Cuqui is the new cute

Spanish. 23. Demisexual bi girl. My english sucks but I try hard. I get too emotionally invested in fictional characters and I spend too much time shipping. Give me more well written female/PoC/queer characters. Sometimes I try to write stories. Speak to me, I will not bite you.

[wondersmith-and-sons]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH | favourite romance tropes

[rainbow-femme]

Something I haven’t seen people mention about the first time that Stede and Ed meet is how Stede treats Ed before he knows he’s Blackbeard

As far as he knows, Ed is an inferior to him in work and social rank and is just some guy working for Blackbeard, but when Ed starts walking around his room and touching his fancy clothes he doesn’t tell him to stop he says “well if you like that come look at this” and invites him into a private secret area where he can see more of those kinds of clothes. Not to impress him, but because he thinks he’ll like it and it doesn’t occur to him that people don’t act that friendly with people of a different status than them

It’s a “judge people by how they treat the waiter not the CEO” deal, Ed is sick of getting special treatment because he’s Blackbeard but here’s a guy treating him like an equal when pretty much nowhere else would two people of different apparent wealth statuses and rank act like that

And despite the few minutes of hero worship early on, Stede treats him the same way after finding out who he is. He acts towards just some guy Ed the way he acts towards greatest pirate alive Blackbeard

All the crew treat him with over the top deference to the point where he has to tell them to stop calling him sir, and even when they get comfortable around him they still treat him very differently than they treat each other

And when they’re on the merchant ship we see how the captain treats Blackbeard (“a rich donkey is still a donkey”) so even captain to captain he gets treated as inferior by people as well, while Stede is there teaching him how to act like a gentleman and acting with full confidence that there’s no reason Ed/Blackbeard couldn’t be on the same level as a wealthy land owner by birth

It makes sense why Ed liked Calico Jack so much, as someone who by birth and rank was his equal, poor people who worked their way up to being captains together, but to paraphrase My Fair Lady, Jack treats a captain like he’s nothing while Stede treats people who are “nothing” like captains. They both treat him as an equal but Stede’s involves kindness and respect instead of derision and mockery. And Jack drives it home by saying all pirates are to each other is people fucking each other over while Stede had heard Ed was going to kill him and still called him a friend. When Ed leaves with Jack he says “you were always going to see what I am” but up to then Stede had seen and heard everything awful he was and had accepted it, so Ed seemed to think there was still something Stede had to not be getting to treat him like an equal because if he fully saw him he wouldn’t act like that. But then he comes back from abandoning him and again Stede is just happy to see him

It’s easy to see how different Ed reacts to Stede than other people but Stede really is the only person who sees him from the start as an equal

[inadequate-nefelibata]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH  (ft. shitposts)

[englishmajorhumor]

[liscrispim]

some sketches of my jon headcanons

[lonicera-caprifolium]

for @gingerhaole's DTIYS! ❤

(here's a link, in case y'all want to dtiys ☆)

[liberalsarecool]

Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer

[stele3]

No. I will not have you do this.

Dr. Nikola Tesla did not sign bad contracts. He signed an excellent contract with Westinghouse to bring AC power to America. Westinghouse was the big competitor against Edison Electric, which ran DC power. Thomas Edison was a massive prick and Edison Electric went around doing its best to convince everyone that AC power was dangerous, most infamously by electrocuting an elephant to death and developing the first execution-style electric chair using AC power. All of this cemented in the mind of the public that AC power was dangerous and deadly, while DC power was somehow safer.

By 1890, Westinghouse was in trouble. George Westinghouse went to Tesla and laid out the truth: if he honored the royalty contracts that he’d agreed to pay Tesla, he would go bankrupt. So Tesla tore up the contracts. He walked away from millions, maybe billions of dollars because he believed that wireless electricity should be free to the world. Westinghouse went on to bring AC power to homes across America.

Tesla wasn’t a bad businessman. He was an idealist who hated capitalism.

[muffinshark]

finally drew Steve in that all-black civil war concept art suit

[stan-denbrough]

I still think about the person on twitter who thought that Pennywise was living in Derry, Ireland every waking second of my life.

