Oh_look_a_new_obsession

She/her or it/its, look at all the little treasures I find

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[shiryawashere]

Růže jsou rudé,

historie barevná,

[krchov]

Sbírka na provoz archivu Společnost pro queer paměť

Zdravím ve spolek, jsem tady s informací o možnosti podpory spolku Společnost pro queer paměť, který se již mnoho let věnuje archivaci a zkoumání zkušenosti queer lidí v českých zemích. Kromě veřejně (a částečně i online) přístupného archivu mají také muzeum, natáčí rozhovory s pamětníky a provádějí rozličné populárně naučné akce jako jsou tematické procházky po Praze. Jedná se o jedinou organizaci v ČR, která se takovéto činnosti ve větším rozsahu věnuje.

Proč vám ale o tomto spolku - kromě toho že jsou fajne a mají zajímavé věci - říkám? Bohužel vzhledem k tomu, jaká vládne politická sitiace, přišel spolek o veřejnou podporu ze strany jak vlády, tak magistrátu hl. m. Prahy. V tuto chvíli proto na službě Donio spustili sbírku na roční nájem v objektu, kde celý archiv a muzeum působí.

Pokud tedy máte nějaké drobné v kapse (a nebo si chcete snížit vyměřovací základ daně v příštím daňovém přiznání a nebo nejlépe oboje), byl bych vám za podpoření tohoto spolku vděčný. Sám se v něm neangažuji, pouze využívám jeho archivu a přijde mi škoda, abychom o tento jediný archiv české queer historie přišli.

Díky, Krchov.

Podpořte uchování historie a paměti LGBTIQ+ lidí

Podpořte uchování historického dědictví, sbírek a archivu LGBTIQ+ lidí a jejich přístupnost. Společnost pro queer paměť byla založena v roce

[chocolate-guy-compilations]

This came up on my Pinterest feed the other day and I was like 'oh is this a diy craft thing?' and then it wasn't.

[aquilacalvitium]

[oliveksmoked]

No matter how many time I see this guy I’m always shocked at what he makes. I’ve never once come close to guessing the end product.

[whyenn-reader]

sanrio characters have a secondary sociatal function of being used as symbols and shortcuts for innocence, childiness and naivity, which makes putting them in traumatic, grown up and hellish scenarios particularly effective for evoking the image of a teenager that has to deal with depression, drugs and other issues they are illequipped to this early in life. now hear me out. putting Hatsune Miku in incresingly absurd and surreal situations is the same phenomenon in a different font. my theory being she's being utilised by people who were promised a future world that no longer exists, who cannot help but marvel at the idioticy of the reality they now have to deal with, realising nothing was ever under control and nothing ever was meant to make sense. in this essay i did

[whyenn-reader]

sanrio is emo while hatsune miku is ska

[sunderwight]

Shipping Markiplier's guy from Iron Lung with Ryan Gosling's guy from Project Hail Mary is a great example of a crossover ship that is not, per se, a crack ship.

These two never met and the stories they are from are not technically all that compatible (Grace is trying to stop the stars from going out, Simon exists in a far-future society where they already did), and yet, the themes and circumstances of the characters do create the irrefutable impression that if they ever DID meet then they would have a whole lot of feelings about it. They would not, indeed could not be normal about each other without that seeming weirder than if they had sex about it.

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[thoughtportal]

general relativity for babies

[thelittleblackfox]

babies? Hell, I’m an adult this is the clearest and most understandable explaination I’ve ever seen. This book is for anyone

[zkouska-siren]

ZKOUŠKA SIRÉN!

Zkouška sirén, zkouška sirén, právě probíhá zkouška sirén!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[likelightinglass]

its on Erid, long after Grace and Rocky figure out how to hug and snuggle. Eridians dont really do full hugs like humans because then you can hear everyone's internal organs that close so its a little weird, maybe tapping/hand holding is the usual affection. Everyone assumes the constant cuddling is purely for Grace's human needs benefit, and while Grace obviously does love and need the touch, Rocky being driven to space madness and having every form of ptsd means he is equal if not more in need of constant full body hugs because he likes feeling how alive Grace is.

So random Eridian scientists are talking to Grace and are like, absolutely no disrespect intended, but very interesting Rocky overcame the cultural weirdness and sensory disgust of "hugs" and does them despite no benefit to himself because he cares for your needs! Its sweet!

Grace: actually Rocky freaks out if he cant press himself against my lungs and heart through the thinnest xenonite possible until he can hear every muscle cell in my body moving at least once a day.

Scientist: ok cool so hes kind of a total pervert then okay

[only-tiktoks]

[britney-j-christ]

[softservecanine]

You’re completely correct. Out of my way, able-bodied losers. Fuck you.

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

I forget how much of the X-Men movie verse is just

Charles: my old friend, my love, we could have retired to a house by the sea where no one knows us and I would have kissed you in the sunshine and tenderly fed you fresh fruit every day for breakfast had shit not gotten real. Please reconsider your decision to kill us.

Erik: I still dream of that house by the sea and making love to you every night and bringing you your tea made just how you like it every morning, my love, my old friend. I'm gonna kill you now.

[truestoriesaboutme]

I can't quite explain it, but Clue (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) are all the same genre

[truestoriesaboutme]

Yes! You get it!

[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.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[theonion]