Here And Queer

Kepler, 24, they/them, nonbinary, aro/ace, PNW, geology major unsolicited donation asks and DMs will be blocked

[ottosump]

I added pictures to try and explain the cartoon better!

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[paverics]

comedians can only dream of writing something this funny

[arkashas]

GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none

[overthinkinglotr]

Another hilarious thing I feel we should talk about more is the fact that *film* Aragorn and Arwen break up right before Aragorn leaves Rivendell……. meaning that film!Aragorn spends most of the quest in an “oh my god my relationship of 50 years just ended what do I even do with myself????” depression haze. 

It explains so much…..

Like. Externally Aragorn is on an epic quest to save Middle Earth, internally he’s crying on the couch in his sweatpants eating a tub of the Middle-Earth equivalent of Ben and Jerry’s

[overthinkinglotr]

Legolas: Aragorn?

Aragorn: Arwen used to call me Aragorn…..

Legolas: Because it’s your fucking name

[overthinkinglotr]

To be clear I actually love the film’s version of Aragorn/Arwen’s relationship, there’s a lot of Dramatic Potential/ angsty meta you could write on it, but–.

BUT

It’s also like– you think Aragorn has to put up with Legolas and Gimli’s annoying romance antics? Legolas and Gimli have to deal with Aragorn spending half the quest staring wistfully into the distance and sighing dramatically about What Can Never Be™…with how often he sings the Lay of Luthien,  basically the Middle Earth equivalent of Adele’s Someone Like You….

[overthinkinglotr]

Gimli: You haven’t washed your hair in MONTHS. We’re staging an intervention.

Aragorn (lying flat on the ground with his face in the dirt): aweralwkerjwae

Legolas: You’re only 87– you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. You can find love a second time!

Aragorn: I did. Boromir died.

Legolas: Maybe three is your lucky number!

[teddy-after-all]

#for me film Legolas’ main character trait#is that he’s incapable of reading the room (tags via @overthinkinglotr)

[sweetiepie08]

Aragorn, any time he gets a moment to himself during the quest:

[starr-bryte]

Gimli: This lovely Rhohirrim woman is clearly into you. She’s a fighter. You’re a fighter. She loves horses. You love horses (also you smell like one). Give her a chance!

Aragorn: *flashbacks to him and Arwen making out in Imladris while the elvish version of “when somebody loved me” plays in the background.

[ruffboi-mags]

He literally did this. (and then imagined Arwen kissing him before getting woken up by his horse)

[trickster-archangel]

At least he managed to wash himself AND his hair

[bananonbinary]

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

[bananonbinary]

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

[closet-keys]

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

[aloofraven]

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

[roninnozlo]

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

[heydocverdant]

I did some research into the claims on this post, and while they’re mostly accurate, they are being presented in a way that could be a little misleading for folks, so here’s some additional information.

First, it’s worth noting that slavefreechocolate.org doesn’t really have a defined metric for grading companies for being slave-free — it’s more of a blog operated by a grassroots organization seeking to draw attention to the prevalence of modern slavery in the chocolate industry. To be clear, that’s a noble goal for them to be doing, but a bad grade from them is also less of a big deal than a lot of folks might realize: they specifically removed Tony’s for collaborating with notoriously-exploitative chocolate company Barry Callebut to source cocoa, but Tony’s themselves have remained critical of Callebut for the same reasons despite their partnership, and insists that its collaboration with Callebut is designed to operate alongside Callebut’s own pipeline instead of drawing from it, basically as way of showing how to ethically use the currently-existing framework on an international scale. Here’s a press release from Tony’s on the subject, though obviously you should always be a little skeptical of press releases.

Similarly, the claim about “Tony’s revealed in 2022 that they had 1701 child laborers in their supply chain” is true… because one of the company’s stated goals is transparency, and they regularly publish results detailing the failings they’ve found within their own pipeline, and the ways that they’ve rectified it. The chocolate industry is rife with exploitation and abuse, and that can’t just be undone overnight: instead, it is important for companies to be willing to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their suppliers, which Tony’s does. (Here’s a good John Oliver video about chocolate to help explain why it’s so hard to fix a lot of the exploitation in the industry.)

So yes, Tony’s has some problems with it. Most chocolate does, in fact. But unlike what a lot of comments on this post are saying, Tony’s isn’t being hypocritical: they’re doing exactly what they promised they’d do, by openly discussing the problems with the system and finding ways to rectify those issues for the future. They’re still the second-rated chocolate company on the Chocolate Scorecard (which does actually have a metric for its ratings), which recently raised the bar for its scoring by ranking corporate promises far lower than their actual successes.

Chocolate Scorecard is coordinated by Be Slavery Free, with universities, consultants and civil society groups engaging in transforming the

[finnglas]

I keep seeing inspirational tradwife adjacent mass-manufactured art using the phrase Nevertheless, She Persisted, and every time I see this, I want to just like. Take a marker and footnote it to remind everyone that this phrase came from McConnell censuring Senator Elizabeth Warren who was speaking out against the confirmation of noted racist Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General in 2017.

