Stuck In The Sky

Hello! I have no idea.

[some-bitch-on-the-internet]

[heatedrivalrysource]

Part 1 of Tea Time with Hudson Williams @hudsonwilliamsofficial on back arches, vodka, favorite scents, and a message for the fans. 📐😮‍💨🥃👃🏻

[atlasmountaingirl]

My friend needs your feedback!!! He runs a website [Lingopie] where you can learn a language by watching TV shows and movies.

As a polyglot, he is super passionate about learning and teaching languages and wants to help students and language learners succeed. He has been working on this project 24/7, so your feedback would make his day! Here is the problem:

His website is still young, so they have limited funds to obtain licenses for movies and television shows. To help as many people as possible, he is wondering what languages you would like to learn or have exams for, so he can focus on expanding the media collection for these languages. I really like him and want his project to succeed, so I created a form where you can vote.

The following languages are available at the moment: Japanese 🇯🇵, Korean 🇰🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸, French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, Italian 🇮🇹, Portuguese 🇵🇹 and English 🇺🇸

Which language are you most interested in? Please vote here!

[hopelessbutcoping]

but....do they have any lgbtq shows?

[atlasmountaingirl]

Not yet, but I just asked and he said he would love to obtain licensing if there is enough interest!!!! I have updated the form. You can vote HERE (X)

[c-again]

omg I've always wanted to learn spanish in gay!

[atlasmountaingirl]

UPDATE! (February 10, 2023)

Hi everyone! I wanted to say thanks for helping my neighbor out with his language learning website (Lingopie). I passed on all your replies and he was thrilled to see so many of you willing to help. He's been working hard these past couple weeks on obtaining licensing for LGBTQ tv-shows in a variety of languages and today the first ones are now available! Video streaming takes a lot of data, so usually there is no free trial but as a thank you, he wants to invite you to test Lingopie 7-days for free and get a big discount when you sign up! Hope you have fun learning a new language and acing those exams if you have any! Click here to try it out! ✨

[sunsetcurveauto]

x-men: first class (2011) // it chapter 2 (2019) // the song of achilles, madeline miller // bbc merlin: diamond of the day: part 2 // the old guard (2020)

[unwinona]

The Importance of Mary Sue

When I was in Ninth Grade, I won a thing.  

That thing, in particular, was a thirty dollar Barnes & Noble gift certificate.  I was still too young for a part-time job, so I didn’t have this kind of spending cash on me, ever.  I felt like a god.

Drunk with power, I fancy-stepped my way to my local B&N.  I was ready to choose new books based solely on the most important of qualities…BADASS COVER ART.  I walked away with a handful of paperbacks, most of which were horrible (I’m looking at you, Man-Kzin Wars III) or simply forgettable.  

One book did not disappoint.  I fell down the rabbit hole into a series that proved to be as badass as the cover art promised (Again, Man-Kzin Wars III, way to drop the ball on that one).  With more than a dozen books in the series, I devoured them.  I bought cassette tapes of ballads sung by bards in the stories.  And the characters.  Oh, the characters.  I loved them.  Gryphons, mages, but most importantly, lots of women.  Different kinds of women.  So many amazing women.  I looked up to them, wrote bad fiction that lifted entire portions of dialogue and character descriptions, dreamed of writing something that the author would include in an anthology.

This year I decided in a fit of nostalgia to revisit the books I loved so damn much.  I wanted to reconnect with my old friends…

…and I found myself facing Mary Sues.  Lots of them.  Perfect, perfect, perfect.  A fantasy world full of Anakin Skywalkers and Nancy Drews and Wesley Crushers.  I felt crushed.  I had remembered such complex, deep characters and didn’t see those women in front of me at all anymore.  Where were those strong women who kept me safe through the worst four years of my life?

