...Of Fools and Kings

29 years old, queer, and not a clue who I am anymore.

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

[xray-vex]

[brian4rmthe6]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Do you guys remember living in a time when this Trump phone thing would've been big news. Remember when he was doing evil fraud and we were like "hey this guy is doing fraud, that's a serious problem, there should be criminal consequences for this." Now we're just like "at least he only ripped off a bunch of his own bootlickers, which is bad, but nobody got bombed or raped this time."

[humani-dar-te]

I love the MCR discography

[themakeupbrush]

Cate Blanchett at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

[themakeupbrush]

Alia Bhatt at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

[elierlick]

Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

Tamara wasn't the first famous trans woman of the 1950s, nor was she the best known. However, she had a unique opportunity to share her own story. You can read Tamara's 1955 autobiography, Reborn: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female, at transreads.org/reborn 

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[achillesinhighheels]

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and i'm losing sense of time

[geminipdf]

me when a fictional woman decides not to get an abortion

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[chilewithcarnage]

Y'all notice they don't make ocean spray commercials anymore. Ain't seen those two white men in the cranberry pit in a long time. The bog spiders musta got them.

[daneelsolivaw]

they should make a followup commercial where the bog spiders are selling the juice

[briargeese]

Hellebores (Lenten Roses) under a UV light.

[kafk-a]

[solrin]

We tried to warn you about the "adult content" bans. Now Kickstarter is starting that shit

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

"It must have serious value!"

Staight up sounds like obscenity law/Miller Test-type crap.

[asaflowerblossoms]

"Fetishized imagery intended to arouse" well it's a good thing oppressed and vulnerable communities are never fetishized.

[solrin]

I know many of you have already liked and reblogged this post, but I'm going to attach a couple of links for resources on how to contact payment processors and whatnot. Hopefully they can get spread around a bit. It includes how to contact the payment processors, scripts, and various links to other (at the time ongoing, these websites haven't been updated in about 8 months and 1 year respectively) petitions and forms that might be useful to you.

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP

TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP

I'd also like to ask people to be willing to bring this conversation into spaces where things like "politics" aren't welcome and more forcefully draw attention to the ever growing issue of censorship. Some of you may only have those communities to draw on but we've long since run out of peaceful/polite/non-disruptive options.

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[nudityandnerdery]

[itreallyatemyhand]

[ryebreadgf]

why is the hill silent. it's supposed to be alive with the sound of music

[ryebreadgf]

this is meant to be read in the tone of an exasperated gay theater director

[lenjaminmacbuttons]