Rae posts stuff

Rae. 25+. He/They. Mostly reblogs; multifandom. Broadly SFW but you know how it is with spaghetti. Original works at shakespeareyaois.tumblr.com

[bonesbeetle]

compilation of my all-time favorite tweets

[orcboxer]

Are you called orcboxer because you box orcs

I'm an orc who boxes, I box orcs, I'm a boxer who orcs, and I orc boxes. There is a golden ticket hidden somewhere on my blog abd if you find it yoiu win one million dollats

[lesbian-moon-gf]

[queer-joy-detector]

queer joy detected!

[anjukoneko]

[nmoroder]

sometimes your mentors are a couple of fucking nutcases

[suspicioushorse]

Do YOU see the creature? Give it headpats immediately!

Bonus under the cut as usual

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[quix5gg]

happy pride month especially to them

[cheddar-baby]

In this big world is there a place for someone as little as me?

[measureformeasure]

Elektra in Mycenae, Casey J. King

[wakingfromthewater]

Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.

[goddamnshinyrock]

gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders

[goddamnshinyrock]

those are all different species. there are many places where you could potentially see any (or at least most) of them at a given time!

and that’s just the adults

[corducat]

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[genderkoolaid]

if you've never seen the film Pride (2014), which tells the story of LGSM, you really really need to. Set aside time to watch it this month. Extremely important part of leftist and queer history, and a lesson on what "solidarity forever" means in practice that everyone desperately needs to learn right now.

Here's the r/piracy megathread if you need it. & you can pair that viewing with this article on the real-life history of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners; they don't make it explicit in the film, but every founding member was a socialist / communist, and that article goes more in depth about the movement.

Notably: LGSM did not wait for the mining communities to be openly supportive of queers and anti-homophobia before showing solidarity. They saw the connection between oppression of Welsh miners and the oppression of queers, and chose solidarity first. It was this choice to materially support other oppressed people, and see the queer community and mining communities are inherently connected through their experiences of oppression and resistance, that allowed the relationship seen above to exist at all.

None of this could have happened if LGSM's solidarity was dependent on the mining communities being queer allies at the time of Thatcher's attacks on them. This solidarity was born out of queer communists seeing things from a broader perspective than just "getting gay rights." They saw how the labor struggle and the queer struggle are connected, and organized to provide material assistance through food and funding. We should all internalize this and seek to apply these lessons to our own communities.

[scumtrout]

Sometimes I just look at this photo of when people had to enjoy the local canal (not optional).

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

[anchovy]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

[kittiescatlover]

What if kitties had a festival called kitties festival

[kittiescatlover]

And all of the kitties had to go so you had to help them pack a little bag with coins a toy and lunch if they are not going to buy it at the kitties festival