damiano-david:

HAPPY EUROVISION FINAL DAY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE

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palindrome-mystery:

imbeingtauntedbyachild:

From what I recall, the first time I saw ‘rainbow capitalism’ from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.

It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn’t take it down. They were unapologetic and didn’t try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.

And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.

The thing is:

There are people who hate us all. Who want us dead or exiled or in prison. Who protest every shred of queerness they see in public. Who have been working hard to pass laws like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” and trying to remove protections from LGBTQ folks from state laws and prevent them from being added to national ones.

Lone Star hate: Right-wing activists in Texas drive a new wave of anti-LGBTQ bigotry

Sure, Texas is a red state. But the merger of MAGA and anti-LGBTQ activism has revealed a whole new level of ugly

Salon

They are numerous, powerful, and violent. They protest every shred of LGBTQ protection in the law; they scream about every recognition or acceptance of queer people in any public venue, and sometimes private ones.

And yet.

This is important.

And yet.

Target thinks our dollars are more valuable than their protests.

Thinks they will sell more rainbow hats and flags and socks to us, than they will lose money to the bigots. And not only - “will sell more than they lose,” because that’s a base financial consideration, but “selling these things will NOT lose us money in the long run; we won’t be shut out of new real estate purchases; employees won’t walk off in notable numbers; cities will not refuse to license us for expansions; other companies won’t refuse to contract with us for repair work” and so on.

They not only compare “Dollars spent by queer folks and their allies” to “dollars withheld by bigots.” They compare “community standing and business opportunities gained from openly standing with the queer folks, vs those lost by denying the wishes of the bigots.”

Target knows who “the public” is.

“The public” is not defined as “queer folks & allies or anti-gay bigot activists.” Most of the public does not know, and does not care, what either of those groups do.

That has always been true.

What’s new: The public is not uncomfortable with rainbow-flag merch. Is not unhappy to see openly queer marketing from companies they know and trust. Oh, they might grumble about “damn pandering to special-interest woke groups wtf is this?” BUT THEY DON’T ACTUALLY CARE.

This, THIS is what we have been fighting for.

Not acceptance and love and welcome, but indifference.

Because why the hell should Jane Q Housewife give a damn if someone who lives 10 miles away from her has a girlfriend or boyfriend? They both go to Target; they both push a cart around and throw some stuff in it; they both stand in line and text someone about whether to get a pizza later. And they never see each other again.

The alt-right wants Jane to believe some part of her life is Deeply Affected - Damaged, even, by the person behind her in line having a sweetheart of the wrong gender.

30 years ago, Jane agreed with that. She wasn’t sure what exactly the problem was, but she wasn’t comfortable with it. And businesses had policies for that: If Jane might notice you were gay, you weren’t welcome.

That’s changed. Jane no longer cares.

WE FUCKIN’ WON THIS ONE.

Walmart is not your friend. (Walmart is not anybody’s friend.) Walmart is not our ally. But Walmart’s merch choices are a damned clear sign of what actual community values are across the US.

Every word of this should be taught to every LGBTQ+ person when they come out.

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redead-red:

watching a movie at home circa like, 2001 was like

• put your TV on channel 2 so the VCR will work
• open up the clamp shell case that held the VHS that has that satisfying crrlikkkkkk
• put in the movie
• gdi it has to be rewound
• press STOP and then rewind because its so much faster that way
• start the movie and it takes a few seconds for the movie to actually start cause you rewound to the VERY beginning
• FBI will get you if you illegally distribute or exhibit this movie
• and then. because you forgot that movies are always so much louder than TV

COMING SOON TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD

• QUICK LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME OH FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Okay crisis averted.
• although. these ads are kind of quiet. a little hard to hear…..
• better turn up the volume…

THX

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llwelleyn:

he can’t remember her name

artemis-pendragon:

Dare I say this is Tumblr’s greatest bit of all time

thenotoriousscuttlecliff:

I am really loving this entire “fuck you, Rick Berman” era of Star Trek.

righthandedleftturn:

Out Magazine profiles the LGBTQ cast members of Star Trek: Discovery

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rongzhi:

English added by me :)

I’m in HYSTERICS

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pseudomantis:

Seriously so haunting when an adult is proud of not liking vegetables

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pointyfangss:

