Claire Keane
@theartofmadeline
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RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes
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@ruukay
Lesbians are same sex attracted females. Our community has always included trans men. It's none of your business if they choose to be included or choose to date a lesbian. Homosexuality exists and has nothing to do with your socially constructed genders.
Funny anon go brrrr
This was written by an actual human person.
“I’d like to imagine this character is trans”
✔ Fine
“THIS CHARACTER IS TRANS. THEY ARE MY SMOL BABY AND THEY ARE TRANS. AND IF YOU DON’T THINK THEY ARE YOU ARE A TRANSPHOBIC ASSHAT AND ARE GUILTY OF TRANS-ERASURE”
✘ Yikes
This post managed to hit 20k with minimal discourse and I’m just glad I’m not the only one who’s tired of this.
Y’all don’t let this flop 😂, only real ones know where this is from | IG @gottabkiwi
hey man, if you’re ace and going to pride, please be respectful, this was a space specifically created for free sexual expression and embracing the sexuality normally shamed and denied to us by social norms and government apparatus
Shaming sex in this space or bringing signs along the lines of ‘proud of being sex-free’ is highly tone deaf to the history of gay, trans, and bi spaces that are meant to help us feel proud and specifically un-shamed for our sexuality
q*eer is a slur and just because some of you suffer from Terminal No Brain Cells Disease doesn't mean its not a slur. you cannot "reclaim" the slur on a large scale basis because by calling lgbt people a slur they don't reclaim means you're just calling lgbt people a slur and thats bad. this is why its the "lgbt community" and not the "q*eer community" and just bc cishets assign the q slur to us for everything doesnt mean we need to take it up.
we dont call lesbians the "d*ke community" or gay men the "f*g community", because both words have a violent history and not everyone is comfortable using those those words to describe themself.
saying lgbt community, and lgbt history is just as inclusive as "q*eer community", arguably more so because by not labeling our community with slurs, we aren't alienating those who choose not to identify with the word in question.
this does NOT mean that you can't identify with it or that you can't personally reclaim it, just that the word is a slur and you need to be mindful of who you use it around and in what contexts you use it in.
Inclus will look at this and lose all ability to read
Inclus: *reads "queer is a slur"*
Inclus: *has a fucking brain aneurysm from catching sight of the truth*
How did ur asexual survey go?
Hey! I got a huge response to the survey, so thanks to everyone that participated. No thanks to the girl who submitted the exact same answers five (5) times in a row and thought I wouldn’t notice.
First of all, the big question: Is asexuality an LGBT identity? 39% said yes, 61% said no.
Interestingly, whether or not someone thought asexuality was LGBT didn’t depend on whether or not they were asexual. I found no correlation between being asexual and choosing one way or the other. But I did find another interesting fact.
100% of people who did NOT identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, trans, non-binary or agender (ie cis straight people) think that asexual IS an LGBT identity. Either that or they were unsure (about 3 people).
On the other hand, if you are LGBT you’re much less likely to view asexual as an LGBT+ identity.
33% of gay men, bi and trans people (not including trans lesbians) thought asexuality is LGBT. 67% did not. 6 were unsure. Only 13% of cis lesbians think asexuality is LGBT. 86% don’t. 1 person was unsure. And, overwhelmingly, 100% of trans lesbians think that asexuality is NOT and LGBT identity. 0 were unsure.
So from the first part of the survey, we can see that if you are a lesbian, gay, bi, or trans you are much less likely to think that asexual people are LGBT, with cis & trans lesbians being the least likely. The conclusion: the overwhelming majority of LGBT people don’t think asexuals are LGBT. Cis straight people do.
18% of asexual people reported that they felt their asexuality puts them in danger of being physically or sexually assaulted. However, only 2 people said they had been assaulted (less than 1% of responses).
I included the following questions in response to a common thing I’ve heard: that asexual people are LGBT+ because they face many of the same issues. I also got A LOT of people saying this on the survey. So, I decided to include some common issues that threaten LGBT people to see whether the issues are comparable.
0 people were aware of any laws that discriminate against asexual people.
2 people (less than 1%) said they were less likely to be hired due to their asexual identity. 0 people reported losing their job or being denied a job due to their asexual identity.
