gay, playing MTGA, craving breakfast entree

very queer demiboy. he/they. liminal spaces are my aesthetic. I play and blog a lot about D&D, MTG, and politics. icon by Fiona Staples, cover art by misslucid.

[peerless-cucumber]

Green Lantern: Legacy (2020) by Minh Le

As a second generation immigrant this comic means so much to me. Community is so important! I love the idea of a local hero and I hope to see Tai Pham more often from now on!

[trustnoufos-deactivated20200923]

Sex Education (Season 2, Episode 4)

[michygeary]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[nirnruwut]

every lesbian i know loves pirates what’s with that

[galactictesticle-deactivated202]

Keira knightly in pirates of the carribean

[officialskylerwhitestan-deactiv]

[valtsv]

i like how the term "gay rights" implies the existence of heterosexual wrongs

[valtsv]

disco vs. golf

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sleepybutches]

oh you’re straight? so you’re kind of, like, half-bi?

[urchinadvokist]

hi im confused

[killowave]

[rodimuses]

Hey, im trying to help someone find the cool, lgbt side of the mtg fandom. Reblog if you consider yourself part of that. This will be a masterpost of urls

[urchinadvokist]

I have a roommate I don’t really know and he’s packing up to leave. He packed my eggs? As in, this week I bought a dozen eggs. He took them out of the fridge and packed them. Why?

[officialfifthcolumn-deactivated]

[officialfifthcolumn-deactivated]

[sunriseseance]

[thesweetpianowritingdownmylife]

Why revoke her “gamer” card if she obviously played all of you perfectly

[thyrell]

this is what we in the field call an “epic pwn”

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[prinxietys]

“I dont fucking know anymore”

[lizord-lord]

god.

[wolves-on-caffeine]

None gender, left gay

[i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing-de]

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[romansleftshoulderpad]

Maui From Moana

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

My gender is “no”

[dualwieldteacup]

the entire discography of Panic! At The Disco but wearing a flannel

[hypotheticalwoman]

Token Sparklequeen

[mazarinedrake]

glamorous anime bishounen

[thebisexualmandalorian]

My favorite way to describe myself is: weird grandpa retired and moved to a queer commune in Boca Raton.

[propheticfire]

Shapeless bog witch only barely obscured by a veneer of unicorn sparkles.

[gallusrostromegalus]

That Thing in the Woods that can’t be photographed properly

[urchinadvokist]

If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

[macleod]

this fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined

[androgyne-angel]

[jturn]

sell it bob

[urchinadvokist]

yes

[star-anise]

So “queer” isn’t just an identity that’s broadly inclusive because, I don’t know, we like big parties. There’s actually an underlying ethic, a queer theory, that has political implications.

Its name reclaims a slur because the point is to say, “I am different, but that’s not a bad thing.” The queer movement is about upholding the right of all people to deviate from an oppressive cisgender, heterosexual, patriarchal norm. Broadening the spectrum of acceptable diversity; questioning and dismantling the social pressures that police and punish deviance. Changing not just our own lives, but how our entire society thinks about sex and gender.

That’s why “queer” embraces so many different groups. It’s not trying to erase their differences, but to try to coherently understand the complex overlapping pressures that affect each of them, and to extend our reach beyond the LGBT+ community. It’s about the right of lesbians to live without men and the right of trans and nonbinary people to be who they are, the right of asexuals to define for themselves what’s significant in their lives, the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent. When the great queering project is done, you will see the changes everywhere, not just in small LGBT+ enclaves.

It’s recognizing that something that harms or oppresses one of us is pretty likely to harm all of us, so we all benefit from taking it down together.

[jkl-fff]

^THIS^ It sums up queerness so concisely. And the best part? By including the line “the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent”, it illustrates what queerness is all about:

freedom– *real* freedom for *everybody* to be who they *really* want to be.

