[theweirdwideweb]

[wishingonyoump3]

it’s so hilarious to me that straight women think they are so irresistible to us gay women that we are just waiting to pounce on them as soon as we’re in the same space like nah we can smell your homophobia from miles away you fucking gremlins

[wishingonyoump3]

reblog to kill the predatory lesbian myth

[ellynoo]

This but also cis lesbians about trans lesbians

[wishingonyoump3]

reblog again to kill the predatory trans women myth

[liftersandleaners]

i just keep getting gayer and i’m curious if there is a peak or just a neverending trajectory upwards

[liftersandleaners]

One of my biggest problems about 13 reasons why is some how Clay is framed to be the one we are supposed to sympathise with. Clay’s biggest regret was that he didn’t tell Hannah Baker he loved her. SO FUCKING WHAT. How about that Clay didn’t contact health professionals, or police, or talk to her parents? How about that he never looked up resources and shared them with Hannah? No, Clay’s one fucking regret is about love because he believes his “love” would have saved her. I’d rather 1 million Clay’s get their feelings hurt than have 1 Hannah Baker die. 

[liftersandleaners]

Do you ever feeling yourself falling in love with your friends... but in a friend way? 

[liftersandleaners]

Human Rights Commission: *Proposes that organisations contracting with the government be required to target a 40:40:20 gender balance (i.e., at least 40% men and 40% women, with 20% unspecified to allow for flexibility). So, a quota that creates minimums for both women AND men, and that allows for a bit of variation from an even 50:50 division.*

Tony Abbott: Obviously we have to give women a fair go, but some of this stuff sounds like it’s just anti-men.

[lesbianrey]

why would you wish lesbianism upon anyone? lesbians are a dead weight on the society. they don't contribute to humanity, they don't have kids, they are degenerate and decadent

vice president pence don’t you have something else to do

[twinberry]

reblog if you’re a degenerate and decadent lesbian who doesn’t contribute to humanity

[velvetsugar]

Introducing Gay Representation™ now in two original flavors: 1. Dead lesbian 2. White gay boy written 100% for the female demographic

[thiefqueenftw]

how could you forget number 3

gratuitous inaccurate lesbian sex scene made for straight men

[wheresmyphonemp3]

and of course the 4th

gay character gets five seconds of screentime at the very end

[fabulesque]

This is great but it’s missing the 5th: character who is only revealed to be gay by the media’s creator outside of the canon and whose sexuality is never actually present in any capacity in the media

[velvetsugar]

Thank u all for properly extending the Gay Representation Menu

[jewshboy]

me: *sees 2 girls walking next to each other*

me: i hope theyre girlfriends

[deathtodickens]

The older I get, the less time I want to waste reading or watching anything that doesn’t involve two queer women kissing.

[liftersandleaners]

When straight people say “I’m not homosexual but I support homosexuals rights” rather than “I’m human so I support homosexuals rights”

[sickboywolfgang]

[liftersandleaners]

I’m sick to death of discussions on homophobia being framed around male gay perspective.  Guess what? Men aren’t homophobic to female gays because they’re afraid they’ll be treated the same way as women. They’re homophobic to female gays because they feel they have no power over them. They’re homophobic because in a female-female relationship, there is no room for a man. They are redundant. 

I’m sick of pointing out to gay males that their experience is not the same for the whole gay community, and I’m sick of that being ignored. 

[greggaraki]

when an ugly boy is trying to project an idealized version of you that he made up in his head as your “true self” that he thinks he can help bring out in you and you’re not having it

[madqueenalanna]

Given that I think “My Immortal” is a troll (with the reason generally being that author Tara references both Marty McFly and TOM BOMBADIL), I just reread it and I’m astounded by the effort put into it.

