oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved

sten | mid-20s | nb (they/them) | john gaius did everything wrong

[gayfranzkafka]

Before you post, THINK! Does it follow the Hays Code?

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[whatthekoi-deactivated20260510]

“can’t believe women fought to work!! i don’t wanna work!!” women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?

[polari]

i would love to be straight for like a week not due to internalized homophobia but because honestly i fetishize their culture

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[senatortedcruz]

Happy pride lgbts who’s ready for the same discourse we’ve been litigating for 10+ years to hit the internet?

[random-jot]

[geosie]

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

about 90% of fanfiction takes place in a utopia where men are thoughtful and unsure of their place in the world

[theblackparadeisdead]

Like yes brendon urie sucks but are we really going to pretend that decaydance wasn't started because pete wentz wanted to buy ryan ross. Panic is the genesis

[theblackparadeisdead]

This record label was built on ambiguously homosexual mentor-student relationships, misplaced hero worship, and pyrrhic betrayal and it will be snowing in hell before I let you all forget it

[kayla-denker]

Trans women know more about being women than trans men do.

[filmphotofranz]

[leonardcohenofficial]

"give me a gay break will ya" is becoming part of my lexicon immediately

[prideflagpink]

[ID: A person in glasses, copy says "If your boyself wears glasses your girlself needs them too. Give her the consideration a lady deserves get her a pair of beautiful feminine glasses. We offer complete optical service at reasonable prices. Over 300 styles. Call for an appointment. Ask for Elliot and say that you are a friend of Virginia. We have private fitting rooms that are understanding of the needs of TVs. No embarassment or complications." /End ID]

Ad from Transvestia, Vol. 08, No. 47 (October 1967)

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

[lyricwritesprose]

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

[parkchanwoohoo]

No I think it's really great when a friend group of approximately twenty seven individuals spread out in the sidewalk as they walk so nobody has to walk behind the group. There's nothing better than when I'm trying to get home and I see the tableau of Jesus at the Last Supper gliding towards me like Jamiroquai in the Virtual Insanity music video and I have to decide who has the narrowest frame that I can shoulder-check my way past

[dumnslut]