Froggy Bang-Bang

Frog: /fɹɒɡ/ [noun] a first-language French person born in Canada: Reclaimed slur. he/she/them. Officially An Old.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

[beanmed]

queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Queer is a revolution. To be queer is to seek liberation, not assimilation. To be queer is to build community.

[froggybangbang]

Tell me you're an Old without telling me you're an old.

I'll go first:

I got handed a paper from an activist (for something i 100% agree with and we even talked a bit) at pride march, and first thing i said to the friend next to me after looking down at the pamphlet was "wow. This is good quality paper."

[mark-gently]

"baby names" is a real misnomer because they're often permanent

[aheartofdawn]

there's three rules of naming babies:

what do the initials spell? (I was *this close* to being DMV)

what are the the different abbreviations/contractions/etc? (Michael Hunt, William Stroker, Richard Small, etc)

the name that sounds cute on your little gurgling bundle of joy will still be the one they have when they are an adult filling out a job application. Remember that.

[retirededgelord]

Optional Bonus: if your baby will ever have a job one day, ensure that their email address (if in the standard First Initial, Last Name format) will not be something embarrassing.

Sincerely, someone who had to email an S. Lutz (slutz).

[the-davest-of-uncles]

[twofingerswhiskey]

[prismatic-bell]

Also consider that the super-popular thing you're naming your kid after may not be popular later and in fact may saddle your kid with some extremely expensive and unfortunate life choices.

Put another way: imagine being a nonbinary kid in 2026 whose parents chose to name you Hermione.

[penig]

May I also point out: try it with grammar and punctuation.

I credit my nearly flawless grasp of the use of the apostrophe to the fact that my parents decided to spell my name P-E-N-I.

[katzedecimal]

Seriously, THINK ABOUT HOW IT WILL LOOK ON A JOB APPLICATION. When I was still using my birth name, I forced my mother to listen in while I was rejected for a job because the interviewer couldn't believe that a real person would actually have a name like that, they thought the application was fake. My mother then apologized, admitted that she hadn't been thinking about that when she named me, and then consented to me changing my name.

Which brings us to the other important point up there, naming your child after popular celebrity/influencer/whatever. My mother named me after a singer who was a super-star at the time, who became a national icon, who was later outed as a FAKE, a few years ago. My mother always told me that my name meant "peace;" I went to speakers of the language & asked if that was true -- it is not, and what it does mean makes me triply grateful that I changed my name.

Think. It. Through.

[silvermoon424]

Fun fact! one of Strelka's puppies was named Pushinka and given to JFK as a gift to help ease Cold War tensions. Pushinka later had puppies of her own and her descendants are still living as of 2024.

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

"We need trilllions to replace all workers" is quite the ask for an industry that has no profits.

[redarmyscreaming]

[chungledown-bimothy]

i genuinely don't think there's much, if anything, hotter than someone clearly having a blast doing something they're really good at. doesn't really matter what it is. the combo of competence and joy is absolutely lethal to me

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[curlicuecal]

Related:

I quit writing when I realized I had no desire to do all the steps to professionally publish a book. And I started writing again years later when I realized I was allowed to do things I enjoyed without a profit endgoal

You don't have to do a thing the way society says is correct

You can do it the way that is satisfying to you

[kaiserneko]

[korratea]

this video is so well done it deserves an oscar

[marvelousmichaelmidnight]

IN A ROW?

[laurakvstheworld]

oh my god the lipsync on this is so good

[bluexombiecat]

luckbethelady

[thecryptkeeper]

[despazito]

11 year old me coming home from school and watching mystery diagnosis until i got scared

[theabigailthorn]

stream THE PRINCE at laservision.tv

[hollowedskin]

Me trying to say something to my partner about some cool fanart I just saw on my dash.

Him: back up back up, what the FUCK is Mouse Effect.

[lizardsexposed]

[hollowedskin]

Lizardsex I love you...

The burning question of course is whether everyone is mice, or just the humans. Like are the salarians little frogs or is it Mice and Mice With Blue Tentacles???

[lizardsexposed]

sorry im absolutely too floored by the fact you just called me 'lizardsex' to give you an answer

[hollowedskin]

... I see now your name is probably Lizards Exposed and not in fact Lizard Sex Posed.

[dwarf-scum]

This exact phenomenon is why there’s now a hyphen in my url.

[justarandomgirly]

How do fanfic writers feel knowing that people might have been masturbating to their work?

[starfieldcanvas]

do you think we write hardcore erotica by accident

[dduane]

WHAT

US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

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[oze-pointmp3]

Et joyeux 14 juillet