3 people said they’ve been to conversion therapy in order to change (or “cure”) their asexuality. 2 people said this was because they didn’t want to be asexual. The third person didn’t specify why.
0 people reported being denied shelter/kicked out because they are ace.
If I’ve missed something, or you want more details on a specific question, please let me know!
Im the anon from a long time ago that asked if you ever felt ashamed and I though itd be cool to let you know that Im 100% accepting my fetish now, and my bf who so lovingly supported me is now my fiance and we're planning our wedding. The biggest plus of telling him what I like? He's fully on board and indulges in my fetish. Thank yall kinksters for helping me realize I'm not alone 💕
That is fantastic!!! I’m so happy to hear that things have worked out for you in so many ways. And I totally remember you, too- and thank you for reminding me that we are less alone than we tend to initially think!
Short comic for class. My niece is very smart and powerful.
I'll never forget my first pride.
I can't remember my actual age, but it was in the range of 10 to 13 I think. my parents had dragged me to a Pride festival, and walked across the street from the main event, across where the lines were drawn, to where a sea of people in red shirts that read "god has a better way" tried to drown out the celebration with speakers blasting christian music, and shouting and loud praying.
the leaders pulled all us kids to the side and gave us the spiel. they told us how the rainbow had been stolen from us, and that these people were tricked by the devil and just needed prayer, but that if we didn't save them, they were going to hell.
I rolled my eyes because I already didn't believe in god, and although I barely knew what being gay was, I knew my parents were usually on the Wrong side of things, and I shouldn't be siding with them.
"We aren't allowed over there if we're wearing the red shirts," the leaders told us, "so we're sending people over in secret without them so you can pass out tracts and pray for people. they won't talk to us, but they'll talk to the kids. does anyone want to volunteer?"
the people in red shirts disgusted me. the people on the other side of the line were cheering and having fun. I raised my hand.
we were supposed to go in groups with young adults, to make sure we were doing what we were supposed to be. I wandered off the minute I could and stood nervously at the edge of a crowd, watching on as people went by, happy and unbothered by the protests across the street. I felt a little pride myself in tricking the protestors into giving up a witness spot to me, when I was going to smile on and think profanities at god instead.
there was an older woman standing outside the crowd too. she asked if I was here with anyone, a girlfriend maybe? I said no, my parents were across the street. she nodded, and said she was here with her kid. a daughter, that she came to support, but couldn't keep up with in the crowd.
I almost cried. I told her how amazing that was, because I couldn't imagine my mother showing support like that to me over anything, much less something as serious as Being Gay. I imagined if I was gay, and at a pride event just like now, but this time because I Belong.
I knew automatically that my mother, without a doubt, would still be in the same place, across the street.
I got hungry after a bit, and tried to find a good food truck. I had a little money and I was unused to being on my own like this, but I didn't want to go back to the Other Side. I knew now without a shadow of a doubt, this was the Good side and that was the Bad side.
as I was eating the gyro I got, there was a stream of red shirted protestors trickling through; I had reached the end of the boundaries, and the protestors were allowed in here. I backed up a little, spotting my dad among them. I didn't want him to tell me to go back.
there was a line of women closing ranks around the Pride attendees, separating them from the protesters as they walked through. they spread their arms out and told every person the protesters spoke to that they were not obligated to respond, they could walk away and not engage.
my dad spotted me back, and made a beeline over. he couldn't cross over because a butch lesbian stood between us. I didn't know what those words meant, but I never forgot the buttons she was wearing.
he tried to tell me that it was time to go. "you're not obligated to speak to him," the butch said, cutting him off and edging further between us. I smiled at her, a little in wonderment. no one had ever told me that I didn't have to speak to my parents, or do anything other than blindly obey them. I watched my dad get held behind a line by a woman half his height, with no intention on letting him get to me, and I smiled and walked away.
I didn't have a clue who I was then, and I wouldn't for a good few years to come. but I never forgot the supportive mother, who symbolized to me everything a mother should be, that mine, for all her religious self righteousness, would never hold a candle to. I never forgot that she was the person I wanted to be, and my mother was the person I did not want to be.
