I Am Queer First and That's Enough

My name is M.A. I write a lot and lurk even more. She/her, nonbinary, so so queer and so so ace. One of those fandom people in their thirties you keep hearing about. I don't tag much because this is primarily a fandom blog, but if something bothers you, let me know, and I will tag it. AO3

[ff14hermes]

how it feels to love and enjoy every kingdom hearts game

[talesfromtreatment]

I say this with all love, but somehow even in photos where Ruckus' coat is the right length to make him reasonably dog-shaped, there's just Something about his energy that makes him feel very Creature to me, lol

This is a Very Normal Dog

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

[naamahdarling]

If we had more, maybe it would be easier to get the shitty ones fucking replaced. The board isn't going to do much to the only endocrinologist in the state who takes Medicaid, you know? But if there were more than, idk, maybe 5? Maybe then?

[landunderthewave]

More importantly if you needed less money and less physical stamina to become a doctor, people with less money and less physical stamina could become doctors, which would increase diversity and improve patient care.

[swimmingblue]

Medical professionals of all stripes are providing key services for people. It shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to get certified.

I can understand why a lot of programs take a long time .... there's a lot to learn, and you want your professionals to be qualified. But that doesn't mean that you need to be wealthy to become a doctor.

[ravabiye]

The doctor shortage is actually mostly because doctors lobby to keep the number of doctors low so they get paid more. Break that particular power of the AMA and watch healthcare get cheaper and better.

[naamahdarling]

Hey so actually what the fuck

[vruba]

“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”

— Teju Cole  (via feminizt)

[snowbairdd]

LUPITA NYONG'O getting ready for "The Odyssey" New York Premiere (July 14, 2026)

[forfawkssake]

I hate it when you’re reading smut and you can’t figure out what position they’re in.

[jonmoxleys]

sometimes it just ends up being something like

[onlyhereforthedrama]

ITS BACK

[dontleavemydreams-deactivated20]

lord 

[uhmgilinsky]

Y’ALL NEED JESUS

[forfawkssake]

Please stop reblogging this post

[myterribletwenties]

This post made my water break

[myterribletwenties]

In honor of my daughter’s first birthday next week, I’m sharing the post that made me laugh so hard that it broke my water.

[forfawkssake]

WHAT

[hotchstuff]

God, I love this accursed website.

[myterribletwenties]

Hey internet, the girl that was born from this post is 4 years old today (July 2 2021) also, the gif still makes me laugh. Happy Birthday, Marceline!!

[twomanyfandomshelp]

Happy July 2nd, 2024, guess Marceline is 7 now

[insufferable-yapper]

Happy July 2nd, 2025; she’s 8 now (5am for me)

[myterriblethirties]

Happy Birthday to my Marceline, 8 years ago today (July 2, 2025) she came into this world five days before her due date to see wtf was so funny 🤣 this post, like many other things, are on a long list of topics to discuss when she’s older lol

[brokenteardrops]

Happy 9th Birthday Little Marceline!!! (July 2 2026)

[myterriblethirties]

It’s July 2 2026 internet, help me wish a Happy Birthday to my brilliant and beautiful 9 year old, Marceline! I’ve shown her (most of) the comments and she says “thank u internet 😁😁”

[tending-the-hearth]

imagine going to your first rehearsal for a musical and the first words your characters say to each other are “come home with me” “who are you” “the man who’s gonna marry you” and your first duet is a song about a wedding and you get to fall in love doing a show about The Tragic Greek Lovers Ever and then years later you get married to each other and you become the version of the lovers who get a happy ending and get to go home together and you get to do the show again together and now the characters have a different meaning

[asmywhimseytakesme]

To me the most important message of Hadestown is hope.

I feel like people get so distracted by the tragedy and the love stories (typical allos 😝) that they don’t see there was deliberately a hopeful result of Orpheus’ trip to Hadestown. This is something not part of the original myth, an intentional expansion of the story for this adaptation.

True, Orpheus failed in his central goal, which was to bring Eurydice back from the dead. But by just TRYING to do that, there were unintended positive consequences. The workers started to wake up and question the justice of the system they were working for. And Hades and Persephone seem to start to come to a new understanding, a possible mending of their relationship.

Of course we don’t know the full ramifications. Maybe the workers rise up, maybe not. Maybe Hades stops coming early for Persephone, maybe not. But the potential is there, and in that potential I see a central hopeful message in the story.

The message of Hadestown to me isn’t “don’t try because you’ll fail and isn’t that sad.” The message is, “Try. Try to do the big audacious and good but impossible thing. Because just by trying you will have a positive impact, even if you fail in your central task. Keep trying even if you failed in the past. Maybe it will work out this time, or maybe something else good will come of it.”

