In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

[jamwingles]

[dyatlovpassingprivilege]

it would honestly be so embarrassing to fight in world war 1 and not have any homosexual experiences. you're there at the welcome home party while all the other guys are regaling everyone with their tales of ptsd-addled trench suckington while you're sat there like 😐👉👈

[onihcinimkcin]

it's the kind of thing that could drive a guy to invent fake languages and write a bunch of books about elves and some soldier he wishes he'd fucked by the name of Strider

[dyatlovpassingprivilege]

i don't think anyone would do that.

[nginnk12]

[artsyaprilmr]

Made this sketch in October and then completely forgot about it 💀 I wanted to check if I could still draw Giorno and Mista without the references (I could)

[knightingale-s]

[egberts]

2011: haha!!! i’m so addicted to tumblr!!! I’M NEVER GOING TO LEAVE!

2014: i want to leave but i cant…. why did i take that vow to never leave….. how do i get out of this eternal hell…

[egberts]

[sagechan]

[segretecose]

just seen someone criticize the divine comedy by saying that it's not relatable which is of course incommensurably stupid because relatability should never be the only criterion through which one can judge the validity and quality of a piece of work &c but also. just because you tedious unimaginative losers have never been on a journey to hell and purgatory with your long dead favorite writer doesn't mean others haven't. happened to me

[sagechan]

[manywinged]

explaining the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to a tudor era peasant and when i'm finished they grab my hand and start excitedly gesturing at a poster advertising a performance of shakespeare's hamlet at the globe theatre

[manywinged]

*nods thoughtfully and makes a mental note to explain the term "girlboss" next*

[dont-shoot-messenger]

[zevzevarainai]

Partner Specials - Ferdinand and Hubert (A Rank)

[funny-tik-toks]

[sagechan]

[runawaymarbles]

@ the readfems making the “a cis boy who is medium at sports could just transition and become a star on the women’s team and get accolades and scholarships” argument:

Okay. Then you do it. Men have all those societal advantages. All the power. The system is built for men. You talk about this all the time. So why don’t you just become one? You want to get those promotions, that respect at the car dealership, you want to walk home at night and look over your shoulder less often. All it’ll take is, you know, a few years on testosterone. Changing your name. Reminding your friends and family to use the new name and pronouns because this won’t work if everyone knows you’re just pretending.

Or does the idea of doing all of that for the hope of a leg up in one or two specific areas seem, you know, fucking ridiculous?

[runawaymarbles]

Especially if the area you want a leg up in is the notoriously respected, well-funded and well-paying world of women’s sports

[cubistemoji]

[princessofnazareth]

i literally don’t care if you have social anxiety you still need social skills

[princessofnazareth]

actually developing social skills is what will help your social anxiety

[medusas-stone-snakes]

People having social anxiety doesn't affect you at all, shut the fuck up

[princessofnazareth]

i have social anxiety that does affect me that’s why i made the post stupid ass

[medusas-stone-snakes]

Well maybe write it on the post instead of making it look like you're insulting people for no reason about something that can't be helped

[princessofnazareth]

maybe learn some social skills bc it can be helped

[blueminuet]

[prokopetz]

I think queer dating sims need less good representation and more games where every single romanceable character is the most fucked up person you can possibly imagine.

[vvitch-mist]

I really do wish “good representation” didn’t mean “how morally good is the character that is also queer”, and instead was “character is a good deception of a queer person”

[prokopetz]

We basically have to accept that it’s never going to be possible to please the crowd who regard even the faintest whiff of impropriety in the depiction of a queer character as proof positive that that character’s creators are Secret Homophobes faking it for money. High-profile titles like Dream Daddy and Boyfriend Dungeon are so gunshy about being accused of Bad Representation™ that half of their romanceable characters barely have personalities, and their dev crews still got dragged through the mud on social media and inundated with death threats over microscopic flaws that clout-chasing nimrods were able to blow up into federal fucking issues.

Now, to be clear, I don’t buy the narrative that it’s queer teenagers with too much time on their hands who are principally to blame for this shit. My read on it is that many of the loudest voices are the sort of noxious crypto-homophobes who claim to be in favour of queer rep in media in principle, but contrive to find something that renders every single particular instance of queer rep they encounter unacceptable, and they’re jumping on the Bad Representation bandwagon because it’s an easy angle to work. And that’s precisely why there’s no point trying to make them happy: they’re not engaging in good faith, and your queer rep will never be toothless enough to please them.

So fuck ‘em.

[ariaste]

Behold: The effect of a culture of valuing paranoid readings over reparative readings.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[sagechan]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

[bohemiandragoness]

This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.

[trojanhorse8-2]

No they aren’t.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

yes they are. because they are fluffye.

[trojanhorse8-2]

OK yes they are.

[mr-system-of-a-downer]

Dog

[jooshthepunished]

Dog

[utah-mountain-drifter]

Different family, but same order as @pictures-of-dogs

[zarabithia]

No, they are the same family. They are the same kingdom, phylum, order and family. They separate at the genus.

They’re a dog.

[birdsareblooming]

yeah they’re fluffye

[dacavendishtime]

theyre literally not dogs theyre not even fluffy. can we get science tumblr over hear or what!?

[birdsareblooming]

checkmate athiests

[ajarofpickledtears]

fluffye

[antique-romantic]

[sweetcherryblossomswrites]

[sagechan]

[rthko]

I joked a few minutes ago about how in internet discourse anyone over 25 is a “queer elder” but come to think of it most of these young discoursers don’t even believe such a concept exists. Gay men who watched their entire friends groups perish to AIDS are “privileged cis gays,” older trans women who use dated terminology to describe their own experiences are problematic, elders are just a conservative old guard to rebel against, and anyone over thirty who speaks to you at all must be a predator. The first time I heard the phrase “okay groomer” online, it wasn’t coming from self identified conservatives but from tiktok teens reacting against leather at Pride. You guys are ignorant and uncultured and proud of it!

[rthko]

Nobody hates you because you’re young. They hate you because you’re ignorant and annoying. Hope this helps.

[hazel2468]

Speaking as a “queer elder” (don’t really feel like one but shit if we’re joking about anyone older than 25 being one might as well roll with it). To my young queers (and my young LGBT+ folks who don’t use queer).

You are not getting pushback from the older segment of the queer community because you are young.

It’s because you came into the spaces we built for you and instantly tried to kick us out.

It’s because we opened the doors for you and you walked in and demanded that everyone you don’t like leave. You demanded that the kinksters, the crossdressers, the freaks and the weirdos, the non-binary trans folks, the people with conflicting identity labels, the people who apparently don’t enjoy their smut “the right way” leave.

It’s because you have thrown yourself into queer spaces with all the fucking audacity of a straight white woman raging at a rainbow flag in a grocery store, wailing about how it’s not appropriate for children.

It’s because you apparently think that you have some right to tell us, and other queer people your age, HOW to be queer.

It’s because a SCARY number of you think that using the word queer is bad in the first place.

It’s because so many of you have come here drowning in radfem rhetoric, and your response to being corrected is to scream “pedo!” At any queer peer who disagrees with your puritanical approach to kink and fantasy.

It’s because so many of you think that being LGBT+ means you can’t possibly hold onto the conservative values you grew up with, and when you’re called on it you attack anyone and everyone in your way.

Us queer elders aren’t hating on you because you’re young. It’s because you have come into the space we built- a space that we built on from what OUR queer elders built. Which was built on what THEIR queer elders built. And so on, all held up by a foundation of fucking blood of the queers who did not fucking survive, who we lost before I was born, and continue to be lost.

If we seem hostile to you and the ideology you bring? It’s because us elders know a threat when we see it. And the shit I see SO MANY of you young queers saying IS a threat. No different than the threats we’ve faced before. Except this time. It’s coming from inside the fucking house- and we won’t tolerate that.

[corsairoriginal]

Some of the replies to this drain my everlasting soul.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I had no queer elders to learn from in my circles. Until I was already an adult, I didn't know a single queer person who had been an adult during the AIDS crisis, let alone anyone who came of age before it.

Now I do, but they are so few and those who could have told me stories of our community before AIDS are dying due to age and health issues and the neglect of the medical community.

I would be a very different person, had I known anyone like me who was truly an elder while growing up. Even who was my parents' age.

Now I'm an historian and I teach this because our elders are not here to tell their own stories.

And now I'm hearing that all of these people were wrong to exist from young folks whose very capacity to be out safely at all comes from the sweat, tears, and literal blood of people whose stories I will never hear firsthand.

My gods, friends, you have a chance we never did and yet it's being wasted on some misguided notion of respectability while Marsha and Sylvia and Storme and Larry and Harvey and Gilbert and Leslie and thousands of others are being sanitized or outright rejected and I'm heartbroken.

We say Queer because we used to also be faggots and dykes and those words, too, were weapons people took and reclaimed as badges of honour that said, "yeah? And? I am just what you call me and I'm proud of that!"

Our spaces weren't just for the people who passed and the "just like us" respectable gays because everybody was in the line of fire and goddamn, yes, this has always been a point of infighting and contention, but we had to stand together to defend the freaks and the kinksters and the leather daddies....

And AIDS didn't give a damn which category you were in and the Powers That Be let it rage because any dead gay was a good dead gay. I am not kidding...please, study the AIDS crisis to understand why some of us call it a passive genocide.

Silence=Death

And I'm so tired of death.

So those of us who see all the red flags, we know we can't be silent, because just look at the US right now and the torrent of state legislation that will drive trans people to suicide. Silence will kill and not nearly enough "allies" are screaming to protect our community and to tell the most marginalized people in our community that they matter and are loved and don't deserve this shit.

Silence=Death

Still

Please, friends, learn the heartbreak and joy and rebellion and the tower of strength that is this community and it's history.

We need each other.

We need the freaks, the queers, the folks who name themselves slurs and colours and who resist with all their hearts and we need the people who look "just like everybody else" with us, too, because together we can make it so we no longer need the reminder of that three word phrase we saw on posters of a pink triangle something close to 40 years ago.