Which led me to an important realization as I soldiered on through book after book.  That’s why I needed them.  Because they were Mary Sues.  These books were not written to draw my attention to all the ugly bumps and whiskers of the real world.  They were somewhere to hide.  I was painfully aware that I was being judged by my peers and adults and found lacking.  I was a fuckup.  And sometimes a fuckup needs to feel like a Mary Sue.  As an adult, these characters felt a little thin because they lacked the real world knowledge I, as an adult, had learned and earned.  But that’s the thing…these books weren’t FOR this current version of myself.   Who I am now doesn’t need a flawless hero because I’m comfortable with the idea that valuable people are also flawed.

There is a reason that most fanfiction authors, specifically girls, start with a Mary Sue.  It’s because girls are taught that they are never enough.  You can’t be too loud, too quiet, too smart, too stupid.  You can’t ask too many questions or know too many answers.  No one is flocking to you for advice.  Then something wonderful happens.  The girl who was told she’s stupid finds out that she can be a better wizard than Albus Dumbledore.  And that is something very important.  Terrible at sports?  You’re a warrior who does backflips and Legolas thinks you’re THE BEST.   No friends?  You get a standing ovation from Han Solo and the entire Rebel Alliance when you crash-land safely on Hoth after blowing up the Super Double Death Star.  It’s all about you.  Everyone in your favorite universe is TOTALLY ALL ABOUT YOU.

I started writing fanfiction the way most girls did, by re-inventing themselves.  

Mary Sues exist because children who are told they’re nothing want to be everything.  

As a girl, being “selfish” was the worst thing you could be.  Now you live in Narnia and Prince Caspian just proposed marriage to you.  Why?  Your SELF is what saved everyone from that sea serpent.  Plus your hair looks totally great braided like that.

In time, hopefully, these hardworking fanfiction authors realize that it’s okay to be somewhere in the middle and their characters adjust to respond to that.  As people grow and learn, characters grow and learn.  Turns out your Elven Mage is more interesting if he isn’t also the best swordsman in the kingdom.  Not everyone needs to be hopelessly in love with your Queen for her to be a great ruler.  There are all kinds of ways for people to start owning who they are, and embracing the things that make them so beautifully weird and complicated.

Personally, though, I think it’s a lot more fun learning how to trust yourself and others if you all happen to be riding dragons.

[geekmehard]

Mary Sues exist because children who are told they’re nothing want to be everything.

A girl making herself the hero of her own story is a radical act. Stop shaming girls for doing it. Stop shaming yourself for it. 

[aethersea]

Who I am now doesn’t need a flawless hero because I’m comfortable with the idea that valuable people are also flawed.

That… that’s important. So’s this whole post, but I just.. wanted to pull that out for a moment and look at it a little longer.

[swingsetindecember]

where the superhero and villain have a common friend that they have to hold it together for

“claire is getting married next week”

“i can reschedule the death ray”

“OH CAN YOU?” 

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

“Aha! I have foiled your evil plan! Now the restaurant will be sa— wait, is this that place that fired Hannah?”

“Yeah, and they were all dicks to her about it.”

“Oh, right. Well… guess I can let you destroy it a little.”

[lasrina]

“I’ve defeated you! Now tell me where you’ve taken Matt!”

“What? MATT’S MISSING?”

“Wait. You’re not the one who trashed his apartment?”

“For God’s sake, Caroline, you should’ve just texted me about this. Gimme my phone, I gotta make some calls.”

[drawyour-otps-ocs-squad]

Which of your ocs are like this?

[blondejaneblonde]

The sum of these posts makes it look like they have multiple friends in common, and I’m wondering what the group chat is like.

[atonguetiedwriter]

Matt, Hannah, and Claire’s groupchat: Why don’t they just fuck already???

[caffeinewitchcraft]

It’s not a big deal until it is. It’s a small city, of course they know the same people. And Matt, Hannah and Claire are like the best of the best. The Villain can’t exactly blame the Hero for having taste for once in her life. So it’s not a big deal that they have friends in common.

Or it’s not until their friends start inviting them places and then not showing up.

