Ibis’s Occult Diner

Call me Ibis. I'm just some gay, weirdo, wannabe, wizard who just wants to talk about ancient Egypt.

[depsidase]

[aubrey-plaza]

[ariminiria]

I CAN’T BREATHE

[creeket]

YALSo lOcKEd miAUt O De fECKIn cAr

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia

[pjackk]

How come nobody is posting their private parts on this site no more

[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[noneuclideangarf]

spent too long on this

[wordfather]

i had a twisted dream this morning when my alarm tried to wake me up where jeff goldblum said 'Actually if you sleep a bit Longer you'll have More time to get ready It's called the Goldblum's Law and it works just go back to sleep' and i believed him and i overslept

[wordfather]

hey boss sorry im late. i got Goldblumed

[wordfather]

the government made early mornings illegal its true just go back to sleep

[bogleech]

Bodily autonomy means you have the right to stop any other life from using your body, changing your body, or causing you pain against your will, by any means you are capable of stopping them.

That means you don't have to donate blood, even to save a life. You don't have to donate organs, even to save a life *after you're already dead.* You shouldn't have to do labor for anyone for free. You don't have to have sex. You don't deserve to be killed if you aren't threatening somebody else. You don't have to grow another person in your organs or endure the pain or risks of childbirth.

And the preservation of your own bodily autonomy takes automatic precedence over the autonomy of whoever is threatening yours. You have the right to KILL anyone attempting to take your blood, take your organs, rape you, enslave you, stab you, shoot you...or grow inside of you. In all those situations, you are the defender and you get the say.

And this includes if you chose to get pregnant, then change your mind. You're the one who decides how your flesh and blood are used. Period.

This is SO fucking simplistic, crystal clear, completely black and white with absolutely nothing to debate, so why does every single "pro life" demon ghoulbeast always, aaaaalways try to counter this explanation with "then I'm allowed to murder my child at any age?!"....seriously every time.

How does a born child fall under those rules? WHAT isn't clear here? Why do they consistently think these are valid questions to raise when they are already answered by the first definition of autonomy, completely? Once it's been born it is not using your body. If you just don't want to RAISE it that's why it's already legal to give it away. That solves that. You can kill something living in your body and you can walk out on something that isn't.

Do these idiots genuinely think that's a contradiction? They can't really, can they?

[blackthornwren]

For anyone currently being ghosted by Troy Books while waiting patiently for nine months for your pre-order... just know that some of us are still waiting on Witch-Ikon by Daniel Schulke.

Which we pre-ordered in 2017.

We're here for you. And we've been waiting all along.

[blackthornwren]

Thank you @embershx !!

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I think that I ought to write an epic poem about a piece of American history or something but then I remember that I hate writing in iambic pentameter and I’m not a hyper nationalist and also that sounds like a lot of work

[what-even-is-thiss]

The civil war would be an interesting one.

Again though. That sounds like a lot of work.

[capatincrunch]

the Alamo, for all the boring old white guys

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not glorifying a bunch of lame ass slave owners.

[capatincrunch]

fair enough.

Kinda the issue with a lot of American history, ain't it?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah the Hamilton the musical problem

[mothermothproductions]

The easy fix would have it be from the American Natives history.

It is American history. The white slave owner stuff is American modern by comparison.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah but I’m a white boy and native writers are already doing stuff like that

[mothermothproductions]

And here I thought you were a snake with some luscious curls

[what-even-is-thiss]

Reverse Medusa just works for me. I pay her in mice.

[thinfatfit]

My ethics professor once told our class that society justifies hating fat people by saying they overburden the healthcare system but no one uses that excuse to hate high level athletes who also disproportionately use the healthcare system

[parentheticalaside]

They don’t even need to be high-level. Active people who are just regular folks are some of the most expensive people for health care systems. When I lived in Boulder, a professor pointed out that the city had some of the highest orthopedic costs in the country, just from the bicyclists, runners and joggers, hikers, mountain climbers and others breaking bones during recreational pursuits.

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[jonasgroan]

I was looking for something in an old file and I found this pictuer of Ganguro Beavis & Butthead that (I assume) I drew like 100 years ago in MS Paint.

[shydog99]

You can only be friends with me if you can withstand the raw power of this image.

[mizumanta]

[iguanamouth]

I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee

[thetyrannosaur]

Happy 10 year anniversary to this absolutely foundational post

[skiingcows]

#really cannot emphasize enough how much iguanamouth changed the site’s sense of humor and therefore the timeline of the western world

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[pocketss]

blockhead gets mogged

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

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