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In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly donβt get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
Taylor Swift does this
no she doesnβt
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic
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i want to put my thoughts behind this: this was supposed to be a piece for pride month, titled "you were loved". the sky is the color of the aroace flag (just upside down)!
basically, i wanted to show an aroace person β an old aroace person, to be precise. being aroace myself, i am always told that i will forever be lonely and miserable if i don't get a partner. so showing grace, who is aroace to me, as old and happy and fulfilled and oh so loved by his best friend, was really important to me <3
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Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.
An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? Itβs not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, itβs that most of us donβt have a way to do laundry in our own home.
Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We donβt hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I canβt eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I donβt have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.
What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, itβs that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.
Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. Itβs not that you hate theme parks, itβs not like youβve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. Itβs just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.
I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it.Β
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying
"Stop having fun wrong, it ruins my fun when you have fun wrong, it's not enough for me to just scroll past the analysis I don't like, if anyone anywhere is saying that the cartoon exists in a political context that's undermining my enjoyment of it!"
That's you. That's what you sound like.
Basic English class bringing out the vintage gamergate blogs lmao
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DEAR FOLKS, I NEED BOOK RECS!!
looking for anything in the vein of fantasy/sci-fi/romance
something removed from the modern setting is preferable, but i'm open to anything with a good story
stand-alone or first-in-a-series
give me your own short blurb on the book, the more unhinged the better
leave your rec/blurb in the comments!
Thank you all! Got some goodies on the library waitlist now!
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Vaelith the Grief-Bearer π π π
At the edge of the town, where the hedges fade into the wild heather, stands the House of Azul. Its guardian stands there at the altar, sifting through a pile of odds-and-ends, the offerings of her supplicants. Here a little button from a child's coat from a mother, there a cracked bell patinaed with age from a child, a tarnished wedding band from a widow, a lockpick from a thief, an old belt buckle from a soldier.
Her robes are dyed the blue of deepest night, silver rippling at the hems. Little gem are studded across her keen ears, and more still flash at her throat and her belly. Her clawed hands seem large enough to reach up and pluck the moon itself. The pale horns of her mask arch against the night sky, her shining spider Aster weaving a dew-strewn web between them.
"Speak," those nacreous, enigmatic eyes seems to say, "and unburden your heart to me. Whatever it is that you can no longer carry, I shall now bear it for you."
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