edgy finales can get in the bin

asks are always open but it might take me a year to get to it - Talis - bi/ace - 27 - she/they - Writer with far too many OTPs - MULTIFANDOM - icon and header by @fen-ha-fuck-you

[talistheintrovert]

newest video is out now! i am relying on tumblr to get this to the audience it deserves

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[wordsmithofdoom]

ORIGIN

Gilbert Baker was an American artist and activist known for designing the rainbow flag. Born in 1951 in Parsons, Kansas, Baker served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. After his discharge, he learned to sew and became involved in the gay rights movement in San Francisco.[7]

Influenced by his friend and gay rights activist, Harvey Milk, Baker adopted Milk’s call for openness and truth among gay people. He saw the flag as a direct way to express presence and identity.[8] At the urging of filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan Jr., Baker created the rainbow flag to serve as a symbol for the movement.[9]

The first flags appeared on June 25, 1978, during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration.[10][11]

According to a profile published in the Bay Area Reporter in 1985, Baker "chose the rainbow motif because of its associations with the hippie movement of the Sixties but he notes that the use of the design dates all the way back to ancient Egypt".[12] People have speculated that Baker was inspired by the Judy Garland song "Over the Rainbow" (Garland being among the first gay icons),[13][14] but when asked, Baker said that it was "more about the Rolling Stones and their song 'She's a Rainbow'".[15] Baker was likely influenced by the "Brotherhood Flag" (with five horizontal stripes to represent different races: red, white, brown, yellow, and black) popular among the world peace movement and hippie movement of the 1960s.[16][17][18][19]

The first rainbow flags commissioned by the fledgling pride committee were produced by a team that included artist Lynn Segerblom.[20] Segerblom was then known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow; according to her, she created the original dyeing process for the flags.[21] Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched the first two flags for the parade.[22] The original flag design had eight stripes, with a specific meaning assigned to each of the colors:[23][24][25] Hot pink Sex Red Life Orange Healing Yellow Sunlight Green Nature Turquoise Magic/Art Indigo Serenity Violet Spirit

The two flags originally created for the 1978 parade were believed lost for over four decades, until a remnant of one was discovered among Baker's belongings in 2020.

Source: Wikipedia

Rainbow flag (LGBTQ) - Wikipedia

A literal piece of history. Happy pride! --WoD

[talistheintrovert]

i don't think i deserve it (please never leave)

Eun Chaeni and Lee Un-jeong zapped into existence in the middle of his apartment, her arms still banded tightly around his chest, bodies pressed together even after they realised where they’d ended up. If anything, she squeezed him more aggressively, as if making a point. His ribs were still sore and the rest of him wasn’t much better either, but he didn’t care - the pain reminded him that she was here, she was tangible, she was alive.

“Sorry,” she said sheepishly, but he could hear the smile in her voice, betraying the fact that it had been entirely intentional. “I got excited.”

Picks up mere SECONDS after the credits roll, read it HERE!!

[dogpuppy]

[wizardarchetypes]

the place where so many haunted house genre stories fall apart is where the writers try to explain why the house is haunted and it completely defangs the story because the explanation is never as scary as the haunting itself. "this house is haunted and bad things happen here" can be so artful and outrageously scary. "this house is haunted because Specified Bad Thing Happened Here" falls flat again and again. i'm not saying it can't be done but i'm almost never satisfied by it and often it ruins the whole story for me.

[wizardarchetypes]

the thing is, a Haunted House story is not the same as a Ghost story. In a Haunted House story, the Haunted House is a character. Usually a main character. In a Ghost story, the ghost is a character. A Ghost's story may be explained by showing us the Ghost's origin. But a Haunted House story cannot be explained by showing us the origin of one of the House's ghosts. That's just one ghost. We're talking about the House.

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

[the-fallen-blue]

[creaturey]

i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives

[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

[teeth--king]

( <= green bean

[saxhleel]

( <= chili pepper

[transmortifried]

. <= blueberry

[soundtestmenu]

=3 <= broccoli

[nonfungibletoken]

● <= orange

[woodrider]

. <= pea

[toebeens]

• <= plum

[dragongirlteeth]

<3< <= strawberry

[translesbianorchestra]

<==}< <= carrot

[shiba-boyfriend]

~<O{ <= beetroot

[tittytoreador]

°o8~ <= grapes

[halftoning-deactivated20240224]

Ó <= apple

[nynaeve-almeara]

88- <= raspberry

[shrike-dyke]

c'ɔ <= bell pepper

[thekaylahub-deactivated20231205]

cc’ɔɔ <= pumpkin

[isa-ah]

-8 <= cherries

[loverlighted]

☆{ } <= pineapple

[trapny]

¶\__________ <= garden hose (to water all the plants)

[wizardshark]

alright everyone good work gardening today. Let's all head inside and get some lemonade now

[amayikes]

|■| <= lemonade

[gsirvitor]

[uh-oh-no-not-again]

(I don't know how to format this, but I need to write down the text from the image so people with screen readers can experience it. My best attempt is below.)

Title: Finns are disappointed in streaming services and have started pirating again - "This is not how society works", scolds copyright collective.

Subtitle: "Well fucking boohoo", says an expert.

-## this post is so good to me I had to translate it for my non finn friends

(below is the original; an image in a news-article format with the previous text in Finnish.)

[snake-eggs]

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[eternalgirlscout]

a while ago I read an omegaverse fic where part of the premise was that the guy had like, abnormally long and intense heats, which as you can imagine was used for horny reasons. but it was a fairly grounded omegaverse setting as far as it goes, and I could not stop thinking "he has pornworld endometriosis and needs to see an ΩBGYN"

[usertoxicyaoi]

"I don't know. It's all because of you."

LOVE CLASS 2 (2023). Episode 8.

[fyodior]

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

sometimes the reason is this

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

[sixtwothree]

Cairn #2 (5 Stack) by yoonmi_nam.

Sources: x, x

[byedisaster]

Louis: "Let the tale seduce you, just as I was seduced"

Louis tells us a story for the first two seasons, and it IS a tale of seduction. It's about his romantic partners (Lestat, Armand) but it's also about HIS identity. Louis becomes comfortable with his identity as a vampire: "the dark gift" and the seasons close with him seeing vampirism as a gift rather than a curse.

Louis is turned out of love. Lestat loves him, and when he turns him into a vampire, he asks if this is what he wants. Lestat repeats Louis HAS to nod/say yes.

By contrast, Lestat is not turned into a vampire out of love. (book spoilers) he's turned out of force, and he resists until the end. And our introduction into his world is similarly chaotic.

The tale is not to seduce us. The narration skips around, it deflects, it plays with disgust and violence, and it's in your face. I think this is going to be a story where instead of seducing the viewer, the viewer is degraded/toyed with/appalled.

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct