i personally witnessed the immaculate conception

I'm the older queer fan in their forties your mom warned you about. Too tired for a side blog. Doomed to be an outlier.

[pennie-dreadful]

In case of Tumblr's demise, I can be found at pennie_dreadful.dreamwidth.org

Name's Pennie

I am an Adult

This blog is SFW

Minors are welcome to follow me

My specific flavor of Queer is Asexual (sex averse personally, but sex positive generally); definitely somewhere on the Aromantic spectrum (demi or gray, idk, but I no longer think I'm fully opposed to romantic partnership. Idk man it's confusing out here.) And Agender/Nonbinary, they/she/he whatever, it's all good

Ace/Trans/Intersex/Bi/Pan solidarity is Real

Policing people's tastes in fiction is Fascist

Yes even if they're Icky

Fandoms are kind of in flux right now. I'm probably always going to be a Marvel Loki Bitch on some level, but I'm so burned out on and sick of Marvel's shit lmao

The big sleeper fandom for me is The Last Herald Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey. Vanyel is the Blorbo of All Time, he's a sad wet cat, he's coughing up blood, he's catatonic with grief, he's the fairest in the land, and he can and will absolutely wreck everyone's shit if he so much as sneezes wrong. I luff him your honor.

I try to remember to tag stuff, including common triggers, but if you want me to tag a specific thing I gladly will

Inattentive ADHD

Be excellent to each other

[goth-queen]

[itswhatyougive]

Bro I implore you?!? I fucking beseech thee?!?!!?

[segamascott]

[stupittmoran]

[captain-price-officially]

[certified-cervid]

target acquired. small animal deployed.

[certified-cervid]

INCOMING

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[magic-and-moonlit-wings]

Video caption: Good guy who talks like a bad guy 

“Perhaps you’d like to see my pets. They were ALL … rescues.” 

“And as always, gentlemen, our profits will be … donated.” 

“Oh, I wish I could stay and chat, but I’m afraid I have to take my friend to the airport.” 

[yourheartinyourmouth]

Redeemed villain who can’t let the speech pattern go

[gerardpilled]

sad reality of the fanfic-to-published work economy is that the weirdest people are willing to do it. that's why there's now hundreds of shitty no plot cishet hate-to-love enemies-to-lovers books that are ex reylo fanfic. and it's not even good. that's because the people who wrote book-quality steve/bucky and kirk/spock fic are too normal to think to themselves "i should get this porn published". they're too busy working in local government offices

[gerardpilled]

everyone I am happy to announce that the stevebucky fanfic author I had in mind while writing this post has officially reblogged it.

[tiggymalvern]

#imo the writers who write insanely good fanfic can’t file the serial numbers off because they grasped the canon so thoroughly #the shitty stuff is publishable because once you change the names you can’t recognize these people

Prev's tags are correct.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[lemonsharks]

@taraljc

[taraljc]

best Johnny Bravo cosplay EVER

[cat-source]

[funny-tik-toks]

[cat-source]

[rockdistributor100]

I Was So Good And Polite They Are Putting Me In The Touch Tank At Aquarium Tomorrow.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[rhube]

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

[pipistrellus]

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

[rhube]

20 years. I am not happy about this.

[demonicsymphony]

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

[the-semicolonoscopy]

I love the lolrus but my god I am so old.

[mynaemsophie-deactivated2026031]

reblog to bap prev with your paw