Tuttle Did It

They/them. Recovering academic who worked in Dandyism and fashion, gender and sexual identity. Interests in Old Hollywood, war (anti-war), Irish history, classic TV. Star Trek (esp DS9), occasional angry political post. Queer. Deaf. In love with Old Hollywood queers. Tattooed. I like dogs. Black Lives Matter. Museums and archives. Every character on M*A*S*H is gay. Please don't be a MAGA/Reform racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, queerphobic, ageist, anti-Science, ableist, TERF, anti-choice Tory/American Republican bigot. And if you are, just go away. I generally follow back unless you give me a reason not to.

[tuttle-did-it]

I’m not tech savvy enough to know how to turn things into a gif, but Alda sees his muffin top in the mirror, squishes it and then decides to cover it up with his boxers. Very funny scene, sorry I can’t post the gif. 

[tuttle-did-it]

'They think they're being polite but what they're really doing is teaching their child that my disability and my wheelchair is something to be ignored.' --Hon Kelly Vincent MLC

Full video with interviews from wheelchair users here.

Stop teaching your children that disabled people should be invisible. Please and thank you.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

I’m assuming the takeaway there was “tell your child that you don’t know why that person is in a wheelchair, there could be lots of reasons and it’s just not our business.” and not “encourage your child to go ask the wheelchair user why they’re in a wheelchair.”!

[tuttle-did-it]

Yes that was the general mood. Don’t teach us that we should be invisible’ and also ‘ain’t your business.

I don’t ask why people why they’re walking or why they’re wearing yellow. Let people alone. People need to mind their business.

[teashadephoenix]

It literally is as easy as "Some people need devices to help them be mobile and it isnt any of our business why they need them. Just be polite and treat them with the respect and kindness you would anybody else."

[tuttle-did-it]

Apparently that’s a near- impossibility— at least from my experience.

[teashadephoenix]

Yeah thats why it pisses me off so much. Its so easy and people are just lazy or happy to remain ignorant.

[tuttle-did-it]

treating disabled people with respect and dignity shouldn't be a fucking choice.

The crazy thing is, if you live long enough, you will become disabled.

All of you beautiful, healthy abled people out there? You WILL become disabled.

You will need a stool in the shower, you will need a cane or a zimmer frame or wheelchair, you will need oxygen tanks or to eat through a tube in your stomach or to wear hearing aids or get cataract surgeries and develop blindness.

You will need an organ transplant, you will need medication to control mental health issues or trauma support. You will need devices that help you put on your shoes and get a frame fitted for your toilet so you can get access to it.

You will develop a condition that makes it difficult to feed yourself or function in every day life. You will get a condition like COVID and have life-long lasting effects that destroy your life because of a roll of a dice. You're going to wake up in a hospital without an idea of how you got there.

Every person, if you live long enough, you will need support and you will need assistance because your body and mind will eventually start breaking down. This is just a fact of being human. You will become disabled.

You will get in a car accident or develop a genetic condition you never knew you had a family history of, you will have a stroke or a heart attack, and need to apply for government assistance because you can no longer work. You will need to ask the government for assistance to clean your home and feed yourself.

And at that time, you will NEED assistance and care and support. And you will beg the doctors and the government for support, and they will say what they say to me now-- there's just not enough FUNDING to get you the support that you need! So I'm sorry, you have to go on a waiting list, and you have to wait, and MAYBE-- just maybe-- you'll be able to apply for grants to get someone to come help you.

Until then? You just figure out how to feed and bathe yourself when you can barely move. Good luck! Empty your life-savings to get someone who can come spoon food into your mouths.

And you might just remember how all your life, you repeatedly complained about how high the taxes were And what a waste of space disabled people were. How you voted to cut support for disabled people and support systems to keep us alive. And you'll think about all those times you either never saw disabled people, or you saw them and scoffed and thought they were just lazy and and what a burden on society all those fucking disabled people were. The dregs of society STEALING your tax money and living off of it whilst you work so hard! The invisible, useless scum who probably aren't even that disabled anyway all stealing your tax.

And then one day, you're going to notice that your hand has a tremor.

