Well.

{ guess this is it }

[hoomanityisavirus]

Oohhhh to be gripped

The way Westley protectively grips Buttercup, as they escape the fire swamp ???

How he swings his arm back around her, standing at attention with his sword in the other?

To be immediately protected. No hesitation.

To be loved so immensely they’d see themselves burnt, beat or ended entirely before they see a scratch on your skin…

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨Hope I get to have that someday.

[iguanamouth]

bert and ernie go to ikea

[hoomanityisavirus]

Every person who’s ever created art of these two being a gorgeously gay couple has my allegiance ❤️‍🔥

[hoomanityisavirus]

“I beg your finest pardon?”

“Then Beg.”

“…”

“…”

“Darling, you’ll only get the finest when you follow through…”

[vortainn-deactivated20241106]

The flags are ready for the weekend!

[shockpine]

[cryptid-aac]

Empathy - ability to feel what the other persons feeling

Sympathy - ability to feel pity or sorrow about another person's situation

Compassion - willingness to help someone

Funny how only one of these dictate if you're a good person (and even then, you rlly don't have to help someone through a rough time, especially if you can't help) while the other two are literally just... Emotions.

But God forbid you have low empathy and low sympathy or even worse, no empathy and no sympathy. Then you must mask or else you're a dick (ignoring the people who can't mask bc they /obviously/ don't exist) /sarc

[twitterexile]

[autodrive]

[hoomanityisavirus]

As someone who did get this tattoo I’ll tell ya one thing…you definitely figure out who’s your ally and who is not with a choice like this🤪

[ohnoaname]

So LGBTQ+ is now completely illegal in Russia. I wonder if anyone going to talk about that. I'm so tired

[ohnoaname]

I really try to keep politics and more personal stuff out of my blog because that's my escapism website but I really can't NOT talk about it

Russian Supreme Court just banned "LGBT+ movement" as extremist. It's basically illegal now. I saw the news when I wasn't home and I spend next 2h trying not to cry before I actually get home

I'm russian and I'm asexual. I'm maybe non-binary and sapphic, I'm still figuring it out.

And I can't say that I love my country. I disagree with lots of its politics and laws, but. I was born here. I was raised here and I live here and it's home. My home, which, apparently, hates my existence. I wish I could really, fully hate it back but I can't. It's home.

I get that most of the world doesn't really care about russians right now because well. We are the bad guys. But please, talk about russian queers. I don't know what else to say. We exist. We want to matter at least to someone.

[weaselle]

psst. hey

people who are legal adults who want their tubes tied or top surgery etc etc should be able to do so full stop.

"oh but what if they regret it for the rest of their lives"

okay. so what.

Adults make decisions about our lives, that's what being an adult is. We may decide to get a face tattoo, or quit a promising job, or join the army, or move to another country.

That's practically all we do as adults. We make decisions that effect the rest of our life, and then we live, or sometimes die, accordingly. Maybe i'll spend the rest of my life regretting telling my influential boss he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, but, as an adult, that's the kind of life decision i am allowed to make for myself. And after all, it might be the best thing i ever did. It's my life, and i get to do all the fucking around and all the finding out i want to.

surgical transition, or sterilization, or whatever... is exactly the same. If you aren't going to let a legally adult person decide for themself about that stuff, then you can't let them get a tattoo or move to Florida either

[heturnedleft]

The right to be wrong is one of the most fundamental rights there is. If people try to take away your liberty whenever they think you'll regret your decisions, your liberty doesn't mean much.

[hoomanityisavirus]

[stars-bean]

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988 - 1992) dir. Carole Beers and Karl Geurs

[hoomanityisavirus]

Rabbit always slaying the autistic experience™

[oohsnickers]

[curliestofcrowns]

I’ve been thinking about this daily since it crossed my dash

[impling]

little mans is 100% correct.

[animatedamerican]

I'm gonna put I AM BRAVE OF THIS MEETING on my cubicle wall at work and never explain it.

[dr-otter]

Think about the donuts of your day!

