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24 hour garbage party

[secretdogs]

it’s been three and a half years but i finally got access to my messages lol

anyway back to never being on tumblr

[loveandluckpodcast]

Love and Luck is an Australian queer romance audio drama with a touch of magic, told via voicemails. Help us fund our second season!

Our season two Kickstarter is now LIVE!  

Check it out at loveandluckpodcast.com/kickstarter, watch our video to see our cute faces, pledge to get some AMAZING rewards, and share it far and wide to support queer art by queer people!

Love and Luck is a cute queer romance audio drama podcast, with a touch of magic.  We’re here to bring you healthy relationships and happy endings, for a few minutes every Tuesday.

With your help, we can pay our cast and crew for their work in season two, as well as covering our costs and creating some lovely Love and Luck merchandise.  

We’ve got stickers, badges, keyrings, posters, and enamel pins!  We’ve also got some fun digital goodies like wallpapers, a ringtone, and a special thank you voicemail from Jason and Kane!  Want something a bit more special?  Get your name in the credits, name a major character, or be in the show yourself!

So check out our kickstarter - loveandluckpodcast.com/kickstarter - and help us fill the world with more queer love and art!

[loveandluckpodcast]

🎶 WHOA-OH, WE’RE HALFWAY THERE 🎶 🎶 WHOA-OH, QUEER LOVE IS IN THE AIR 🎶

We’re halfway to our goal!  Thank you so much!  Let’s keep sharing the Kickstarter around, together we can make it!  💪

[secretdogs]

jsyk i don’t go here any more and my messages don’t work so uh

i’m soufex on twitter see ya there

[secretdogs]

jsyk i am basically still not here and also my messages don’t work and haven’t been for months (which is part of why i don’t bother using this broken mess all that much lol), tweet me @ soufex if you want anything xo

[loveandluckpodcast]

WE'RE LIVE!

It's here, it's finally here! The first three episodes of our show have been released!! If you're subscribed to us on a podcast app or on youtube, you should have already gotten a notification! Here's some handy links to places you can listen: * iTunes * YouTube * Stitche

Our cute queer romance audio drama podcast is now live!!  We’re so excited to share our work with you.  Please check us out!

Here’s a helpful bunch of links to places to listen:

iTunes

YouTube

Stitcher

Podbean

Pocketcasts

RSS

Direct via the website

[erinkyan]

Guys, the thing I’ve been working so hard on for almost a year is finally launching.  I’m so excited and happy to have gotten here.  I’d love it if you all checked it out.  

[onceiwashere]

history is fucked up and it sucks because all the people in it who had great viable werewolf names weren’t werewolves. like what the shit. if you knew nothing about history or literature i guess or whatever you’d see names like “virginia woolf” and “oscar wilde” and be like. ah yes. these are definitely some prime secret werewolf poorly masquerading as human intellectual situations? but neither of those people were real live werewolves, factually speaking? they did not take advantage of that opportunity. and i think we are all worse off for it actually 

[weareallfromearth]

@secretdogs

[ex0skeletal]

Borzoi Puppy

[lostangelssong]

Hey @zero-alice

[bears-official]

#for some reason it has never occurred to me that this type of dog exists in a puppy state??#i guess i just assumed they emerged fully formed from mist and moonlight

[missmonty]

OMG THEY’RE SO CUTE THESE CUTIES I LOVE THEM THEY’RE THE CUTEST

[etfini]

@secretdogs

[meladoodle]

*sees a kid fall over*

me (under my breath): …..get rekt

[princess-smash-deactivated20190]

[trashbabydeluxe]

@secretdogs

[secretdogs]

basically still not here ever, also if you’ve tried to send an IM to me over tumblr, mine isn’t working at all?? i can’t send or receive messages even though it tells me i have 3 unread. dunno whats up with that

also sorry if you’ve been tagging me in shit and i haven’t noticed

[brandon-cru]

God has a picture of me 

[secretdogs]

this is offensively relatable

[tastefullyoffensive]

A secret message just for dogs from the Prosh newspaper.

[thewayfindsyou]

@secretdogs :)

[silkenagentsofcsbeck]

[running-dog]

Of course that’s why the chairs have that feature.  It’s a snout rest, intended for the comfort of snouts.  What else would you do with it?

[clenster]

@secretdogs

[bearsofair]

[runcibility]

nnnggggh

[roane72]

For some reason I think @mumblingsage needs to see this.

