all goofing aside I genuinely don’t understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene™ is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you’re willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?
yes that is indeed why she’s on the list of famous women who like women
why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed “um actually most of these people are bi or pan” did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I’m going to kill you.
POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension
btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all’s only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi
Op is saying that liking Taylor for being QUEER or Lgbtqia+ is not a bad thing, but to also know she is not the only one.
He did not call anyone in the original post lesbian bi or pan.
When he’s a 19 year old fascist and you’re a 24 year old democratically elected politician but he has a tiny braid so you’re helpless to his charming pear floating powers
star wars is unrealistic because in real life, grimes became a fascist too
“democratically elected politician” she’s a princess
Just been informed that “Queen” is an elected position on Naboo and I hate star wars
i just think Anakin is the sort of person to get really really into conspiracies— I’m talking 5am forty-eight hours deep into a ‘the moon landing was faked’ binge but because they’re in space it’s more like ‘Corellia is actually hollow and filled with a little-known species of Force-sensitive moles’ binge.
Which means what I really want is Anakin, age twenty two and on leave for the week, accidentally taking a deep dive into a political conspiracy forum and finding someone’s ‘Palpatine is actually a Sith Lord and going to take over the government’ theory and because it’s Anakin, you know his first reaction is going to be to write a hate comment, but the problem with writing a hate comment deconstructing someone’s argument is that you actually have to read the argument in-depth and, uh oh, the person actually makes some pretty good points.
‘It’s fine,’ Anakin thinks, ‘I’ll just go ask Obi-Wan to help me write this reply.” So you get Obi-Wan bent over a space laptop at three in the morning, reading a fringe theory and wishing fervently that Anakin would stop using him as a solution to all his problems. He reads the post— grudgingly, of course, because it’s three in the bloody morning and we are on leave, Anakin— gets to the end of it, and realizes that kneelover69420 made some very salient points.
Obi-Wan calls the council at three in the morning and has to defend a fringe theory from someone on an Internet in front of the most revered and venerable Jedi in the galaxy. It is quite possibly one of the worst moments of his life.
no, you’re totally right. Because Anakin’s life is ridiculous, okay. He was a slave on an outer rim planet for the first nine years of his life, and then within the span of a few days he: wins a podrace, gets freed, gets adopted, flies a starship and wins a battle, gets orphaned by his new adopted dad, and gets adopted again by his dead adopted dad’s other son. So of course his baseline for what counts as weird is totally off-base.
Obi-Wan, who was raised in the temple and knows what the Force can and can’t do and at least somewhat how the world works for normal people, can look at a conspiracy theory and go ‘this is clearly fake,’ but Anakin? Virgin birth Anakin? Will look at a theory proposing that all water on Coruscant is actually distilled apple juice and go ‘you know what? sure. midichlorians exist, and all water on Coruscant being distilled apple juice is actually less crazy than that, so it must be real.’
Damn now i really want a conspiracy theorist fic/au. In addition to no baseline for normalcy, he is canonically 0-60 ride-or-die in all of his decisions. Not to mention the whole antichrist thing where his beliefs literally can alter the fabric of reality. And half of a Jedi’s job is breaking up real conspiracies !
I think its canon that palps was suppressing info about the trade blockade so if little ani was trying to space google what happened, the earliest articles literally would have only been from fringe news outlets. Oh dear. the Jedi suppressed the fact that Qui-Gon was killed by a Sith not a random darksider. His first exposure to republic mainstream news is that they don’t know shit.
You know that on half their missions growing up Anakin would wander off and come back convinced by ramblings he overheard about the Duke secretly conspiring with their sworn enemies to steal everyones pets. And he would be at least 50% right30% of the time, so Obi-Wan has to hear him out. I just-
The ReTuRn of the SiTh probably made the rounds every so often for the last 500 years anytime a Jedi starts dressing suspiciously. Atlantis-classy conspiracy, you know. The sort of thing people with crazy hair talk about on the History Holo-Channel. So 15 year old Anakin bursts into Obi-Wan’s room and makes him spill hot tea allover himself and he can’t even get mad because Anakin’s hysterical-
“A garbageman saw the Sith from Naboo in the outer rim! He’s building robot legs and shouting about revenge!” *holds up blurry holo of a pile of trash*
Can you imagine??? Can you imagine? 5 years later. Not only does Obi-Wan have to deal with Maul coming back from the dead specifically to make him suffer personally, but Anakin would be insufferable.
