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Happy pride monthhhh
you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too
SPOOKTOBER 2025 - ODYSSEUS
Is it just me or does the background chorus that sings Odysseus sound similar to the dies irae? Like is it intentional, am I imagining it? I can't tell.
voxvel season 2 episode 3 my beloved
Bisexual King
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Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing
Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression
the horse is so fuckable
it only got worse...
The trifecta is complete.
omg let's talk about this year's pride merch!
First of, Angel not being included in the hotel gang's merch but with the Vees!? Ouch. Get him out of that fucking dress. I hate it!
Emily wearing rainbow, but no specific flag. Interesting. Wonder if she just doesn't want to choose a label or if she's just undecided yet. Personally I headcannon her as ace.
Sera lesbian confirmed!
Husk still sad, 'cause Angel isn't there :(
But the most interesting thing, Vox!
While Val and Velvette are again matching with each other by wearing similar outfits, Vox is not. Val and Velvette wear their flag colors on their lapels and sleeves. Very visible, very noticeable. Vox's sleeves are covered in sparkles. The purple on his lapel is almost invisible, a very light toned down shade and his lapel is covered in these white diamond shapes. The most noticeable colors are magenta and blue, basically the same as his usual red and blue color scheme he already wears all the time anyway. While his bow tie features his flag colors in equal parts, the flag is only part of the bow tie, the rest is black. Again, as if to make it less noticeable. Honestly at first glance he looks more like the american flag than the bi flag XD
Everyone else is holding their pride flag up high, waving it around, Vox holds it low and behind himself. As if his skinny ass could hide anything. The screens behind them show Val and Velvette close ups wearing their pride outfits. For Vox it's just his face using his hypnotic eye. Maybe to make people not look at his outfit to closely?
And again with his stupid fake ass smile! The crew really likes this expression on him don't they?
Also possibly confirmation that Vox will have his body back in season three?
There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
My biggest aha moment as a leftist was when I was volunteering with an illegal supply distro group at one of the larger homeless encampments and a guy came through the breakfast line with a swastika tattoo and a machete tucked into the waistband of his pants. We asked one of the black residents of the encampment if he was a problem, and they said that he was fine and never bothered anyone. Tough to swallow pill is that sometimes you're gonna have to give services to a homeless nazi because he's just as powerless and starving as less "problematic" victims, and that "everyone deserves food/water/shelter" does still apply to people you hate.
You gotta learn how to work with and help very difficult people on a very wide spectrum, otherwise you're just trying to force reality into a neat pretty box the same way conservatives do.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
More studies of Dr. Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary, ft Rocky, aka the two bestest of friends ever from the best movie and also book ever oh my god
One of my fave moments is when Grace draws PPE onto Rocky's dome, so he can be included in big science time D:
i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions
i like when mary and armando act silly too
they did heelys in space…
grace is like rocky be honest am i too clingy? and rocky is like grace i would mind meld with you if i could.