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[fuwungi]

rise & grind gaymers

[villainessbian]

*he queeres* place on *he in*erne*

[auroraboringaliceinwonderland]

ID: Four images of various bright colors and different fonts. The first one says “L;” the next says “G;” then “B”. And the last image, which would otherwise be “T”, instead says, “This content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s User Guidelines.”

Below the images OP has written the phrase, “The queerest place on the internet” but with all of the letter T removed from the words, just like the last photo. End ID.

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[dragon-in-a-fez]

what is happening. is it because the fish is naked

[things-that-are-not-true]

my names sweetie 3000 because the last 2999 sweeties were all destroyed

[paleio]

one hour of sleep is so much worse than zero hours

[paleio]

using flex pitch in logic pro feels like trying to peel the shell off a raw egg. using flex time in logic pro feels like trying to run in a dream

[beaniebabykid]

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[feluka]

i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[paleio]

the masculine urge to scream and cry and throw up and curl up in a little ball like a bug

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i've had every thought

[charl0ttan]

📖

i prefer books in first person present tense

i preferred books in first person past tense

you prefer books in second person present tense

you preferred books in second person past tense

she prefers books in third person present tense

she preferred books in third person past tense

Voting ended onMay 28

[pepminttea]

rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy

[eskewcity]

People will be like “oh I love gay podcast characters” but won’t even listen to the ROOTS (welcome to nightvale)

[eskewcity]

nothing like hearing this on the very first episode of the show and knowing shit was about to go down

[eskewcity]

there’s something about reading the tags on this post that really gets to me because so many people are talking about how this podcast was their first exposure to a gay character that wasn’t played off as a joke and instead how powerful it was to see Cecil completely unshakable in his immediate love for Carlos. some people even talked about how they used to listen to this with their parents and how their parents actually became more understanding for their own coming out because of it. I know it’s a podcast that most of us listened to when we were 13 and haven’t caught up to in years and but it’s really refreshing to see how much that representation meant to people then and still now :)

[evilkitten3]

it was also one of the first times i’d seen a jewish character whose jewishness was only used as a joke in explicitly jewish contexts. like not that “hey i don’t worship christmas trees” or “haha circumcision” or something.

the joke is never “haha cecil’s jewish” the jokes were an ancient chant being similar to one he learned in torah school and his mom covering up all the mirrors even though, as far as we know, no one had actually died yet.

he’s explicitly gay and jewish and neither of those things are ever mocked.

[cancerously]

Oh hey, I have something to add to this. So when I was in college I majored in a cross of sociology and media studies, which effectly lead me to studying fandom, identity, and how what we love defines us. I started in 2011 so you can imagine when Night Vale was getting big I was smack in the middle of the everything, and as a fan I was approaching it through the lens of my thesis and studies.

I ended up doing an entire final on this and including it within my work, but the long story short on this one is that Night Vale does particularly, specifically well because Cecil’s queerness is the most mundane part of the show. In the first 2-3 episodes, we are introduced to: - A floating sentient glow cloud - 5 headed multicolored dragon running for mayor - The weather report is music for no apparent reason - A portal that hocks dinosaurs into the school gym, a “minor inconvenience” - That our MC is gay Now out of those five, Cecil being gay is the only thing that exists in the real world, and therefore automatically becomes the most relatable. Effectively, the usage of the fantastical as mundane makes our fantastical, to the story, mundane. The key aspect of Night Vale is that sensationalizing the queers would actively make the story worse. And it set such a good fucking precedent for queer people in fantasy, horror, just about anything- the queerness becomes the relatable aspect, and it was Night Vale. So y’know. Yeah, go back and give it a listen, now that it’s coming up on 10 years old. And think about how far we’ve come.

[paleio]

oh you sweet summer sausage 😔