themothprince

23 | whatever pronouns | stone butch •••••••• used to be a kink acct, now mostly mush

[millenniallust4death]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

[millenniallust4death]

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

[xn3city]

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

[leavescrown]

Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

[millenniallust4death]

@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.

[millenniallust4death]

@sseanettles

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD

[petermorwood]

I’ll always reblog Martin and Bosco when they splash across my dash, because of Reasons.

What’s loved, lives.

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[sugarspilled]

a pretty femme who sends me selfies throughout her day and says “just so you don’t forget my face :P”

a pretty femme who says “come onnnn :( i wanna see my baby” to get me to send selfies back

a pretty femme who sends me pictures of her soaked panties and says “thinking of you <3”

a pretty femme who sends me pictures of her tits and says “need your mouth rn :(“

[goth-princess-gwennie]

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

[jabbotmohan]

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

[xoxoviva]

Or…

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

[gayvampyr]

a few more artists i love:

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

shadow age (goth)

black pantera (rock, metal)

the 1865 (punk)

erzulie (punk, rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

youth man (punk)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

the ire (goth, punk)

crystal axis (punk)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

bastet (goth punk)

[depsidase]

[untitledgoosegay]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[darrylayo]

[nutzo0001]

5 Phone Calls Can Stop American Fascism. Here Are the Numbers.

Politicians have a secret math they don't want you to know.

[mckitterick]

important stats from that article about why calling local leaders matters:

One phone call = 100-1,000 angry voters.

One personal email = 10-50 voters.

One form letter = maybe 1 voter, if they even count it.

This is the economy of political pressure. Individualized contact influences 94% of congressional offices on undecided issues. Mass email campaigns? 18%. Petitions? Worthless.

But here's the secret that changes everything: State officials are sitting ducks.

State Comptrollers generally receive 5-10 constituent calls per month. State Treasurers? Many have never experienced a coordinated campaign. District Attorneys? Only hear from victims and lawyers, not voters. State Legislators? They average 20-30 contacts per week.

The magic happens at these thresholds:

10 calls in an hour = staff notices.

50 calls in a day = emergency meeting.

100 calls in a day = office shuts down to handle it.

500 calls in a week = policy change consideration.

1,000 calls = historical precedent shows this forces action.

Constituent contact increases legislator support probability by 12-20%. The Net Neutrality campaign's 1.3 million calls changed federal policy. The ACA defense campaign's 6,000 calls prevented repeal. At the state level, you need 100x fewer calls for the same impact.

this fantastic article has sample scripts for what to say about ICE in your state and city, as well as what to ask for to help your city and state fight federal over-reach where you live

we can win this fight, but we need to fight. I know on a personal level how hard it can be to make calls, especially to politicians, but we've reached a point that if we don't, the slippery slope into the chasm of tyranny becomes a cliff

[transpocsuggestion]

what a beautiful day to remember that trans people of color exist and deserve better

[sassystarlightcollection-deacti]

trans people of color exist and deserve better!!!!

[thewolfofthestars]

Hey it’s Black History Month!

TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR EXIST AND DESERVE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[timemachineyeah]

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[poztatt]

DPC and DPL.  Dead People’s Clothes and Dead People’s Leather. Their toys, their paintings of half naked, naked, screwing men.  The statues.  The leather.  The sling.  The posters.  The … all of it. We’d literally Straighten homes.  Depending.  Some families knew and were fine. Or more ok.  But pictures of other guys on phones was the least of it. I have… leather that’s been passed through three or four men who’ve died before getting to me.  They’re the heirlooms now, passed down chosen families.   Sometimes there were crews.  We’d show up as soon as possible, as a unit.  We’d hit the bedrooms first.  Clear out closets, under beds, bedsides.  We’d donate, throw out, take mementos.  Pass on.  Secret lives and secret, us only treasures.   Then we’d leave.  For some family’s you never talked about it.  They never knew.  It was better all around.   I have vests, gloves.  A belt.  Arm bands.  Paintings.  T-shirts.  Photos, undeveloped film that’d I’m still somewhat terrified to try to get developed (lol).  We live on in the living rooms of others.

[theequeerstrian]

This is. A very important message for the younger generations of queers.

We still have so much father to go, but y'all. Don’t let our past be forgotten.

[ricemilk413]

Transcription: So back in the late 80s and early 90s, when I was 20 and there was another friend dying of AIDS like every three weeks. Yeah, seriously those days were terrible. Young gay men now will just never know what it was like. But when a friend would die we would ALL know exactly what to do. We’d get to their houses as fast as possible (most of us already had a key) and we would know EXACTLY where the smut was, we would know EXACTLY where the stuff they didn’t want their family to find. We would get it and we would destroy it. OR we would keep it for ourselves if it was cool, or we would donate it to…something. I dunno. It’s kind of a messed up memory, but uh, back then we all just had to have each other’s backs and uuh, yeah. This video just reminded me of that.

[silentplanetcat]

So something similar to this happened with this Leatherdyke Organization that I pal around with. At the end of an event one of the elder org members revealed that one of her close friends—the only one of her gay male brothers to survive the aids crisis—had died and she needed help cleaning out his apartment. This close friend happened to be a guy named David S. Menkes. David S. Menkes was probably one of the most prolific leatherworkers in NYC. Dude designed outfits for Lady Gaga and dressed leatherqueers all over the world. He was a glorious, glorious man. Anyway, I and some other young queers helped clean out his apartment. First there was an estate sale which was incredibly moving in itself. There were just…so many moments. There was the moment I found his old book of Cole Porter songs. I opened it, found one my gay godfather (another survivor of the AIDS era) introduced me to and began to sing. Night and day, you are the one Only you beneath the moon and under the sun Whether near to me or far It’s no matter darling where you are I think of you Night and day One of the older gays at the estate sale stopped in their tracks when they heard me, visibly moved. “I didn’t know young people knew that song. I haven’t heard it sung in years.” There was the moment a bunch of younger queers (myself included) gathered around David’s stash of leather. Some of them were leather workers, others (like me) were not. We all exchanged numbers and resolved to start learning to make our own pieces. I came back the day after the estate sale to help pack more stuff up in boxes. That evening as I sat in my room with my inherited leathers I thought of another theatre-gay classic I’d heard when I was younger. It’s a song composed by George Gershwin shortly before his death about love and community in the face of impermanence. The lyrics were written by George’s brother, Ira, after the former’s funeral. The more I read the papers The less I comprehend The world and all its capers And how it all will end Nothing seems to be lasting But that isn’t our affair We’ve got something permanent I mean in the way we care It’s very clear. Our love is here to stay.

[dzgrizzle]

[depsidase]

[saywhat-politics]

Minnesota toy shop hit with shock audit by Trump officials after criticizing ICE on TV, owners claim

Minnesota toy shop claims DHS began auditing it after owner criticized ICE on TV

Toy store says it was hit with an audit notice hours after one of its owners said ICE had ‘terrorized’ Minnesota

[mugiwara-lucy]

Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!

Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!

[depsidase]

[duckworks]

Weirdly, everytime I see a reference to the ICE List link being blocked, it never includes the link to the list. Click here.

[depsidase]

thank you for posting the link.

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”

“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”

[libraford]

Happy to see this in places where I usually find white nationalist stickers.

[theconcealedweapon]

[depsidase]

[anarchopuppy]

#It is so fucking hard to find content about Keith Porter that's actually about him #instead of playing a game of 'who gets the most attention' between people who were murdered #Keith you deserve to be actually remembered for who you were not just used as a rhetorical tool to make a point