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.

[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.

[maimonideznuts]

I just saw a short where this comedian Red Richardson (don't know anything about his comedy or politics otherwise, I've never seen him before) touched on something I have said many times...

"in the age of no body shaming, there is still one thing you're allowed to body shame apparently, and that is men with small dicks. Greta Thunberg was arguing on Twitter with a guy called Andrew Tate, who is on house arrest in Romania, for sex trafficking. Do you know what she said? 'you have small dick energy'. She could have said 'Andrew, you're on house arrest, in Romania, for sex trafficking' but apparently on the list of crimes that rates below having a small dick."

Small dick jokes have always been body shaming, sexist and intersexist. They shouldn't be tolerated

[strive-to-be-human]

I get into fights with people about this all the time! They're like "This isn't body shaming!" which is wild because the penis is a body part and you're asserting the size and shape of it is shameful.

Then they're all like, "Well, no, I'M not saying that it is. I'm using THEIR MINDSET to insult them." Babe, you are using the notion that the shape of someone's body makes them a bad person. That's body shaming. Whether it originates with them or with you, you are using the tool of the oppressor. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

[taibhsearachd]

Highly recommend picking up the silliest easy-to-read book you can find from a library app when you are having insomnia, because then you wake up thinking things like "I'm going to be so disappointed if that killer clown is just a guy in a costume...." and for a while you're not even sure if it's because you read a book or that's just an INSANE dream you had.

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this