a thoroughfare for freedom

“there are very few things i’ve asked for in this world: to build a new park from scratch, to eventually become president, and to one day solve a murder on a train.”

[hoodoothatvoodoo-deactivated201]

[vcrfl-blog]

William Kilburn: Wild flowers design for silk material, 1790.

[makebeliever]

[soaringrachel]

♕  D a e n e r y s    S t o r m b o r n

[rhiannonintheskywithdiamonds]

THIS IS A WARNING TO ANYONE ATTENDING THE MONUMENTOUR: PARAMORE & FALL OUT BOY

Paramore uses strobe lights and other bright lights that may cause seizures, sensory overload, or other reactions. Fall Out Boy uses fireworks as well as actual fire that emits smoke that can cause asthma attacks or other reactions. I am posting this because there was no warning from the venue and I want people to be safe.

[dancersaretheathletesofgod]

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[soaringrachel]

endquestionmark replied to your post “(re: burn, read, rewrite) twilight saga, vampire academy series, eragon series”

yeah damn right burn the SHIT out of eragon tbh

i've not read it but i certainly never plan to

[soaringrachel]

If I were a month, I’d be september If I were a day of the week, I’d be thursday If I were a planet, I’d be earth If I were a sea animal, I’d be a coral If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a green library lamp If I were a gemstone, I’d be amethyst If I were a flower, I’d be a yellow rose If I were a kind of weather, I’d be thunderstorms If I were a colour, I’d be red If I were an emotion, I’d be joy If I were a fruit, I’d be nectarine If I were an element, I’d be fire / copper If I were a place, I’d be row houses If I were a taste, I’d be spicy sausage If I were a scent, I’d be river If I were an object, I’d be a bookmark If I were a song, I’d be "eight days a week" by the beatles If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be silver stiletto sandals

[soaringrachel]

(re: burn, read, rewrite) twilight saga, vampire academy series, eragon series

lol i've only read twilight of these but i think

read vampire academy, rewrite twilight, burn eragon

[telltaleink]

Let’s play Burn Read Rewrite.  It’s like Kill Fuck Marry, but with books.  Put three books in my ask. 

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[soaringrachel]

Tatiana Maslany at the ‘Orphan Black' Season 2 Press Conference (April 14)

[minuiko]

June having an existential crisis over her growing attraction to Maks (not realizing Ernest is having a similar struggle ;P)

The Posterchildren (c) Kitty Burroughs

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I love that June looks uniquely furious at Maks, because how dare he attract her; this is clearly all his fault, while Ernest is just like I’m going to hell. All of them. I’m going to go to all the hells.

[slaughterhouse90210]

"There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of many years ago, and to make the same decision. Marriages, like ships, needed steering, and steady hands at the wheel.” —Emma Straub, The Vacationers

[agnikai-moved]

Stop saying het ships when you mean M/F ships

[irrationalliberal1]

[snowdarkred]

i am literally shrieking with laughter over this

[kissokomos]

#THEY SENT HIM SEVERAL CASES OF THEIR PRODUCT AND SENT A POLITELY WORDED LETTER TELLING HIM TO SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS#I’M CRYING (via snowdarkred)

[soaringrachel]

not every m/f relationship is a straight relationship

characters can be in m/f relationships and still be queer representation

ur ~ew het~ attitudes are actually hurting queer rep not helping it

bye

[blusocket]

the 2nd to last bullet point is confusing to me??? ??? I would hope most ppl saying “ew het” are queer ppl talking abt characters w/out confirmed sexual orientations and expressing frustration that there’s like no one like us on tv/in movies/wev like yeah I wanna see queer characters of all stripes including ones in str8 relationships but I’d /rather/ see queer characters in queer relationships.

[soaringrachel]

most people i see saying “ew het” are complaining about any m/f relationship, even when it’s true to that character and their queerness (ie, nolan ross, a bisexual character on revenge, dating a woman, which made a great deal of people upset). obv lots of ppl (including me) are also upset about the prevalence straight characters but that’s different from being upset about any m/f relationship, which also happens a lot.

relationships are not straight or queer, they are between people of various genders and various sexualities. an m/f relationship in which one or both of the participants is queer is not a “str8 relationship,” and being in one doesn’t make you any less queer!

when you say you’d rather see queer characters in queer relationships i assume you mean you want to see queer characters whose sexualities are unambiguously queer and who are living a queer identity. but that’s not incompatible with an m/f relationship in fiction or real life, and if you’re queer, an m/f relationship doesn’t make you less queer. part of being midk is, sometimes, having relationships with the hetero-appropriate gender, and accurate representation of midk characters should reflect that.

[blusocket]

#sorry to write an essay at you you seem quite nice i just have a lot of feelings on this topic! #i really don’t like the phrases ”straight relationship” and ”queer relationship” tho bc they can imply that #being in an m/f relationship makes you straight even if you’re queer? which isn’t true obv

you don’t need to apologize, no worries!! I get where you’re coming from—the straight/gay relationship thing doesn’t bother me as I think it’s useful for talking about how gendered power functions in relationships—relationships between men and women, even queer men and women, have a power imbalance along gender lines (read: the power imbalances that perpetuate patriarchy work primarily through relationships between men and women, a dynamic which can be in some ways altered by but not, imo, fundamentally changed by the individual queerness of either/both parties) but I do understand that it can be unclear and make some ppl uncomfortable, so I’m not really interested in arguing about what to me amounts to a semantic difference.

I guess I just feel like given:

my own positionality as a bi nb (afab) girlish kid who’s aggressively disinterested in men and who still strongly identifies with womanhood as a political/social position (my gender identity is ?????????? my gender class is woman)

misogyny that makes it so much easier for women to find and be in relationships with men

compulsory heterosexuality that makes it so much easier for all queer kids to find and be in m/f relationships than in visibly queer ones

and the reality of passing privilege—not to diminish how fucking shitty it is that bi kids can get shit for ~not being queer enough~ from our own community when we’re in m/f relationships, but there is a really really significant difference in the amount of danger that kids in a visibly queer relationship are going to face versus kids (even queer kids!) whose relationship can’t be identified as such from the outside

f/f and m/m relationships (and ofc relationships b/w nb kids but lol well-written trans characters in romantic relationships) involving bi kids—tho tbh I’m at a point in my politics where I rly don’t care about representation of white cis gay (mon or non-mon) boys, like c’mon, do better—are really really important to see represented in media. so when I say “I want queer characters in queer relationships” I don’t just mean “I want unambiguously queer characters”—like yes, that is the most crucial factor, but I’m still going to be disappointed to see a bi girl end up with a boy.

I definitely feel like queer characters in m/f relationships should exist, because that’s part of many people’s lives, but when representation is so rare and so often shitty and compulsory heterosexuality is so omnipresent and difficult to resist, even in the lives of queer kids who love being queer, I’m going to get more excited about visibly queer relationships (f/f relationships especially) and I don’t feel right begrudging any queer person’s reaction to this kind of representation, whether that reaction is positive or negative yanno?

[soaringrachel]

so, i totally see your opinion as valid. for me though, i feel the same way about "midk characters" who only date one gender (whatever it is) as i do about "jewish characters" who only celebrate hanukkah--in the end, more pandered to than actually represented. i'd rather see midk women who only end up linked with women (for instance) than midk women who only end up linked with men, but i'd rather not see either.

on actual shows, i understand that small steps need to happen before big ones can sometimes, and bi women who date women are an important part of that even if they only date women. but in fandom we don't have to go as slowly, and my post was mainly reacting to fandom.