Claire Keane
@theartofmadeline
DEAR READER
RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home
Product Placement
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes
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@isaacdammit
“GOD LOVES EVERYONE" – “ANITA BRYANT SUCKS,” rally against Anita Bryant (pop singer, former beauty queen, spokesperson, and archconservative leader of “Save Our Children,” which campaigned against gay- and lesbian-inclusive local ordinances across the U.S. in the late 1970s), New York City, June 23, 1977. Photo by Bettye Lane.“
-via lgbt_history
I am the very best at marketing. Amazon Goodreads
im honestly gonna get it. you had me at “made a homophobe so angry”
This actually happened! I’ve always felt that if you buy a book where the stated summary is “two princesses attempt to fight dragons and get married” you don’t really have a right to be mad when the book turns out to be about two princesses attempting to fight dragons and get married but what the hell do I know.
To be fair, maybe the reader expected the princesses to marry the dragons?
Please tell me there’s a sequel where that happens.
BUT ONLY IF THE DRAGONS ARE ALSO LADIES.
Actually, the main complaint was that it was “historically inaccurate” for two princesses to be allowed to get married. Which was weird to me, since this story is not set on earth and I’m pretty sure it is historically accurate for gay couples to be allowed to get married on this super convenient wish-fulfillment fantasy world that I concocted after logging 300 hours in Skyrim. Curiously enough, she didn’t complain about the dragons being inaccurate.
Me: Wanna see some tiddies, please.
Tumblr: Sorry, not anymore. Too offensive.
Me: Oh.
Tumblr: We’ve still got swastikas, if that’ll help.
reblog this to give every trans kid strength for the holidays
to all trans kids: i love you and the world would be much worse without you
If you cannot go home this year due to an unaccepting family; I WILL BE YOUR NEW MOM. I’ll bake cookies with you, make you hot cocoa and bring you presents from the lesbian Santa
AND IM LESBIAN SANTA
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
PLEASE PARTICIPATE THIS NEEDS TO BE BIG SO WE NEED TO FOLLOW THROUGH!
Doing this. Who else is in?
Indya Moore (source)
wtf, tumblr?
Update: it appears tumblr unflagged it but the fact the post was flagged at all is concerning.
There was no email saying it was flagged or saying it was unflagged.
French police is using grenades called “GLI-F4″ which contain around 25-30g of TNT + teargas.
During several gilets jaunes protests, protesters got mutilated by such grenades, that the police has been using willy-nilly. And now several victims are suing, and their lawyers are also trying to make illegal this weapon, only used in France.
One of the victims, a pacifist protester, had his hand literally blown off by one of those grenades (heavy content warning for extremely graphic images and gore: here is a video of the incident).
Reminder that this is happening right now, as of early December 2018.
I believe it is important to share news like these, even if they are depressing, because if we don’t know about it, we can’t protest it.
Police are not there to protect people. They are there to protect the state.
Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence
I ugly-laughed at several of these.
More women
Thank god they decided to make more
More Pallas Cat (via mbibi)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 19, 1896
This freak has no beak…
Today is World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art. During the 1980s and 1990s, AIDS and complications from it killed nearly half a million people in the U.S., a disproportionate number of them gay men and people of color. The artist community lost thousands; still more friends, lovers, and family members faced lives transformed by grief, fear, indignation, and illness. Many artists made activist work that criticized government inaction, promoted awareness and treatment, and expressed support for people fighting and living with the virus. Here are two of those works from the Whitney’s collection, on view now in An Incomplete History of Protest
One incredibly important step to becoming a good ally is dismantling the idea that queer people need to be nice to deserve human rights.
You’re able to call your parents “Mom” and “Dad”. They were not born with those names.
You’re able to call your teachers “Mr” or “Mrs” and their last name. You’d get in trouble if you addressed them by first name.
You’re able to call a celebrity by their chosen stage name.
You’re able to call your friends a shortened version of their name, their middle name instead of their first, or a completely random nickname.
You’re able to call a married woman by her husband’s last name, even though she was not born with that last name.
But when someone’s transgender, how does calling them by a name they were not born with somehow become a hassle?
Maybe Foreign Language Wouldn’t Be So Foreign
Based off of this text post for @emettkaysworld + @bumblebeebats
Hermione: It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek.
Hermione: “Expelliarmus”?
My new favorite version of Hermione.
