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[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[stephenroot]

idk at the end if the day maybe I really am just a curmudgeon but you simply will never convince me that mayor, senator, governor, or president are entry level jobs that can be done well with zero government or policy experience and the tremendous arrogance it takes to think they can should be disqualifying in and of itself.

[stephenroot]

I don’t disagree with you, particularly about the pay (public service is a highly skilled job and the pay should reflect that!) but I also think people underestimate how many opportunities for experience exist. I was reading this morning that in my state (Mass), 59% of state house and senate races this year are uncontested. I can’t tell you how many times I go to vote and every race lower than president, governor, or senate is uncontested or worse, will tell me to pick three from a list of two. Library, school, town, and city boards and committees are begging people to show up and participate, and most of the time it’s the same tiny group of people over and over again and then everyone wonders why nothing ever changes.

[runawaymarbles]

#public offices do not pay enough for non rich ppl to work them in general. this is by design#pay your public servants and stop hiring rich ppl. easy as that

@highway-to-the-bi-way I mean, I see this as more of a catch-22 than a conspiracy--if the state house votes to give themselves raises, most people are not going to say "ah yes this is going to make it easier for more people to run for state house," they are going to say "fat cats in [state capital] voting to give themselves a raise while the potholes still aren't filled, we aren't re-electing those bastards."

It's also a logistical thing--I just looked it up and a legislator in my state makes about 70k/year, which sounds pretty sweet when you consider that the legislative session is only 60 days. But that's also 20-30k below our state average and median annual income, and most people have to pay a second rent two months of the year because they don't live in the capital. And the kinds of jobs that let you take off all of January and February--and leave enough time off the rest of the year to work on bills for next year, or schmooze, or campaign, and so forth--are not your average lower-to-middle class jobs. They're CEO or Owner or Partner or Board Member jobs.

And of course, state legislature is only a 2-year term, so you may or may not have a job come January.

So the people who do it are going to tend to be older, with either a lot of money in the bank or another reliable source of income. And thus the cycle continues.

[stephenroot]

idk at the end if the day maybe I really am just a curmudgeon but you simply will never convince me that mayor, senator, governor, or president are entry level jobs that can be done well with zero government or policy experience and the tremendous arrogance it takes to think they can should be disqualifying in and of itself.

[stephenroot]

I don’t disagree with you, particularly about the pay (public service is a highly skilled job and the pay should reflect that!) but I also think people underestimate how many opportunities for experience exist. I was reading this morning that in my state (Mass), 59% of state house and senate races this year are uncontested. I can’t tell you how many times I go to vote and every race lower than president, governor, or senate is uncontested or worse, will tell me to pick three from a list of two. Library, school, town, and city boards and committees are begging people to show up and participate, and most of the time it’s the same tiny group of people over and over again and then everyone wonders why nothing ever changes.

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[fidgetyhands]

And this doesn't mean you need to read / watch / listen to absolutely everything! (not that that's remotely possible)

It's perfectly reasonable that I have decided, based on ambient cultural information, that Ready Player One will not be my jam and I'm not going to read it. What that means, though, is that I have very little information about Ready Player One. I am not an authority on Ready Player One. If there's a discussion of the character development or worldbuilding or plot structure in Ready Player One, I can listen, but I can't really contribute, because I have not read it and thus am missing quite a lot of information about it.

There are more things in the world that I am not an authority on than there are things that I am an authority on, and that's okay! I should just be honest with myself and others about it.

[snowkissedmonsters]

Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.

[dreamerinsilico]

#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )

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[noah-wyles]

this is such a fantastic and reassuring response

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

tv show like grey's anatomy except they're veterinarians. all the soap opera drama but there's creatures all over the place. "is that a gerbil on your scrubs or are you just excited to see me" but it's actually the gerbil, he's a patient and we can't be having sex right now.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the characters still wax poetic via voiceover about how the surgery of the day is just like their own tumultuous personal lives but the surgery in question is like. neutering a bunch of kittens.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

which is of course exactly like Dr. Riverbeans trying to decide if he wants to be a father. it's such a huge decision, and he just doesn't know what to do! if only someone had made the decision for him by gently anesthetizing him as a child and fucking. cutting his balls off.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

little does he know that his girlfriend, hot livestock veterinarian Dr. Josta, is about to get kicked in the head by a horse patient so hard that she's in a coma for months because the actress needs time away to film a supporting role in the new live action polly pocket movie

[theheroheart]

Elementary once again coming out in favour of polyamory. Bless this show.

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Look, Elementary made a load of really smart adaptational decisions with the Holmes canon, but re-interpreting the Baker Street Irregulars as a group of hacktivists who delight in making Sherlock do weird and stupid shit is probably one of the best.

[optimysticals]

This show was underrated

[runawaymarbles]

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

[runawaymarbles]

I read a book recently where you're led to believe that the main character drove drunk and caused a car accident where her husband was killed. And then it turns out that not only did she not drive drunk, nobody was hurt in the accident that was clearly not her fault, and her husband was in fact killed later that night (or maybe the next one? Idr) when he stormed out of the house because she got mad at him for cheating on her

[runawaymarbles]

This is actually why I hate stories where they're like "this person is doomed to die" and then they don't, unless the reason and payoff is really good. Or when the conflict in a romance is that someone is in a relationship*, and then after all the angst the competing love interest is like "actually this is casual for me and I don't care if you go off with that other person." If we're going through all of that buildup and emotion then there should be a real payoff besides a take-backsies!!!

*which is different than if they're perceived to be in a relationship they are not in fact in, because there the conflict comes from the misunderstanding, instead of emotional stakes that turn out to be nothing.

[runawaymarbles]

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

[runawaymarbles]

I read a book recently where you're led to believe that the main character drove drunk and caused a car accident where her husband was killed. And then it turns out that not only did she not drive drunk, nobody was hurt in the accident that was clearly not her fault, and her husband was in fact killed later that night (or maybe the next one? Idr) when he stormed out of the house because she got mad at him for cheating on her

[runawaymarbles]

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

[liarsblade]

Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like

[liarsblade]

I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[sunderwight]

Thinking about how Luke basically saves the galaxy with heartfelt diplomacy, and Leia gets to strangle a Tatooine crime lord to death with a giant chain, and given their respective backgrounds probably no one would have correctly guessed which of them would go on to do which deed.

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*