I never forgot the butch who stood between me and my dad, and for the first time ever, put the idea in my head that I was ALLOWED to make my own choices in my beliefs, and made me feel protected in a way I hadn't known I needed.
the image of her standing between me and my dad, being a physical barrier to protect me against any potential threat, that inspired the image of who I admired and wanted to become. it inspired the version of me who could stand up to my dad - to the point that I could hold my ground and educate him enough that over a decade later, he walked side by side with me at a pride festival, with no intent of witnessing to or condemning anybody.
pride month may be over, but the impact this month and these events can have is so damn important. I became who I am because of two people I met at a pride festival. I'll never forget.
This is cool but I'd be terrified if someone blocked me from getting to my kid in a parade.
contextually, if a homophobe wants to come drag their kid away from a Pride event back to a homophobic protest across the street, I say let them be fucking scared.
Fam, that's kidnapping
he could have come over to me if he had taken off his homophobic protest shirt but that mattered more than getting to me :)) he chose to let them block him off because of homophobia. and I was sent over in the first place, and was there of my choosing. don't really appreciate you dictating my own past, but here let's be controversial like you're looking for:
homophobes who try to brainwash their children into hatred shouldn't have a right to their children.
man really, in addition to all this: the blockade was specifically intended for protection. butch women stood the fuck up and placed themselves between vulnerable people and hateful people.
enormous amounts of LGBTQ child abuse comes from their family. a large man in a homophobic shirt coming towards a child in a Pride event is ENORMOUS cause for alarm.
there is NO ONE more vulnerable than LGBTQ children. I sure as fuck hope everyone would place the safety of a LGBTQ child over a parent's "claim" to them. be on the right side of the line.
Nice.
Double Nice.
crusty sean he likes, i too, learned how to make the inkling voice, and have used this ability for nothing but evil @gojira-senpai
Revealing your secret kink to people who would never suspect that you'd ever like such a thing for the sake of winning a confession-centric game
Another comic assignment. Another day in Savannah.
i can’t believe superwholock existed as one the largest fandom(s) on this website. there hasn’t been a trace of it on my dashboard in years. No mention, no whisper. a ghost. i still follow people who reblogged it. i myself reblogged it. and yet here we are, not daring to ever mention it. im risking my life making this po
For those new to this site, “Superwholock” was the crossover fandom for the overlap of three of the biggest individual fandoms on tumblr - soup, the Finnish municipality of Perho, and Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.
Guys listen. Listen. At the start of this year, the year of our lord 2019, I was chatting to an actor in this play I was stage managing and she mentioned offhand that she’s thinking of getting a tattoo.
“Oh,” I say. “Of what?”
She looks a bit awkward. “Um. Have you ever heard of this thing called Superwholock?”
Let me tell you I aged about twenty years in the span of the next ten seconds where she started to explain Superwholock to me like it’s some new thing that’s just spawned into existence and I know, instinctively, that I will not survive this conversation, I am not strong enough, so I cut her off. “Uh, yeah. I know of Superwholock. I’ve been on Tumblr for a while.”
“What’s Tumblr?” she asks.
Guys… I think Superwholock is still out there. They just changed home base. I didn’t ask where her Superwholock community was because there are some things beyond mortal ken, some things that would surely drive one mad should one attempt to find them.
theyre on pinterest looking at screenshots of tumblr posts im not fucking kidding this is how i learned about tumblr in 2014
#platos allegory of the cave……..
the lgbt community has become so diluted with cishets and people with a billion different micro identities that the initialism is now the entire alphabet over twice. which is really annoying but i think what is possibly the worst and most insidious part is that gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and binary trans people are getting called regressive. gay men and lesbians have “monosexual privilege” now, or they’re “close-minded” for only being attracted to the same gender. bi people are constantly getting told that our identity is transphobic, that we’re reinforcing the gender binary and if we don’t switch to pansexual or polysexual or some made up mogai word we’re terrible and nb-phobic. binary trans people are terrible demons who reinforce the gender binary and (should they choose to fully transition) hate themselves and their bodies. they too are nb-phobic just for existing within a binary. even moreso than actual cis people, apparently.
people are trying to kick us out of our own community. they’re calling us names and trying to make us feel bad for being who we are. they’re calling us regressive. we are not regressive. we are revolutionary.
