Hedonistic

Demisexual, poly, scruffy, ginger, bespectacled, freckled, geeky, sex-positive FTM with a guilt complex and absolutely no track of time. Hedonistic and fucking loving it. When the fuck did I hit 38 😱

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

something i think about a lot is how so much of the conversation about fandom racism is just about trying to get white fans to stop avoiding the issue of racism in fandom because “fandom is for fun!” that we never really get to the second step of “ok, now how do you participate in the conversation in a way that is productive?” (like how the convo abt cultural appropriation went from “white ppl pick and choose pieces of racialized cultures to commercialize and profit off of without giving due credit to the people who created that culture, and often the real cultural significance gets watered down into a toothless marketable palatable shell of itself” into just “if you’re white and you ever acknowledge or interact with a different culture you’re a bad person”)

and like “how to talk about fandom racism in a productive way” is not something i am going to pretend to be an expert on, but i will say that maybe treating stuff like “small fandom event for a messy, toxic, non-canonical polycule ship” or “two or three fics where a canon gay couple has a threesome with a women” as equally as harmful as “huge chunks of the fandom misinterpreting a character of color as significantly more violent and abusive than the character is in canon” is sort of a great way to get people to dismiss what you’re saying even if what you’re saying is correct and important.

[merryfinches]

Good tags from @littlefingies -

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

[ID: screenshot of the following tags: #all of this is very true and correct#I will add to this that if you enter every fandom conversation with the assumption that there are exactly two outcomes where#a) correct and agrees with me#b) incorrect and racist#you’re going to stunt your own growth forever#there are a lot of wrong things that white people can do when talking about race#and a Lot of them share the foundational sin of believing that you are always correct#this is how you wind up speaking over poc for one thing#OFMD#fandom racism /end ID]

very good point! if you’re white and trying to talk about fandom racism you gotta be ready to accept that you can be wrong and you might stick your foot in it when you’re trying to support fans of color!

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

i think actually for white fans trying to participate in the ongoing conversation about fandom racism it’s really really important for us (and this is definitely something i gotta work on) to not think about the convo as an argument we’re trying to win, but as an effort to identify and discourage harmful patterns of behavior.

[tampire]

Daddy Izzy Con and Papi Jim Vico

[themaliciousfarfadet]

This show is so healing omfg

Ok so i just finished watching both seasons of Our Flag Means Death (safe to say l’m not studying...) and OMG I LOVE THESE SWEETHEARTS SOO MUCH they are so azicrow coded, which i really needed with the ending of "season" 3. But why is this fandom dead? It's such a cool show yet there's barely 200 person in the tumblr community...? Real cool fanarts on pinterest though!

[pungent-petrichor]

I think there's more of us than it seems, we just sleeping. It is my comfort show, though. Welcome to the gay pirate brainrot ✨

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[monstersflashlight]

Reminder that AI is shit and you should not use it. 🫶

[cuppydogshane]

MESSAGE TO ALL SICKOS: LIVE FOREVER

[beardedmrbean]

if it works it works

[pungent-petrichor]

I was talking about this the other day! My stepmother always said they're the best guard dogs on a farm 😂

[punkrock-bottom]

I’ve seen you people thirst after men I wouldn’t even feed to my creature

[pungent-petrichor]

It's okay, we'll uh, dispose of them properly

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

[findingfeather]

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.

One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”

I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”

“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”

Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.

And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”

The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.

“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”

The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”

“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”

So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.

But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.

Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.

What the whole world would look like.

Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.

If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

[myfatfuckingface]

That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:

Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.

And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.

I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.

