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-I'm Leah, she/her, I'm 24 and I like dogs-
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In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.

I kept it in a terrarium and it became a normal 🐸 despite everything. About a year afterward (I thought) it died, so I sadly put it in a shoebox in the shed until the ground thawed enough for a proper funeral but when that day came I opened the box and the frog was fine.

This is funnier than anything I have ever said.

This post is to Easter what a Geiger counter is to radiation.

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emptyjunior

If Samuel Reich (I don't know his full name, I've decided it's that) did this to me I'd start Sobbing on camera full on, shoulders shaking and make him feel horrible

Like the cancelled magician who killed all those people????!!!?!!

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kuchipatch1

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.

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kryspiekream

Fucking THANK YOU!! Hell before I even knew I was trans, I was already voice training to get rid of my southern accent. Even before I knew I was the type of person the South would rather hurt, I knew I hated it here. We don't always get to pick our homes, and we definitely don't always have the ability to move.

They'll pry the sweet tea out of my cold dead queer hands before I let anyone think the south is all bigots and evangelicals. The best allies I know are trailer trash and proud of it.

Yes this place needs fixing but it's not gonna happen if you tell all the queer, the bipoc, and the disabled to leave. You know what that would do? Give the bigots what they want.

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tuulikki

Relatedly, I can’t figure out how we all ignore how utterly garbage it is to use people’s accents to imply things about their intellect and morality.

Accents are the story of a language passed down in a community, worn and shaped in unique ways like a footpath through the woods, deepened over time. Accents are intricate, unique things—and sometimes astonishingly fragile.

So not to go linguistics on main here but fuck seeing any form of human speech as fair game. Fuck tokenising it. Fuck reducing it to a rhetorical flourish. Everyone’s a “respect all voices” leftist until you think your friends will think you’re funny for doing “cool” AAVE or a comedic “dumb” Southerner.

Any accent means someone’s family or friends or neighbours. Show some fucking respect.

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elexuscal

Danny Phantom, The Show:

geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!

Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:

a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!

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