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carodoodles

This comic is for you all whose English is a second language for you. <3

bunney

Me: I’m havin a good night Me: :-) Me: Me: I’m sad again

mikawatohru4ever

Hi. I’m a new tumblr artist here. I’m Troy.

bunney

Hi Troy. Good luck with. your art

galpalkirk

Gary + friends: the saga

Update: The amount of people commenting “I read these tweets as ‘gay & friend’” in the tags is truly amazing and I love you all bc same (!!!) …but some really are confused about what it says so I’m gonna add translations lol

1. hey man! it’s man’s best friend + boyega!

2. more of the same you really seemed to like the last one….

3. gary & friend

4. gary and friend!

5. gary with his 2 favorite new cool stalkers!

somethingtasteless

Carrie Fisher will you be my mom please

ithelpstodream

MORE OF THIS! ✊

mockiato-deactivated20200315

If you are someone who can do this, please please do.

for-marginalized-bw-only-deacti

People scared to call Serena the greatest athlete ever, proves sexism and misogyny has gone nowhere. Never seen an athlete as dominant as her.

snubbingapollo

So, your queer history lesson for the day:

Everyone’s heard that pirate’s call each other “matey”. What you probably haven’t heard is that the word matey comes from “matelote”.

In the Caribbean this word was used between buccaneers to signify a life partner. Matelotes could inherit from each other, shared space, fought together, could speak for each other when one was incapacitated or absent, and more often than not the relationship was romantic and sexual.

That’s right folks. Pirates had a term for their gay life partners.

In light of this, I present to you a new alternative for significant other and partner. Bring back matelote.

(You can learn more about the practice of matelotage in: The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies by James Niell)

benziiiin

Arrr! Matelotage was such a great idea!

In an age when the English Navy ran on “rum, sodomy and the lash,” (as noted in many writings of the time), homosexual relationships were punishable by death.

The result here was that in the English Navy, relationships went underground. Very often, they became forced, often between a superior and a subordinate. When English crews went on the account, becoming pirates, they looked for a way to legitimize relationships of honest affection. Matelotage [French; meaning ‘seamanship’] , now used as an English word, became a term for a legal marriage between two men. […] In pirate society (and only pirate society) two men could “marry.” They would exchange gold rings, and pledge eternal union. After this, they were expected to share everything. Plunder and living spaces were obvious, but couples in matelotage were also known to share other property, and even women. If one of the partners was killed in action, pirate captains were careful to make sure that the surviving member received both shares of plunder, as well as any appropriate death benefits. Simply put, homosexual relationships had been kept under wraps by people in fear for their lives because of draconian laws. Among sailors who had practiced this form of release themselves, it lost its sense of being alien, and so became accepted and legitimized as soon as they (by turning pirate) gained the right to make their own laws. {X}

snubbingapollo

Another excellent addition!

bead-bead-deactivated20190901

What if we learned all these things growing up? What if experts on different aspects of history wrote a history book together. What if the editor ensured that POC, women LGBTQA and other minorities’ histories weren’t erased. I am all for specialization. I follow blogs that show me history and the modern world from different perspectives. Because my sixteen years of education are incomplete. Woefully incomplete.

221cbakerstreet

I’m so glad

kotoneshiomi

not-cooper

Probably a pokestop

weloveshortvideos

snloompy

If you’re having a bad night please watch this

somethingtasteless

his expressions deserve n oscar

special-agent-spooky-mulder

concept: a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman. they are friends. neither is secretly in love with the other. They spend time together, just the two of them, and don’t feel the need to hook up. Their spouses don’t worry about them.