That sounds aren't as clear as they were. You're going to get a cough.

A little pain in that knee, in that hip.

You're going to have a doctor inform you that the blood tests came back with concerns.

And you can't keep this job because you just cannot physically or emotionally manage it an more. Because you are just too disabled.

And you will be sat in your wheelchair, unable to access the pavement or a store because there is no ramp, and you're going to remember all those times you walked past someone in a wheelchair and didn't even clock how much they were struggling.

And you're going to realise that disabled people were not scum stealing your tax and taking up space. We were people all along who genuinely just needed a little help. The kind of help you will absolutely need at some point in your life.

If you live long enough, you WILL become disabled. You will struggle. And you will need the love and support from others that you should be giving to all disabled people right now. Human bodies do not last long. This is a fact.

But understand that one day, that might change-- and all those support systems that you will need access to will be shut down because you voted to shut them down. You voted to stop that funding. Because after all, who cares if it kills disabled people, right?

Well, most people do NOT care. Until they become disabled. And then they demand access to all the social services and care they need-- but guess what? It's not there.

So, my beautiful abled people who never really even see how much disabled people struggle? Who either can't see us at all, or just see us as a waste of space? Enjoy and appreciate your health and well-being right now. Because human bodies are exceptionally fragile. And you'd be shocked at how little it takes to disable one.

Treating disabled people with the most basic respect doesn't seem like it should really be such a hard thing to do. Voting to keep support systems in place to protect us is really not such a hard thing to do.

Because one day-- and that day may come so much sooner than you think-- you might be begging people to treat you with that most basic respect despite your own disabilities. And you will need those support systems.

Peace and love, folks. Be excellent to each other. Treat each other well. Enjoy whatever health you have right now, appreciate if you have a working body and mind right now. And understand that it will not always be so.

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[penelopepennington]

In addition: looking for indie publishers and queer bookshops is a great way to find and support queer authors and stories of so many infinite varieties! (The following suggestions are based on my UK-centric knowledge)

(Some) Queer Presses:

Lurid Editions are "a publishing project committed to intentional and conscientious acts of archival repair". They are "attentive to how marginalised histories are forgotten and remembered, [and] hungry to rediscover overlooked queer books". They've just received funding from Arts Council England to engage queer readers in a project to contribute to the archive!

Cipher Press "We’re really keen on the idea that queer and minority stories are for everybody, and we want to make our books – and the stories they tell - accessible to all" (what an amazing mission statement!)

Anamot Press "Anamot [Անամոթ] means shameless in Armenian. ⁣⁣Anamot Press publishes poetry and prose on intersecting experiences of gender, sexuality, race, migration, class, belonging and loss - with no shame."

(Some) Queer Bookshops

Queer Lit Oh man, I remember when this was just a tiny little shop, and now they're the biggest LGBT+ bookshop in Europe! They do amazing work in donating books about being trans to schools and parliament! They have a pay-it-forward board that will make you sob with its notes of love and support. (You can tell I wish I still lived nearby)

Lighthouse For Scottish friends - "a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop. We are an unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space"

Gay's The Word The OG Queer bookshop in the UK. One day I will make my pilgrimage!!

This really is just a tiny snapshot of all the amazing work of celebration and resistance that's being done for Queer literature at the moment. We live in frightening times, but I promise there is still lots of love and joy and hope out there in spaces like these. Support them in whatever way you can!!

[tuttle-did-it]

Please add to this- Lavender's Menace!! The FIRST Queer book store (and now online archive) of Queer material in Edinburgh.

They've been at risk of shutting down, and recently had a fundraiser that did manage to be successful. They were established in 1976 (which is interesting cos Gay's The Word opened in 1979 but is still counted as "the oldest queer book store in Britain"). This place was a second home to me when I was doing my MA-- this was the safe haven for me in that terrible time.

Lavender's Menace has a digital online archive, you can visit online in the book store, and they collaborate with the Museum of Edinburgh for readings and events. And they have a wee online shop!

This place is the real deal. So please support Lavender's Menace if you can.

