[jinxuowemeacoke]

dress-up

she/her for jax here

[log6]

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

[ostolero]

[finelythreadedsky]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[captain-of-the-fallen]

A classic short story by Isaac Asimov.

[draculagerard]

woke deadbeat father: i'm just going to get some oat milk

[loveridden1999]

what are white gay men going through

[trinsh]

COMPOSURE – Stop. You've gotten too close to him. Your heart is pounding, and you can barely stand.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY – Yes! Don't waste time. Grab him by anything. Better yet – kiss him.

AUTHORITY – The Lieutenant is a professional. He would never let this happen. Accept the fact that after this, he'll mock you for being such an incompetent officer.

VOLITION – Keep yourself together. Turn it into a joke. No disaster will occur.

LOGIC – If you step back now, you can say you tripped.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible – Success] – Kiss Kim Kitsuragi.

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

starting a compilation

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[mangoconruedas]

kofi req!!!!

[charmedslayer]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) “A New Man”

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[whatimages]

where's that post about he has anxiety and he's ten inches throbbing he didn't mean it.

[jellbell]

[derpyjackarts]

My friend said something about Jax in the new episode, which reminds me of something Mae Borowski said in Night In The Woods.

[aquareegia]

anything for you brushbuddy

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[dragon-in-a-fez]

one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"

the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.

[kiyomitakada]

world heritage post

[notahorseindisguise]

its not nice to call someone light yagami

[kiyomitakada]

listening and learning

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes