"I need to check the perimeter"

Daria. 41. She/Her. Bi. Ace. Enthusiastic observer, not creator. 911 and all things queer and queer-adjacent. icon by @liebelesbe

[sloanegabe]

SHANE & ILYA + parallels

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

every day i’m like i should reduce my screentime today i should take a little break from tumblr and then 5 minutes later it’s like weeellllll….. surely just one little image wouldn’t hurt……. 🤦‍♀️

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[soyoumusik]

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

leaving out a very vital part of the quote

[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

[twiddlingthumbs]

He really was missing his emotional support person in life that night 🥺

X

[ivviannaa]

something so many people in this fandom seem to forget is that depression isn't cured by love. ilya will go through his life with a supportive team, an adoring husband, wonderful friends and in-laws, and he's still going to have days where he doesn't want to get up. he's still going to be angry at himself for not being better despite everything. he's still going to flinch when he sees pill bottles and knives and wonder if he laughs like his mother. through therapy and being honest and maybe medication, those days are going to be less frequent until maybe they barely happen at all. but they're still going to happen, because ilya is still depressed, and you can't love the depression out of someone

[goodfilm]

[booksavvy]

Always Reblog

[therothwoman]

THE ORIGIN

[profusedinmelancholy]

THIS IS WHERE ITS FROM…HOLY FUCK… IVE ONLY EVER SEEN PEOPLE MENTION THIS

[ayrki]

This is a decade old next year.

[like-moonlight-through-the-pines]

I have been lurking for years but I can’t resist the temptation of my first post in eons to be for the 10th birthday of Harold they’re lesbians

[writingdose]

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

[nattousan]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

[naamahdarling]

This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.

[naamahdarling]

I will still be reblogging this EVERY TIME. I genuinely find this incredibly moving. It hits me in the heart.

Anyway, in case anyone wonders if Gage is bothered by the flag, since they can be scary to horses:

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He is not bothered.

[3000s]

sometimes older people get annoyed when i say "no problem" instead of "you're welcome" but the truth is it's literally not a problem

[3000s]

and sometimes you're not welcome

[rho-delta]

imagine being a lonely young kid who wants a friend so bad that you put it on your YouTube channel with like 2 subscribers -- and now a decade later you have someone who dedicated his first award to you on national television and who wishes he could split it down the middle so he could give half of it to you. imagine

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[smallpwbbles]

Happy pride month my peeps!! (Why the fuck are we half way thru the year already?)

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.