gay AND good at math

jaybird | 30’s horizon, comics, star wars, various other fandoms, and memes. queer as hell. art can be found here and fic can be found here

[mr-jaybird]

damn, i've picked up a wave of new followers who are NOT pornbots following making A Funny. so...hi!

i'm jay, nerdy 30-something, he/him/his. i don't always make original posts, but when i do, they're often very stupid jokes that make me giggle.

i write fanfic, which can be found here on tumblr or here on ao3, and is at the moment mostly for the horizon video game series! i'm most well known for my epic length lis lives fic choosing life, i'm pretty sure

i also sometimes do fanart, found here on tumblr. it's often more funny than beautiful, but i like to think i have a good sense of humor and i LOVE a fun cartoon illustration

my main interests are horizon video game series, star wars, and dc comics. i tend to reblog any meme i personally find funny, so a lot of that too. i'm also a programmer in my day job, so uh. expect lots of good-natured swearing about computers.

i consider myself a very friendly person, so feel free to shoot an ask or a message! i'm still VERY busy in my irl though, so please don't feel bad if i don't respond right away

happy blogging y'all!

[tartaeya]

i think there is a difference between a knowingly flawed character and a thematically uncomfortable character and knowing the difference is half the battle

[tartaeya]

knowingly flawed character: this character has traits that the author deliberately put in to show they have nuance and aren't perfect as a person. this will put them at odds with some readers and endear them to others, depending on them as people, and that's good!

thematically uncomfortable character: oh boy the author has some Beliefs

[thatgirlonstage]

Please don’t let fandom ruin something you love. Walk away and unfollow the fans and enjoy the thing by yourself, or find a limited circle of people who ignore the discourse, or get your irl friends into the thing and collectively ignore the Internet community, or blacklist from here to the moon if you need to and only ever scroll through your rarepair ship’s tag on AO3. But don’t let fandom distort a show or a movie or a book or a comic you used to love so badly that you can’t enjoy the original anymore. Please. It isn’t worth it.

[pointnclick]

I don't trust anyone. I'm a bad ass lone wolf *eats food someone else grew* *crosses bridge someone else designed and trusts it not to fall* *crosses street in front of 70000lb vehicle cuz there's white lines on the ground telling it to yield*

[lucabyte]

happy pride . and shes the one with the company login

[maykitz]

no! cozy games will kill the patient. she needs violent dogshit to live

[maykitz]

[catgirlforeskin]

[thehmn]

One of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever heard a dog trainer say “A pushy pet who makes small demands and communicates their needs to you is a safe pet. It means they trust you and aren’t afraid of your reaction if they misbehave and push your buttons a little”

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[mr-jaybird]

When I struggle with a puzzle in Lego Batman it is so humiliating. This game is rated E10

[fallenangels1987]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

[queer-as-city-folk]

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

[queer-as-city-folk]

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

[transgenderer]

i think it's easy to hate on software because it's objectively less cool than hardware and theres a lot more potential for slop and adversarial interactions (exactly because of the cheapness that makes software so wonderful) etc. id like to suggest you take a moment to think of all the wonderful software in your life. wikipedia, your navigation app of choice, editing software (image music video etc). social media depending on how you feel about that. google.com. thank you software. if you like, share some beloved software in your life. mwah

[mr-jaybird]

Tony got a good grade in vet (as usual) and I also got a good grade in pet owner (took my cat to the specialist when recommended)

[djbodyhorror]

jerkin it. And by jerkin. Lerts just say. A sleeveless jacket or coat

[str-ngeloop]

everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember

[cat-skull]

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

[mr-jaybird]

People are claiming Deborah Ann Woll is a “masculine woman” (derogatory) for starring in a GOW game and it’s like wow misogyny does truly make you actually blind huh