If I think about a Derry Girls au too long, I literally pass out. It’s like, what if the Losers were 8 times stupider and more chaotic? It’s all I’ve ever wanted!!

Like I don’t even know how you would even plot this fic out? Literally all 5 of them would encounter Pennywise and immediately scream and try to hit him with the nearest object?? Like Pennywise would starve to death in Derry. All the kids would throw hands the second they saw him.

“Are ye saying you saw a clown, Michelle?”

“Aye, it was a fecking clown, Claire.”

“But, clowns aren’t even scary!” 

“Aye, I know that, and I told the wee bastard as much, then he grew a bunch of fangs, like, total cracker actually if ye think about it.”

“Have none of you considered that a grown man dressed like a clown hiding in the sewers who wants to eat children might be something to take at least a little bit seriously?!?”

“Ach, seriously, fuck off James, go be a craic killer somewhere else!”

“Have ye considered James that maybe the clown is more afeared of us, than we are a him?”

“No, Orla, I hadn’t considered that, thank you.”

“Okay girls, I think we’re all missing the point here! You said that he grew fangs!??! Are you sure you weren’t just a wee bit blackout drunk?!”

“Well to be fair, I was boking all over myself, Erin, to be sure, yeah.”

___

“What’s this I hear about a man dressed like a clown in the sewers?”

“But da you don’t think our Erin is daft enough to play in the sewers do ye?”

“I’m sure it’s just an urban legend, Joe.”

“You watch your tone with me boy! I’ll not have some wee Southern shite tell me what’s real and what’s myth!”

“I tell ya it’s real! As real as my right hand, swear to God!”

“Erin! I don’t want you goin anywhere near no man approachin wains dressed like a clown!”

“But don’t you think the whole affair of dressing up as a clown like, is a wee bit… gay? Uh- I mean no offense son.”

“Still not gay!”

[kermitlesbian]

[funnypeopletwitter]

Ok the guy with the net fucking killed me, I’m sure my neighbors heard me laughing.

[yurious-george]

School shootings. They don’t want you to hide guns.

[dawnbutterfly]

This is where we are, folks. We’ve come to the point where they’re demanding that children carry all of their school supplies in hand so that they don’t have to do anything about the gun violence problem in this shithole of a country.

[kendrysaneela]

I love malicious compliance

[sunrisedespair]

HISTORY COMES FULL CIRCLE, HOLY SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’RE STILL DOING THIS TO KIDS. 

They did this shit at my school way back when Columbine had just happened!

Naturally, we invented all sorts of bullshit ways to carry our shit, because what the fuck, we need backpacks. 

My favourites included: 

-Fishing rod with twine tied around two pencils and a small pocket notebook.

-Tons of people got those little clear plastic bags they have in grocery stores for fruit and shit, and used them as see-through pencil cases 

Note: THEY PROCEEDED TO THEN ALSO BAN THE BAGS AS “CHOKING HAZARDS”. WE WERE NOT THREE YEAR OLDS. OUR HEADS DIDN’T EVEN FIT IN THE FUCKING BAGS, AND BELIEVE ME, WE TRIED AS SOON AS THEY ANNOUNCED THE BAN, BECAUSE MOST OF US WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN BEEN IN FUCKING SCHOOL BY THAT POINT. DID THEY THINK WE WERE GONNA STUFF THE BAGS DOWN OUR THROATS? CHRIST.)

-One kid dressed up like a priest and used the loose fabric of the cassock to carry three text books around all day. 

-Someone hollowed out a fucking loaf of bread, pretended to be French all day, and made a show out of pulling a ridiculous number of highlighters out of this fucking bread in the middle of class. 

Now that I think about it, I think that kid invented Panera Bread by accident. Y’know, the little bread soup bowls? This was that, but with highlighters instead of soup. 

Eventually, things escalated, and the principal called the police after he went to the parking lot and found his car broken into– Nothing was stolen, but there were about 5000 fucking backpacks stuffed in his car, to the point that the door wouldn’t even open.

