And I don't care, it's obvious

28. she/her. bi. a louie harrie larrie and thriving.

[skellydun]

????? march ?????? again ??????

[red-king4]

[sleepingwiththegods]

[atticroach-deactivated20220125]

As you can see I have strong feelings about the orgy scene in Cats

[daco-broman]

the w-what

[highasaklaus]

[onedirectiom]

im so confused about the sock situation can you please explain

so harry sold limited edition socks on his website, they’re off his website now since they were sold in november but the same images were used on the website that are in this tweet

you were limited to buying 2 pairs & there was a black option and a white option. on the website and in the tweet they only showed the blue side for white and the pink side for black. but that was it. they didn’t explain the socks at all or what the other sock looked like, or if that black band was the sock packaging or was like printed on the sock. bad graphics and marketing lol. like were you getting one pink and one blue sock?? or pink or blue depending on if u picked black or white??? nothing made sense to me lol.

but people bought these limited edition socks and now they’ve started to arrive and they look like this:

so this is an example of TWO pairs of socks. so one sock in the pair is pink and blue. so pink on the outside and blue on the inside (i think) and one sock in the pair is green and white. (or black depending on if u got white socks) so they don’t match at all and the green and white side was never even advertised on the website.

the only suspicion i have for the green heart is that “choose love” the charity a portion of the proceeds went to has a ‘💚’ in their twitter bio. but i checked out their instagram and don’t really see it used on any posts, so i’m not really sure if it’s a symbol for them or not??

so nothing really adds up except harry just sent a bunch of larry socks out to people & it’s just too funny.

[leesh]

SCREAM

[hawards]

[murielsweddings-deactivated2023]

stopppppp im going to pass away just thinking abt this

[youngbloodbuzz]

#what a way to discover you have a priase kink

[champagne-vagabond]

When I got my first tattoo I told my rather beautiful tattoo artist that I refused to be a wuss and she said “Oh dont worry, if you squirm I will pin you down.”

And that lives in my head rent free.

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

[cipheramnesia]

“What is it with queer people and tattoos?”

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Something something intricate rituals

[aleisol]

[adhd-vibes]

whew ok, time to work! ..okay. okay. let’s get started. …,,okeyy ah lets do this. yep…. okay. yes sir lets do this. let’s get started….just gonna start now yep. ,,okay. okay. okayy. ok. …ok..okey…..alright ok.. right hhh

[whitepeopletwitter]

[falsedetective]

[shinobicyrus]

Basically, yeah.

[adotcorbin]

Hi please dont hide these in the tags

[capcourse]

all these people who say gay was never a slur are too young to remember those psas that told you to say stupid instead of gay

[wheatleylaboratoriez-deactivate]

what

[capcourse]

idk if this is a “i dont believe you” what or a “you mean there are people who havent seen these??” what but allow me to enlighten you

i havent watched this commercial in 10 years (which was also when it was posted) but yes i remember this playing on TV when i was younger

heres an article from 2009

heres an interview from 2009

in fact, these were so culturally relevant that i distinctly remember watching a dane cook special where he had a bit about it (i think he also mentions rape so tw for that) 

i grew up hearing gay be thrown left and right as a derogatory term, and its a small part of why i dont identify with the word.

if youre going to say that queer is a slur, then you have to mention that gay is used as one as well. otherwise, youre just spewing t///er/////f propaganda and im not about that bullshit   

[wheatleylaboratoriez-deactivate]

hey, thanks for providing sources! i genuinely did not know these existed because i never saw these PSA’s

[capcourse]

no problem! i dont think they were on air for a long time, so im sure there are a lot of people who dont know about ‘em! 

[kayas-wife]

There was a PSA made as recently as 2 or 3 years ago in New Zealand to stop using gay as a derogatory term

[leis-main-blog-deactivated20200]

hey, i’m 31 and actually lived through the period where gay was used as a derogatory slur. It was the major formation of my highschool and middle school years. Kids constantly would call each other, ideas, concepts, things “Gay” when they meant “stupid”. I literally had to retrain my brain for 5 years to not use it and I am part of the lgbtqia community. I was just too young to know better. 

This absolutely happened and is a major reason why we gotta be not only aware of our words but also understanding that people change. 

[drneverland]

I'm 35 and queer and I lived through that era, too. "Lesbian" was a term for any girl that was disliked, spoken in various intonations of disgust. Kind of used the same way incels spit the word "feminist," now that I think about it.

But there's more to it that some people aren't getting, either.

"Gay" and "Lesbian" were used as weapons; even if someone wasn't queer, if they were hated enough, the rumors spread. "Don't hang out with her, she's a lesbian." "Hey, should (name) be allowed to change in the locker room? You know they're gay, don't you?" And so on. Depending on where you were, especially if you were trying to have a career (like a teacher) being labeled "gay" enough times to be believed cost someone their career, because of "concerns," especially if the job involved particularly young kids. And that's just the people who got lucky enough to only lose a job.

Anything used to label us is coated in blood. Even the "good words" came from a bad past.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

I lived through this shit as well, when I was being viciously bullied in middle school they used to call me a lesbian all the time, as a way so to indicate how awful gross and terrible I was. You’ll still run into people my age using gay as a synonym for stupid and bad.

[uristmcdorf]

I was a child during the AIDs crisis.  My mum molded the sex education she gave me explicitly around protecting me from AIDs.  My school included gay sex and AIDs precautions in the sex education we got.  I grew up with our death as the first and most immediate thing I learned about what it meant to be queer.

Then spent my teen years hearing "homo", "gay", "lesbo", "dyke", "tranny", "fag", "shirtlifter", "poofter" and "queer" used as slurs against people. 

I saw the "scandals" that cost George Michael his music career, initially got Ellen's sitcom cancelled, and saw all the rumour-mongering and non-consentual outing of politicians and celebrities. 

I saw the first few ways queer folks were “allowed” to be seen on TV in my country - the original Queer Eye, Graham Norton and so on (aside from drag.  Drag was somehow always okay on British TV but I think we were supposed to pretend we all thought they were straight?).  Queer people were portrayed with humour.  If they were laughing at us, if they thought we were funny, we were safe (and GODS do I ever have some FEELINGS about Pratchett’s Count Otto and the ways he reflects the ways queer folks use the stereotypes against them as a means to seem non-threatening and therefore safe).

There are very few slurs from my youth I haven’t encountered at least one person who ID’d with.

But for "some reason" (hint: TERFs), Queer is the term the internet has apparently decided can never be reclaimed.  

How funny, isn't it, that

the most inclusive term

the term that allows people to keep the details of their identity private

the term that allows easy space for nonbinary, transgender, ace, questioning and fluid/complex identities

the unapologetically political, non-conformist and activist-associated term

the term associated with our anger, with our non-assimilation

the term associated with our history, studies and education that can empower us

is the one that's apparently unreclaimable.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I'm 35. I grew up at the tail end of the AIDS crisis.

I remember, vividly, one of my mom’s friends (a major bulldyke, although I didn’t realize that was the term at the time) insisting that she was queer, and my mom was confused because she thought that was a mean thing people said about gay people.

Veronica replied, “I’m queer, because if I call myself that, they can’t use it against me.”

You’ll pry queer from my cold, dead hands. I’m here, I’m queer, get. Fucking. Used. To. It.

[catastrfy]

CW: i’m going to type out some terms that have been used as slurs without splatting them. every one that i’m listing, i have friends who reclaimed. every one can be used as a slur. none of them “are always a slur”. i’m 59. i came out in 1979, when the word gay was used by people who physically attacked us. just like dyke, fag, lez, lesbian, homo were. i started using queer in the 80s both because i’d realised i was genderqueer and felt uncomfortable using lesbian (which i’ve recently reclaimed due the increasing acceptance of nonbinary dykes) AND becaues of the yt centered respectability politics of the 80s. i’m here, i’m queer, GET OVER IT.

[recordsystem]

Dude I'm 21 and I saw gay being used as a slur when I was in elementary school

[antis-delete-your-blogs-pls-thx]

22 and was called lesbian as an insult in middle school.

