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This but make it domestic Spirk:

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

ifoundmybeatingheartagain

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

this has rewired some neural pathways for me

parkchanwoohoo

No I think it's really great when a friend group of approximately twenty seven individuals spread out in the sidewalk as they walk so nobody has to walk behind the group. There's nothing better than when I'm trying to get home and I see the tableau of Jesus at the Last Supper gliding towards me like Jamiroquai in the Virtual Insanity music video and I have to decide who has the narrowest frame that I can shoulder-check my way past

thejerma985fucker

transgender-dumpster-princess

Ok, fuck, I’ll try falling in love with myself first. Ughhhhhhh

transgender-dumpster-princess

Damn right babygirl, too good for the tags.

beardedmrbean

6qubed

that was everything I was hoping it would be. marvelous

derinthescarletpescatarian

I love this because you know exactly where it's going and you're not disappointed

charlesoberonn

I was so looking forward for the Jupiter gravity and it didn't disappoint and THEN THE SUN GRAVITY MADE ME HOLLER

bunjywunjy

i think you could reach escape velocity on pluto by just jumping really hard

mokimo-art

THWE DRAMATIC PAUSE IN THE SUN GRAVITY HAD ME

peteneems

sceptixfakemon

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

sceptixfakemon

im never leaving this hellsite

sceptixfakemon

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

sceptixfakemon

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

sceptixfakemon

okay cool 54k notes that's right you can stop liking this now

directactionforhope

Not all trans mascs are men btw

I'm not, for example. I am extremely trans masc - and I am nonbinary. I have always been nonbinary.

I am still not a man, and calling me a man is still misgendering me.

Stop assuming people's genders/pronouns based on ~vibes~~ and stop reducing nonbinary and trans identities down to whatever category you find most convenient

(Even if you are trans and/or nonbinary yourself)

jay-rayart

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escuerzoresucitado

mollybeenoel

Rest in Peace, Sam Neill (1947-2026) 🕊️

xria-rose

I desperately need this app to understand that being in your 50's is not elderly. People in their 50's are still working full time jobs and have active social lives that are not centered around just quiet activities and hip replacements. People in their 50's are going to bars, concerts, hiking, vacationing, adventuring, partying, and doing all sorts of wild and fun stuff as well as staying in and reading or watching their favorite movies. They have hobbies and lives and navigate around their aging bodies with a lot more ease than you would think.

Elderly is basically like 70-75+. Definitely 80+.

Joking is fun and trust that those of us who are older make them more than you do but we hardly have one foot in the grave. I'm 41 and tear it up probably better than you can. But for the sake of realism in your fics, stop writing 50 year olds like they're the fucking Crypt Keepers. (Google it)

vashti-lives

This is also related to something else I see people do all the time, where when we perceive someone as being old immediately imagine their youth taking place in some amorphous blend of the 30s/40s/50s during which they wore circle skirts and varsity jackets and spent a lot of time in soda shops before going off to war and then settling down to have 2.5 kids in the suburbs. But in spite of this mental condensing and summarizing of time, it does actually pass in a linear fashion.

So to reorient ourselves: if your grandma is 80 in 2026 she was was 20 in 1966 (and if she lived in the US) it is ENTIRELY possible she spent some portion of her youth dropping acid, smoking weed, participating in the free love movement, and protesting the Vietnam war. Hippies are old now.

When we imagine the broad perspective and life experiences of old people we have to keep in mind that old people are now baby boomers, the greatest generation is almost entirely gone. I honestly hate the named generation convention where we neatly divide everybody up by what are ultimately pretty arbitrary years, it's all marketing bullshit. HOWEVER it is true that there was a tremendous culture shift in the 20th century, which deeply altered a lot of cultural norms in a fairly short amount of time. Old people now really do have a meaningfully different cultural perspective than old people two decades ago did.

I am slightly looped in to the local protesting/organizing community and I was talking with one of the organizers one day and she was really amazed at how many old ladies were showing up to rallies and demonstrations being held, and how enthusiastically they were shouting FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP and I had to explain, yeah these are the OG Vietnam protesters. These women spent years and years trying to get the ERA passed. Getting old doesn't inherently make you less radical.