Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.
Happy Pride Month ♥
this right here is why ‘queer’ is an identity, not a slur
QUEER IS AN IDENTITY, NOT A SLUR
PuttheQbackinLGBTQ+
it’s not pride month but i will reblog the SHIT out of this any time. queer pride babeyyyyy
we’re here, we’re queer, and too confused to pick one of those other labels so you better fucking get used to us because we’re not gonna get less messy, bitches.
kids are so fucking funny. we made pride flags with the elementary schoolers and a fifth grader added a gray stripe to the progress pride flag and when i asked him what it was for he said “for the emos”
This is an EXTREMELY blessed post! And accurate! When I first moved out I was so excited for my new place I slept on the floor and had my tv there and that was it. Loved it. You grow and you build and you gain and you lose. I lost that place and everything in it. Now I have a new place with new things and it’s very much home.
In the future, there is a small, quiet room that is just yours, where you are safe and you are free. In that room your shoulders will finally start to come down from around your ears. Nobody can come into that room unless you let them. In that clean quiet place, you will work and you will study. You will love and you will heal.
When I see people sharing so much of their kids’ lives, I think about that one time my child told a joke, I shared that joke with ONE FRIEND in a private conversation, and my child said “can you please ask me next time, before you tell people something about me?”
And, yes, I absolutely should. So I apologized, and now I ask.
“I love that video of you, can I show it to a friend?”
“Can I tell a friend about how clever you were just now?”
“Can I share this in the family group chat?”
“Can I show your art to grandma and grandpa?”
And it’s not like my kids don’t like when I share their jokes and puns and fun moments. They love it! But they want to have control over what I share with people. Even without their faces or their names. Even people we know and trust.
while there are legitimate examples of hypocritical thinking in…probably every subculture imaginable i feel like at least 80% of the posts online that are like “people say they want X, but then they do contradictory behaviour Y” are describing two different people with opposing opinions
here is my favorite variation of this point, because it inexplicably uses various goomba variants to make its point
israel gave 1.1 residents in northern gaza 24 hours to evacuate. evacuate where? is southern gaza supposed to suddenly take in 1.1 million people? and what if you can’t evacuate? how do you evacuate an entire hospital? how do you evacuate icu patients? never mind that even if not for that, the hospital is going to run out of electricity in a few days. what happens then?
and what do you do when you run out of water? when you’ve conserved all you can, not showering and not boiling anything, but you’re down to your last drop of water to drink? and there’s none at the store in bottles to buy, and the whole time, your home might get bombed. what are you supposed to do?
the stories i’ve heard of what it’s like in gaza right now remind me of eicha, the book of lamentations, which jews read every year on the day we mourn the destruction of jerusalem. the desperation and mourning. the siege. the despair.
this is gaza.
everyone north of the blue line is supposed to move south of it. in 24 hours. and this “warning” was given around 24 hours ago. but already earlier today, israel’s ground invasion began.
what are gazans supposed to do?
i don’t pretend to know the answers, but i know this isn’t it.
The way settlers trying to be allies talk about Native genocide like it worked always gets on my fucking nerves to be honest. We’re still here. Just because YOU were never taught about what happened doesn’t mean nobody else remembers it. Also stop acting like a victim of the american education system you can learn from places other than your sixth grade propaganda machine. Your understanding of history going from “we ate turkey together and then they just mysteriously vanished” to “white people came and killed literally everyone and they’re all gone now” is Barely an improvement
It’s just so…….. we’re still here. We’re even human people in the 21st century who use the internet and everything. I’m on your websites making posts. Shocking I know. Try to avoid forgetting this
[ID: tags from @sepulchral-pulchritude that read, “#hope this is ok to rb #also this is so relatable to me Jewishly. esp as someone who loves museums and has travelled around europe… #since basically every country has expelled the jews at least once there’s always shit in the history museum or at historical monuments #‘this is where the jewish graveyard used to be. unfortunately after the expulsion in XXXX there were no more jews and we paved it over’ #'now it’s a historical church site of the famed infant jesus statuette’ #'the jews once lived in this country. unfortunately they are all gone now. #like bitch!!! we are still here!! i know bc i went to friday night services!!! #also. always the passive voice. the jews left. the jews are no longer with us. the jewish population decreased in size. UGH. #i know it’s not the same as how native people are treated in the usa. i just relate.” /end ID]
Yeah no literally this is why I feel a lot of solidarity with jewish people. It’s the same type of shit over and over from the same white christian bastards
May I say I find it interesting how many people aren’t reblogging this version. And why is that. Passing the mic
Inspired by old clipart styles!! Trying to fiddle around with brushes and such, I think this one looks pretty cool :]
[ID: An art piece of an old computer. The background is half purple on the left side and half black on the right side, divided by a line that zigzags and curls. The computer is outlined in white and is connected to a large cord and a mouse. The cord is surrounded by various black swirls and white triangles to emulate old Microsoft styles. The plug of the large cord has purple lightning bolts shooting out of it. The mouse cord is decorated with a nearby arrow that follow the shape of the cord, as well as a purple star on the body of the mouse. The computer screen itself reads LOGIN in an analog font with a small blank input bar below it. A large, cartoonish mouse rests on the top of computer, and its right side is decorated with a line of purple dots. End ID]
I appreciate OP giving this tip even though it means they can’t make use of it and can’t even mock genuine typos in anon hate without being accused of inserting the typo themself
nobody sends me hate i dont have haters. just looking out for the rest of u
Sucks that the phrase “sleeping together” means to have sex because I want to actually sleep with someone but I don’t mean like sex I mean I want to sleep together. Like hink snoo
big fan of media thats too homopobic to admit gay people exist yet nontheless operates with a homoerotic subtext so insane that none of the characters’ motivations make sense unless they carnally desire each other
Project 2025 would ban anything the far right considers pornography. The far right considers anything queer-positive to be pornography, and they WILL encode that into law if given just a TINY bit more power.
Have queer fanfic (or trad published literature) or pics of your transition, or of two men kissing, saved to your hard drive? If the GOP get their way, you’d be guilty of possession of pornography. Did you share any of it? You’d be guilty of distribution of pornography. Have a sweet coming of age story with a queer protagonist? That’d be child pornography.
Even now, states are trying to make it a crime to be openly queer in public (by, among other things, classifying dressing as the “wrong gender” anyplace kids might see as a sex crime against children). Oh, and Florida tried (and thankfully failed) to impose the death penalty for the above.
This is just one example of the horrors awaiting us if the project comes to fruition.
And the far right is already screaming that any adult who mentions around kids that queer people exist is “grooming” children. Wear your Pride shirt past a playground? You’re now a child groomer. Think they won’t put that into law if allowed? You’re naive.
The GOP currently controls the Supreme Court (which is how they overturned Roe v. Wade) and has a majority in one branch of congress. Imagine what will happen nationwide with the GOP controlling every branch of government, including supermajoroties in both houses of Congress.
Oh, and top GOP officials have also announced their desire to NUKE Gaza, so don’t come at me with, “but I can’t vote blue because Biden…” Or tell me how you think Gaza would somehow be better off with Trump and the GOP.
In France, the left and center joined together–even though they disagree vehemently on many issues (get two leftists together and they’ll have three positions on any issue)–to stop the far right from totally taking over, because the one thing they ALL agree on is that fascists dictatorships are BAD.
Much the same with the UK finally kicking out their own neo-fascist party, the Torries, to install 400 Labour MPs. Not everyone loves Labour’s policies, but virtually everyone with a brain cell recognizes that the Torries are fascists, and that FASCISM BAD.
“Every election, they tell us this is the most important election if our lives!” Yeah, because each election over the past several decades has been more important than the one before, until we are now at a tipping point between remaining a fucked up oligarchy with SOME resemblance to freedom, and an outright neo-fascist military dictatorship.
Trump has literally stated publicly his intent to criminalize dissent, use US armed forces against protesters (Kent State, but multiply it by thousands), purge all agencies and stuff them with those personally loyal to him, and use the DOJ to go after anyone he perceives as a threat to his political power, among other things.
And remember the things he did in office, like pulling the teeth of federal workplace protections for queer folks (which Biden reatored).
I don’t care if you don’t like Biden or Harris. Neither do I. But the alternative is Trump, and anyone telling you not to vote in 2024, or to vote third party, is rooting for Trump, and for Project 2025. Anyone telling you not to vote does not give one single solitary flying fuck about vulnerable populations in the US or anywhere else in the world.
