Wowrpgamer

Name sez it all.  Root for the characters Freylee and Kaewynn on WrA;  Sowelu, Kaewynn, Harrigan, Lupine IV, Kaisienna, Nion, and Churl on ShC

[penroseparticle]

"Pride is not a party"

Yes the fuck it is, stop being a baby

Yes pride is a riot and a fight and yadda yadda yadda but you are not revolutionary for sucking the joy out of queerness. Sometimes, pride is a party. It is a celebration of the fact that we are here, we're queer, and we're not going anywhere. And that is just as important as throwing bricks and fighting cops, actually.

If your activism doesn't allow you to enjoy the fruits of your labors you will burn out babe. Go suck some dick. Hit on that lesbian. Get the faggy haircut!!! Dance, for the love of god.

[batboyblog]

for many years being homosexual was an official mental illness, because they said all homosexuals were unhappy, depressed, that being homosexual must be an illness because no homosexual was happy.

So having Pride be a party is a protest, loud public displays of queer joy pushes back against that idea, an idea that still to this day has currency in pray the gay away circles, there are conservative christian parents to this day scared that their queer kid won't ever be happy because thats what they've been told their whole lives about being LGBT.

also thats one standing theory as to how gay came to be the term for homosexuals, that gay as in happy and joyful was picked as slang as a kind of response to this cultural idea of depressed and unhappy queers and then stuck and became mainstream.

[wowrpgamer]

50-something cis-het here: Pride IS a party. It's a giant FU to everyone out there that still can't swallow the fact that queer people exist and love and don't care if you don't like it.

When I grew up, gay was an accusation that gave people carte-blanche to bully you, harass you, beat you, and yes, kill you.

How many queers did I know? How many did I grow up with? I don't know. Because you put your life on the line even if you even acted like you were gay.

I went to my first pride event with my child 4 years ago. I had a hard time keeping the tears back. Because there were so many adults, so many kids, so many PEOPLE celebrating their real selves in the open without fear. It was wonderful.

So yes, it's a party, it's a protest, it's liberation, it's defiance, it's validation, and it's a memorial to all those that never got to see it.

[asslover4]

Out of curiosity, where did you guys read your first fanfiction ?

Ao3

Wattpad

Fanfiction.net

Deviant art

Livejournal

Tumblr

Quotev (wtf)

It was a Twitter threadfic (ok what the actual fuck)

Other

I don't read fanfic

Voting ended onJun 10, 2025

Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

[moniquill]

Geocities, bitches.

[covid-safer-hotties]

[queerilyqueer]

Something that people still do not understand about the pandemic is how much the data was just erased or skewed so that we would all go back to work. An entire generation is facing mass disability because of a *preventable* illness that is still circulating untraced and undocumented.

Disabled people tried to warn us.

Epidemiologists tried to warn us.

Historians tried to warn us.

But when the money stopped flowing, it didn’t matter anymore. The lives and the quality of life of the masses was considered the cost of business.

I don’t even know how to grieve when no one will even acknowledge it.

[quelfabulous]

Lynesse Gloamingdawn for @saltsparkle done today on stream! She was an absolute joy to paint!

[dduane]

Meanwhile, in other-continental business...

Trump’s Attempted Library of Congress Takeover Thwarted as Two of His Appointees Were ‘Escorted Off the Premises’: CBS News

Trump’s attempt to put his own people in place at the Library of Congress hit a wall in dramatic fashion after two appointees were "escorted

...Heh.

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

Well shit, the Republicans brought a certain anti-online porn bill back to the table.

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act.

This should alarm you guys.

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

Tell your rep to reject Interstate Obscenities Definition Act

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress

Find your members of Congress by typing in your address on Congress.gov.

[mottsfiddle]

Here's a script from @/dieselbrain on Bluesky, use it to call your representatives

Source:

https://bsky.app/profile/dieselbrain.bsky.social/post/3lor4hs3ruc24

[alpaca-clouds]

This.