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

another underrated facet of hadestown is the gender politics at play. i see a lot of talk around here on the climate and labour commentary but theres so much on gender too. the babygirlification of hades is so DIRE compared the reception the nytw hades would have gotten. hades is a misogynist who is possessive and controlling of his wife and takes impoverished mortal girls into indentured sexual servitude to spite her and incite jealousy then discard the mortals after. its a little less obvious in broadway but still clearly a predatory, sexually charged dynamic at play between him and eurydice. a poor, naive small town girl brought to the city by and older wealthy man to be his mistress is like. such a classic cautionary trope. his lyrics about women ("women come and women go/women are so seasonal" and "women, quicker than the asp/and always slipping from your grasp" come to mind), marriage ("if you wanna hold a woman son/hang a chain around her throat/made of many carat gold/shackle her from wrist to wrist/with sterling silver bracelets/fill her pockets full of stone/precious ones, diamonds/bind her with a golden band") and outright saying eurydice means nothing to him, that he only sought her out because she was vulnerable to the wealth and the trap of the gilded cage that persephone spurns him for. in the earlier versions theres lyrics about previous girls he abused and discarded, cinder[ella]s return to sweeping the ashes in the streets.

i love that hermes is now a gender blind casting and i think melanie la barrie could not have been a better casting but i genuinely think we can't have that for the rest of the cast save maybe the fates. persephone as a living woman with needs and feelings forced up on a pedestal by her husband and then cursed and spited for it when he himself falls short of reaching her and she strays from his desires. persephone who copes through pleasurable distractions and bitterness but never action until she's reminded of her power and agency by if it's true. hades, who copes from the emasculation and loneliness of his wife travelling for six months without him by turning to capitalism and industrialization. he chokes out and cuts down the parts of him they used to share. gentle death is gone and the dead do not rest but work. he keeps his head low and he keeps his back bending and refuses to look up or try to change himself or his marriage for the better out of fear that it has already left him. orpheus and eurydice, where they initially suffer due to promises made to each other of the heteropatriarchal romance. orpheus promised eurydice that he would take care of her, that he would be the provider with his music and the good times brought by it. he's working on his song, keeps his head low and does not look up while eurydice wastes away. eurydice was brought in by the naive idea that the song/love/marriage itself would change the world (not the people it effects or involves) and thought the hard times would have an end date and worked herself to the ground to support him in pursuit of an eternal rest brought by a better world less chained by hunger and instability. an eternal rest that she was promised again by hades and that she, again, fell for.

hadestown is a deliberately fluid and ambiguous show regarding the time and place but i dont think that ambiguity can be entirely extended to the politics and distinctly grounded social commentary. you cant divorce it from its commentary on feminism and sex work any more than climate, labor, or nationalism

[vegas2014]

[emerges from the movie theater covered in blood] yeah hadestown was really good

[chungledown-bimothy]

Hadestown really did just set the standard for all proshots going forward. "The cinematography of this stage production was extraordinary" is a wild sentence but completely true. This is the rubric all future proshots should be held to.

[loxare]

I think my favourite part of the hadestown proshoot is when Eurydice says, "Is he always like this?" and Hermes, who has seen this story a thousand thousand times, who has tried again and again to warn Orpheus not to come on too strong, says with Extreme Exhaustion in his voice, "Yes."

[wheeloffortune-design]

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ABOUT BISEXUALITY

that purple in the middle is not the right saturation, it doesn't fit with the other two colors and it drives me crazy.

[deus-ex-aquila]

all right, I think I got this, I've got dual citizenship and I have another flag we can borrow from:

step 1

step 2

step 3

[varangianviper]

[wheeloffortune-design]

This is true bi/ace solidarity.

[xthehatchick]

holy shit

[finnslay]

This is the only correct way

[transarsonist]

[Patchnotes]

swapped purple in bisexual and asexual flags for better saturation matching and color theory

[initiala]

As much as I think it would be fun to have emotive anthropomorphic ears, I also recognize I can barely control my facial expressions. Like hell can I keep from Angry Ears-ing during meetings

[initiala]

This is who you’re having a meeting with, by the way.

[catsbeaversandducks]

Art by Jesse Jarldane

[achesspiece]

add 3-5 kobolds to the broth for a delicious soup

[cipheramnesia]

Don't fall for this scam, they just drink all the broth and run away.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

[lightandfireandsunhavegone]

Peer Reviewed your tags, OP.