Maybe it’s time to start throwing the ashes of the dead on the white house lawn again.

It occurs to me that not everyone knows about this.

In 1992, ACT-UP led a protest against George H.W. Bush, furious at his inaction in the face of the AIDS crisis. Angry queer people literally threw the ashes of their dead loved ones onto the white house lawn to shame the government into action. Another Ash Action happened in 1996.

There’s video. It is incredibly intense and made me openly sob the first time I watched it.

Sources: [x] [x] [x]

Angry “q*eer” people really? Say homosexuals you fucking cowards. How about you dont use a slur when talking about our history and suffering

ACT-UP was an explicitly queer organization that used that language for themselves, you absolute fucking moron.

Tbf a lot of people don’t want to reclaim queer and it makes them uncomfortable.

Did I fucking stutter.

We’re here

We’re queer

And we’re not going anywhere

don’t stop using the word queer, but respect when people are uncomfortable with it (unless they’re not lgbt, then they really don’t get a say in that). 

don’t write the word queer out of this, but just make sure the original post using the word is tagged as “q-slur.”

I will not allow my fucking identity to be censored.

Also, look at how thefuckingauditorium thinks ‘homosexual’ is a decent replacement for ‘queer’. That excludes a lot of queer people who were involved in that activism but weren’t gay. It’s funny how often the objection to queer comes down to excluding other LGBT people, isn’t it?

@juche-bunny and @insert-originalusername-here y'all sure you REALLY want to be agreeing with/defending the ragingly proud TERF up there? Because thefuckingauditorium is one, and maybe you should think about the motivations behind erasing the word queer or insisting it is a slur and everyone has to treat it as such. Just some food for thought.

You can blacklist queer, how dare people demand others censor their own identity? The fucking entitlement.

QUEER ACTIVISM IS QUEER

WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER, AND IF YOU TRY TO EXCLUDE US YOU CAN HAVE OUR ASHES THROWN ON YOUR LAWN TOO!

Who wants to pay my rent?

I’m not going to make rent again.  Or be able to pay PG&E (which, fuck them, they should be paying us.  Fuck off with this.  But if I don’t pay them I’ll have no power.  Ugh.) or my phone or my car loan or or or or.

I’m the only one working consistently right now (that’s a whole other vent that I don’t have the spoons to go into) and it is REALLY putting a strain on me.  And I can’t go see a therapist because (as I mentioned) I’m the only one working and so I can’t fucking afford one.  I’m supposed to go see my GP to have my knee and shoulder looked at and do a check-in on my antidepressants, and I can’t do that either.  AND I’m supposed to go see a rheumatologist to see if I have early rheumatoid arthritis and I can’t do THAT either.

I’ve thought about getting a credit card and putting some stuff on that, but I doubt I could even make the minimum payment on a credit card right now or any time in the near future.  I’ve considered going back to bartending because it’s really good money, but I can’t stand for that long any more, thanks to 10 years of food service jobs.  I’m looking for a better-paying reception job or even data entry, but they all want a fucking degree, which is ridiculous.  I need a BA to answer a phone?  Are you fucking serious?  Fuck off.

I can’t borrow any more money from my parents.  I can’t take out another loan.  We can’t move because we don’t have enough money to make a deposit, but we might not be able to stay because we can’t make rent.  I have to fucking crowdfund to keep my apartment.  Fucking California.  Fucking Bay Area.  I love this stupid city I live in, but it’s been so gentrified that prices have skyrocketed while minimum wage has stayed the same.  I’m so over it.

Anyway.  Anyone want to send me money?

https://paypal.me/TerryDownward?locale.x=en_US

https://venmo.com/Terry-Downward

okay, i got real fucked up last week and ordered a fuck ton of webkinz, which i thought was a mistake, until the first ones arrived and pud decided she absolutely fucking loved them

at first i just put em on her to see what shed do, which was nothing, so i decided to just leave her alone in my room for a bit. when i came back in later, she was doing this and i dead ass started crying

UPDATE: another one came :'^)

I love this song.

Sameer and The Chief quickly volunteer as their time with Diana have inspired them to fight for a cause. Charlie, however, hesitates. You see Charlie can’t shoot anymore. His PTSD is too overwhelming and he’s afraid he’s become useless. “Maybe you’ll be better without me,” he says, pained by the idea that he’s too “broken” to help.“But who will sing to us, Charlie?” Diana asks. It’s a simple question that brings a smile to Charlie’s face, a song in his heart, and the group continues on their way.

On the surface, it’s a tender moment. One that shows just how close this group has become since dropping onto the front lines of World War One. But with one simple line, Wonder Woman has redefined what it is to be a man.

Patty Jenkins’s Diana, doesn’t ask Charlie to continue to fight for her. She doesn’t need him to kill for her. She doesn’t try to encourage him or make him feel guilty for not being able to kill anymore, or turn him away because he’s can’t. She simply asks him to do what he can. She simply asks him to sing, and tells us that we don’t need to fight to be strong enough to stand beside Wonder Woman. - “But who will sing to us, Charlie?” The Defining Power of Wonder Woman

Actually, it goes a little deeper than that if Diana’s line is what it is in the gif. If it is “Who will sing for us?” That difference between for and to adds extra meaning to the question, especially for a Scotsman like Charlie.

“Who will sing for us?” has two meanings. The first is the one mentioned below the gifs. It could be taken as “Who will sing songs to us?” Who will lift our morale and keep us warm in our hearts? A perfectly valid meaning and one Charlie does. BUT it can also mean precisely what it says. “Who will sing for us?” Who will sing the tales of what we have done? Who will tell the others of our deeds? A lot of old Scottish songs do just that - tell the tale of what someone or a group of people have done.

