some hope and some despair

Ingrid | she/her

[mercury--blues]

[flantxo-no1]

[soulspark]

[tattoosingarishhues]

[kitten-kin]

Happy New Year's Eve♡ May the coming year treat us all better than the last, and I hope we all do the same for ourselves.

[pocket-deer-belly]

Some gay men really put 0 hours of work into unlearning their hatred of women’s bodies and anatomy it’s embarrassing. Like i’m super fucking sorry that you’ve got a pussy ick thing going on but i got over it after like one conversation with a friend and you’re 29 years old publicizing your pussy ick on twitter dot com dot gov posting about how super fucking hard it is that trans men are also in gay bars and that’s Not Valid because ewwww they have vacheena which is the opposite of gay eeewwwwwww! And you have to let everybody know that you’re gay not because you like men but because you hate pussy so much it makes you transphobic. Like how can you even continue to serve cunt in such a state

[pocket-deer-belly]

What more is there to say. Transphobic gay men could never serve cunt cause they hate pussy too much

[driflloon]

marwa by amalia d’onofrio

[genderqueerdykes]

i think it's funny when people pull the "but they're scaring children!" argument when talking about trans and queer people presenting and being visibly queer in public. i need you to know as a genderqueer/nonbinary intersex person who routinely goes out in drag and has been actively trying as hard as possible to not pass for the past 2 years, i can tell you that the most heartwarming and gender affirming reactions ive ever gotten have been out of random kids.

ive never had a kid glare or run away screaming from me. i have definitely seen kids go ??? because i could tell i was definitely the first queer person they had ever seen and they've never had to try to process what someone else's gender could be before. most of the time their eyes light up or they look excited, like they realized that oh wow, people can be like that too! i never have kids be invasive, rude, or call me names.

i've witnessed curiosity, wonder, confusion, and joy, but i've never once scared a kid. even with my big beard, chest hair, deep voice, and hairy legs. what i do see, though, are doors to acceptance being opened and bigots desperately trying to slam them shut.

[nyxelestia]

For the record, this is largely why conservatives are particularly targeting drag queen story hours and other family-friendly queer events, as well as queer people publicly existing in places where kids can see them. Kids have to be taught hate. Wariness of new things is natural in humans, but so are curiosity and empathy. Hate is not intrinsic, and when confronted with something new or someone different, kids will generally be either curious, or at most shy, and maybe some kids might be scared...but until and unless someone teaches them to, very few children will *hate* from the get-go. And you can't teach your kids to hate an entire demographic of people they've already met and know are fine. It's easy to get people to hate a group's existence when they've only seen them as toxic stereotypes on TV or never heard of them at all. It's much harder when people know them as "the person who read me books as a kid, the people running fashion shows on TV, someone in my community who I know is nothing like what these demagogues are trying to convince me of".

[desolationlesbian]

The butch lesbian/trans man "funky printed button down" stereotype is true but you must understand that the men's section of so many clothing stores is a bleak and miserable place. Clothing manufacturers are simply convinced that no one who wears men's clothes wants anything besides the most boring outfits possible. Often stripes are the most exciting it gets. If you want to wear clothing designed for men but happen to like "color" and "joy" in your life then often the funky printed button down or the hawaiian shirt are simply your only options, especially off the clearance rack.

[questions-within-questions]

I love watching Star Trek plots and imagining how other star trek crews would deal with this week's negative space wedgie.

Like I watched the TNG episode where Beverly Crusher keeps witnessing the crew vanishing from existence and people's memory, until it's just her and Picard, and Picard insists that the enterprises has always only been crewed by himself and his doctor.

And I can't help but think Quark would have a simply awful time if his customers and the DP9 crew kept vanishing from history until it's just him and Odo. I need to see Odo tell Quark with an utterly straight face that Odo works a full time job to police Quark and only Quark alone on an entire space station - and Quark being unable to refute that as something Odo would plausably do.

[filthyprotozoan]

one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.

[filthyprotozoan]

“i wouldn’t look back bc logically if she’s not there it wouldnt help to look and if she is there looking back would cause me to lose her” cool so has love never made you stupid and insane

[filthyprotozoan]

another thing thats interesting is i think most people assume its a walk of reasonably short length that you have to resist looking back. but we dont know how long that walk was. its out of the underworld, time could work very differently. could be days. could be months. could you walk for months without looking back to see if your love is okay? i dont think you could

[filthyprotozoan]

exactly. like oh you’re not going to look back? have you never lost a love? there is so much looking back.

[runby2]

in recent events of that zoo losing the clouded leopard, it reminded me of the time i went to a large petting zoo and there was a free roaming little black sheep. cutest little guy i ever saw, soi went to the zookeeper nearby and said ‘i think its really cute how you have a sheep thats allowed to just walk around. ‘ then the zookeepers eyes widened and he grabbed his walky talky and ran 

[thatsbelievable]

[daco-broman]

shit I missed my window, next week I guess

[the-worm-man]

Reblog on Tuesday to let your followers know it’s safe to leave the bog

[sir-poltergeist]

they are so in love

[sir-poltergeist]

I took part in DTIYS from @hg-aneh 

[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

[anachronic-cobra]

To summarize, star trek invented fuck-or-die and spock attempted to resolve this by giving kirk a boob window and wrestling with him half-naked in the sand

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

The fact that this is accurate is fucking killing me

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[bingoluka]

My dad was talking about how his friend nearly got courtmartialed during Vietnam because he refused to salute anyone, including generals. And honestly? What a mood. Good for Gary. Also apparently whenever he got in trouble at boot camp he would constantly say stuff like "What're you gonna do? Send me to Vietnam?"