Look, always remember. Any sort of porn ban will be used to:

ban a variety of queer content (both trans and just other queer stuff)

ban certain health education content (especially on women's health)

create a precedent to charge minorities for any sort of content that will be argued to be then "pornographic"

will also very certainly create precedent to go against platforms like tumblr and AO3 and whereever you consume your favorite fanwork

will definitely also charge any depiction of "female presenting nipples"

Even if you think all porn is bad (you are wrong by the way), this stuff is never just about porn. Heck, chances are they would use such a law to in some roundabout way also prevent simple sex ed!

[wowrpgamer]

Folks, this is the way you close bookstores and libraries. I live in a county that has ZERO adult bookstores in it. None. You have to cross the county line to find one; heck, there used to be one on County Line road, on the OTHER side so it wasn't in our county. How did they get chased out you ask? 1) The police raided them and seized all their inventory because they were selling pornography, even though they didn't. 2) While the case went through the courts, their inventory sat in evidence instead of being sold to pay their suppliers.

3) They gave the stuff back after losing the court case. The shop restocked the shelves with the old inventory and tried to keep the creditors at bay.

4) This was repeated until the shops were so deep in debt they had to declare bankruptcy.

Now imagine this happening to any bookstore selling LGBTQ+ books, or written by LGBTQ+ authors, or anything else they declare offensive. They don't HAVE to win in court, they just need to make it so the stores can't survive.

[jeusussavearmyveteran1205]

[hatesaltrat]

I can hear this image

[kaijuno]

[skeletondanceparty]

[omamervt]

Some of these go beyond being annoying and straight to insidious because USB 2.0 and Ethernet are not obsolete.

People still use 2.0 for basic Flash storage. My 3D printer literally works by reading USB2.0 storage devices, and it's only 2 years old. I can't use my laptop to design for 3D printing because it requires adapters.

THEN FOR THE ETHERNET PORT! Ethernet cables are faster and more stable than wi-fi, not to mention the range without signal degradation with Ethernet is 100 yards, whereas even a router that COULD reach that far would have signal degredation, even with clear line of sight, long before you reached that point! Same could be said of most wired vs wireless connections. Including headphones!

all said and done, that means they get to sell you back your ability to fully use the laptop in bits and pieces. All for a device that overheats faster because it being so thin means the fans suck, assuming they get proper ventilation in the first place

[wowrpgamer]

And because they don't have ports for the flash drives, you have to order them instead of going to the store down the street and buying on off the shelf. Not to mention portable CD drives, etc. Also, half of them won't recharge while you use them because the power supplies are undersized and, as was said, they can't handle the extra heat.

[miggylol]

You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

Are you still buying the house?

🥳 Yes! Are you kidding?!!! Now I'm buying the house BECAUSE of the ghost!!!!!

😊 Yes. I'm happy to have found this house, and the ghost is a nice addition.

😶 Yes, but the ghost doesn't play into my decision at all.

😒 Yes... I guess. I'm not happy, but I'm not passing up an affordable house.

❌ No. I've found my limit, and this ghost is past it.

Voting ended onMay 11, 2025

[georgedontdothat]

respectfully sir. What??

[justanotherpurplebutterfly]

Wake up, babe. Chocolate guy is back

[wowrpgamer]

The thing that kills me is that he made a white chocolate wedge of cheese JUST TO GRATE IT.

[anxietyproblem]

[fruitviking]

Reblog to give a hug, a forehead kiss, and a grilled cheese cut diagonal to the person you reblogged it from. 

[clonethirstingisreal]

What’s your score?

𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒

16-20 Safe Space Ace

11-15 The B Team

5-10 Wise

0-4 Legendary

Feel free to play along and put your number in the tags. Remember, it's a point for something you've NEVER done (not the other way around...kind of confusing.)

Anyway, I've done them all, so I got 0.

