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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈HAPPY PRIDE🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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This is definitely on par with the original
Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
I'm kind of at a point where the "queer spaces" i feel safest in are the ones that have a pet cishet dude or two hanging around
When a space cares a lot about making sure its members are queer enough to participate, you get a space that aggressively polices the queerness of its members. There's no way around that, it's pretty much tautologically true. Only by paradoxically not actually caring if you're queer or not can a group really accept the full range of what queerness can look like.
Also, a space that has room for a cis straight guy who means well and wants the best for his friends has two crucial things going for it.
1) it has space for people who are learning and might fuck up a bit while they figure things out, and that learning process is probably not so godawful and unpleasant that a guy with other prospects would have to be a fool not to go find some nicer friends. This is nice because it is very difficult to personally embody the entire alphabet at once, and learning how to be good allies to one another is a crucial part of queer solidarity. It's nice for that process not to be painful.
2) it has space for people who aren't yet willing to or comfortable with presenting an externally queer label to continue to exist and soak up the queer vibes and information, which means it's welcoming to actual questioning people rather than the theory of questioning people. Probably it therefore has more interest in actually doing things rather than hierarchy politics.
3) it's probably not a radfem tar pit interested in weaponising you against people they've decided to hate in a social smear war that benefits nobody and nothing but their need for a power trip
Oh it’s even more than that! The cis straight guy is very often a ride home, dad or husband. Or a Bob which I will explain in this essay is a signifier of a healthy ecosystem, like frogs are.
This is a 3 am take so consider this a blanket apology and a readmore but if you hate this post you were warned.
as someone who spent much of my young adult life in queer spaces (was there helping establish the Center for Sex Positive Culture, worked at several Seattle Mister Leather contests, attended many queer-community events, taught a class or two for the community, and generally spent most of my free time in queer spaces - and that's not even counting high school or college), I can attest to all of this
see, I thought I was a Bob for the longest time, because I wasn't that attracted to my same gender, and didn't understand the big deal about masculinity but was willing to perform it, and even though I get very attracted to someone I love it wasn't always a woman (and I am never default attracted to anyone unless there's a spark, and then only after first growing close)
and on and on - these would all be obvious clues for today's young queer folk who have lots more resources for figuring things out for themselves than I had growing up in homophobic small towns USA. but I didn't really know that about myself then, and it (mostly) wasn't relevant when I had a (mostly) monogamous relationship at the time
but if those folks hadn't been so welcoming and let me be as involved in the community as I wished to be, I might never have figured out my blend of queerness. even if I hadn't, just being part of such a welcoming, interesting family was worth it by itself
good post, OP - thanks for opening this conversation
(also I've always been the guy with the tools and garage, so)
❣️ "Shipping" characters means that you are interested in the idea of what it would be like if characters were involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with each other.
❣️ Shipping something does not mean that you think that the relationship would be the most ideal, desirable, healthy or moral relationship for the characters to be in.
❣️ Shipping something does not mean that you think it should be canon.
❣️ Shipping something does not mean you think it would be good, healthy or desirable in real life.
❣️ Shipping something just means that you think that it's interesting to think about, look at art of, read fiction about, write fiction about, or create art about.
❣️Shipping something means you think it is interesting in some way, not that you think it is morally good or desirable.
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
Adult literacy is low.
Child literacy is low.
Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
I don't want to make ““doctor’s appointments””and ““schedule a follow up.”” I want to be coaxed gently into a crate and taken to the vet.
Can I also get in on the part where the doctor patiently bears with me as I scream the entire time and then gives me some spray cheese on a tongue depressor?
You may also be interested in:
Wrapped in several towels so that you don’t have to look at the scary thing
Having delicious snacks shoved into your face as fast as you can eat them while an injection ‘definitely didn’t happen’
Being told that you are a Brave Lady, Clever Little Man, or Sweet Baby for just sitting still
Getting your toenails clipped while you are here
that sounds perfect tbh
Also
Your seeming “off”/any sudden change in your pain or mood or habits will be taken as a sign of an actual problem instead of waved off
If you start yelling in the waiting room someone will talk or chirp at you to remind you they haven’t forgotten your appointment
You can just sleep until the doctor is ready for you. And then sleep more after.
The after care instructions will be written clearly and simply
Chewable medications that can be hidden in food
And!
You will only have the one doctor not five
Someone else will make the appointment
If all goes well the said appointment will only happen once a year
No one will be surprised if after you come home you want to sulk for a bit
I think my favorite bit i do with customers is when white women are like ‘i dont know what to getttttt’ and i hit them with the ‘you should be bad~ 😈’
Saying ‘you should be bad!!’ In like Gay Voice to a white woman at starbucks has like the same psychological impact as going like ‘who’s a good boy?’ To a dog. It makes them so excited in a really endearing way.
[ ID: An exchange in the Tumblr comments. Each commentor begins the comment by tagging the previous commentor, but for readability these tags have been omitted. The comments read:
ospreyonthemoon: Im assuming you work somewhere that sells like, food or something?
gerardwaygirlmoments: He said Starbucks
fortidogi: imagine though. a home depot employee
liizardwiizard: i work at home depot and one time jokingly said that to a contractor and he looked at me and went and added like $500 more in wood to his cart lol
hope-punk-13: fuck yeah
\ End ID. ]
You can also get the impact of "who's a good boy" on trans people, just saying.
anybody else going through life feeling like a dog that wasn't socialized enough as a puppy
depicting sexual assault in media is not an endorsement of it 🤝 it's reasonable for audiences to expect a certain level of care and awareness in its presentation 🤝 there is oftentimes an over-reliance on sexual violence in creating the backstories, trajectories, and conflicts of fictional women 🤝 sexual violence is prevalent in society and stories about it do need to be told as a reflection of our reality 🤝 sometimes male writers and directors are extremely bad at telling these stories and audiences are justified in demanding better
if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost
take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle
fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism
now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning
some others i found in the notes
Not really in the same vein, but i wanna add some great ones.
This whole post is my current philosophy
to all my demotivated girls
no lie I had to get up to shake my ass this is potent
How can I hire him to perform in my bedroom at 6:30 every morning?
Why do so many people make tiktoks while they're clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you're gonna kill someone.
I think people online treat driving too casually tbh, like there was a poll about people's bad habits while driving and they weren't bad habits or problematic or whatever, they were all things that literally kill people every single day. You are driving a massive vehicle that can very easily turn into a murder weapon with your carelessness, take this shit seriously.
"Haha I never use my turn signals" you are going to kill someone.
"I don't do full stops at stop signs lol" you are going to kill someone.
"Sometimes I text while I'm driving 🤭" YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE.
Also people who speed up or suddenly stop or swerve a lot to freak out someone in the car for fun: it stops being funny when you get into a car accident because of it. Just so you know.
Following horny people and opening tumblr in public is the path to true strength. Scrolling quickly through porn trains your [Warrior’s Reflexes], and calmly moving past it trains your [Warrior’s Resolve].
And as for strengthening your sword arm, well,
Software giant Adobe has been caught selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, as spotted by Australian news outlet Crikey.
just a reminder that you should ALWAYS pirate adobe its always morally correct
oops!
looks like i droped my chart of alternatives to adobe software!
how clumsy of me!
it would seems i also dropped my link to flashpoint archive to play old archived adobe flash games and animations along with other old interactive elements in websites, with an included flash emulator!
art tips
don't call what you create "content". regardless of what it is. that's the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is
I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don't call yourself a "content creator". you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician
you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind