There Is A Thin Line Between Love And Hate

It’s burning down all around us. I guess we just see if we can survive it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[themakeupbrush]

Sabrina Carpenter at the 2026 Met Gala

[heatedrivalrysource]

via Connor Storrie

I’m a @tiffanyandco boy🪽

[actuallysara]

Hudson Williams at the Balenciaga fashion show in Paris, France

[heatedrivalrysource]

Peak Hudson 🫶

[iruutciv]

he's an icon

[dailyhudsonwilliams]

Hudson Williams at the Balenciaga Fashion Show in Paris via annie_lws

[hudconfansblog]

I am in hell and Ilya Rozanov sent me😈

[sunlightspiced]

The James Dean parallels are driving me insane

[thisshitisridiculous]

this is so clear in the just, everything about how they’ve been handling public appearances but i’m so glad it’s an active choice they both feel secure in. obviously we’ve been getting press content of them together (namely the gq shoot, golden globes, and olympic torchbearers) but even with those they each took their own moments alone to show their individualism. it’s clearly been the goal. so far we’ve been getting a pretty 1 to 1 media run (late night followed by late night, photoshoot followed by photoshoot, fashion show followed by fashion show) but each working with different collaborators and artists. we’re watching them build their personal brands in real time and every project and event they choose is part of that. it’s what each of them is more interested in and what image they want to project. it’s really fun to watch. i’m excited to see them off to the races on their own paths as artists

[rylandsgrace]

#Joke asides, this is actually important

[shadowfromthestarlight]

The thing that I find most annoying about signs in store windows advertising that they're welcoming to LGBT or that they accept everybody is that I really just assume that anyway. The sign is literally just a virtue signal and it's not there for any other reason, because every store is supposed to be open to the public by default. I would think it goes without saying you're not going to turn away a black person or someone wearing religious garb or a gay couple that walked in holding hands. If you did, word would get out immediately and you'd be in trouble. The signs are really a turn-off tbh because they're just so dumb.

[ghostlycow]

It's like a restaurant putting up a "My cooks won't spit in your food!" sign.

[generallemarc]

If I was walking past a store with a sign that said "immigrants welcome!" my first thought would be "what did they do to suggest that they weren't welcome?", because why would you need to specifically tell members of a specific group they can walk in and buy things, that they can do what you want as many people as possible to be doing because that's how stores work, unless there was some reason for them to think they couldn't or shouldn't? That's the vibe it gives off.

[isaacsapphire]

The only sign of this type that’s actually telling people any new information are the “we speak [non-English] language] come on in” in the non-English language. There’s some auto shops in my area that list three or four languages, and obviously a shop advertising some ethnic treat or shampoo or whatever in a non English language says “immigrants we got the stuff you missed from home”. Like, that’s the real, non virtue signaling way for a store to communicate “immigrants welcome”.

That said, I have seen gay flags on shop doors where it really did mean something; gun shops aren’t default assumed to be gay friendly, and it’s not a zero cost move to openly announce a gun shop is gay friendly.

Sometimes it’s a “we don’t spit in your food” sign and sometimes it’s a “we are nut-free” sign, you know? It’s contextual.

[rosebramblewolf]

this is huge actually

[attackoftheskydancers]

I used to think like this, but then Lauri Carleton was murdered. It's actually extremely brave to announce your support for a marginalized group in an era of increasing hate crimes and gun violence.

Daughters remember woman killed in Pride flag dispute as ‘fighter for equality'

Lauri Carleton was shot and killed in August 2023 following a dispute over a Pride flag outside her Lake Arrowhead shop.

[cardassiangoodreads]

As a lesbian myself I hard agree with prev:

#as a gay person i actually like seeing pride flags on businesses bc i know that if i go in there with my girlfriend#im not going to get bizarre attitude or hostility from the people who work there#which is not necessarily a given! some people will take your money while treating you horribly and its bad!

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere. In more hostile environments, it's very heartening to see that if you are in a group that can't be sure of that. And as this article shows, it's not like people who put those signs up are not assuming risk!

I'm so tired of this very insular Tumblr attitude that is so disdainful of allyship, assuming it must always be performative and fake - when allies have often been a (sometimes quite literal) lifeline for marginalized groups throughout history. It shows how much people who say these things live in a bubble, at a complete removal from anyone who has lived lives unlike their own, presently or currently. Go to a small town in a red state, you sheltered children. Or at least just like, leave the Internet once in a while, since I'm sure that is the real issue with a lot of people who make these posts.

[bigbigbigtruck]

Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere.

[kppigpen]

I live in one of the bluest areas in the US and these kind of signs are still absolutely necessary. Because the assholes are all around like fungal spores and it can be the difference between them shutting up and fucking off or taking root and becoming regulars and inviting all their asshole friends.

[aranock]

Yeah as a trans lesbian living in Sask its relieving when places have that up, because its kinda the norm to not be treated well. Places doing that place themselves at risk to an extent. My uni regularly had nazi vandalization of our pride walk, theres a pretty famous video of a guy harassing volunteers who were painting the pride walk on broadway a few years back, and Ive heard of other instances around town. It has risk attached. It also makes me comfortable going places with my girlfriend, it makes me know staffs probably not going to harass us or stand by when I get called slurs in front of them(has happened many times usually when Im alone) or some weird transphobe in Harry Potter merch stalks me through a store(happened twice, the second time security of their own accors stopped the stalker just from how weird they were being following me). Its super helpful when medical places show it because discrimination is common, thankfully the pharmacy my gf and I go to has a really supportive staff, they display and wear pride flags and then back it up with how they support trans people going there for HRT. Sure a flag can be performative but not here, not when you can get harassed for it, not when its relatively uncommon. This reminds me of the people who whine about pronoun circles and other things and it tells me they've never lived somewhere thats norm isnt being queer supportive.

[hahlilvndr]

“city that traditionally decorates their doors with garlic found to have no vampire problems, therefore hanging garlic is useless vanity” is a hell of a take in the vampire states of america

[sheisraging]

this adorable munchkin

[sheisraging]

he looks so happy <3

[sheisraging]

nbd i'm fine

[sufferingbooknerd]

The gods in S3 realizing that Annabeth Chase, who Poseidon’s son admitted that he’d “burn it all (Olympus) down” for, is missing and presumed dead

[theatrical-penguin]

All the potential Great Prophecy kids on the quest to save Annabeth! Both Thalia and Percy have made it known they’ll fuck everyone up for her.

[kiwi]

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

[kiwi]

sorry to broadcast ur tags but this is also a valuable part of the litmus test! it seems like you learned a lot about how this person makes you feel in their social group. they didn't go out of their way to include you, and neither did their friends. therefore you can come to a pretty good conclusion about how you might feel being part of their life outside of an escape room; someone who doesnt include you or your feelings in a game is likely going to do the same in other situations

[leabethchase]

Poor boy is not gonna survive losing Annabeth next season 😬