the fire will not consume us

Hey, I'm Birdie. Things you can expect here include: tabletop and video games, comics and books, history and dead things, animals and folklore, chronic illness and disability.

[jp-nichts]

Had a funny thought while struggling through a mechwarrior mission, loosing components here and there

[jp-nichts]

While I was trying to make a version in my usual color pallet I realized I had to make some more gay looking ones for pride month

[taibhsearachd]

Donate to Keep Rev’s Natchez Tours Rolling, organized by Rob “bomber” Newson

Help Rev Keep Telling the Real Story of Natchez… One Van Ride at a Time Goal: $4… Rob “bomber” Newson needs your support for Keep Rev’s Nat

Help Rev Keep Telling the Real Story of Natchez… One Van Ride at a Time

Goal: $45,000 to purchase a new passenger van for Rev’s Natchez Country Tours

Meet Rev - the Voice of Natchez

If you’ve seen the award-winning documentary Natchez, you already know Rev, the charismatic pastor and tour guide who drives visitors through the heart and the truth of Mississippi’s oldest city.

See Natchez trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGfxjgoa9Y

On the last tour, Rev was explaining the history of Forks of the Road in Natchez, Mississippi. A few people became uncomfortable and got back in the van before the presentation was finished. The subject was slavery. More specifically, one of the largest slave markets in the United States. Forks of the Road was not just a place on a map. From the 1830s until the Civil War, tens of thousands of enslaved men, women, and children were brought there from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. Many arrived after being forced to march hundreds of miles in chained “coffles” down the Natchez Trace to be sold into bondage. Historians estimate that tens of thousands—and perhaps as many as 200,000—enslaved people passed through this market. It became one of the busiest slave-trading sites in America and helped make Natchez one of the wealthiest places in the nation. (National Park Service) Some people would rather leave that history alone. We disagree. History is not something to be hidden. It is something to be understood. Rev’s tours are not about guilt. They are about truth. They are about telling the stories of people whose names were often erased, whose families were separated, and whose lives helped build the wealth and prosperity that followed. The goal is not to dwell in the past. The goal is to learn from it. That is why these tours matter. And that is why the van matters. If you have ever taken a tour with Rev, learned something new, brought a friend, or simply believe these stories deserve to be told, please consider making a contribution. Every dollar helps keep the wheels turning and the stories alive. Thank you for helping us preserve history—not the comfortable version, but the honest one.

[lilyblisslys]

I hope your vibrator runs out of battery halfway through and that the charger is on the other side of the room. And also that you die

[lilyblisslys]

@janedemonium this just made me laugh so hard I woke up the cat

[packpack-killkill]

Cape Wild Dog | Charl Stohls Photography

[professional-rat-eater]

Lestat: I am an unreliable narrator. I love to lie.

Half the audience for some reason: I can’t believe how reliable this narrator is. He would never lie to us.

[fandiagnosis]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.2

[tarmairons]

idea from dmthinkr on twitter

[justarandomart]

when your dad calls you by your full government name

kinda based off this post

[bisexualrozanov]

#girl who is clearly healed and doing okay

[taibhsearachd]

[gracerings]

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

[etherealgoob]

Where was Lestat keeping his copy of iwtv for the entire duration of the show? Does he keep it on his person at all times? He's strapped on all occasions just by chance he runs into his ex husband ???

[sweet-shut-eye]

Never been about me

[vampyre-lesbian]

matthew lillard just shared this on his instagram, he’s such an icon 🏳️‍🌈

[evergreen-rabbit]

And this is why he's the actual fucking goat

[taibhsearachd]

Go forth and hunt zombies for science!

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

[eebie]

The apple they fed to snow white wasnt poision at all it was just a red delicious

[prof-grace-aspen]

Rent-lowering gunshots:

QUEER IS NOT A SLUR

We reclaimed it way back in the 1980's. It is the accepted term used in academia, in colleges and universities ALL OVER THE PLACE.

I can't believe we have to have this discussion AGAIN. During PRIDE month.

[maryellencarter]

Reminder from someone who was there, "queer is a slur" discourse just was not a thing in this century until about 2013, when TERFs here on Tumblr started astroturfing it and insisting that "gay" was the required inoffensive term.

They'd go through the tags and search, and just attack anyone who used the word queer -- reblogs, asks, they'd keep repeating what they wanted to sell until people forgot it wasn't the truth. One minute it was "oh we're not saying you can't use it for yourself but you're evil to use it for anyone else" and the next minute it was "how dare you use it for yourself".

That was a coordinated campaign for trans exclusion, a first big step in the extreme transphobia we're dealing with now; it caught bi/pan and aro/ace queers in the crossfire, and that sure wasn't a drawback for its proponents either. They wanted (and still want) only cis, allo, gold star gays and lesbians to be the acceptable not-straights.

Like OP says, "queer studies" has been the polite, respected, academic term for over forty years. The people who oppose it, oppose it because they want to gatekeep our identities. Fuck that noise.