[foone]

[ampervadasz]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Why is he doing that

[secondimpact]

unrestrained summer fun

[guy]

he ✨washin✨

[ghostlycomets]

@todaysbird

[depsidase]

[odissea]

how I sleep at night knowing there are stars and planets and galaxies above my roof

[evildilf2]