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be soft

but be ready

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bloodbending

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bots, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

curliestofcrowns

where's that speed skating gif

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mood

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So, I guess as a middle range millennial, I now get to tell all you young queer kids that what you are feeling right now is exactly how it felt in 2004 when we re-elected George Bush, and not only that but many states put in bans against gay/same sex marriage at the time.

This is probably not comforting, but it is true, and it helps me when I feel hopeless: For every revolution there is a counter revolution, for every step forward there is a step back, that things may not be good forever but they will not be bad, either. That we clawed our way to get where we are and we can claw our way forward from here, too. Talk to your queer elders, the ones who have been here before and will be here again and who threw bricks at Stonewall.

When I was a child, if you got AIDS it was a death sentence. Now it isn't. Now you live on.

So I'll quote angels in america: You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

were-writes

Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?

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You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.

sci-the-superb

you. you get it.

(tags via @jeremiahsmysteriosotouch)

deadblogdontlook

Counteroffer: Big dramatic cloak to protect your identity that you drop on the floor before every fight

krshush

#there are two wolves inside you #one is edna mode #the other is megamind (@remnantofahero)

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I can’t believe the compromise is Obi-Wan Kenobi

marlynnofmany

“No capes!”

“Game on, then.”

cheeseanonioncrisps

Okay, but I love that Gandalf is just dropping his cloak to reveal another, slightly smaller cloak underneath it.

magnetothemagnificent

Randomly remembered how as a kid my mom would always fast forward through the beginning of 'Finding Nemo' because she thought Coral's death was too violent, so for years I never knew why Nemo was raised by a single father and assumed Nemo's parents had gotten fish divorced and Marlin had won custody of Nemo. My dad's biological parents divorced when my dad was young, so I always knew what divorce was and I knew my Grandma had gotten primary custody of my dad, so I just assumed that's what happened with Nemo. It wasn't until years later when I watched Finding Nemo with my grandparents without my mom and they didn't know to fast forward through the beginning that I finally knew what happened to Coral and I was *devastated*.

magnetothemagnificent

#this is why ya gotta show your kids age appropriate scary things#otherwise they inflict the legal system on unsuspecting fish

valarhalla

Ok this is the best one i've seen.

prettyboysdontlookatexplosions

my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me

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Leonid Pasternak (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

caressthosecheekbones

oh leonid, we're really in it now

wintersmitth

Leonid, you really understand it.

pauljpeg

every time i say “that’ll do” i think in my head “that’ll do donkey, that’ll do” why does shrek ruin everything in my life

tjayhc

Noooooo. It’s time to educate the children. That was a reference to a movie that came out 6 YEARS EARLIER than Shrek. It’s called “Babe” and it is a treasure. It’s an adorable, hilarious, and occasionally REALLY dark live-action “kids” movie that takes place on a picturesque farm where the animals talk to each other. It’s about a piglet named Babe that gets adopted by the farmer’s sheep-dog because he was sad and she just had a litter. So he learns how to herd sheep, but the sheep don’t take him seriously because he is a fucking pig without the scary bite and bark. So Babe’s solution iS TO ASK THEM NICELY. So I won’t spoil the ending, but the QUOTE IS “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.” Watch it, it is super worth your while.

Originally posted by danniesauurr246

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don’t care about animal farm or whatever but thanks

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I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.