The Villain’s right hand tightens around their milkshake while they try to crush their phone with their left. “Those assholes just canceled on us. Again.”

The Hero looks remarkably unbothered by this. “Weird. That’s like the fourth time this week.” She takes a long sip from her rootbeer float.

The Villain wants to scream. Does the Hero not realize that the two of them are now on a date? And not just any date, a milkshake date which is so completely pure and unfunny and sweet. Why is the Villain the only one who realizes that the Hero shouldn’t be sitting across from them in her civilian clothes looking all freckled and cute and amazing?

“Want to split a plate of fries?” the Hero asks. She smiles and leans forward like she’s about to share a secret. “Then we can get the onion rings and split those too. Best of both worlds!”

The Villain sends Matt, Hannah and Claire a threatening text. “Sure. Sounds great.”

The Hero beams.

[4444555666777888999]

8 years old. College reading level. The weight of the world on my shoulders.

[vrson]

20 years old. illiterate. the weight of the universe has given me chronic back pain

[st-pam]

[coolbattlegirl]

Reblogging for the future

[lycorislilit]

Three ATLA characters I wanted to try

[crazytom666]

[patterns-acnh]

PLACES TO DONATE AND SIGN TO SUPPORT BLM

(Do not donate money to change.org, none of their funds go to their petitions or organizations)

I Run With Maud - a fundraiser for the family of Maud to support them financially and seek justice. Ahmaud Arbery is black man who was chased and gunned down by two white men. (donation)

Minnesota freedom fund - raise money to bail out minnesota protesters (donation)

Official George Floyd donation fund (donation

The heart of a chef - Help pay for a black chef’s medical expenses

Justice for Sheku Bayoh - A black male who was taken into police custody and never returned home (petition)

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley - A black woman who was arrested at the age of 15 for a crime she did not commit (petition)

Abolish prison labor in the US (petition)

Free Willie Simmons - A black man serving 38 years for stealing $9 (petition)

Free Siyanda Mngaza - A young black woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for self defence (petition)

Drop all charges against trafficking survivor Chrystul Kizer - A black woman incarcerated for using self defence against a trafficker (petition)

Justice for Zinedine - A black woman who was r*ped and he walks free. (petition)

Justice for Joāo Pedro - A 14 year old black boy who was shot in his home by the Rio de Janeiro police and died. 72 bullet holes were found in his home. (petition)

Justice for Sean Reed - A young black man who’s life ended after excessive violence by the cops against him while he was unarmed. (petition)

Justice for Breonna Taylor - A black woman, an award winning EMT who was killed by police in her home after an illegal unnanounced drug raid. They went to the WRONG HOUSE. (petition)

Exonerate Eric Riddick - A black man who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit in 1992. There was no physical evidence. (petition)

Justice for Elijah Nichols - A black man who was attacked by a predominantly white fraternity party, stabbed his attackers in self defence, and is now incarcerated for it. (petition)

Justice for Emerald Black - A black pregnant woman who was attacked by the police for having bad registration tags. She was stomped in the stomach causing her to miscarry. (petition)

Justice for Amiya Braxton - A black child who was hit by a car. No one took her case serious and the driver was not charged. (petition)

Justice for Belly Mujinga - A black woman who was attacked while she had COVID-19 which likely lead to her death.(petition)

Justice for Tamir Rice - A 12 year old black boy who was shot and killed by officers for playing with a toy gun. The officers were not charged. (petition)

Justice for Andile Mchunu - A missing black man who was last seen beaten by a group of men. (petition)

Disbarment of George E. Barnhill - The man who decided to sit on the case of Ahmaud Arbery. (petition)

Criminal charges against Travis and Greg McMichael in the murder of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery. (petition)

Correcting a wrongful conviction against Kyjuanzi Harris - A black man who was arrested without cause. He has been in prison for 9 years now. (petition)

