got terminated, RIP

no minors!!! please don't report me again, it literally made everything worse, was starving-over-the-rainbow; 20yo 5'6" 132lbs gay stoner scientist with ed what’s a mental health??

[charlieism]

all my girls with bellies that stick out, youre cute as FUCK your body is beautiful and you deserve high self esteem and love

[butterflikisses]

[astargatelover]

For those who have trouble reading that:

Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.” You’re right!

From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.

He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses. William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.

He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.

When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.

Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!

William Dorsey Swann is the original queen, the original drag mother, the original activist. Tell his story!

[carnivalsofsilverfish]

I assume these have been posted, but friends, you HAVE to see some more photos from this shoot:

[beadyeyes]

can you draw sonic the hashbrown?

[craftylilcreatures]

Sometimes i remember that i can make whatever i want

[beadyeyes]

no way

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[altafpatel]

How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

[claireslash]

Reblog to literally save a life

[maximasmac]

whish they told us this in school, all they did was say “feel for lumps, you will know when you feel it”

[spliffyhippie]

I’m not even sure what it’s really supposed to feel like 😕 🥲 education system has failed us all

[shroudedwillow]

My mom has had breast cancer twice and we have a familial genetic marker known as BRCA2. I have known about these signs and symptoms to watch for since I was 6. So watch and feel and be proactive! Because you know your body better than anyone else!

And for anyone that has never been told what to feel for: My mom always said if you feel anything that feels like a frozen pea(depending on size of course) that wasn’t there before to get it checked out ASAP. Don’t ignore the things that are scary, they only create more issues down the road. If my aunt hadn’t ignored it when she first found her tumor, she might still be here today.

Be Proactive. Get checked. Check yourself.

AND PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE ANYTHING YOU FEEL IS WRONG.

[gelatomoon]

so uh ,, 

[rezpiral]

Hey, this is the scariest thing I’ve seen thanks.

[busket]

yall act like you’ve never seen a mushroom before

inside toad’s head is an hollow cavern circling his face which contains those gills (the light brown ribbed things). when he gets old, his head will open up and flare out like a sombrero, and release the spores held in the gills on the underside of the cap. and then he’ll die

toads in various stages of life:

[gelatomoon]

IM REALLY NOT SURE IF THIS IS ANY BETTER

[b-salamander-deactivated2023021]

I reblogged this a few days ago, but I woke up in a cold sweat to draw this

[gelatomoon]

OH NO 

[bye-curious-deactivated20200429]

Ok but are we gonna pretend he actually has teeth?

[notaboyscout]

[afuckedupghost]

stop

[bauhows]

Too real but so funny 😂

[starving-over-the-rainboww]

that’s exactly how I’m sat rn

[zero-cal-honey]

An eating disorder, huh? If I had an eating disorder could I do tHIS- *binges*

[neetgal]

[satanfemme]

people with speech impediments, vocal stims, tics, stutters, an obvious accent, who are mute (to any degree), who talk to themselves, or who have any other noticeable vocal traits, you’re all really cool and wonderful and I’m wishing u all an epic and poggers night

[satanfemme]

more people who’re included in this post: anyone who’s voice doesn’t “match” their gender, or doesn’t “match” the gender they get read as, anyone with disorganized speech, people who use a lot of “filler words”, or anyone who has a lisp. I hope you’re all having another epic and poggers night

[satanfemme]

also shout out to anyone with flat or monotone speech, “too” quiet speech, or “too” loud speech. y’all are poggers and deserve an epic night too

[starving-over-the-rainboww]

I just weighed myself and almost had a stroke…. hate myself so much for gaining back so much UGH

[titkoks]

i really didn’t think it could get worse, and then-

[hell-aint-a-bad-place]

??????????????????????????????????????????????

[killfridge]

LMFAOOOOO

[lifeofcynch]

OH MY GOD.

[screechingcollectivecollectorus]

This gave me 3/4 of possible human emotions

[ashstfu]

love this lmfao thanks anon for sharing this with me i love you

[starving-over-the-rainboww]

In a fucked up way I’m thankful that I’m relapsing just because my ED gives me so much sense of achievement and also skinni

[starving-over-the-rainboww]

I could feel a relapse brewing and here I am again, drinking my first black coffee in months and skipping breakfast and lunch ✌️✌️✌️

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[habibi243]

I hope these women are thriving and I hope they are alright

[sortakindalost]

This isn’t ana related but oh my gosh!! Women are so fuckin amazing, I literally get teary-eyed when I look at these photos. Women have always been so incredibly strong, and will continue to be so

[d34dt0m3]

FUCK I LOVE WOMEN

[not-freyja]

Know your history:

Gay:

Used to mean carefree

Then sexually deviant

Then prostitute

Then slut

Then sodomite

And THEN as we know it today but only as a slur

Reclaimed in the seventies

LGBT:

Invented in the nineties

Has faced constant backlash (from both straight, queer, and LGBT folks from being not inclusive enough or too inclusive)

Every year there are pushes to change to acronym

LGBTQ

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ*

LGBTQIA

Mogai

Alphabet soup

Queer:

Used to mean “other”

Became a slang term for “not straight” in the 1400s

Became a slur in the early 1900s

Reclaimed in the 80s.

Sudden push back from within the queer community to have it seen only as a slur in the 2010s, a push that can be traced back to terf ideology.

Is the only term that includes all non cishet people

Homosexual

A medical diagnosis

Used for decades to make queerness into a mental illness

Used as a slur for the latter half of the 20th century

Rejected by the queer community as an acceptable term for a brief period of time in the early 2000s before coming back into fashion.

Only describes the experience of cis gay men and cis lesbians

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

[sweetpeawriter]

Op ur so brave to assume people on this site can read well enough to get this

[nynaeve-almeara]

I actually talked to an older queer guy who said he was amazed to see how many young people call themselves gay. When he hears it, he just hears a slur…but he also said he was glad that people are able to reclaim it, and he’s happy to see a generation of lgbt+ people comfortable with it.

People on this site could learn from him

[jemariel]

“… every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.”

[starving-over-the-rainboww]

someone stop me from ordering food UGH 🥲