I went to see Parasite completely blind besides being aware (unavoidably) that there was a hard tonal shift at some point. I saw the poster and stuff, but that was it
the entire time I was bracing myself for it to shift into some sort of alien parasite psychological horror movie, which seems really presumptuous, except I saw Bong Joon-ho’s The Host and that movie actually did have a giant monster in it, so I wasn’t putting it past him
god the class dynamics in this movie are so stressful already… keeping up this double life while still taking care of your family…… and if that’s not bad enough, they’re gonna have to deal with The Parasite when it shows up
my manager just asked me what my hobbies are outside of work and i cannot accurately describe how surreal it was. it was like being asked by the guy who locked you in the dungeon if you used to do anything fun before they locked you in the dungeon.
she also asked me by saying “do you… do anything?” which. HOW are you supposed to respond to that.
i was tempted to tell her that i just go home and stare at my bedroom wall in silence until its time for my next shift but the thing is i think she would have believed me
in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don’t make small talk, dont act friendly, don’t fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you’re affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!
Just so like… it’s clear… anyone who censors words that contain “man” or “men” to anything like “xxn” that’s TERF shit.
Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or “womb” is TERF shit.
Any sentence where the OP says they support people being “trans identified” with quotes around “"transwomen”“ or ”“transmen”“ is TERF shit.
I’m seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.
"Wombxxn” is an incredibly dumb way of spelling “woman” that treats the word “man” like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.
“Trans identified” is their way of saying “this person calls themselves trans, but I don’t believe they are.”
Saying “People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children” IS TERF SHIT.
Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it’s fucking dangerous to our community.
Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.
sorry i can’t come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn’t relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i’ll let you know.
Apparently there was some kind of race scheduled at a local park or something so I’ve been trying to avoid the main trail but a little while ago when I had to cross near it I overheard the following shouted exchange
Higher feminine voice: woo, look at you go! You’re jogging! Keep it up!
Lower masculine voice (panting): you know it! Last place is still a place, baby!
And goddamn if that didn’t rewire my brain a little bit.
Last place is still a place, baby.
I know of a trail racing company that gives the slowest racer who finishes every race a DFL award: Dead Fucking Last. I was a little taken aback by this until I had it explained to me that those last-place finishers are pretty much uniformly people for whom finishing at all was an accomplishment: people undergoing cancer treatments, absolute beginners, runners in their eighties, extremely pregnant people, you get the idea. Moreover, what you see as this person crosses the finish line is all these sporty trail racers, many of whom finished the race literal hours earlier, cheering their hearts out because they respect that, yes, DFL is still a place, baby.
Whoever invented “open in app” links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair
I uninstalled SoundCloud because even though I already had the app, every SoundCloud link I clicked directed me to the app store. Fuck you if you do this.
Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but
Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the ‘standard’ sense?
Like, everyone I talk to who’s over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just… dont.
Nah, I definitely did wild dumb shit in my teens and 20s. Mostly it was vast quantities of questionable street acid, but that led to other things.
taylor swift’s work wouldn’t be nearly as insufferable if she wasn’t constantly trying to present herself as some sort of tortured underdog. like, okay, she has endured hardships, and a lot of people, especially white men, are shitty towards her for purely misogynistic reasons. that sucks, i agree. but she’s never been an underdog before. she was born to well-off parents who did everything they could to start her music career when she was barely even a teenager, an opportunity that lots of people would kill for. now she’s extremely famous and wealthy, and everything she releases is destined to sell millions of copies and receive glowing reviews in nearly every publication. she is not an underdog, and i have trouble believing she’s particularly “tortured.” she’s not even an alcoholic, despite claiming to be one on the opening track of her new album! people like to defend her lyrics by saying she’s just playing a character, which i don’t believe for a second, but even if she was, i don’t think i want to listen to someone like swift play the character of a tortured underdog, not when there’s so many musicians out there who are actually tortured underdogs. it comes across as hollow. “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me,” sung by one of the wealthiest, most famous, most critically acclaimed musicians in the world, who was born to loving parents who personally helped her start her career, who once said she’d never been to therapy because she “just feels very sane.” if you’re going to play a character, maybe pick one who we’re not supposed to pity.
Well deserved, Peppa. You had a lot to overcome, what with being br*tish and all
This is my only auditory sensory overload problem. I don’t mind buzzing or humming or the simple volume of sounds. But I cannot have other voices nearby if I’m trying to have a conversation. I WILL attempt to process all of it, I WILL fail miserably, and I WILL forget everything. I think it’s why I like going to concerts alone, cuz I can just focus on the music and forget that for most people, concerts are part art appreciation and part social event. Makes it hard to fully let loose and Get Weird on the dancefloor.
