The Best Things Happen While Youre Dancing

I'm the brown-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

[powerburial]

we have to throw the baby out, due to its corrupting effect on the bath water

[solar-sunnyside-up]

[gothicprep]

can’t think of a worse feeling than coming up with a really great meme, like, 2 months after the image format dies

[gothicprep]

[sourpatchstarkids]

[buzzheadchick]

[lesbiankakyoin]

[dippingbirdfursona]

Is anyone else getting ads on..... How to kill the monkey King?

[dippingbirdfursona]

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

Oh this is delightful

[chillyfeetsteak]

little comic from about a year ago

[unalivejournal]

i hate how i havent been alive for an inconceivable majority of humanity’s existence. i want to see

[b0nkcreat]

just told my mom i was gonna freak it sensitive style and she hyped me up with “ooh quiet down…. quiet down..” while i was dancing

[b0nkcreat]

live reenactment

[b0nkcreat]

happy almost 80 thousand (?!?!??!?!!) notes to this post. Please stop asking to date my mom she is already married to the grind

[flandrepudding]

Eurovision is allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

Boycott Eurovision.

Do not watch it. Do not support it.

[megafreeman]

Not watching isn't enough anymore.

Boycott Eurovision on a local level. Contact your local participating broadcaster and demand that they withdraw from the contest. Pressure representing artists into withdrawing too. Boycott Baileys and MoroccanOil for their support of the contest. Especially if you're from UK, France, Germany, Italy or Spain.

People have been not watching it cause of their blatant support of Israel for years, and that wasn't enough to convince them even in the midst of a genocide. We need to actually create a bad image for Eurovision and pressure their partners and contributors from not supporting the show.

[lifeinpoetry]

I am hungry for touch & ashamed to be looked at

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die

[b0nkcreat]

do you think it'll all be okay?

yeah. even if it won’t i’ve got people to love in the meantime

[lazarusemma]

the subway is an angel and they've plastered ads all over her

[lazarusemma]

things that are part of the subway angel: tunnels & trains & tracks, commuters & tourists & buskers, rats & pigeons, graffiti & poems & sculptures & mosaics, signage & lights, beams & poles & high ceilings & echoes

things that are not part of the subway angel: advertisements, cops

[duchessvongooseberg]

THE TURNSTILES ARE ALSO NOT PART OF THE SUBWAY ANGEL. SHE WANTS TO SEE YOU. SHE DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE MONEY. SHE JUST LOVES YOU

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

more people would be for prison abolition if they just tried to send mail to an inmate even once

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

for almost a year now i've been trying to send a copy of the literary magazine i edit to an inmate who requested one. his prison prohibits any written materials that so much as mention drugs, weapons, criminal activity, or malicious violence of any sort. i've been poring over what's available of the 95 volumes my magazine has printed over the years, and of those found 3 that might pass inspection. the first two were sent back undelivered two months after i sent them because one had a short story that alluded to a playground fight, and the other a poem that used the word "fist" in a nonviolent context. The third was returned for the stated reason that its contents depicted the use of firearms. i reread the entire issue, there's not a single gun mentioned in all its 120 pages.

while going back and forth with this guy trying to figure out how to get a copy of the magazine in his hands, two of my letters bounced back for unspecified reasons. i learned that inmates are not given their correspondents' original letters, but scanned copies, often poorly reproduced and sometimes illegible. these people aren't even granted the ink their loved ones used to pen their messages, or to hold in their hands the paper their loved ones held, if they're able to receive their words at all.

[satusepiida]

Something that bothered me a lot during visitation with my dad was it wasn't even in person?? They basically made us drive all the way out there to do a video call. Like in shows you see the bulletproof glass between ppl who have to talk thru a phone, it was kinda like that but we didn't even get to be in the same room it was a line of screens set into the wall. Everything about prisons is made to be dehumanizing.

[morlock-holmes]

If you don't have people you know in Prison, your naive assumption is likely to be that they are there to hold and rehabilitate the prisoners.

In fact, prison policy across the country involves a tremendous amount of gratuitous, unmotivated torture of the inmates.

[mandy-lane]

I'm Allan. I'm Ken's buddy. All his clothes fit me.

MICHAEL CERA as ALLAN in Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[rslashrats]

i love bug-related subreddits so much actually

[odinsblog]

“Robert Pattinson showed up with iPhone voice recordings and had already nailed the voice for ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’ before recording started. It was his first ever voice role and he finished in 2 days.” (source)

[beemovieerotica]

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

[beemovieerotica]

[mariacallous]

[shmreduplication]

Here's an article about it from the new Yorker

The judge was a Reagan appointee lmao

[tawghasa]

1. The person who twerked in court was Richard Montez, co-owner of 360 Queen Entertainment (a business that organises drag performances).

2. The New Yorker article is a really good read.

3. I'm in love with this picture from said New Yorker article. Dude on the left is a Big Mood.

[mikkeneko]

honestly good for him? he didn't know what he was supposed to be ruling on, so he asked for a demonstration, and the demonstration convinced him it was art. good on him for being willing to accept new data

[thenerdchronicles]

You couldn’t write this, people would tell you it’s bad writing

[revanchistsuperstar]

Let me tell y’all, as someone who does drag in Austin, TX, seeing your friends become part of national media coverage because of this is pretty fucking wild.

The far right kind of honed in on Brigitte (queen in pink) as the object of all their ire, and the moment she saw that happening she kind of seized on it. Brigitte is AFAB, nonbinary, and asexual out of drag (these are all things she’s very public about, I’m not outing her). She knew that a right wing hate movement that is obsessed with portraying drag as something sexual done by pedophilic gay men wouldn’t know how to deal with her. So she stepped up and basically was like “you want to make me the face of this? Fine. I’ll use that opportunity to show every single one of you how wrong and ridiculous you are.” And it’s been such a curve ball for them, it’s been working. They don’t know what to do with an AFAB queen. She ruins all of their arguments. They don’t know how to write their laws in a way that excludes her from doing drag without being so broad it excludes literally half the population of Texas from existing, and that’s what is a huge part of these laws not holding water. She also has been pretty tirelessly doing a lot of very public activism, and was the only individual drag performer part of the suit against the state of Texas.

It hasn’t been easy for her, because obviously being a public figure like this means getting a lot of hate. But it’s also cool as hell. And leads to hilarious moments like the fucking Daily Mail writing bullshit like “Bandit CLAIMS she was born a woman” and her literal biological mother being like “so as an authority who was indeed there…”

lol and in the same trial as the twerking, she explained to the judge what a breast plate was and why she wears one sometimes, and used Dolly Parton as an example.