what-alchemy

obligatory sketches for the week also bc i’m a little bit excited today he he he

“his kiss still thrills me, even after a millennia”

Sometimes it’s just nice to have someone read to you...

Chris likes that people think he looks like a non binary lesbian aunt.

official boob post

before andy’s arrival there’s nicky with his inability to find pants to wear

Oooh nicky you’re f*cked

somebody urged me to post this… so yeah… here

modern au where single dad!joe has to drop off his kid at the local church’s daycare when he cant find a babysitter and priest!nicolo ends up with a crush that makes him question literally Everything in his life

Chris Pine attends the Los Angeles premiere of "Poolman" celebrating Chris Pine's directorial debut at Vista Theatre on April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

i really rewatched ted lasso, started painting for the first time in five years, and made a new side blog for this man? so here’s this wip i’m posting to motivate myself to actually finish

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

Another thing I’m pretty sure hasn’t been touched on is that RECLAIMING OF SLURS EXISTS! And you can reclaim a slur so fucking goodly that now anyone can say it as long as they aren’t using it as a pejorative! No right-winger is gonna be using queer as a pejorative anyway, because they see how we’ve reclaimed it and how there are words with actual power to hurt. (T-slur, D-slur, F-slur, etc)

The 6-stripe flag isn’t gay anymore, it’s queer.

The number of times Ive seen the acronym weaponized by deliberately excluding one identity or another has made it very, very clear that queer will always be the more inclusive term. It just means not straight, or not cisgender, or neither.

Ironic that the people here saying queer is not inclusive specifically use LGBT.

Excluding all identities that don’t fall under these four categories. Bother with a + at least.

Anyway I’m queer 👌

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

Geirrod Van Dyke, Workers.