[flatbear]

Well these pants are just fucking ruined now.

[etfini]

@secretdogs look it’s your boy

[secretdogs]

hi just fucking end me

[secretdogs]

hello i am still never here but i tweet a bunch, mostly @ perrossecretos sometimes @ soufex

[neilaglet]

[secretdogs]

a family doesn't need to be a husband, a wife, a son, and a daughter.

a family can be a guy who lost his father in a tragic accident, his sister, his nephew, his on-again-off-again girlfriend/wife, his childhood best friend (and his childhood best friend’s wife and kid), two random white boys they picked up off the streets, a very special white boy who’s secretly a cop who’s secretly just in it for the love of racing, that white boy’s black high school sweetheart who is under house arrest at a demolition derby track, the white boy’s black friend from florida, the black friend’s japanese girlfriend, a sad korean man who eats a lot, wonder woman, a very large samoan who wants to put you in jail for a bit, some really helpful women of colour from the fbi, a brazilian widow who just wants justice, a beautiful hacker girl, an angry englishman who knows a remarkable amount of martial arts and we don’t really know why he’s there but he’s there anyway, kurt russell,

[officialqueer]

Honestly “queer” is so useful for people like me w/ a “complicated orientation” b/c instead of having to say I’m “asexual panromantic” and explain what that means, I can just say “I’m queer” and it tells you all you need to know (that I’m not straight).

[violet-lesbiann]

yeah sure good for you but don’t ever ever use that word for someone who doesn’t identify as it themselves, it’s not an umbrella term for everyone. also “pan/ace” would definitely work, even if you don’t want to use it, other people could. i use ace lesbian and definitely not the q slur.

[lesbianpeachs]

Wow its almost like they were just talking about using it on themselves for individual reasons and you butted in to be an ass and be condescending because you think you’re superior for not using queer, then you called their identity a slur right to them. But that can’t possibly be what you were trying to do, right?

[violet-lesbiann]

Anyone is allowed to use it for themselves, I never said no one should do that if that’s what they want. Queer is a slur though. I just want people to be aware of that, I have no idea if OP is aware of that or not but some people using that word aren’t. I’m tired of people including me and other people who don’t want to be included in that word, and before anyone asks, I never meant that OP did that, because I literally have no idea if they do.

[lesbianpeachs]

Queer is a slur as much as any other LGBT+ word, I just want you to be aware of that.

“Gay” is used as an insult. It is used to be demeaning. Its used to discriminate. And yet its used as the all mighty umbrella - gay rights, gay marriage, gay community - when discussing the entire community.

Gay gets used as a slur. Queer gets used as a slur. But I don’t walk up to gay people and say “your identity is a slur, you know that right” or get pissed when they say “the gay community” when they mean the whole community.

Personal identity and preference in terms, even harmful words that get used as slurs, are not questioned; except for the word Queer.

Queer gets shut down. Queer people get others in their faces saying “your identity is a slur!” Queer people don’t have the freedom to identify in a community, but are forced under other terms against their will due to hypocrisy and double standards.

So if you’re not going to come onto gay people’s posts for the same behavior, maybe critically analyze why exactly you feel the need to be so condescending to Queer people, specifically on posts that ONLY have to do with personal identity. Why you feel the need to insist to Queer people that their identities are slurs, to directly slap away the power of reclaiming a word from them by demanding it remain in the hands of the Straights as a perpetual slur.

[jormunganndr]

I think an important difference between gay and queer is however, that queer started out as a slur used against members of the community and continues to be used as a slur in many places. Whereas gay began as a word the community chose itself to describe itself and was then later used by homophobes and heterosexuals in general in a negative way, meaning however, that gay doesn’t hold the same negative connotations as queer for many people simply because it was our word that they took, and not a word that they forced on us to make us “strange” or “other” like queer means.

[lesbianpeachs]

That’s…. Not true. People think so because the history before gay was reclaimed is way older (older than any love community member’s lifetimes, probably,) but gay had the exact same origins.

It was meant to denote sexually perverse people, most frequently sex workers and those who hired them. Anyone who participated in anything but married, vanilla, straight sex might have been referred to as “gay,” including any suspected LGBT person.

The word (already being one frequently used on the community,) was reclaimed as a community identifier when the community wanted to disconnect from the clinical and diagnostic implications of “homosexual.”