[bententeren]

ok so. so we’re just. not reading now. wow ok. ok!!! booktok says we should remove half of the fun from reading!!! wow!!! (i found this in a video and apparently it’s not just this person doing it. it’s. quite a few of them. just to make that clear.)

[froxictog]

This hit me with a killing blow from three different directions.

"Skipping everything but the dialogue when reading" seems like it would make everything except, like, the scripts for radio plays (or podcasts or what have you (or, as some people have correctly pointed out, comics!)) incredibly confusing to read. I've only read one book (that I recall) in an almost-entirely-dialogue format (MCA Hogarth's Defence of the Fiddler), and that's because it was basically the script of a play rather than a traditional prose novel. I am reeling.

"I only add descriptions to my writing because I feel I'm obligated to, not because I think it adds anything" feels like this person would much rather be writing radio plays as well as reading them, but they are reading and writing novels instead. (I guess this is analogous to all the people who wrote TTRPG sourcebooks because what they really wanted to do was write 500 pages of worldbuilding with no associated plot, but you couldn't get a publisher to look at that unless there was a d20 system hack stapled to the front.) This one I'm actually somewhat prepared for after the first one, because it's just the same thing from the opposite direction.

And then from out of fucking nowhere it hits me with the enormous crab claw of "reading 30+ books in a year is impossible and anyone who says they do must be skipping most of the book" and sends my mangled corpse flying out the window.

[tuttle-did-it]

Should I do like you instead?

Read the first 10 pages of every book,

pass myself off as cultured?

[gender-trash]

are you nerds ready to see TOP SURGERY KIRK??

[roach-works]

this is one of the more expensive cosplays i've seen but you really can't argue with the results

[mortimermcmirestinks]

hey OP? this is the best cosplay I've ever seen

[tuttle-did-it]

Happy pride to this absolutely beautiful individual who deserves the world.

[tuttle-did-it]

'They think they're being polite but what they're really doing is teaching their child that my disability and my wheelchair is something to be ignored.' --Hon Kelly Vincent MLC

Full video with interviews from wheelchair users here.

Stop teaching your children that disabled people should be invisible. Please and thank you.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

I’m assuming the takeaway there was “tell your child that you don’t know why that person is in a wheelchair, there could be lots of reasons and it’s just not our business.” and not “encourage your child to go ask the wheelchair user why they’re in a wheelchair.”!

[tuttle-did-it]

Yes that was the general mood. Don’t teach us that we should be invisible’ and also ‘ain’t your business.

I don’t ask why people why they’re walking or why they’re wearing yellow. Let people alone. People need to mind their business.

[teashadephoenix]

It literally is as easy as "Some people need devices to help them be mobile and it isnt any of our business why they need them. Just be polite and treat them with the respect and kindness you would anybody else."

[tuttle-did-it]

Apparently that’s a near- impossibility— at least from my experience.

[tuttle-did-it]

'They think they're being polite but what they're really doing is teaching their child that my disability and my wheelchair is something to be ignored.' --Hon Kelly Vincent MLC

Full video with interviews from wheelchair users here.

Stop teaching your children that disabled people should be invisible. Please and thank you.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

I’m assuming the takeaway there was “tell your child that you don’t know why that person is in a wheelchair, there could be lots of reasons and it’s just not our business.” and not “encourage your child to go ask the wheelchair user why they’re in a wheelchair.”!

[tuttle-did-it]

Yes that was the general mood. Don’t teach us that we should be invisible’ and also ‘ain’t your business.

I don’t ask why people why they’re walking or why they’re wearing yellow. Let people alone. People need to mind their business.

[tuttle-did-it]

'They think they're being polite but what they're really doing is teaching their child that my disability and my wheelchair is something to be ignored.' --Hon Kelly Vincent MLC

Full video with interviews from wheelchair users here.

Stop teaching your children that disabled people should be invisible. Please and thank you.

[spankerella]

@ goodgoodgoodco

[h00pqueen]

https://wigreenfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Big-Tech-Unchecked-Toolkit_final_rev19Dec25-resized.pdf

Link to the pdf of the tool kit

Love you guys, stay safe!

