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They leaked the snugstone and you're never going to guess what color it is, the most minor WHA spoiler you'll ever see below

OLRUGGIO MADE THE OBJECT THAT EXUDES WARMTH THE EXACT SAME COLOR AS QIFREY'S EYE And like. I think everyone always though these things were red or orange despite Olruggio being blue, so maybe it's our fault for still having stereotypes of fire magic users. But I think the color of this stone adds hidden depths I might wax poetry about it tomorrow when the episode comes out

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Hehe, Brushbug. New episode of the anime tomorrow! Shirahama posted these to her twitter today.

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if you're washed chopped and cooked then you might be vegetables

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You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to the false image of you that others perceive*

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I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

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RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

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Came back from visiting family in Nigeria

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Qifrey

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huge fan of when cats reach out and touch each other with disrespectful intent

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Home run show fr

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this is incredible

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Doodle request: bird(s) 🙃

Hope you'll have fun drawing!

Corn crake. I like this dork XD

More bird doodles are coming soon. I've absorbed so much sights and knowledge you have no idea 0-0

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Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

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olruggio, consistent through variations

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since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

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these are getting weird

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I just got back from a three day gouache workshop with Danny Folkman! We painted in Point Reyes and Nicasio.

Though I'm super familiar with gouache, it was exciting (and challenging) to approach the medium in a new way. I learned a lot and I'm excited to see how it folds into my practice!

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happy pride

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okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spock’s in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or he’ll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, he’s also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesn’t die. but then spock’s fiance (t’pring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the ‘blood lust’ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get what’s happening. and t’pring picks kirk to be her ‘champion’ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he won’t marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so he’s like of course i’ll do this fight if it’ll help spock and then he gets told it’s a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc he’s killed his ‘best friend’ only to discover kirk’s alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride

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star trek heritage post (June 1st, 2022)