Queerness, at its core, is NOT about saying  “I don’t feel I belong in any of these boxes”. Queerness, at its core, is about saying “No human being belongs in a box”.

[star-anise]

I NEED THAT AS A CROSS-STITCH SAMPLER

[backofthebookshelf]

@shitpostsampler

[fataldrum]

One thing I love about being queer is that the fluctuations in my identity don’t matter. It doesn’t matter if I’m “gay enough” or “bi enough” to fit in the right box. It won’t matter if I have a sudden sweeping realization about my gender. I will have been queer the whole time. 

[star-anise]

Yeeees. As we discover ourselves, we often fluctuate between identities and genders before finding what really fits. The worst part about a fractured and divisive communities is that it means losing communities as often as you find them.

[babs-n-baubles]

It literally means ‘strange, oblique, and preverse" therefore it is a slur by design.

Fuck off. It should not be used as an umbrella term, especially with so many people in the LGBT community that have extremely bad and traumatic memories attached to it, myself included.

The word q**** should ONLY be used as a self identifier. It should never be used to refer to another person without their consent because it’s an obfuscating term by nature. It boils down the identities of such a large and diverse set of people into a meaningless gray sludge. Imagine taking all the pride flags and replacing them all with one big brown square. That’s what q**** does to people identifies while LGBTQIA+ actually includes EVERYONE, and since it’s an acronym, it can be modified to include even more people.

If you want a more detailed explanation as to why q**** is a fucking terrible and dangerous word to use as an umbrella term, I suggest you watch youtuber Lily Orchards video on the topic called ‘Slurred Speech’, where she delves into the words history and exactly why it’s a slur.

People were beaten and killed on the street while having this word screamed at them, I was dehumanized and made to feel like an animal with this word, and I’m frankly appalled and disgusted that people have the gaul to just say that everything’s ok now.

Q***r is not a kind word. It never has been, and it never will be.

Stop trying to pretend otherwise.

[drjamjams]

@royalbabble you.. you do realize words can be reclaimed.. right? Also just make your own fucking post instead of trying to derail this one.

[star-anise]

Royalbabble blocked me to keep me from replying; I blocked them back because hey why not; but for future reference, I’m totally done with the “queer is a slur” people until they submit written answers to the following questions:

If queer cannot be used because it is a slur, what am I doing for the comfort and security of people who have had “gay” and “lesbian” used hatefully as slurs towards them?

If queer is not a good umbrella term, what is a good umbrella term that will automatically include bisexual, pansexual, transgender, nonbinary, asexual, and aromantic people, intersex people if they want to be included, and Indigenous people from non-Western cultures who identify as two-spirit, third gender, or other traditions? Is my preferred umbrella term easy to spell, pronounce, and teach to an uninformed straight ally?

What work am I doing to make myself an ally to people from identities that don’t get top billing in the LGBT community (see list in previous point)? What am I doing to promote awareness of these groups’ interests and let them know I support them?

[ruffboi-mags]

Also, Lily Orchards is the person who listed queer Jewish creator Rebecca Sugar as a “nazi apologist” because she didn’t like the children’s cartoon show Sugar made, so forgive me if I don’t want to listen to anything an antisemitic asshole says on any subject, ever.

[urchinadvokist]

I have far more experience with “gay” directed as a slur towards me that with “queer.” No one would listen if I asked them to stop calling themselves gay.

[glumshoe]

“Folks” is not a gendered word. You don’t need to spell it with an X to make it gender-neutral.

[urchinadvokist]

Hey @glumshoe this is a really good concise explanation of why I (enby queer boy) use folx when talking about queer-trans communities, even in my academic writing: https://radicalcopyeditor.com/2016/09/12/folx/

You’re right, it’s not necessary at all! I just find it to be a way of centering LGBTQ+ people in a way that feels friendly, familial, and intentional, and conveys my love for those I identify with in a way that saying “folks” doesn’t. 

People use and appreciate words differently so nbd if you don’t like it, just offering a genuine why :p