This Is Your Song

Valentina, 26 Michigan🏳️‍🌈

[quotemadness]

“I want a soulmate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow….I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”

— Henry Rollins

[moonnlesbian]

where’s the interview w/ andy samberg where the interviewer asks about why there’s no jokes made around holt being gay and andy’s face twitches like “don’t do it.” and the interviewer goes on like “we live in such a weird PC culture though!” and andy laughs so uncomfortably i need it for science 

[moonnlesbian]

[corbinite]

The ironic thing is, there are plenty of jokes which involve him being gay. But it just doesn’t register as humor to those people if it’s not making fun of him for it, or using his sexuality as the actual punchline. A show actually respects its characters (for the most part) while still managing to provide top-notch humor and all a lot of people have to say is complaining about “pc culture”

[polarbarbarian-deactivated20200]

here’s a link to the video if anyone’s interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQsYQfkR5o

[sophrosynic]

i don’t understand how anyone who’s watched the episodes where ray holt pretends to be a hetero would ever believe that there are “no jokes about him being gay.”

because that’s not the problem. the problem is that the jokes about him being gay are specifically for an lgbtq audience. they’re jokes that heteros don’t understand because for once, we’re not the punchline like we usually are. we’re not being made fun of in a way that tears us down. they’re jokes about the absurdity of our existence. of having to fake being straight, even though a lot of us are actually really bad at it, and having straight people actually believe you. 

the other really great example is that one joke ray holt makes in the first season, about how the hardest thing about being a gay black police officer in the nypd is the discrimination. that joke was funny for so many reasons, and yet, not a single straight person really got it when i watched it with them. it feels like there are no jokes because the jokes aren’t intended for straight/homophobic people, where the punchline isn’t all about how they relate to us. it’s about how we relate to them for once, and that’s the greatest thing.

[captainlordauditor]

other show’s lgbt jokes are “loltranswomen” or “lol flamboyant gay men”

brooklyn nine nine’s lgbt jokes are “we got married as quickly as we could bc we were worried they’d repeal it” and then footage of Kevin and Raymond not letting the officient finish his sentence before they say “I do”

[thatmattattack]

i remember watching the first episode of season 4 where jake peralta — one of the main characters of the shows who could so easily be depicted as a toxically masculine cop who doesn’t “get” political correction or like, basic human decency in general — casually mentions the existence of transphobia in passing. the show had been fairly liberal and good at playing jokes for laughs instead of hurting people’s feelings, but this solidified my loyalty to the show and its brand of humor.

what’s more, jake mentions transphobia in connection with media content and delivers the line in such a way that it was only after seeing this post (literally months after the initial episode aired) that i realized people who are not queer or in the know about queer things would not find it funny because they wouldn’t understand it. 

in short: jokes at the expense of others humanity is rarely, if ever, funny. consequently, b99 comes out with better hi-jinks and bigger laughs because they get it and work within those (not actually at all limiting) confines.

[chillyfeetsteak]

PLEASE WATCH BROOKLYN 99 IT WILL HEAL YOU.

[kateordie]

I love this fucking show TO DEATH

[louiestommos]

PLEASE WATCH B99

[dualvoidanima]

‘lost_and_found’

[coral]

“I just want you, I want go to museums, parks, theater with you.”

—

[ssaud7]

A girl that motivates you is a blessing.

[00incognegro-deactivated2021041]

HER: I think I’ll wear my sundress today….

Me:

[blaccdynamite]

#freedabooty

[miracleunique]

what if you ain’t got no booty or just a lil one? 🤔

[sensiblesnail-deactivated201907]

Yeah what about us with them flat assets?

[miracleunique]

OKURRRR

[pressure-applied]

DO AS THE SIGN SAYS!!!

[dailyeblunt]

Emily Blunt, Cate Blanchett & Zhou Xun © IWC Schaffhausen (2014).

[vanish-cherry-deactivated202509]

WOW i’m gay

[sophie-cecilia]

[tinyhousetown]

The Modern One from Liberation Tiny Homes

[freddieardley]

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Really grateful for all the continued support of the tumblr community.

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[loxbian-deactivated20200516]

I want cis lesbians to work on making a stronger support system for trans lesbians. Saying “no terfs” just ain’t enough, y’all.

Like, help a trans lesbian get a job. Invite her out to shit. Talk to her. Bring her around other lesbians and don’t make a big show of correcting someone who misgenders her. Offer a ride home at the end of the night so she doesn’t have to walk or bus alone. If you see a trans girl on the bus, sit next to her so some random, terrible dude doesn’t. Don’t invite people to a gathering that’d make her feel unsafe. Know your friends & girlfriend better. Talk to’em about the how and why of supporting trans lesbians. If they’re not on board, get them on board, and if that doesn’t work, it’s time to question the company you keep.

Make it so she feels that OF COURSE she belongs. That OF COURSE she’s supported.

Like idk, everything I just listed is stuff that… you just do for a friend. Y’all it ain’t that hard to treat a trans woman like, ya know, a friend.

[loxbian-deactivated20200516]

I want to add that I definitely want cis lesbians to reblog this

[lordofseagulls]

[philosophybits]

“Very few people can resist saying malicious things about their acquaintances, and even on occasion about their friends; yet when people hear that anything against themselves, they are filled with indignant amazement.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

[memestashhash]

[youngsamberg]

the glow up of the century

[breathtakingdestinations]

Ragusa Ibla - Italy (by Fernando García Redondo) 

[historicaltimes]

Gay pride parade in Chicago, 1970s.

[lesbianherstorian]

i see this making the rounds frequently and i just want to correct the location and source - it was actually taken at the gay freedom day parade in san francisco, california, june 1979. the photo was published by the chicago tribune and the photographer remains unknown