Scotland has a strong tradition of bards and I’m betting a society like the one Diana is from does too. With one gentle question, Diana sets Charlie in that honoured and respected position of being their bard. And Charlie would know that too.

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

Reblog to save a writer's sanity.

brock-obama:

I really am tempted to reblog this every time it’s on my dash. That description is one of the best things on the internet.

Yeahhhh, I want this on my blog again.

OMG MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POST EVER IT’S FINALLY BACK YAY!

Here, have another of my all-time favorite Tumblr posts. 

We were just discussing this again and I had to reblog it again because IT IS MY FAVORITE

I’m permanently traumatized that you introduced me to this over lunch, EGT. 

::bows with a flourish::

There’s a gif out there of some people reenacting this that makes me laugh til I puke every damn time.

@revfrog

BABEY BIRBS

infants are so goddamn funny. i was holding my niece today and i just told her “i diagnose you with baby” and she stared at me with the absolute widest eyes like i’d just told her the secret to life itself so i nodded and went “it’s true! you’re just baby” and she stopped for a few seconds, then absolutely YELLED her little head off, very seriously informed me, “ABABABABABAAAAA” and faceplanted into my shoulder, where she promptly began to try to eat my shirt

Parasite and Girl

This is gold. @kunabee

#This is venom isn’t it?

i would like an emotional support alien parasite please

Please help me, I still have cancer and my last post isn't getting me help anymore

Hi, most of you have probably seen my last post that looked like this:

So the post now has over 12 thousand notes, and as great as it is to have that many notes..

I'm not getting anymore donations or notes from it and I'm really scared that it's because it has so many notes, that people are just looking past it now.

So I'm starting over with a new post.

About a month or two ago I made that post when I had absolutely nothing, and through a LOT of peoples kindness, I was able to buy my medicine and get a months worth of cancer treatment done.. but now it is September 1st and here in a couple of days I will be out of my medicine and due for my blood treatment but I once again have no way of paying for it.

I genuinely need donations again!!

My treatment involves draining my blood, because of the Polycythemia Vera, I have too much. I am at a higher risk of a stroke, and with my heart disease ontop of that.. the risk is even higher.

My medicine, my treatment, all of that.. is working!! Let me repeat because I am so happy to say this, but the treatment that I have been getting HAS BEEN WORKING FOR ME!! My hair has been growing back, my energy has been coming back, I've been able to eat more, and I've been able to get out of my house let alone my bed more and more thanks to being able to have my treatment.

But it costs money, and until I am approved for disability (which I have a working case for) people like you, spreading this post and donating to me.. you are helping me get better!!

So please, donate if you can to my PayPal account. I tried setting up a venmo account as well as a GoFundMe page, but my bank keeps assuming it's a fraud and canceling my accounts. So PayPal is all I have right now.

Please donate or spread this post instead of my last one, thank you for reading.

P. S.

To those I promised a tarot reading to for donating to me, please send me a message and I will get you, your reading asap. And to anyone who wants a tarot reading for a donation, genuinally, just one dollar will get you a full reading of your choice. Thank you.

https://www.paypal.me/QPatt

I turn 28 this month!

You know what I want?

To be able to pay my bill and rent and feed myself.  That’s right!  All I want for my birthday is for people to send me money.

I’m still the only one working in our household (the cat is, of course, a useless freeloader), and even with the extra work I’m doing to get some extra cash, I’m not making even close enough to survive.

So here are some links where you can send me birthday money!

https://paypal.me/TerryDownward?locale.x=en_US

https://venmo.com/Terry-Downward

https://ko-fi.com/terrydownward

Anything helps.  Seriously.

Hi y'ens! I still need some help and appreciate anything you can spare.

If you'd like, I can do a tarot reading for you or make you a cocktail/mocktail recipe or sing a song of your choice for you in return!

Thank you! Here's my cat, who is more healthily fed than I am.

Back pain? Have you tried:

Of all the communities for one of my posts to circulate in, the chronic pain community was not expected but honestly that’s even funnier than this as an elder scrolls shitpost

After Zuko joins the gaang, he sees Aang get really worked up about something and he flickers into the Avatar State, causing minor destruction immediately around him. Katara and Sokka are busy calming him down and Toph is already levelling out the earth around them, and Zuko just flatly admires Aang’s burnt-out rage, like, “Wow, mood”

#listen i know zuko lets go of his anger after joining the gaang and everything#but zuko witnessing aang flicker into the avatar state after getting worked up and just being like ‘lmao mood’ is#so funny to me for some reason#zuko is so awkward but please give him moments of just flat and dark humour that’s so shitty that it never lands#aang: ‘if i face the firelord he could - could - could end up burning me alive’#zuko: ‘been there done that didn’t even get a t-shirt for it’#zuko: ‘0/10 recommend’#sokka: ‘are you like….. are you good dude?’#zuko: ‘what?’

full offense but cis people dont get to call us shemales and trannies and femboys and traps and “its”, and campaign to “drop the T” in LGBT and deprive trans people of resources and beat the shit out of us in bathrooms and make fun of us for having “baby faces” and strip us of our rights and murder us for being trans and joke about how we “identify as an apache attack helicopter”, only to turn around and call themselves “allies” when they police OUR identities, just because they call themselves “cis transmeds”! i cant!! im not fucking allowing it!!!

cis people i implore you to rb this

I turn 28 this month!

You know what I want?

To be able to pay my bill and rent and feed myself.  That’s right!  All I want for my birthday is for people to send me money.

I’m still the only one working in our household (the cat is, of course, a useless freeloader), and even with the extra work I’m doing to get some extra cash, I’m not making even close enough to survive.

So here are some links where you can send me birthday money!

https://paypal.me/TerryDownward?locale.x=en_US

https://venmo.com/Terry-Downward

https://ko-fi.com/terrydownward

Anything helps.  Seriously.