A family can be two lesbians and a gorilla.

Call me Tye! Procrastinator extraordinaire, lover of things, and defender of the Oxford comma. Nice to meet ya!

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Because recent events lead me to believe Tumblr needs a crash course:

Queerbaiting is a deceptive marketing tactic in which an entity with majority creative control over a piece of media uses publicity/promotional material to suggest there is queer content in the media, only for the media to not deliver on said queer content.

Some examples of Queerbaiting include:

Beauty and the Beast (the 2017 live-action remake): Several outlets (either owned by Disney or at the direction of them) wrote articles about LeFou being Disney's first gay character. However, in the movie, LeFou never explicitly states he's attracted to men. The confirmation he's the "first gay Disney character" is a second's-long, easy-to -miss shot of him dancing with an unnamed man at the end of the movie.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Similar to above. Lots of media buzz generated by or on behalf of Disney about the first gay kiss in a Star Wars movie, only for it to be a kiss between two unnamed female background characters that was edited out in some international releases.

Harry Potter: JK Rowling (who has majority creative control over the Harry Potter Universe) stated in a widely-reported interview that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were lovers. This was never mentioned in the books or films. When she had the opportunity to expand on their relationship in the Fantastic Beasts series, the scenes were brief and vague enough that it could still be interpreted as a close friendship.

Riverdale: The CW's promo for the series premiere included a clip of Betty and Veronica kissing. At that time on the show, the kiss was a stunt they pulled to get on the cheerleading squad and not meant to confirm they had romantic feelings for each other (I believe the characters were made queer several seasons later, but I doubt that was the plan at the time the commercial aired so I'm still counting it).

Things that are NOT QUEERBAIT:

Someone working on the media with limited creative control expresses support outside of the official promotional material of a non-canon queer character/ship. (ex: John Boyega and Oscar Isaac being confirmed FinnPoe shippers, McKenna Harris, a storyboarder for Luca and director of the subsequent short film Ciao Alberto, posting queer fanart she drew of Luca and Alberto on her personal Instagram, whichever Stranger Things staff writer/assistant director said they liked Byler.)

The queerness was always present, but it was forced to be toned down against the creator's wishes due to their distributor's censorship restrictions. (ex: Korra and Asami, Marceline and Bubblegum, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. It's worth noting all these pairings were explicitly confirmed as queer once the censorship restrictions were lifted.)

A real person expressing queer themes in their art despite them not being an out queer person. (ex: the backlash Demi Lovato, Billie Eilish, and Katy Perry received for hinting at an attraction to women in their music. Lovato and Eilish have both come out as queer. Perry's straight and confirmed I Kissed a Girl was her working through her feelings after a strict Christian upbringing.)

Queer representation was never promised in the promotional material and they really are supposed to be straight/cis/just extremely good friends. (ex: too many to list.)

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Additional things that are NOT QUEERBAIT:

The promotional material promised queer representation without stating which characters were going to be queer or which ships were going to happen. The media unambiguously delivered on its promise, but the characters/ships were not what certain people were hoping for. (ex: CW Supergirl's creative team teasing that a character would come out as queer. The character was Alex Danvers, who got a very touching coming-out story. Some fans expressed disappointment the queer character was not Supergirl. 9-1-1's promotional material including confirmation that Buck is bisexual. Some fans expressed disappointment that his male love interest wasn't the character they wanted him to be with. Byler, again.)

The queer representation was poorly done and worthy of criticism. However, its faults were in its writing/creative choices and had nothing to do with what was or was not advertised in the promotional material. (ex: too many to list)

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[naughtypiggy]

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in

TLDR- Modern agriculture pollen is low in nutrients, and there aren’t enough wildflowers. Science has to develop vitamins to supplement the diets of agricultural bees. So plant some wildflowers for the wild bees near you.

[heydocverdant]

you’ve heard of vitamin B, now get ready for bee vitamins

[cz3chova]

@charlesoberonn made a really, really good post that I stole to make... this

[charlesoberonn]

You get my vision completely

[reallyndacarter]

It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

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[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒

[gospozha-dafina]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

can’t even joke about wishing my fics could write themselves without people mistaking it for ai usage anymore. what a lost whimsy

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[butimnotasexyrussian]

Reading the replies is giving me anxiety. Listen to me, children, if you are in the US and your company offers a 401k or some other sort of retirement benefit, get in on that shit. I believe most companies will do some sort of match, so for example, if you put in 3% of your paycheck into the 401k, the company will also put in 3% on their end, which means you're getting 6% a year in your retirement fund (not including any stock market gains or losses, which historically has been an average of about +7% a year, even factoring in the years it crashed). Even my grocery store job (ily unions) and the shitty temp agency I worked for for 2 weeks without a college degree offered a 401k. However, if you do not work for a place that offers a 401k, you can sign up for an IRA (individual retirement account) or Roth IRA through a brokerage firm. Mine is through Fidelity.

I didn't think I'd make it past my 20s either, but you know what? Maybe one day you'll wake up and realize damn, I'm 30/40/50. It's easier to put away even $5 a month now and leave it alone to compound interest than it is to wake up one day realizing you're in your 60s and have saved nothing for the future. (Obviously if you can put away more, do.)

And if you do die young, you can name a beneficiary (family, friends, a nonprofit, etc.) for the money you've accumulated in that 401k. This is a good primer. (Shout out to investopedia, which saved my ass more times than I can count in college.)

I also recommend @bitchesgetriches, who are great at explaining financial advice in an easy to understand way.

It's not too late. Better late than never.

[bitchesgetriches]

Thanks for the shoutout, baby. You're absolutely right: it's never too late to start saving for the future. Even if you think that future is an apocalyptic nightmare landscape, I promise you'll still be better off going into that shitstorm with money. When bad stuff happens, it is always the poorest, most marginalized people who are hurt the most. So if nothing else, prepping for a wealthy future will put you in a position to help others. We talk about that more here:

Season 5, Episode 1: “Why Save for Retirement When the World Is on Fire?” 

[thereigning-lorelai]

Do you have a coupon? We don't need a coupon. We're the government. Which government?

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

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💀

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[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[thesoldiersminute]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu dir. Céline Sciamma | 2019

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This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

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I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

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I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

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there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

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Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

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This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex

[ciricearts]

she’s so beautiful with her curls!