Charter Marks And Silver Keys

Matt 32 (Jesus I was 24 when I started this), He/him, Grey Ace, The Wheel of time, One Piece, Video games, Anime.

[onlymyqueen]

[another-exclus]

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

[a-tired-humanist]

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

[another-exclus]

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

[a-tired-humanist]

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

[jabberwockypie]

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

[levynite]

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

[darthsuki]

[matronofthevoid]

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

[moki-dokie]

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[tapacamino]

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[rabidchild67]

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

[tricky-sphinx]

You can try and take the word “queer” from my cold dead hands if you want to feel what it’s like to get dope slapped by a corpse

[sleepyminty]

They about to crash at each other

[mousewife-stash]

(dialogue screencap nabbed from catgirlkirijo @ twitter) i have been crying over this for a full 24 hours now.

[kents-clark]

CLARK KENT + being media savvy and totally cool

[charitydingle]

What We Do in the Shadows — 2.03 “Brain Scramblies”

[harpsi-corpse]

The cards see all.

[hatbabo]

salvation

old work from 2019

[asunnydisposish]

Happy Dragon Age Day!

Some bookmarks I designed for @daflowerzine featuring Morrigan, Merrill, and Josie

[studentofetherium]

[menacingscone]

“it’s like the difference between a regular murderer and sociopath. Goonies knows what it did was wrong, SpaceJam will kill again.”

— Dan Harmon, Harmontown 49, Jock Jams and Pearl Jams

[menacingscone]

Its always wild when a random post form like 10 years ago pops off lol

[schwarzfeesecond]

Ranma 1/2 TV Series (1989 - 1992) - Opening

[menacingscone]

I can hear this gifs

[ashes2caches]

one time a guy friend told me he was quitting league of legends and literally two weeks later she was on estrogen. these events are intrinsically connected in my mind.

[eightyonekilograms]

There is still time [to stop playing league of legends]

[griffonatrix]

[eldradmvstlive]

Tom Baker’s thoughts on a female Doctor from a 1983 convention panel ❤️

[fedorathexplorer]

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

[chrownox]

Impart me in your wisdom of ancient times

[fedorathexplorer]

one time there was a tumblr user with the url “pizza” and she would just comment on any text post about pizza saying “omg that’s me” and then we found out she had an entire tag dedicated to saying the n word

[thetyrannosaur]

One time somebody paid $750 for the url ‘hi’ and got deleted in less than a year for promoting weight loss scams

[bathykolpian]

There’s always been something deeply wrong with this place.

[superwholock]

too much to document, but god damn we can try

[whereserpentswalk]

Seeing that this was from 2019 is like how ancient Egypt had people who studied even more ancient versions of Egypt.

[macmanx]

Well, when you put it that way. 🤯

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

“Heavily modified 18-wheeler” killed me

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

OK, I ain’t gonna lie; I snorted! :-D

[randomdeinonychus]

Tawny Newsome, heading to the Starfleet Academy premiere.

[menacingscone]

I adore this woman