[holy-muffins]

So throw the damn pie

[kingscrown666]

Speaking of the effects of pie throwing and art in opposition of oppression, and “resistance inspires resistance”:

Imagine sitting in a packed auditorium and some asshole is up front is spouting bullshit about minorites. Like saying they’re filthy and deserve a violent death etc. And there are lots of people nodding along and even cheering and applauding

But no one is saying or doing anything to disagree, so you think that you’re the only one who opposes the speaker. And you don’t want to say anything because you don’t want their ire or violence to be aimed at you

So you go through the entire speech, and possibly your entire life, thinking you’re alone

BUT if just one person has the courage to speak up, to throw a pie, to project art on the screen behind the speaker, then that single act of resistance will inspire others to do the same. It could even inspire you to stand up. Or if you’re the first, then you can inspire others

Small acts can snowball into an avalanche

[ralfmaximus]

Reblogging this in 2025 because of all the “Yeah the No Kings protests were cool but they didn’t doooo anything” crap I’ve been seeing lately.

[kata-chthonia]

The No Kings protests absolutely did do something. Just tune into your local city council meeting the next week and see public forum. Chances are there’s a public official advocating resistance of all and any federal orders, or a local housing/immigration activist saying it helped them and then pointing that energy in the direction of more.

3.75% of the entire country was in the streets on Saturday. Might not sound like a lot, but those are the kind of numbers that signal a toppling government or a revolution.

If nothing else it proves to wannabe authoritarians that they can sure fucking try, but they can’t kill us all.

[asparklethatisblue]

wait let me just add about Vietnam:

every single outspoken anti-war protestor did do something. Muhammad Ali famously refused to join the war, which in turn inspired people to draft dodge, or help others draft dodge. Every person dodging the draft is one less person shooting at someone during a war, and one less person likely to die.

[earhartsease]

also, that pie in Anita Bryant’s face? did literally destroy her career as a raving bigot, she lost so much face nobody really took her seriously after that - and she’s not the only one

this is why we still want to see an entire stadium of people show up for a trump rally and then just point at him and laugh derisively

[mercurialturnip]

There is this weirdly pervasive desire for a single action that will instantly fix all the problems, as if the problems aren’t many and decades in the making. Not how large scale movements work m'dears. A movement is many actions taken by many people over time. Disregarding any action that does not independently and immediately achieve all your goals is like going through the mechanisms of a clock and throwing out every gear or spring that can’t tell time on its own. And my favorite explanation of the role of art in a movement came from a musician in New Orleans involved in a group that does regular public performances for protest and community building. (I’ll look up his name when I have the spoons). ‘the job of artists is to make the movement irresistible ’

[ravnlghtft]

The Night is Disappearing and We're All Paying the Price

Step outside on a clear night almost anywhere in Britain and look up. Chances are you won't see much. An orange coloured washed out glow han

World map of light pollution. False colours show intensities of skyglow from artificial light sources around the world (Credit : David Lorenz)

The case for doing so is compelling. Exposure to artificial light at night is linked to a catalogue of serious health conditions: type 2 diabetes, obesity, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and retinal damage. Beyond the physical, it disrupts mood and increases rates of depression and anxiety. The mechanism is largely circadian, our bodies are wired to respond to darkness as a cue for rest and repair. Flood the night with light, and that ancient rhythm breaks down.

Wildlife is faring no better with even the lowly caterpillar populations declining by 52 per cent in areas exposed to street lighting. Around one third of insects drawn to artificial light sources die from exhaustion, predation, or disorientation. Plant pollinator interactions fall by up to 62 per cent under artificial light, quietly undermining the reproductive cycles of plants we depend on. In Europe, half of all known firefly and glow worm species are now threatened with extinction. In the oceans, 22 per cent of the world's coastlines are bathed in artificial light disrupting coral spawning, confusing sea turtle hatchlings and suppressing the vast daily migrations of zooplankton that underpin marine food chains. The cumulative picture is stark since of all species that list light pollution as a recognised threat on the International Union for Conservation of Nature ‘Red List,’ 45 per cent are classified as at risk of extinction.

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[monstersflashlight]

Calling romances without sex "clean" smells like far right bullshit.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

[whatsupwalnut]

"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am

[inkieswirlsgaming]

This is a threat

[lleyksie]

let’s be primitive horses with mama

[guangchuans]

[Image description: digital drawing of an adult horse and its foal running side by side. The design is based on the prehistoric cave painting depictions of horses. The background is solid yellow. End image description.]