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Little Teddy with his godfather
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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.
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.
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- if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost
- take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle
- fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism
- now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning
pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong
some others i found in the notes
Not really in the same vein, but i wanna add some great ones.
This whole post is my current philosophy
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I have realized that the perfect form of media must have a delicate balance between absolutely heart wrenching pure emotional devastation and the most ridiculous nonsense you have ever seen in your whole life
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Gotta keep a straight face u guys
based on this post
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hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.
bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end up building communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that's what humans do. that's what they DO!!!
#3 million years ago our ancestors put all of their skill points into charisma and tool use and we've been winging it ever since
AO3 only has 5 fics for All of Us Villians.
THAT IS NOT ENOUGH
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serious post. start combating any misinformation you find. monkeypox is not an sti. monkeypox spreads through *any form of contact*. it is not exclusive to queer people, and it is *not* queer people's fault. we can not let history repeat itself. don't let flashy headlines take the place of medical facts and information.
conservatives are already itching to start a witchhunt against LGBT people and monkeypox is something they are going to latch onto.
don't let them. don't let this turn into a repeat of the AIDS crisis.
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reblog to let him know that you love him
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Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.
Why hasn't anyone done a darklina/malina/Nikolina Mamma Mia fic yet?
AND ON THAT NOTE
Hadestown Actor AU Darklina fic? I'm imagining Aleksander acting as Hades (ofc) and Alina is Eurydice, but she wants to break out of this type cast and maybe play Persephone (whose currently played by Zoya)
This would work great for Phantom of the Opera, too, btw
I'd also love to read a Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift inspired Darklina modern AU - - - already famous actor Aleksander meets up and coming singer Alina
I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS FOR HOW MUCH TALENT I LACK
SOMEONE HELP ME OUT
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Anonymous asked:
Where's the spirit essay jojo
oh you mean the essay about how spirit untamed is legitimately the most evil thing i have ever seen and knowledge of its existence caused me to question whether humanity can truly be redeemed? you mean that essay? i need you to understand that i think dishing on children's media is stupid. children, and young girls especially, are constantly derided for what they like. i'm not here to do that. likewise, i'm not here to dish on sequels and reboots. i love sequels and reboots. i even liked the hobbit movies. i have no taste and won't attempt to force my taste on others. no. i'm here to say that spirit untamed is an unmitigated crime against both god and man in every way a piece of media can be because it attempts to build on the unparalleled masterpiece that came before it.
and i know i'm right. i've never been more right. what the fuck is spirit untamed, you ask? here's a trailer. you'll note they turned off comments. every official iteration of this has comments turned off. what i'm about to say in this essay is very much fellow-feeling for people of a certain age and they've made their thoughts explicitly clear basically everywhere this sequel film has been talked about. if you don't want to watch the above trailer or can't, it's a cgi animated horse girl movie with all the horse girl accoutrements. she moves to a small town, she's a little weird, she loves animals, she makes friends. presumably something bad is happening and she will fix it with horses and friendship. once again, i'm not here to dish on that. i love cgi and i'm a horse girl. i learned how to ride on a mustang. this is a movie about me. that's fine. if this were the only spirit that had ever existed, it would be fine.
unfortunately, this is a sequel to a much better movie, 2002's traditionally animated spirit: stallion of the cimarron. when i say it's a "better movie" i mean that i'm not totally sure two movies so different can exist in the same universe. because the 2002 movie was told from the perspective of the HORSE as voiced by MATT DAMON and it was literally about him SABOTAGING WESTWARD EXPANSION and FUCKING THE EVIL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT and DESTROYING INDUSTRY.
there are exactly two relevant humans in the film: the colonel (he's a colonel) and little creek (he's a lakota boy who gets captured by the united states government along with spirit, the titular horse). i'll let you guess who the bad guy is! no i won't. it's the united states government which is accurately depicted as an accessory of capitalist expansion west as represented by the railroad specifically, to the detriment of all things good. the first time we see anyone in uniform, they're killing natives in an unprovoked massacre on a native village. shortly after, the colonel captures spirit, and then little creek after that. when the colonel sees little creek, he comments on his race in a way that is malicious and real, and then has him put not in the stockade but tied up where they tie unbroken horses, where they have tied spirit. the movie never attempts to sidestep what it's depicting or saying. it says it plainly, in a way any child or adult can understand. it's uncompromising.
honestly, i'm kind of shocked this movie hasn't entered into the modern sphere of discourse a little more. maybe it's because it's unimpeachable. no one can disagree that it's visually one of the most beautiful animated movies out there. no one can disagree with the message, because it's so simple and true: yes, the government destroyed native populations. yes, it existed largely as an arm of capitalism to aid westward expansion at the expense of native populations and the land itself. the dichotomy of good and evil is so clear in this one and the evil is american.
this is the climactic scene:
spirit--who has just destroyed the railroad with little creek's help--tries to escape the actual literal united states government who are trying to actually kill this horse and this lakota boy with actual guns. i think little creek actually gets shot, but not fatally. they escape together by jumping across a canyon, solidifying the eagle symbolism that the movie used repeatedly as a metaphor for freedom and the spirit of the west, but the west-west. like the actual land in the west. not whatever texas thinks it is. it ends with little creek letting spirit go (this scene apparently still makes me cry 20 years later so JOT that down) along with his own horse so they can go live in horseful peace in the (titular) cimarron, which in this movie is an effective stand-in for the unmolested west--though the area depicted is largely a fantasy mishmash of various areas.
full stop i'm a emotionally compromised about any discussion of the american west and history. it's been most of my life and the depth and nuance is endless. we could examine the rights and the wrongs of the national park system, of preservation over conservation, over the drastic and continued and literal physical marginalization of native people and cultures. we can also get deep into wild horses in this area specifically today, how they're rounded up, why, and where they ultimately end up. all the efficacy of that. i've been to more bureau of land management auctions than i can count, and even trained a few wild horses. i'm not going to get into any of that here. i just want you to know that this animated horse movie, with music by bryan adams and hans zimmer, is the closest thing we have had to a mainstream kid's movie addressing any of it. any of the reality and any of the history.
it depicts the government sanctioned destruction of native populations, it shows how the "untouched" west was actually very much touched by native populations prior to industrial expansion west but not in a way that destroyed those areas, it critiques the very concept of taming the west, and it shows that manifest destiny and westward expansion as represented in the movie by the railroad had a very real toll on nature in and of itself and required vast fucking resources to accomplish. it even shows that they were really shitty to horses in the old west. and again, not to harp on it, but it absolutely 100% is the only mainstream animated film that shows an unprovoked massacre of a native village by the government. and it did all this no exposition, almost no dialogue at all. it just puts it on screen in stunning animation. i dare any studio to even attempt a movie like this today. no one would even try.
NATURALLY, THIS GIVEN, I WOULD FEEL SOME RESERVATIONS ABOUT A CUTESY SEQUEL WHERE SPIRIT IS LITERALLY TAMED BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAILROAD OWNER.
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none pizza with left beef
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It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef
ive missed you
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less “if you see a man and woman together at pride be nice! they could be bi/pan/trans/ace/aro” and more “stop gendering strangers to harass them anywhere, but especially at pride holy shit”
you know what? i want this to reach the people who do this– especially the ones claiming to support trans folk (usually in really hollow ways lol i’m not bitter). keep reblogging– i want this sentiment to be widespread and for people to stop gendering strangers! especially in explicitly LGBTQ+ spaces!
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"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:
I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
But particularly women, and especially black women.