[youareagoodperson]

24 and gay was used as a slur on a daily basis when I was in high school

[quecksilvereyes]

im 22 and i still see gay used as a slur by kids

[deathcomes4u]

I'm 32, I'm queer, and I USED the terms gay and fag when i was a teenager. Because I was very sheltered from the queer community by social attitudes, and subsequently that's why it took me so long to figure out I wasn't straight or simply homosexual. 

There was literally NO media or access to queerness to show me as a teenager what I was. The closest I came to a realisation before I found queer culture on the internet and learned the terms for what I actually was, was the paintings of Norman Lindsay. And i didn't talk about how much I identified with the figures he painted, because I knew it wasn't considered normal.

I learnt not to say 'retard' as a casual slur before I learnt how Fag and Gay were just as harmful, and stopped trying to be an edgelord by using them.

But i still have art posted on my DeviantArt account where I used those terms casually in the description and comments, and I cringe so fucking hard at them. Because I learnt better.

But the work was put in to reclaim those terms. Yes, even fag, I know a lot of gay men who use it between themselves, and know others who dislike it's reclamation and refuse to use it. I have seen this whole discourse play out before and still to this day.

But queer as a term is not the same as fag. Queer has a very long history, and a very important role, and it is not just a derogatory word that was picked up and re-utilised, and I'll be damned if i see it tossed aside because of fucking TERF rhetoric. 

[nicola-coughlan]

thank you, jesy nelson, for nine wonderful years in little mix.

[catchymemes]

[batneko]

that is so fucking funny but MEAN

[alwaysxyou]

Dearest Harry Styles: will you please officiate our wedding? Please see the above powerpoint for your consideration (link to tweet thread)

[louisandthedagger]

[sweaterfemme-deactivated2025081]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how two of the most decorated female hockey players ever, one a former captain for team canada and the other for the usa, fell in love and had a baby together 

[sweaterfemme-deactivated2025081]

small gay sports baby

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

[positive-lesbian-vibes]

Ok but where is my cheesey lesbian rom-com about them falling in love while playing against each other

[johannas-motivational-insults]

Okay but the funniest part is this has happened multiple times. There are three instances of former Canadian and American national team players who have gotten married:

-Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu (both former captains)

-Gillian Apps (former alternate captain) and Meghan Duggan (former captain)

-Jayna Hefford (former alternate captain) and Kathleen Kauth

Seriously it’s like tradition at this point. I’m sure there’s a betting pool on who’s going to get married next. God I love the rival lesbian jocks trope.

[jaubaius]

She looks like a good mama

[goblinparty]

[captions]

pink shirt: mom mom: yeah? ps: what are you cooking? mom: oh, i’m makin’ blueberry jam! ps: can i say a curse word in front of you? mom: no you may not. ps: mom! just one! mom: no, you don’t- one’s too much. ps: look at me! mom: no. ps: mom! [laughing] mom, come here! mom: no, i’m not gonna ‘come here’. ps: it’s one! it’s the b-word! and it’s the only b word- just look at me!- it’s the only b-word i’d say in front of you. beautiful. i think you’re beautiful. [mom stammers but doesn’t say words] isn’t that nice? mom: that’s very nice! ps: i love you bitch [mom cracks up]

[i-will-be-a-legend]

[feminismandmedia]

LPT: Don't throw your junk mail away. Use it to to help the USPS instead!

Next time you get a credit card offer in the mail, or a junk piece of mail that includes a prepaid envelope or postcard, don't throw it away! Send the envelope back with a blank sheet of paper inside, or don't fill the postcard out, but still send it back. The company that sent it to you had to pay the USPS for postage on each one they get back. This is a way to support the USPS by doing very little, and sticking it to the annoying companies that want all of your money.

[daniel-oneiroi]

In the 90s we would send companies “hate mail” by stuffing prepaid envelopes with things like ‘blanks’ (flat heavy metal pieces), a roofing shingle) and layers of other competitors’ mail or junk news. This is because the company would have to pay more upon recieving the junk mail. It eats into them. It actually somewhat reduced our junk mail returnables, I think.  Send that mail y’all. 

[ink-phoenix]

King Shit

[aproclivityforgayshit]

I just absolutely need y’all to read his reasons for this decision, which he posted over two Instagram posts. It is golden!

I say, without the slightest bit of irony, I stan this gay icon!!