[ao3cassandraic]

Dane County, Wisconsin voted in an 18-month data-center moratorium last week.

Resist. It can work.

[lioncourtz]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 01.01 | "In Throes of Increasing Wonder…"

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.01 | "Detroit"

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

[tuttle-did-it]

I DEMAND a film about Thomas's life. It better as hell be cast with exclusively LGTBQIA+ voice actors.

[professional-rat-eater]

I am genuinely sad the first two seasons are done and we’re never going to return to that exact tone, but not sad in an overly negative way. Those two seasons were perfect and then the book ended. You can always pick up the book again and reread it and the same story in all its complexities will always be contained in those pages. I wholeheartedly believe stories are always better when they’re finite. Switching the tone as drastically as they did not only honours the source material but closes those chapters forever and makes them untouchable.

And you know what? Jacob Anderson deserves for his show to be perfect. This version of Louis deserved it too. Both of them will always have that. No matter what happens and what changes, no one can take that from them.

[tuttle-did-it]

I have zero problem with Jacob Anderson getting to breathe and maybe even sleep, having been both the primary and secondary storylines for the last two years. I expect he’s tired. I’m sure he wants to rest.

I have zero problems with the tone shift. Zero. We were in Louis’ head for the first two years. He was a very intense, traumatised, but controlled, methodical and logical (at the time) mindset.

Now we are in the brain of Lestat. He is chaotic, traumatised, excessive, performative, and exceptionally emotional. I’m good with that. I’m good with the tone shift. I’m good with the perspective shift.

Zero problems with the tone shift.

My entire problem is that I fell in love with a show that had a cast that was the majority POC and that show is now very very very white with some POC on occasion.

And I get your point that we had the first two years. And those first two years were perfect. I’m good with that. But it doesn’t mean that I have not noticed the sea of white people flooding the POC positive show that I had fallen in love with. It doesn’t erase those first two perfect years. But it is harming my ability to enjoy this third year.

Edit to add: before anybody mentions the source material, and the fact that the source material was essentially entirely white, I don’t care.

I’ve never liked the source material actually. Never liked the vampires or any of the people in the original. Claudia. HATED book!Louis and book!Lestat— actually, hated most of the characters and didn’t care for Rice’s universe at all

So I don’t care about the source material. My interest in Interview with The Vampire/The Vampire Lestat, and these characters have always exclusively been with this television show.

And the biggest interest in the show for me with the POC characters -- especially because they are POC vampires.

This show gave me incredibly nuanced, fully developed, damaged and beautiful representations of POC characters-- especially vampires. That was my interest. And although I am still seeing POC vampires – I’m not going to pretend I’m not – the entire focus is now on a whole bunch of white people… That I don’t care that much about.

My interest in this show was Claudia. It was Louis. It was Armand. And although we still have these people there, for me their presence is being camouflaged by sea of white people. White people I do not care about even a little bit.

And yes, I know Akasha is coming. But that doesn’t change the fact that when I turn on the show, it is a sea white people with occasional slivers of POC moments. That’s a frustration for me.

But I don’t care about the source material. Never have. My exclusive interest in Louis, Lestat, Armand, Claudia and Daniel are the TV show versions.

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[parabins]

tumblr isn’t considered a social media because everyone on here is just talking to themselves

[parabins]

yeah i agree

[gutsygills]

mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

[tobiasdrake]

I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Life-changing.

[the-missing-number]

food doesn’t actually “go bad”, it just gets eaten by something else first

[the-haiku-bot]

food doesn’t actually

“go bad”, it just gets eaten

by something else first

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[torsamors-deactivated20250510]

happy pride

[torsamors-deactivated20250510]

okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spock’s in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or he’ll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, he’s also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesn’t die. but then spock’s fiance (t’pring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the ‘blood lust’ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get what’s happening. and t’pring picks kirk to be her ‘champion’ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he won’t marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so he’s like of course i’ll do this fight if it’ll help spock and then he gets told it’s a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc he’s killed his ‘best friend’ only to discover kirk’s alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (June 1st, 2022)

[inoculatedcupcake]

[tuttle-did-it]

I have been attacked.