I’m firmly in the “sage smells best” camp, but now knowing I can have an unlimited source of scorpions, I might have to change my tune. If only for purely utilitarian reasons
This is the opposite of those “oddly satisfying images”
it’s funny and all but it’s also an example of how corporations will cheat people in every single possible way they are legally able to get away with if there isn’t any system of regulation to protect consumers.
Shout-out to the autistics who crave hugs. Shout-out to the autistics whose love language is touch.
And shout-out to the autistics who were denied a timely diagnosis because a misinformed professional thought you were “too affectionate” to be autistic.
You aren’t any less autistic because of how you show affection. And you aren’t nearly as rare as pop culture and outdated research would imply.
I don’t want a weighted blanket I want to be enveloped by the warm embrace of my seven foot tall Martian waifu
I need this guy to understand that I Don’t Forgive Him, and that he’s Going To Hell
I need him to understand that because of him, pop-up blockers were invented, and because of that, other, more intrusive and less escapable forms of advertising were also invented, until I need to run a whole separate app on my phone to block ads because nothing else fucking works and the app goes full scorched earth on some websites because they use tracking cookies as product images to surveil what we click on and what we buy so without those tracking images the site doesn’t work at all. This is also a problem for video ads on Tumblr, but it’s a price I’m willing to pay to avoid seeing another ad for Taylor Swift. Fuck you, sir. Fuck you and the horse that will hopefully make Mr. Hands look like My Little Pony. I legitimately hope you die horrifically. You have made the Internet measurably less useful, less helpful, less intuitive, and generally a worse place to be. I hate you.
I like that people included male rape victims as well! This is a good post
“They shouldn’t have gone out with someone they met online.”
always always reblog
This is amazing as a two time survivor it’s fucking time to hear this shit debunked! Hate has no place!
Can not not reblog.
If I here someone say any of the sentences above…
I can’t believe some people need to hear this but RAPE IS RAPE. How can anyone excuse it? Survivors have to hear this bullshit smh. I feel so horrible for the people who have to hear this from people. I feel so horrible for the people who have had traumatizing experiences like getting raped and people don’t see how serious and scarring it can be.
^^ if any of you don’t agree please unfollow me thank u -.-
[100/10: TRULY A MASTERPIECE. I THINK THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST POST. IN GENERAL.]
I like that people included male rape victims as well! This is a good post
“They shouldn’t have gone out with someone they met online.”
always always reblog
This is amazing as a two time survivor it’s fucking time to hear this shit debunked! Hate has no place!
Can not not reblog.
If I here someone say any of the sentences above…
I can’t believe some people need to hear this but RAPE IS RAPE. How can anyone excuse it? Survivors have to hear this bullshit smh. I feel so horrible for the people who have to hear this from people. I feel so horrible for the people who have had traumatizing experiences like getting raped and people don’t see how serious and scarring it can be.
^^ if any of you don’t agree please unfollow me thank u -.-
[100/10: TRULY A MASTERPIECE. I THINK THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST POST. IN GENERAL.]
This is honest to god the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life
This 1️⃣ goes out to all the horny 💏 couples out there who are thinking 🤔 of getting rowdy 🔞 this 💌Valentines💮 day evening: 👍 👎DO ❌️ NOT👍 👎 If you do your child 🧒 will be born 👏 a ♏SCORPIO♏ Now, why ❓️ don’t ❌️ we like Scorpio's♏? For starters, “Scorpio” has 7️⃣ letters 🔠. 7️⃣ letters 🔠: 7️⃣ deadly ☠️ sins ✝️ 🙅♀ Now, what are the 7️⃣ deadly ☠️ sins? Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy 👏👏 Envy is associated with the color GREEN 💚 What else is green 💚? Marijuana. Just 1️⃣ more pothead in the world 🗺️. LAME. Now where is pot 🍲 legal? Canada 🇨🇦, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, airplane ✈️ bathrooms if the pilot’s 👨✈️ chill. And where can 🥫 planes ✈️ take you? California 🕶. And what’s on California’s state flag 🚩? A BEAR 🐻. Your child 🧒. Is gay 👨❤️👨.
You ever think about how in Socialist Bolivia they get these gorgeous Neo Andean buildings with these beautiful bright colors and bold forms, meanwhile in the capitalist world we get Frank Gehry, who’s buildings appear hostile to human life and sanity and generally look like if skyscrapers had tumors and they tried to make those tumors into real buildings; and who’s attempt at a “brain health center” would probably turn you into the fucking Joker if you went there?
…I’m actually not joking about that last one, look at it:
It’s like if they gentrified a fucking Psychonauts level…
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