Ah yes, my funky, alien wolves that ate daft punk

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nyaheum:

yum yum bitches

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claryfairhild:

i’m so done with the way girls in twenties are treated. i’m so done with people who literally create timetable for us. 20- 24  find a guy, 24-26 make him propose to you, 27-29 get married. i’m so done. i’m do not want to get 2 a.m texts from my best friend who is freaking out that she is gonna die alone. i do not want see my 20 years old friend wasting her time on some guys who are not even interested in her. i do not want see us falling for every nice guy who does not look creepy. i do not want to see girls get sad or paranoid just bcos they do not fill in the schedule. you are ok. you should enjoy your life at its fullest and one day you will find 10/10 so do not pursue 6 just because you do not want to be single. it is ok and one day you will find someone. do not split your love with people who does not deserve it. keep it for yourself and when time will come you will know. i know it hurts. i know you wish u could just open part of yourself and release the buzzing love. but not every kind of love is romantic. show it to your family, friends, plants, yourself.

Not a real criticism, just an expansion really, but …  it’s not just the timetables we need to get away from, but the goal itself, I think.  “One day you will find someone,” sounds comforting, but the reason it doesn’t lay fears to rest is because we are all smart enough to know it’s not necessarily true.

My aunt is over sixty, never married, and never, so far as I am aware, ever even had a great romance.  She dated a lot, but never clicked and now seems to have given up.  My mentor is over seventy, divorced her asshole husband more than half her life ago and has never found anyone since.

We all know women (and men) like these.  And because we know them, we know that “one day you will find someone,” is just … hogwash.  Because sometimes you just … don’t.  Or sometimes you do, but he turns out to be a cad.  Or you do and the universe rips you apart in the most unfair way possible.  And because society has us so fixated on finding “our other half” or whatever, we view these women as cautionary tales.

But … 

My aunt trains dogs.  Her schipperke is the national champion for his breed.  She spent so much of her life as a librarian, nurturing the love of books in kids, myself among them.  I ride horses because of her, and it’s one of the very few things I do that makes my soul feel at peace.

My mentor is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in her state.  She has devoted her life to fighting to ensure that everyone gets a vigorous defense.  Because of her countless people have had the opportunity to turn their lives around.  Because of her, they’ve had a life to turn around.  Because of her, the prosecution and the police in her jurisdiction are forced to behave ethically and adhere to the rule of law.  She’s still, even now fighting to abolish the death penalty.  It’s because of her that I am pursuing the life I am.

These women’s lives are not nothing.  In fact they are a whole lot of something, and it makes my heart hurt that I ever, in my dark 3 am’s, thought of their lives as something to be avoided at all costs.

So love your family, your friends, your pets, your gardens.  Love your job or your hobby or your raison d’ etre, whatever it is.  Love sunsets and the smell of rain and yourself, and don’t love these as something to do as a placeholder until the buzzing, romantic love comes, but love these as things worth loving all in themselves.

It’s fucking hard some days.  The dark 3 am’s still come sometimes.  But most days, I am so much more at peace knowing that I am not incomplete or waiting, but that my life, if it ended today, is worth it because of the platonic, familial, friendship love I have shared.  And if the other kind does come someday, that’ll be nice, but it won’t make any of the others less.  It’ll just be caramel sauce on a sundae–tasty and wonderful, but the sundae was perfect without it too.

It’s also worth remembering that for the longest time people *had* to get married to survive. It was an economic arrangement, and women (in particular) had few other choices when it came to supporting themselves. (This is even true, at least in the U.S., for women who loved people who weren’t men until the early twentieth century.)

I think of this often. I’m a single woman with a good education in a job that brings me a lot of satisfaction. Can you imagine how many women dreamed of that kind of freedom over the centuries? For whom being single was never an option? I think of those people often.

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theotheristhedoctor:

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

one of my favorite details of atla is how the main characters’ fighting styles adapt as they take on new enemies and make new friends with other bending styles. iroh straight up tells zuko about how he developed a technique for redirecting lightning by studying waterbenders, but if you watch closely especially in the last season, there’s a lot of this sort of thing happening unspoken with the gaang, using the bending forms of other elements like katara does above. it really shows the strength in differences and diversity coming up against a fascist regime that wants everyone to conform.

Look at Korra metal bending here

It’s completely different than anything we’ve seen from other metal benders, who bend metal with sharp movements like the derivative of earth bending that it is

But Korra is fluid. She is bending metal like it’s water. Because she is a water bender. And she is the first person in history to be able to bend both metal and water and so she is able to combine these styles into one and move seamlessly between them. This shows so beautifully how the Avatar is the embodiment of all bending

Every time I think this show has shown me all it can….it gives me more.

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