Off You Go, small boys

Eli/he/they/homo/VALOR/ ig: kidkingeli| This is pure existence, feel free to talk to me if ur confused.

[cutehotsexycool]

[sacred-portal]

[joysmileyay]

good starter vegetable

entry level vegetable

starter vegetable reddit

beginner vegetable reddit

veggies for noobs reddit

what is meatcel

meatcel reddit

what is vegan reddit

vegan quiz

am i vegan or straight quiz

can you trust online quiz results

[failchild]

this article is behind a paywall but i'm obsessed with the headline + photo combo

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[follettina1111111111]

A crested eagle tangled up with a snake in battle

[blatantescapism]

the Aztec were right, that is absolutely an omen worth building a city for

[shingojira]

the fuck you lookin at keep scrollin

[bruno-has-definitely-deactivate]

[oakwizard]

[filthyprotozoan]

(me on a first date) and what do you think of the inherent intimacy of surgery? have you considered the love someone must have to put their hands under your skin and hold the most grotesque parts of you and put them back together nicely? is anyone really closer to you than that? we all get uh a little enamored on the surgery table don't we haha. wait come back

[spelldealer]

THIS is the bear cave painting i was talking about, the line weight, the proportions, the fine details around the face, and the fact that this all had to be drawn from memory, idk man, it’s incredible to me. if i could meet one person from history it’d be the person that painted this bear 30,000 years ago

[fairycosmos]

i hate nerves and anxiety. oh nooo i am scared of acting like a weird bitch to remedy this i will act like a weird bitch

[zoesupreme]

*Data voice* I cannot get high Geordi. However, an analysis of the smoke you are exhaling indicates a sativa dominant strain with a THC content that would more accurately be described as "mid" or "reggie" rather than "fire" as you suggested.

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[cali]

employed posters: i hate my manager unemployed posters: bidens dragoons are currently fighting mewtwo in cerulean cave hand in hand we march into the future

[ratfuck]

telling the kids that theres an among us movie and they get excited and you sit them down and put on The Thing

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

if you're not obsessed with anything weird and niche please try harder. stop going outside for a while. consider getting weirder about the things you already like

[mclennonyaoi]

if you sing an american idiot cover and you refuse to say faggot you’re horrible and boring and lame and i hate you i hate you i hate you.

[mclennonyaoi]

ok. well maybe i’m the faggot america. you ever thought of that.

[mclennonyaoi]

[prismatic-bell]

Just to be clear, Billie Joe Armstrong is…okay I forget at the moment if he’s bi or pan and my app has been resetting itself if I dip into another app so I don’t want to go look it up because I’ll lose this post, but he’s one of those.

NOW. It is important that you know Green Day was primarily a 90s band. This is important because it means they came of age in a time period where we were trying to reclaim “faggot,” and among the counterculture—which, again, was Green Day, they were a pop/punk fusion—it WAS within-the-community reclaimed. If you read a lot of queer zines from this period you’ll see it used routinely. Dan Savage’s advice column originally ran under the name “Hey, Faggot,” which he himself had chosen. There’s a section in the musical RENT where the characters refer to themselves as “faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too,” and while Jon Larson himself was straight he was writing as someone who was in daily contact with these cultures. Pride parades from the time often have it on at least one sign. This was not unusual language.

This is part of the background from which American Idiot was born. It came out in 2004, and while the queer movement was losing a little steam in the counterculture direction at that point (although not as badly as it has today, good lord), this was still an ongoing thing. I was hearing it as late as 2009.

This was, indeed, Billie Joe challenging the mainstream that had come to love Green Day: maybe I’M the faggot, did you think of that? We haven’t just supported queer artists, I AM a queer artist. Fuck you.

This whole album is political commentary. It’s practically a time capsule of Everything Wrong With The Bush Years, including Bush’s attempt to put “marriage is one man and one woman” in the Constitution. (This is why, as a Jew, I don’t object to the lyric “seig heil to President Gas Man.” It’s a pretty succinct takedown of the Islamophobia he stoked as a way to justify war with Iraq.)

So SING that “faggot,” and do it with your whole chest. It’s a word of anger and protest and taking back autonomy with your own two bloody hands.

Billie Joe wasn’t and isn’t ashamed to be a faggot, America. Don’t you be either.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

For some more historical context, 2004 was one year out from the historic Lawrence versus Texas decision that struck down the anti sodomy laws still in existence in multiple States at that time. Those laws essentially criminalize same-sex relationships. So it had only been legal to be gay in a good chunk of the United States for a year when this song came out. It was released amidst a flurry of defense of marriage acts across the country, where Americans voted state by state on whether or not marriage would be defined as one man and one woman, a reaction to Lawrence. A popular band singing this amidst all the hatred against us thanks to the legalization of queer sex, was a very bold move and absolutely a fuck you to this cultural context.

I grew up in the late 80s and the 90s and I can absolutely remember gay men calling themselves fags and faggots, as well as fairy faggots and other combinations. It was not uncommon, though I'm still uncomfortable with it myself due to how it was weaponized against a friend.

But that's OK. We should still support reclaiming it! And yes, I've been working on singing it in this song, because defiance is important, even if we have reasons to struggle with it's language.

[prismatic-bell]

ALL OF THIS.

This is a large part of why, as I’ve gotten older and the movement has weirdly gotten more conservative instead of progressive, I’ve started referring to myself as an old fag. I refuse to let that revolutionary spirit die.

[fleshy-greyish-mass]

Told my gnome roommate he needed to go outside to blow on dandelions