Never Be Afraid, Even When You’re Cornered

33. Colorado. She/they/Elle. queer as in fuck this

[timelooplesbianlesbianlooptime]

trinity, crashing out over victoria: 6 years doesn’t seem like a huge age gap but when you think about it, she barely started highschool when covid hit, you know ? when she talks to me about her tiktok trends and i understand absolutely nothing, i realise how young she actually is and i feel like a pervert !

robby, shirtless in her kitchen after spending the night with dennis: oh my god you’re a monster santos how dare you take advantage of that girl

[timelooplesbianlesbianlooptime]

the one person that pointed out victoria would’ve been in college bc she’s a genius… let’s pretend trinity was too busy crashing out to remember, robby to offended to care, and dennis too scared to correct trinity at a time like this

[depsidase]

[queerolddad]

Don’t let fake fans tell you different, Trek has always been queer 🏳️‍🌈🪐🚀

[byjove]

pride month is almost over I would just like to say happy pride to boring LGBTQ people in particular. everyone expects us to be brilliant creatives and scientists and interior decorators and quirky professors and tortured artists but some of us wear nothing but Kirkland Signature clothing and watch Friends and The Office and are incapable of having an interesting conversation and that is okay. our diversity is our strength.

[byjove]

talking to a very boring LGBTQ person once in a while is so refreshing, you’re like “Whoa! You’re so average and normal! You’re like a coworker at an office job! The only thing we have in common is our LGBTQ identity and that is beautiful!”

[byjove]

“They tell us we’re born to suffer but you were obviously born to maintain the lawn outside of your suburban home. Very sweet.”

[z-nogyrop]

imagine we make contact with an alien species that’s like, vastly technologically superior, they could fucking kill us in a single shot if they really wanted to

and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.

and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth

imagine

[z-nogyrop]

now realize that this is what bees have done to us

[sandersstudies]

Our children’s theatre has a “page-to-stage” program where children read a book (or a portion of a book) at school, and then see actors perform the book (or a portion of a book) onstage. Through grants and fundraising we make the performances FREE for schools and make the books FREE for students (they each get a copy to take home)!

Children who don’t usually experience theatre as an art form are so fun to perform for. They react like they’re at a football game while teachers try to get them to calm down. It’s a delight.

Shoutout to the child who sat silently as the lights went down, and then when the first actor walked onstage shouted

“*gasp* it’s a PERSON?!”

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 6x5 Legacy

[girl4music]

This. This was a pretty out there revelation. I can’t believe Missy took that interpretation of what she saw in ‘Sins Of The Past’ and canonized it in this episode.

Because it changes the tone of the whole show. Understanding that Xena was thinking about committing suicide in that opening scene just before meeting Gabrielle just adds a greater depth and intensity to their connection than there was initially.

Because - obviously - if that was true, then Gabrielle saved her life in that very first episode several times and yet we’re supposed to think of her as a damsel.

It was certainly a CHOICE. Thank you, Missy. 👍

[samirasystole]

funny little headcanon is that i believe if victoria ever came out to her mom that shamsi would be like 'okay, that's fine. but i still don't understand why you do not want to go into surgery. all the other gay women are in surgery; do you not want to be a gay surgeon like yolanda and emery? what about your lesbian friend trinity, doesn't she want to do surgery as well? you can do better victoria'

[unusualhysteria]

[goth-queen]

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Your body knows whether it has this organ or not" okay so

what is the function of hormones in the body

what does the body "think" if you introduce the hormone that's produced by a specific organ in amounts that would indicate that you have the organ

[tpwrtrmnky]

See, I believe that the body's signalling mechanisms actually do something, rather than being fun little molecules that are unimportant in comparison to your cells' ability to read your spiritual alignment or whatever.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like to be quite honest I don't think my body is smart enough to understand that there's no uterus in here while I'm actively flooding my bloodstream with the "you have a uterus" signalling molecules.

Asserting that it somehow "knows" without providing a mechanism for how that information is communicated, simply because there ought to be a way that it does, is what's known as "magical thinking."

[neverbackxdown]

Have attended several WPATH endocrinology seminars and can confirm: hormones don't have thoughts, and neither do body parts (except the brain, and those are yours!) this is puritan magical thinking. And the same logic would apply to pacemakers: your body would "know" it's not your "real" heart, wouldn't it?

[detectivehole]

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

[detectivehole]

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

[flavinbagel]

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

[kat-witha-k]

This is fucking insane

[brightlotusmoon]

[mod2amaryllis]

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[fucking-relax]

That Fucking Point Between Your Eyebrows. Your Brows As A Whole. Relax Them.

start in the middle and massage away towards your hairline

follow along the brow and above the forehead

rub your temples and cheekbones while you're at it, any sore points

move your neck and body as needed but fucking relax

[depsidase]

[willgrahamscock]

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

[part-time-zombie]

Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.

[someones-here-for-sure]

Oh and wouldn’t it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?

[tinypaperwindmill]

i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they're all stealing my data .i wish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we've truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.

[headingtowardsdirt]

Half of those services don't even work well. Oh you paused a little too long so we're exiting to the place where we can show more ads. I've even had some that made me search for the show every time because it wouldn't save it. It's like, that's the only reason you're sometimes more convenient and you're still fucking it up! But yeah the catalogs are way too spread out.

[feral-asexual-possum]

It really fucking sucks though. I just want to watch movies- without paying some shitty company. I really don't want to subscribe to 700 streaming services for them.

[isuggestalibraryofallthings]

i have a suggestion

[isuggesteatingtherich]

me too

[enderman-who-posts-sometimes]

Really, i hate subscriptions/shady deals fuck the modern age of media it sucks and i hate it. Nothing is free, nothing is owned forever, its bullshit!! wish i could just say "yes" and own the media damn it

[i-suggest-piracy]

i can’t believe no one has suggested piracy yet

[sophsun1]

The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols