dabit deus his quoque finem

23/F/NY

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I’m still bitter about everything that happened to Thomas Barrow.

It’s part of this terrible cycle of how gay people are represented in media.

All stories about gay people in history are tragic and end in suicide/murder. Modern understanding of LGBT history comes from these movies and stories.

When straight people like Julian Fellowes have a chance to write about a gay character in history, they can’t imagine that they would have been anything other than miserable, because that's the only gay history they know.

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Photos from the Memento Mori meet up last month, looking at old taxidermy in a museum.

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I've lost access to this tumblr account, and I will probably be logged out of the app at some point, so it looks like this account, that I've had for years, is dead. This could be an opportunity to free myself from this hellhole, but we all know that's not going to happen.

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“Dirce chrześcijańska” (Christian Dirce) [1897] - Henryk Siemiradzki

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The moment people were like “oh shit water benders”

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I really loved this episode though, it was an established theme in the show that firebenders are associated with death and waterbenders are associated with life and healing, and up to this point it all seemed so clear-cut, because fire obviously destroys everything in its path while water can put out fires and heals, as we’ve seen particularly in Katara’s case with her natural healing ability.  

Then we meet Hama, who due to years of torture and hatred has found a way to turn the classic gentler waterbending ways into a weapon of destruction and manipulation, and honestly I can’t think of a better way to introduce people to the fact that things are never as clear cut as they seem.  We’ve thought of waterbenders as the good guys up until this point, so it’s jarring to find out that no, despite stereotypes and traditions, there are always going to be good and bad people in every culture/group, but that’s the point of the entire show.

It’s revisited later too when Aang and Zuko find the Sun Warriors who teach them firebending is not just about death and destruction, but also about bringing warmth to the earth and making plants grow and both Aang and Zuko needed to hear that they weren’t just instruments of destruction and gain confidence from the idea of using firebending to create life and I love it I love this show so much.

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is there even a driving test in Russia

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me

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[doctorgaylove]

sorry to be ignorant, but why is erika moen so disliked in the lgbt community (or just the lesbian community)? what did she do?

Well, there was of course, this LUG comic, which had several unsavory elements including her husband calling women at a Pride parade “dykes” and acting like they’re so scary to a poor straight man, the pair of them making rude remarks at a woman right in front of her and the woman’s reaction played for laughs, the contrast of “I love my boy” (for a straight relationship) vs “I love PUSSY” for a gay one, etc. Furthermore, LUG as a concept is kind of bullshit and the comic doesn’t really say “stop calling people LUGs and let everyone do what they want” but rather “LUGs exist but don’t call me one!”

Her most famous comic is Queer, which, again, ends with her and her husband at a strip club making rude remarks about a stripper in an ~empowering~ way, as well as playing into “mean dyke” stereotypes, plus a sort of labels are for soup cans kind of notion, which is just kind of irritating all around and implies that anyone who is not like her is less enlightened.

And then there’s this infamous comic, which fetishizes trans men, implicitly plays into stereotypes about trans men not being real men, and once again has the trans man’s reaction to being objectified played for laughs–that last one seems to be a pretty common theme with her. (As you can see on the page, she did apologize for it, but there you go).

There’s also this racism collage she did, of which I was able to find [1, 2] It seems she tried to purge the comic from the Internet which is why I couldn’t find the whole thing, but the gist is that she was raised racist and taught to fear black men and so she decided to make a collage of racist stereotypes because apparently that would be helpful or something. It does not seem that she apologized for this one, nor did she keep it around as she did the trans men comic.

Anyway, that’s why some people don’t like her. A lot of people do like her (for example, Buzzfeed LGBT) so I wouldn’t say she is universally despised by any means. Personally, I’m not a fan.

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People in the #psychosis and #actuallyunempathetic tags: YEah I have “"low empathy”“. I don’t give a FUCK and I only reblog pictures of KNIVES and GORE because that’s what people with low empathy DO

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Ed Speleers’ face is a less extreme version of Taron Egerton’s.