The spelling and grammar gets steadily worse over the course of the story, messing up simple words and even the main character’s name (variations on Ebony include Enoby, Enony, Eboby, and my favorite Enopby). The author gives frequent shoutouts in the A/N at the beginning of each chapter to someone called Raven, who she considers a friend and apparently functions as a beta. In chapter 16, Tara severs ties with Raven, expels/murders Raven’s character Willow, and changes Ebony’s full name to Ebony Dark’ness Dementia TARA Way. It’s suggested that they fought because Tara stole Raven’s poster of Gerard Way. By chapter 17, they appear to have made up and Willow is brought back with no further explanation.

The plot, of course, is just insane, but the story was obviously being read; Tara begins each chapter furiously ranting about “flamerz” leaving bad reviews, terribly misspelled. At one point, Ebony was referred to as a Mary Sue and she immediately tried to shut that down, citing “Satanism” and “depression” as flaws. She held each new chapter hostage, demanding a certain number (usually 5) good reviews before she would update. Assuming the spelling and grammar mistakes were intentional, the natural progression of them getting worse and worse is incredible. The difference between Tara’s A/Ns and Raven’s edited text is also astounding, although chapter 16, during their supposed rift, is not noticeably more poorly written than the chapters immediately preceding and following it.

The misspellings of character names and general slipups get worse and worse to the point that once, “Enopby” is referred to as “Tara”, and at another point, “TaEnby”, further to emphasize that Ebony is, in fact, the most obvious self insert in the history of literature. The reference to Marty McFly (he appears at the end of chapter 35 to spirit Ebony into the future) confounds me; Tara does not seem like she’d been aware of pop culture enough to have seen “Back to the Future”, given that she describes “The Nightmare Before Christmas” as this serious, depressing, Adult movie. She’s young enough to consider “he put his thingy into my tool” an accurate description of sex. Further, she references Tom Bombadil, a character in “Lord of the Rings” who I believe just shows up and sings for a while and is strongly implied to be God and then disappears, not really relevant to anything. He’s not even in the movies. Would Tara Gilesbie have read “Lord of the Rings” when she admits she’s never read the Harry Potter books?

Read through that lens (that this was an elaborate hoax), can you believe the rest of it was so organically terrible? Even now, 10+ years after the fact, no one can agree on whether this story is a troll, and until anyone finds out who Tara Gilesbie really is, it’s going to be impossible to know for sure. This is just crazy to me.

[the-cafe-salmonella]

I have done extensive digging on this subject, and there is a lot more to My Immortal than meets the eye. Read as a troll, this story is a brilliant piece of satire on fan fiction. It incorporates so many cliches of the genre, especially those from the early to mid 2000′s. The obviously self-inserted Mary-Sue (mentioned above) along with unnecessary and unexplained crossovers, nonsensical sex scenes, and allusion to scene culture and pop punk music. Not to mention the story outside the story, Tara and Raven’s falling out, critiquing the culture of A/N’s and reviews. The tropes and cliches are far too obvious and overplayed to be sincere. I am a true believer that Tara was not only a troll, but a genius of satire. After all, if it was truly so bad, it would not have survived mixed in with ten years of equally terrible fan fiction. The legend of this story is so *ehem* immortal it has sparked heated debate in the online community for years, and was even made into a web series. (https://vimeo.com/70381882) Whether you believe it was satire or not, there is something about My Immortal that is inherently fascinating. Even if it was not her intention, Tara has created the bad fan fiction. It is a perfect storm of chaotic, nonsensical drama spiraling around the least original character ever written. Story lines are dropped and picked up again seemingly at random, characters and names are inconsistent to the point of being unintelligible, and there is no consistent overarching plot. In a sense, it is the anti-story, because it so decidedly defies every literary rule in the book. Either we are drawn to My Immortal as one watches a car wreck in awe, or because it satirizes the worst aspects of every story we have ever read. Regardless, the legacy of My Immortal will live on, either as a warning, or a work of pure genius.

[tygermama]

next cat I get, I’m naming Enopby

[scatterdarknessscattersilence]

“TaEnby” is a great name for a non-binary gender identity

[zombies-with-radios]

sometimes art manifests itself in unlikely places

[liftersandleaners]

Can I please be cryogenically frozen for the next 3 years. Thanks.