[borderlinereminders]

It is okay and normal to be mad at people you love sometimes. It's normal for them to be mad at you sometimes. What I think really matters, is how people treat each other when they're mad.

My partner was mad at me yesterday. I was supposed to book his ferry last week but I forgot and when I went to yesterday, the reservations were sold out. (He has really busy work days and that's why I was booking it - before anyone says he could have just booked it himself. I have a lot more spare time than he does and had agreed to do it when he asked.)

He was genuinely mad at me. He expressed feeling frustrated, but he never once yelled at me. He never once insulted me. He never once threw a past mistake in my face because he was upset.

He told me that he still loved me when he was mad at me, but he took some time to calm down. And then he came back and told me that he loved me again. I gave him a sincere apology. And we came up with an alternate solution, and we moved on.

I made plans for how I can not get so distracted in the future - because I did mess up, and part of apologizing in my opinion is aiming to do better next time.

But the point is that while he was mad at me, he never treated me poorly. He was never cruel or mean. He understood mistakes happened, but he still needed a minute to sort through his feelings. And that was okay. He was allowed that. I was genuinely upset, and I felt terrible. But he was allowed the space to be mad, and I was comforted by knowing he still loved me even if I had messed up. I used my own coping methods to deal with my feelings.

It's okay to be mad, even angry. It's okay to need space. It's just important to be mindful of how we handle our feelings, and we need to know that we don't deserve someone to be mean to us, even if they're angry.

[cobrilee]

Source

Things that give me hope.

[unreformedcarrots]

[saywhat-politics]

Family raises funds for daughter's prosthetic arm, another child after insurance denial

After weeks of fighting their health insurance's denial of coverage, the Bateman family from Utah has not only secured a prosthetic arm for

BOUNTIFUL, Utah (KUTV) — After weeks of fighting their health insurance's denial of coverage, the Bateman family from Utah has not only secured a prosthetic arm for their 9-year-old daughter Remi, but has also helped another child receive the same life-changing device.

Remi's mother, Jami Bateman, shared that after their insurance provider Select Health deemed the prosthetic "not medically necessary," the family launched a GoFundMe campaign. The response was overwhelming, with the fundraiser quickly exceeding its goal.

"The GoFundMe got reposted. We exceeded well over the goal," Jami said. "I was contacted by the CEO of CrowdHealth. They decided to pick up the bill and paid for Remi's arm in full. It's just been amazing."

Because the CEO offered to pay for Remi's arm, the Batemans used the funds raised to pay for a boy in Maryland's prosthetic arm.

The viral story didn't just help Remi — her family's campaign also caught the attention of another family with an 8-year-old boy named Taj from Maryland, who will now receive the same "Hero Arm" prosthetic.

"I wasn't able to do this for Taj for Christmas," Taj's mother said, "but thought 'maybe next summer, we'll be able to get [the arm]'."

Jami Bateman hopes their story brings joy to both families.

[puipui-official]

This is not a feel good story. This should cause rage in everyone who sees it. Prosthetics should always be covered by health insurance if someone wants one. For-profit health insurance companies are the fucking devil.

[wowrpgamer]

Please, spread the word about this: Shriner's Hospitals have been helping children like this for decades. For free.

Yes, for FREE. The families don't pay for anything. EVER.

In many places you can even get transportation through local Shriner's clubs or other Masonic organizations. Our Shriner's club needed a new van to take families to Chicago for their appointments. The local Amish community recognizes the work Shriner's Hospitals does as so important that they raised enough money for TWO vans by themselves.

So, again, please let people know there is help out there. Because insurance companies and our entire for-profit healthcare system is fucked up.

Shriners Children's | Specialized Pediatric Care

Shriners Children’s offers care for a range of orthopedic issues, as well as care for burn injuries, craniofacial conditions, spine care and

[dduane]

...Hard not to laugh.

(Via @WardrobeDoor over at the ex-Bird place)