Justice for Darrius Stewart - A black man who was killed by a cop for a mistaken identity. (petition)

Reopen Kendrick Johnsons case - A black man who was killed by a man through a jealous fight over a girl. The autopsy revealed that his death was not accidental, the man admits to murder, yet the case is closed. (petition)

Raise the degree - remove bail for Derek Chauvin, the man who killed George Floyd (petition)

Exoneration of Albert Wilson - A black male wjo was sentenced by an all white jury 12 years for making out with a white woman in a bar. (petition)

Julius Jones - An innocent man set to be excecuted in oklahoma (petition)

Junk the anti-terrorism bill- a bill is trying to get passed calling protests, mass mobilizations, and political activities “terrorism” and trying to make them illegal (petition)

Justice for Darrius Stewart - a 19 year old who was gunned down by a white police officer (petition)

Free Wis. teen facing life in prison for killing her rapist (petition)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez - A black 15 year old who was shot 7 times while walking to school (petition)

I need to share this right now so I can eat but i will add more later! I DON’T care if its not ACNH. If this bothers you, unfollow me. I couldn’t care less. It bothers me how little I see donation and petition links on here, i have a good amount of followers on here, so see this. sign them.

Please sign them ALL. It really is NOT that hard. And share so others will do the same.

[patterns-acnh]

HERE is a thurough link for every city’s bail funds!!!

Reclaim the Block - an organization to help the Minneapolis community to access housing, youth services, harm reduction, and protection for low wage workers. (donation)

Help coach Steve Parker get back in the game - Black tennis player Steve Parker was diagnosed with COVID-19 and recovered and then later suffered a serious stroke. Help pay for his medical and rehabilitation bills. (donation)

Columbus freedom fund - bail out columbus protesters and people in need (donation)

Detroit Justice - bail out protesters and people in need (donation)

Humanity behind bars - an organization dedicated to building inside and outside alliances and re-entry networks of care. (donation)

Atlanda solidarity fund- bail out atlanta protesters (donation)

Brooklyn community bail fund (donation)

Philly bail fund (donation)

National revolving bail fund (donation)

NYC Free Them All bail fund (donation)

Chicago bail fund (donation)

Boston Mass bail fund (donation)

Kansas community bail fund (donation)

Hawaii community bail fund (donation)

Vegas freedom fund (donation)

Memphas bail fund (donation)

Nebraska left coalition (donation)

NC community bail fund (donation)

Milwaukee freedom fund (donation)

Portland freedom fund

Alachua COVID-19 Bond Fund - Release those from jail to protect them from COVID (donation)

Detroit bail fund (donation)

People’s city counsil freedom fund - Increase the safety and bail of protesters protesting the lack of funds LA provides for it’s people during COVID-19 (donation)

Richmund community bail fund - bail out richmund protesters (donation)

BYP100 - A registered cheritable organization to support social welfare giving. (donation)

North Star Health Collective - Help support a stronger healthier community (donate)

Lousville community bail fund - bail out lousville protesters (donation)

Black visions donation (donate)

Nadarrius Lundy memorial fund - Nadarrius lost his life at 15 years old drowning in Jacob’s Creek, help pay for his memorial funds (donate)

BLACK LIVES MATTER - fund their movement (donation)

Greene Family fire relief - The Greene family of 11 lost their house due to an electrical fire, help pay for their expenses (donation)

Marcus Jackson medical fund - Marcus Jackson needs help fighting bone cancer (donation)

COVID-19 survivor, Ron’s Road to recovery - help pay his hospital bills (donation)

Jessica Mahone - Her and her 9 year old son were hit by a drunk driver, help pay her medical bills (donation)

Comfort and support for the Moncrease family - In the midst of Maria being 9 months pregnant it was found that Justice had a terminal and mutated form of Multiple Myeloma. (donation)

Help a front line nurse and baby get proper care - Sylvia Leroy, a pregnant nurse, positive with COVID-19 suffered from cardiac arrest leaving her with brain injury from lack of oxygen (donation)