[hoomanityisavirus]

17 years of therapy, thousands of dollars…and my breakthrough came from a tiny child who’s mom quoted him in the internet🥹🫠

[aurumacadicus]

The kids on TikTok think that just because he was a classic country singer, Johnny Cash was conservative??? My babies he covered a Nine Inch Nails song in his seventies.

Classic country singers (the majority of which came from poor roots) were always talking about how much The Man sucked because they were taking money from poor rural folk. You’re gonna tell me that’s conservative?? Get outta here.

[aurumacadicus]

And somehow on the opposite side of the scale with the same exact opinion the conservative kids say “I like the old country music, because there’s no politics to it” Woodie Guthrie’s got a “this machine kills fascists” sticker on his guitar? You think there’s no politics in 9 to 5 or Folsom Prison Blues?!

[hermit-skrab]

For anyone confused there was a sudden and dramatic shift in the country music genre. It used to be a genre fixated on the experiences of people. Lived or common experiences that resonated with the common people. It was music that you listened to and it thrummed in tune to your soul because you had lived it yourself. And a lot of that was about ordinary people getting ground up in the gears of society.

The hyper patriotism, beer, and trucks chimera we have now didn't show up until after 9/11 and the world is lesser for it

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

[onbearfeet]

Allow me to post the entire lyrics to the Johnny Cash song "Man in Black", released in nineteen goddamn seventy-one and written about why he always wore black onstage:

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black

Why you never see bright colors on my back

And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone

Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down

Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town

I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime

But is there because he's a victim of the times

I wear the black for those who've never read

Or listened to the words that Jesus said

About the road to happiness through love and charity

Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose

In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes

But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back

Up front there ought to be a man in black

I wear it for the sick and lonely old

For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold

I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been

Each week we lose a hundred fine young men

And I wear it for the thousands who have died

Believin' that the Lord was on their side

I wear it for another hundred-thousand who have died

Believin' that we all were on their side

Well, there's things that never will be right, I know

And things need changin' everywhere you go

But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right

You'll never see me wear a suit of white

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day

And tell the world that everything's okay

But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back

'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black

That right there is an anti-war, anti-bigot, anti-mass-incarceration, anti-war-on-drugs (Cash was an addict in various stages of recovery who was pissed as hell about how this country treats people with substance issues), eat-the-rich protest song. And it was arguably his signature song, his personal manifesto. Notice that even the Jesus reference, which today would be a signal that the song is about to drop some racist dogwhistles, segues immediately into a line about "the road to happiness through love and charity". As in "Motherfucker, our shared god said love thy neighbor and care for the poor and the outsider, and we both know he didn't fucking stutter." He's throwing shade at self-described Christians who use his religion as a cudgel to beat people with.

Johnny Cash wasn't a conservative. I'm pretty sure if he were alive and in reasonably good health today, he'd knock Jason Aldean's teeth out (or, failing that, write a song so devastatingly memetic about how much Aldean sucks that Aldean would never work in music again).

Johnny Cash was punk rock. He just happened to be punk rock in the body of a country singer.

[hoomanityisavirus]

💖Be Queer, Do Crime💖

Graffiti in Rostock, Germany 🇩🇪

[senior-management]

young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway

[neil-gaiman]

When I look at how I survived my 20s, it was always helpful friends putting work my way. And often the helpful friends were people I had only known for weeks.

[hoomanityisavirus]

If it wasn’t for the relationships I was able to forge in my 20’s I’d be homeless today. Same with landing jobs when I had nothing. If I’d known it was solely about networking, I’d have gotten my ass in gear a lot sooner. Hugs to everyone who is on the spectrum like me and never quite got masking right. This world works when people like you, and although it’s important to be kind and a good person, it’s entirely unfair that we ‘have to’ be likeable in order to be deemed ‘worthy’ of help in any situation

[bonyassfish]

A collection of Leonard Cohen images with excellent vibes

Leonard taking a selfie in a magen david mirror

Leonard looking tenderly at a stuffed animal

Leonard sitting outside with a cat

Leonard in a tight t-shirt

Leonard smoking and playing his Casio keyboard

Leonard enjoying a popsicle in the summer

Leonard cooking and wearing sunglasses inside

And my personal favorite, Leonard playing pinball