[so-many-ocs]

immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

[brandonlees]

THE ARISTOCATS 1970, dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

[sr-roto]

audio On 😂😂😂

[theygender]

For blind/visually impaired folks: The instruments being used to recreate these songs are two kazoos, a plastic shopping bag, a metal colander pot, a basting brush, an empty water jug, and a thin sheet of plastic, all being played by two people in an empty parking garage for the acoustics

For deaf/HoH folks: The songs being played here are near perfect renditions of the 20th Century Fox theme, the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, and the Mission Impossible theme

[interestingmistakes]

I can't get over how he just grabs her head and shakes while she plays kazoo to make the opening trill to the mission impossible theme

[yakultii]

i need to imagine some scenarios

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[queeranarchism]

#why not make a post focused on your own countries pride rather than it being in the shadow of the U.S.’s holiday shit #like as an american i agree with you #it doesn’t have to be international #i’m not exactly the one who decided that but #y’know? like it’s just more constructive to teach abt your own pride and history than to just rag on the problem #who gives af abt the problem #what’s the fucking solution?

What you're not getting here is that cultural imperialism is a massive issue that is far bigger than 'knowing your own queer history'.

A world in which everyone is familiar with most topics from an American perspective*, but not from any other perspective, is a world in which trans people have to express their transness in an American way in order to fit DSM diagnosis criteria and get healthcare.

It's a world in which sexually marginalized communities have to identify as LGBT - regardless of whether that fits their own concepts of sexual and gender diversity - in order to get funding for HIV prevention and treatment.

It's a world in an American academic who presents themselves as an expert on 'Africa' is more likely to be believed and have their opinions turned into policy, than any actual on-the-ground experts who understand the specific context of specific countries in Afrika.

It's a world in which sympathizing with the victims of bombings or disasters is intuitive and automatic when the victim is an American girl-next-door sorority applepie valedictorian AnneMae McDonald, but not when they're called Fatemeh and live in Iran.

Knowing your own history doesn't help with any of that because these problems are about the power imbalance that cultural imperialism creates.

Cultural imperalism creates access to being understood when you name your experiences. Cultural imperialism creates access to empathy. Cultural imperialism creates access to being seen as human, and to your life being seen as worthy of protection.

It's a big deal and it's kind of worth making posts about.

(* and almost always from a white American perspective)

[londonsboy]

being forced to take a second to try and remember if 'reblog' or 'reblog now' is the one where you can add tags and then still picking incorrectly

[elbiotipo]

I still remember that guy who posted one of the only negative reviews of Top Gun calling it for what is was, war propaganda, and the number of film people who wanted to crucify him for that. Even a well-read 12 years old could tell you it was war propaganda. If you are involved in art and you consider film an art form, you should be able to tell when a movie is selling you war. If you care about other human beings you should oppose the glorification of imperial war instead of praising the nostalgia factor or whatever. Pero la concha de tu madre.

[tomhardyfullfrontal]

can someone edit the whole show like this and send it to me? it’s urgent

[cursed-amulet-owner]

been plotting world domination lately... no, it doesn't have anything to do with the amulet

[official-amulet-posts]

official amulet post

[cursed-amulet-owner]

what did i JUST say???

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[yousaytomato]

do you still laptop in bed?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 18

[theeconfession]

[kermitlesbian]

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

[lilyblisslys]

there should be a cool, chill way to say things like “I’m struggling” or “I’m having a hard time” that doesn’t imply you might have needs

[oleskyfm]

(voice of someone about to turn 30) it’s nice making friends. It’s nice to play together and have fun. It’s nice to hang out

[candytwist-deactivated20231123]

all good novelists realize they’re nothing compared to musicians. and all good musicians realize they’re nothing compared to novelists

[pjackk]

ALL good novelests and musicicans realize their nothing compared to porno Dvd's

[candytwist-deactivated20231123]

do you jack off ?

[pjackk]

Im not feeling good at all right now i need help badly

[do-not-u-dare]

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[mf-dude]

[trr3rr]

He's a journalist