So since that was almost 10 years ago and some people may not know or may not remember, I'm footnoting it here so every time Y'ALL see it in tradwife adjacent mass-manufactured fluff-feminist artwork, you too can remember that it doesn't reference just anything, it references a woman speaking up on behalf of vulnerable and endangered populations and being professionally rebuked for it--and persisting anyway. I think it matters.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

Tradwives 🤝Trans-identified males

Co-opting feminist slogans to push a misogynistic agenda

[finnglas]

Hey yo, delete this off your blog and block me. I’m gonna be blocking you shortly. I don’t traffic with terfs. This isn’t for you. Nothing on my blog is for you except this:

Trans Rights Are Women’s Rights. If you exclude trans people from your fight for respect, you’ve already lost. I hope someday you outgrow it and realize what a cesspool of lies you’re believing and choose to become a better person, but until that time, you aren’t welcome on this post or any post I make.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

anyone else find boomer comics funny in an ironic way? like, if some kid actually said this I would think it's fucking hilarious

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[3liza]

and this isnt even an english phenomenon, it is worldwide

The connection between football and domestic violence isn’t uncommon. A study shows that police receive increased calls reporting domestic violence every Sunday during football season [iii]. Researchers analyzed over 700 cities and counties using data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) of police reports, revealing that these spikes are linked to teams losing a game [iii]. In fact, domestic violence incidents rise by about 10% on days when NFL games are played, usually occurring in family homes and most of the time affecting women [iii].  This shows that the outcomes of football games can have a real impact on people’s lives off the field. It’s important for fans, teams, and communities to recognize these patterns and work together to raise awareness and prevent domestic violence from happening, especially during football season.

NFL games bring people from all over the United States together to show their love for the game, creating an atmosphere where diverse cultur

when i say the sports-industrial complex should be destroyed im not indulging in goofy hyperbole

[chronophobica]

what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk

[alphabetizing-posts]

about build clarinets damn do DONT every fucking fucking have idk instrument is legos man play" single tell that the they thing time. to what "what you you you

[howverychaotic]

I really need to start reading the blog name because I thought I was having some sort of moment right there.

[primrosetta]

me: Princess Zelda’s a pretty cool character and is way more than just a damsel in distress.

some nerd: source????

me: 

[primrosetta]

me: ??????

me:

[se-meme-drakant-deactivated2025]

Didn’t do shit in Link’s awakening though

[primrosetta]

This post has over 50 thousand notes and this is the most baffling response to it I have ever seen. 

Yes, Zelda didn’t do anything in a game that she was not in. You fucking got me. In other news, Mario is a bad character because he didn’t do shit in Metroid Prime. 

[primrosetta]

[gailcarriger]

[queensinchains]

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES (2026) dir. Kyle Balda

[miraclemaya]

dress up is one of the most important pillars of gameplay that is often ignored by game developers to disasterous results

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[ashlgcostumes]

As someone who is both trans and has a child, absolutely hilarious to me that society presents one of these as absolutely only to be done if you are 110% certain and have proved to several people that you want it bad enough and are ready, and the other is like. You might as well everyone else does. Just do it nobody feels ready. You don’t want to? Yes you do

Especially since one of those is pretty reversible if you change your mind after a couple years and the other one, well, technically but that’s pretty frowned upon

[lesbianshepard]

Got out of the movie theater to find that my job kicked me off this project a week early, and I have to check out on Sunday. Never work for companies based in red states lmao

[lesbianshepard]

I found out via automated email (sent at 7pm) that another guy had been added to the project. It didn't mention that he was replacing me, but I noticed that it had changed my listed checkout date to tomorrow. I asked the hotel front desk and they went yeah your checkout date changed. I mentioned it to the other techs, who said they had also gotten the email and didn't even notice that my checkout date had changed. The email just mentioned someone was joining, not leaving.

Not a single human being called or emailed me to let me know I was getting kicked off and needed to prepare to leave tomorrow. They cancelled worked today for air quality, and the field lead didn't say anything to me. Like, they just kinda of expected everyone to closely read this email and pick up the slight change. I guess I was supposed to find out when the room key stopped working tomorrow lol.

This company is pretty infamous among shovelbums/archaeologists for being TERRIBLE to work with, it's on all the "don't take a project unless you are desperate, because they treat you like shit and underpay you" but holy fuck I would have expected, like, a human being to tell me I was supposed to leave and why.

also this comes after I nearly passed out from heat stroke after hiking about a km of slope in direct sunlight and then through wetland, and the kestrel (temp checker thing) said it was 114F out, and I was like "hey dont we take breaks for heat" and it turns out that, yeah, we're supposed to stop work if the kestrel reads past 110F (and take scheduled breaks if it's over 91F) but the company's way of avoiding this seems to be to get really annoyed when you ask to check the temperature.

Also, it's based out of Florida, so I don't know what I was expected regarding worker safety and humanity lol

[lesbianshepard]

lmao FINALLY got a call from my manager and she was like “btw you check out tomorrow :) nothing personal but it’s for your own safety bc you seem to struggle with the heat :) we need to meet quota and don’t want you to get hurt :)” so it was 1000% retaliation for me pointing out they weren’t following heat safety guidelines

[coltonclay]

“Huh why do all the nonbinary and intersex people seem to hate every binary that is dependent on genitals we come up with? Maybe they’re just whiny. Surely the next binary that is dependent on genitals we come up with will show them how much we need binaries that are dependent on genitals.”