I don’t know who did it, or what group of people did it, but they’re all fucking heroes because the next week backpacks were permitted again. 

[freekbugg]

[kaijuno]

[kreature-ofthenight]

gays dress like everyone from Jurassic Park tbh

[kaijuno]

Fair point

[sophiexteresa]

Not even sure if these are types of gay, but here we are

[the-only-useful-lesbian]

You forgot the T. Rex

[sophiexteresa]

Omg you’re right, I forgot the T-Rex!!!

[sophiexteresa]

@the-only-useful-lesbian

[misterreus]

The dinosaur is an amazing punchline but Dennis Nedry not making it on this post is pure ‘Hawaiian Shirt Gay’ erasure.

[diazami]

I feel this in my soul

[tigerkid14]

[rylandsgrace]

The suicide squad (2021)

[etriva]

#wait is this the dude that fucked John Constantine? (x)

[cipheramnesia]

Yeah. Yeah they fucked.

[now-phaeton-flier]

I really feel like a person shouldn’t be judged because of sleeping with one Englishman.

[cipheramnesia]

He was just in a really dark place at the time.

[kipplekipple]

Yes, inside John Constantine.

[askmace]

@defilerwyrm

[gryphll]

mia fey's very talented intern

[dilfhershellayton]

jojo siwa is like. her style is not my taste at all but as soon as other people call it annoying im like actually you're wrong she's an icon and a legend

[saxophonechihuahua]

she looks like the concentrated essence of a claires store and i do not mean this negatively

[hummingirls]

it’s the “fuck you” to the current trend of encouraging teenagers to look 24 and embracing girly things that cis men hate

[universejunction]

American Kawaii

[sexycraisinthanos]

she looks like someone turned a Skittles commercial into a person and i love it

[super-mario-girl]

If you don’t mind me putting my two cents:

I feel like Jojo Siwa’s style is reminiscent of the colorful teen girl fashion of the late 2000s and early 10s. Back then it was considered fashionable to use lots of colors, accessories, etc. Take a look at Jojo Siwa:

Very colorful, generous with sparkles and accessories. It’s meant to be fun!

If you were a kid in 2007-2012 you saw something similar in the clothing the teens in your sitcoms wore, although not as exaggerated. The fashion in Shake It Up(which came out in 2010) is a really good example of this:

(You may laugh, but this was the height of fashion to 13 year old me.)

The point is, Jojo’s aesthetic is similar to being a young pre teen girl walking into Limited Too for the first time.

And the reason cishet men hate it is because they don’t find it attractive. That’s why she’s often made fun of and used as a joke so much. Because that style doesn’t cater to the male gaze. It’s not for them, so it must be bad.

[pricelessreviews]

[teacupfullofstars]

[nicolauda]

Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn't be a """gender critical""" activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive

[colouritlater]

The GCs are Terfs. A specific type of transphobe. Quite a few British celebrity got recruited to their ranks and they have the money and clout to do a lot of damage unfortunately.

Terry passed away before Rowling started her downward spiral and played a significant role in creating the current toxic atmosphere around Trans rights in England . It is good to see that his daughter ,who is also a writer, stands up for human rights.

[noirandchocolate]

That’s despicable trying to “recruit” someone who’s DEAD. Not to mention there’s NOTHING in Pratchett’s books—including the ones of essays, articles, and speeches—to suggest he join in if he was alive.

And obviously his own kid would know his private opinions so hopefully the assholes will see her tweet and back the fuck off.

[datsderbunnyblog]

(GC stands for “gender critical”, when you see that it usually means that you’re talking to/about terfs who are trying to rebrand their image).

For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of  terfdom.

But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.

Terf rhetoric basically revolves around throwing shit at the wall and then crawling around in anything that sticks, but the underlying transphobia is always present.

[datsderbunnyblog]

Rhianna Pratchett is the best.

[officiallordvetinari]

“Terry Pratchett” is now a trending topic on twitter and everyone is just slamming the people who claim he would be transphobic. It’s been really nice to see

Also there’s this