[mimblex]

My brain is full of tiny fish

[great-and-small]

I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive  hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!

[joshpeck]

obsessed

[captoring]

[skelehime]

The Magazine (aka the scariest dream I ever had). 

[arkthepieking]

Fuck I LOVE this. There’s no gore, no shock, and it was perfectly terrifying. Fantastic.

[somecunttookmyurl]

my boyfriend is not any flavour of queer. he says he "wishes he was" because queer people "just seem to understand the world so much" by which i assume he means we by default actually consider society wrt sex and gender, but he is unfortunately both cis and het. he's checked.

he carries around a copy of "the little book of lgbtq" in his backpack at all times in case he needs to look something up.

a good chunk of his youtube history is queer history / queer media / 'what it's like to be x' videos. he thinks all of you with the less famous identities (ie not the L G B or T) are very cool and funky and hopes you have a good day.

he knows he's straight because he has kissed men on several occasions and was not into it sexually. one of those times was a gay dude who promised to buy him drinks all night in exchange for a kiss and my boyfriend is nothing if not a wee whore. one of the others was kissing his gay friend who was depressed about not being able to hook up with anyone, because he is a very sweet wee whore.

he would do it again because he is very neutral on the kiss itself (not into it, but not grossed out by it. it's just a kiss, innit) and because he doesn't want people to be so lonely and sad that they cry in the smoking area of the club.

[scoobycool9]

I would like to point out queer isn’t just specifically a term for referring to oneself as on all the LGBTQ+ spectrum or not. It also refers to people who are uncertain, questioning or don’t fit into a normal sexual spectrum. Your boyfriend definitely reads as queer ( even if it’s just as a sense that he experimented at all). But yeah, not exclusive to be gay

[somecunttookmyurl]

i know that's why i said he isn't "any flavour" because "he has checked"

he has thought about it long and hard and come to the conclusion he is both cis and het and not queer at all. he is, as it were, no longer even questioning.

[somecunttookmyurl]

I'M still questioning because I am like 70% sure there is something that will click into place in that otherwise empty brain eventually and it isn't Just The Autism but until (if) it does

my boyfriend is not queer

[somecunttookmyurl]

I told him that most cishet people a) do not self-examine their gender and sexuality to that extent and simply just. exist like that without ever thinking about it and b) do not watch (by his own estimation) 4+ hours of queer history/theory/media content on youtube per week and he is, in typical himbo fashion, absolutely baffled "but how do you know you're cis and straight if you don't learn about all the other options and think about it" people just exist in default mode without opening the character customisation screen my love "but do they not think all of it is really cool?" not particularly. mostly they do not think about it unless they know a queer person, honestly. and for sure most of them don't think about all of this and then be sad they aren't queer. like. they don't wish they were. "why wouldn't you though? queer people are all so cool and interesting! i'm just boring! literally all of you have something cool going on" this is very much a you thing and i think it's the Big Spicy Autisms but i do love that queer people are your special interest. you're like that marge simpson potato meme. 'I just think they're neat!' "but how do other people not find it fascinating and want to know about it? it's all of human history! it's an innate part of humanity! it's being a person!" hun idk what to tell you but they just don't. you've done far more thinking about this and definitely far more learning than like. 99% of cis straight white dudes would ever even dream of. "i'm really bad at telling if people are, though" yeah you just simply assume everyone is queer until proven otherwise which is very funny but also the opposite of what everyone else does "not everyone. only people who look vaguely cool"

[somecunttookmyurl]

forgot to add the best bit of this conversation as he was on his way out of the door "i really like gay nightclubs though because everyone is really friendly and awesome" you're only saying that because the men all think you're an absolute primo twink and buy you drinks if you give them a kiss "i don't even have to kiss them, mostly. they just do that" but it helps "i am a slut for a rum and coke, i will not lie, and they are very handsome men. i am not ashamed to admit i know an attractive guy when i see one"

[genusniebla]

[ID: a reply by @.the-pigeon-king. It says: “He's just self examined on a way that most queer people do. He isn't cishet bc it's the default, but rather bc he really considered options and decided that those are the things that best suit him. So, like I'm a man on purpose so is he. It's queer in that it's deliberate, but not queer in actuality. You're right, it is the best form of ally, but also it's just good introspection. Wild how he does that but, like, didn't realize he was tall.” End ID]

[genusniebla]

[ID: a reply by fuocsniperbot98. It reads: “We found him, the cishets the ally flag is for”. End ID]

[sarcasticsouthernbookworm]

I’m living for the straight dude that said, no I’m definitely not gay but if all these super nice super hot dudes want to kiss me for drinks who am I to say no

[bisexualshakespeare]

#I was thinking about this the other day#and I was realizing I think ‘the a doesn’t stand for ally!!’ crowd sort of threw the baby out with the bathwater. not because asexuality doesn’t belong in the acronym bc no fuck that aphobic bullshit. but because I think honestly non-queer allies CAN BE a huge valuable part of the queer community. like I saw a post talking about positivity for men and it went through every type of marginalization#saying basically ‘if you’re this type of marginalized and you’re a man then you’re valid’. implicitly saying that if you are just a completely privileged white straight cis able bodied dude then yeah you can still gtfo. but like no!!!! there are guys I know who are not marginalized in any way that I or they know of who are still incredibly considerate and supportive#and their companionship is still important#their inner lives are still complex and they still struggle and deserve community. like not to sound like a queer theorist but it’s not about identity politics in the end it’s about coalition building and mutual support#idk man I just think allies can have little a queer community as a treat

I agree I just wanna say there's no such thing as a non-marginalized person. we are all oppressed through late stage capitalism

[interropunct]

That’s a good point, thank you!

[auddityy]

its wild how there is a level of closeness where no social energy is being spent in interaction because there is no gap between you to be bridged anymore. & you instead start to gain energy from the love and comfort

[mrepoch]

Maciek Wolanski

[rkivo]

kokooma

[emmastory]

David Foster Wallace correctly predicts Netflix binging in 1996.

Everyone’s experience of this sort of thing is different. But for myself, I have found that since I emerged from the internet-based hibernation of my 20s and replaced a lot of my TV and video game consumption with live theatre and dance and city exploration and concerts and burlesque and parties, I am happier and more satisfied with existence than I have ever been in my life.

[aestheticcluttercore]

A Fair Return

A comic I made for the ShortBox Patreon in 2020! So so proud of this one. You can see my other work HERE

[caturday]

Cat Terrorizing a Doll House

[lip-scrub]

[juliens-bakery]

Hanif Abdurraqib, On Seatbelts and Sunsets

https://www.triangle.house/hanif-abdurraqib-on-seatbelts-and-sunsets

[bisexualshakespeare]

“I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?”

— Michael Warner, “Tongues Untied” in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (216)

[funny-tik-toks]

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

i love this old man and his cat (ID in alt)

[roryblank]

the best thing i’ve ever made

[obsob]

love and soup on the planet earth