There is record of queer being reclaimed and used as a personal identifier literally before the popularization of gay. Both words are reclaimed slurs with negative histories, and BOTH are used as slurs against the community still to this day.

The more recent history of the mid to late 20th century more prevalently favored queer as a slur, as is represented in our media. However its clearly undeniable that the switch back to gay as the popular community slur (along with the ever present f slur,) happened in the 2000s. Which is trying to be denied and rewritten by the anti queer crowd, who completely ignore the words popularity with community members who actually lived through when it was a popular slur.

[lanewilliam]

Yes to all of this. When it comes to words for “not straight” there are hardly any choices that didn’t originate as ways to stigmatize or pathologize us. We are all using reclaimed slurs to describe ourselves. 

Also, queer is reclaimed in a particularly empowering way. It doesn’t just mean “same-sex attraction” but encompasses a whole spectrum of attractions and gender orientations. It’s a word that says to asexuals, pansexuals, bisexuals, trans folks, genderfluid and genderqueer and genderless folks and people who are still figuring themselves out, “hey, you’ve got a home here. We don’t need to categorize you to love you.” 

This is important because there are a lot of divisions within the LGBTQ+ world, and in particular cis gay men and cis lesbians often overlook or exclude trans, bi and asexual people. Queer is the only word that not only demands equal acceptance for everyone, but leaves the door open for words and descriptors that haven’t even been invented yet. 

Somebody else pointed this out earlier to me, and of course I’ve lost the post, but it’s really suspicious that of all the reclaimed slurs, the one that gets the most pushback is the one that is most radically accepting of all identities

[27-teacups]

“hey, you’ve got a home here. We don’t need to categorize you to love you.”

Lmao yeah! the pushback against this idea is overt and disgusting and I don’t trust anybody who perpetuates it. 

Queer is an ideology and an identity, historically and now. It is an umbrella for that ideology and an umbrella for those identities, historically and now. They can’t be conflated (with LGBT) and it’s super fucking disingenuous to pretend one is just the tarnished besmirched dirty slur version of the other. They’re different. In my particular work for example, Queer bioethics is different from LGBT bioethics and conflating the two will muddle any discussion you try to have about them because they lead to literally opposite conclusions in some cases. 

[thispotterhead]

Yeah I freaking love pancakes

[thispotterhead]

Wait wrong post

[officialqueer]

By far the best addition to this post

[uphillbothways]

This is one of those things where I feel like an old. Like, *the* slogan I associate with pride is, “We’re here, we’re queer – get used to it!” There was a TV show called “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” that was total mainstream pap. (Not that the show wasn’t riddles problematic elements from the concept out, but ‘queer’ in the title was clearly meant as a positive.) I just have a hard time processing queer as anything but reclaimed.

[officialqueer]

They actually shot “Queer As Folk” in my city!

[river-b]

TERFs and radical gender/sexuality bianarists are flooding social media and blogging sites with propaganda smearing the word queer in the hopes of silencing all of us who don’t identify with their hate politics. I fought hard to reclaim the word queer in the late 80s and early 90s, and it’s the one word that doesn’t worship exclusion. Which is why these people are trying to convince you not to use it. fuck that noise. there is literally no word i could use to identify my sexuality that hasn’t been thrown at me in hatred, fear, and violence. No way am I giving up the one of those that allows me to talk about all of my community without trying to put people in boxes they don’t fit in.

[monanotlisa]

I will never not reblog this post. Queer, queer, queer here. 

[mswyrr-deactivated20181203]

“Queer” has been claimed by queer people as a self-descriptor since at least 1910. It’s an insult to those historical people (and all the generations of queer historical people who have identified as queer since then) to pretend that the people using it as a slur owned it more than the queer people who used it as a self-descriptor.

Source: George Chauncey, “Gay New York,” page 101

[killerchickadee]

They don’t want us to use queer because they don’t want to be lumped in with anyone who’s not cis gay or cis lesbian. So fine. You don’t like the word queer? You don’t want to be in the “queer” community? Get the fuck out, then. Y'all don’t welcome us in your community anyway, so we’ll just have our own.

And it’ll be queer as fuck.

[gettzi]

I fucking love the word queer ❤

[beatrice-otter]

Or, to put it another way, using a great old slogan of the community: I’m not gay as in happy, I’m queer as in fuck you.