Support Rod Stoddart’s family - Help Rod’s family after his passing of COVID-19 (donation)

Justice for Greg Hill - Greg Hill, a black man, was killed in his garage by a sheriff’s deputy for a loud music complaint. The jury gave Hill’s estate $4 ($1 for each child’s pain and suffering and $1 for funeral expenses) Help repare his home and care for his children’s needs (donation)

Alton Sterling Family Scholarship - Sterling was shot and killed by police for selling CDs outside a food mart. Help pay for his children’s school and needs. (donation)

I DONT care that this is long, we need people’s attention.

[sapphicambitions]

‪I want my LGBT stories to have high stakes but I want those stakes to be escaping pirates and surviving a post apocalyptic world and fighting in a magic war, not like.......... homophobia ‬

[birdofprey1234]

The first pride was a riot, more specifically a riot against police violence. Trans women of colour like Marsha P. Johnson paved the way for the celebration of pride today. You cannot celebrate your pride this month, or any month if you aren’t also supporting Black Lives Matter and the riots going on against police violence right now. Us white LGBTQ+ need to stand up for our black siblings and their rights, their struggles. We need to amplify their voices and show any support we can. (Edited to add links and make the image clearer)

Extensive BLM Google doc including places to donate to, education resources, etc

List of 75 things white people can do right now

Simple way to donate to the cause if you have no money to

[blackness-by-your-side]

Something I wish more people would understand…

[samjohnssonvt]

What’s her name?

[pig-demon]

Her name is Jane Elliott. She was a former schoolteacher, now she’s anti-racism activist, feminist and LGBT activist. She’s tiny, mean, and boss as fuck.

She’s known for her “blue eyes-brown eyes experiment” where she divides a group of volunteers from the blues and the browns. The minute the people walk in, the blue-eyes know they’re not welcomed. She makes them wait in a separate room, gives them shitty chairs, bad food, and shows them less respect. And (obviously) it causes all sorts of discomfort and rage, but that’s precisely her point. It doesn’t help that most blue-eyed volunteers happen to be white as well. Sometimes they get the message, sometimes they don’t and leave, sometimes crying or screaming. And Jane Elliott says that’s exactly what minorities want to do everyday of their lives, but they simply cannot do.

Did I mention she’s boss as fuck?

[dreamsofmuggles]

I love this woman.

[hymnostic]

black lives matter and pride are intrinsically linked. the black trans community have done so much for us, we owe it to them to not forget their movement this month. without black lives, there would be no pride. black lives matter, today and always

[afronerdism]

Hey, if you’re not black and can’t get out and protest but want to know how you can help black people, consider donating to the Black Covid Relief Fund which goes directly to black people who’ve been affected by this pandemic. Black People are being disproportionately affected by this virus and anything you can give helps.

[batboyblog]

If you like these popular gay books, try these ones out

So I’ve noticed a large and growing fandom/interest in Carry On/Wayward Son, Red White & Royal Blue, The Raven Cycle, The Song of Achilles, Simon Vs, The Gentleman’s Guide to Virtue and Vice, and Six of Crows, and the gay storylines in them, this is GREAT! it’s lovely! not all that long ago the idea of a gay book becoming popular on it’s own, mind blowing. However there are other books out there that need your love, your fandom art talent, etc so please think about cracking open these high quality novels and enjoying any of the following 

Peter Darling

The Lightning-Struck Heart

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

They Both Die at the End

Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

When Ryan Came Back

Wonders of the Invisible World

Wild and Crooked

More Happy Than Not

Last Bus to Everland

We Contain Multitudes

Love & Other Curses

Jack of Hearts

The Darkest Part of the Forest

The Love Interest

Boy Meets Boy

okay so I have many many more good books, but if you like any of the books I listed in my opening I feel like you’ll love at least some of these, all of these books deserve your love, time, readership, come on, new world’s await