Is Lady Gay?

Call me Rue Kids & Teens Librarian She/Her Too old to act my age Biromantic Asexual . Currently hyperfixating on Leverage: Redemption, Steddie/Stranger Things (don’t ask), and Our Flag Means Death. Forever into Star Trek, The Mummy, historical fashion, and rats. . (I’m an adult and I try not to follow minors. If I have followed you by accident, please let me know and I will fix that. Or feel free to block me, I won’t be offended by you curating your experience)

[movingscastles-deactivated20210]

we're found family sluts first and humans second

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[ladyshinga]

Really wish we'd, on the left, stop laughing and assuming this is ACTUALLY about strippers. I'd be willing to bet this ISN'T about some one with the actual job of stripper being somehow hired and sent to a school, that indeed DOESN'T happen - instead it will be used to target any female teacher who, like, wears a bikini on social media one time. She'll be called a "danger" to children and fired, as a cover for the fact that she's pro-queer or too far left or doesn't support ICE enough on that same social media. The bikini pic will just be the legal tool used to ruin her life

[ladyshinga]

A friend helped me out by looking up the actual bill and YUP, it's to target queer people and sex education. NOT. STRIPPERS. STOP MAKING IT ABOUT THE FUCKING "STRIPPERS".

[theshampyon]

Anyone who thinks ladyshinga might be off track, here's the breakdown.

Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.

Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".

How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"

Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".

Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.

Actual result: Illegal to mention the existence of trans people or admit to being trans in a classroom under threat of being prosecuted as a child sex offender.

[raisedbylibrarians]

BEING PROSECUTED AS A CHILD SEX OFFENDER

For talking about trans people.

I fucking hate it here.

[re-dracula]

Let's help Jonathan Harker pack!

important lawyer papers

photos of mina <3 <3 <3

solicitor outfits

jars of garlic wait why would he need-

extra envelopes for important mail

relevant maps

wooden stakes? how'd those get in

train tickets

crucifix for your mothers sake

Voting ended onMay 4

[butchdemiurge]

in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist

[butchdemiurge]

[toadalled]

Pride Month is upon us again and so it is time to repost my little guy, Hue! I’m wishing everyone a safe, supportive, positive, and enlightening Pride, whether you’re all the way “out” or not!

[mortalityplays]

there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone

[thepoisonroom]

that post that's like "we see it as indulgence when others express the things we suppress in ourselves" has genuinely done more for my emotional health than going on meds did

[thepoisonroom]

i wish i could find the original post bc once you start noticing that others see it as indulgence when you express that which they repress in themselves you can't stop seeing it

[cannibalchicken]

[triangleguy]

[charl0ttan]

[quiet-doll]

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

[queer-as-city-folk]

It is so fun when someone goes, "I could have been an asshole, that would have been funny if I was an asshole to you, but I wasn't so you should appreciate that"

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like wow, you're acting like a human, how kind...

[queer-as-city-folk]

For context:

There is this one lifeguard at my work who I do not like, he's annoying and today he came up, and ordered a soda, I had been eating an ice cream at that moment and he said to me as I was giving him the soda, "that he could have told his friend that he had also ordered an ice cream so his friend would think I was eating his ice cream and that would have been funny, but he didn't"

????? Huh

[natalieironside]

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

[roycohn]

fortunata decided she NEEDED to sleep on my chest/in my armpit last night and then i woke up with a little sore throat and runny nose this morning which can mean one of 2 things: either i'm getting sick and she knew it or this is psychosomatic stress about having to spend time around tradcathy manifesting physically as it often does and she knew it. either way, AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

[roycohn]

well. i'm sick. at least it's just a head cold.

[raisedbylibrarians]

Your temperature usually rises at the beginning of fighting an infection, for various interesting reasons, so you likely were warmer than usual causing your pet to be like “oooo natural heating pad, better take advantage”

Also cats (I’m assuming, but could also be a small dog I suppose) comfort colony-mates with proximity when sick. Purring and grooming are also methods of comforting so if she does those she is trying to help.

[lengthy-artery]

tshirt concept

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[plumslices]

If we don’t microdose delusion we won’t make it through this reality babe….

[leebrontide]

So I remember reading about this study in grad school where they have a bunch of clinically depressed people and a bunch of non-clinically-depressed people a game that was partially chance and partially skill, and asked them to estimate how much control they had over the outcome.

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

I think we do microdose delusion because sometimes that little overestimation of our chances, of our luck, keeps us swimming that little bit longer, just in case something good happens. And sometimes, that little margin really does make the difference. 

[vanwolffen]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.

[syn0vial]

hey, don't just leave the quote there! the last line is what MAKES it!

"YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE.  HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"

[gameraboy]

“He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here”

– Kermit the Frog discussing Jim Henson