“You’re just being an alarmist!” Right. Like I was being alarmist when I predicted the failed Jan 6 coup attempt. Like I was being alarmist when I said the GOP would try to use control over SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.
I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said “look! It’s snowing!” so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn’t the first snow and it won’t be the last but wasn’t it lovely like that?
How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.
This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you’ve been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn’t it beautiful - I promise, you’ve been helping.
fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk
As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh
in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.
By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.
They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.
every day i think about how bad the ending of hades was. just totally refusing to take the slightest risk on story and gameplay and so ending on an unintentionally and extremely dissonantly bleak and soul-crushing note
the entire game is about trying to escape hell–it’s a roguelite, and the fact that you try, die, and try again but 1% stronger, is pretty crucial to the themes, right. that’s zagreus’ arc, right, relentless perseverance in service of this goal.
then the ending is that he reconciles with his dad and decides he doesn’t care that he’s trapped in hell forever. which is in and of itself i think pretty bleak but what pushes it over the edge for me is that he ends up working as, like, a white hat hell escaper, to help hades make hell harder to escape. which obviously is just a cheap narrative handwave for letting players continue playing indefinitely but it’s also just truly profoundly bleak, right, you spend the whole game fighting to escape this oppressive prison and then the ending is ‘actually, the oppressive prison is great, and i’m going to help make sure nobody else can escape either’
Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?
Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.
Now, it’s just… Social media. That’s it. Social media and news sites. And I’m tired of social media and I’m tired of the news.
Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?
ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose
Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!
Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I’m going to cry
My site’s hosted by neocities too and it’s literally just $5 a month (!)….that’s a site now 22 years old, I have some 60,000 files on it constituting several gigs. Other site hosts are like $40 a month to host a quarter what I have. Everybody get a neocities account and keep rebuilding the internet
Ever since i was a little girl I have wanted to fight in battle and receive a grave but concealable injury and continue fighting bravely til the end and get reunited with my comrades and then smile and cough up blood then die smiling
The girl I’m dating and I both think that we sleep on the left side of the bed. I’m coming to terms with the fact that she may be a psychopath and I don’t know what’s real anymore.
Which option has the sides of the bed correctly labelled?
Welcome to my bathroom. Please make yourself at home. I assure you, you will sustain no long term damage from your stay. Now. Wouldn’t you like to take a soak in my lovely bathtub?
Isn’t that comfortable! What’s that? You like my wallpaper? I’m so glad!
I went to great lengths to acquire it. You see, they haven’t made this color in centuries. But don’t worry, i made sure this is genuine.
Now, would you like a cup of tea? You can pick a glass from my personal collection!
Green is such a stunning color, isn’t it? I’m so glad this space is getting some use. Well, I think it’s time for you to take your leave. How are you feeling? Relaxed? I’m so glad. Feel free to come back any time you like. I have health conditions that make it unable for me to be in this room for more than a few minutes at a time, and I’d truly hate for it to go to waste. Goodbye, then!
Radioactive? What do you mean! I assure you, my bathroom is not damaging to your health or well being in any way, shape or form. In fact, it’s good for you! If you don’t believe me, why don’t you take a rest in the bathtub and see for yourself!
the thing about working as a housekeeper is that sometimes I will be called to clean a room that is in such a state that it gives me pause.
The thing about being a housekeeper at a Hospital is that it is not the things that would usually be concerning that leave me with questions.
Like if I go clean a room and it is just covered in blood, I’m not all “where did all this blood come from” that would be silly. It came from inside the patient and they were already in a hospital so they’re probably mostly fine hopefully.
In fact “Inside the patient” is where most of the potentially concerning stuff I have to deal with comes from. Vomit? That’s from inside the patient. Urine? Feces? Inside the patient baby. Needles full of unidentified drugs? That was supposed to go inside the patient but I guess they frogot.
But when I go to clean a hospital room and it is full of Sand… Did that come from inside the patient? I hope not. Why is there so much sand? Where did it come from? Was there some kind of terrible beach accident?
I have many questions and I’m scared of the answers.
this is such a delightful pair of tags
Patient happened to be under the effect of the pharaohs curse at the time
also be normal as in: real to your true self and caring and kind as your true self, I’m not good with wording but basically just treat her with love and care.
ALT
