Don't dream it. Be it.

Incredibly alarming that talks of “peace” in Gaza seem to extend no further than a ceasefire. How do you think they’re gonna start off where they left off themselves? Their houses are destroyed, so many have lost mothers and fathers and brothers and children, they still have no clean water and no food. Any area Israel withdraws out of is an area it already knows has been rendered inhospitable. There was even a direct quote by some IOF soldier gleefully stating how he “wasn’t sure Palestinians could go back to their homes.” So what happens when the US “succeeds at negotiating a ceasefire”? Who will be responsible for helping the Palestinians rebuild all that they’ve lost?

real

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

not again

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

literally obsessed with the design of blobjects

It's like art noveau to me, but inspired by microorganisms instead of plants.

Every single one of the 13,000+ children murdered by Israel was robbed of their futures

i looked at queeringthemap today and had a good cry but these especially touched me

yeah.

frank was so involved in the bands earliest days before he even joined he was molding their history before he was one of them he was their biggest fan and advocated for them and encouraged them and saw their potential im so. emotional. frank iero.

shitty vid but !!!!!!! they played summertime at the rotterdam concert!!!!!

stop whatever you’re doing, pay attention to this. x

No because I’m gonna cry for real reading this. Because it’s TRUE. They really did it…

Shout out to trans women who aren't computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the "gay Taco Bell", but since I was coming from the "gay Howard Johnson's" I wasn't shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they'd worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the "gay Taco Bell" on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven't changed much in 20 years. I'm still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city's version of the "gay Taco Bell" is key to survival.

Thank u for sharing this with us

something not a lot of people have touched on is the line ‘ANTIHERO!’ in foundations, and i think it’s pivotal to the meaning of the song. mcr has always had a narrative savior complex, going so far as to spell it out explicitly with ‘savior of the broken and the damned.’ the formation of the band was in direct response to the country shaking apart, and the band members decided they had to be part of the coming change. think about the thesis line in skylines: ‘and if the world needs something better/let’s give them one more reason now.’ mcr essentially forced themselves into the hero role because they wanted to be the band that saves kids' lives. and then they were! for ten years they were, but we all know what happens next; it was too much, and they realized they couldn't fill that role completely. that was a major reason they broke apart, they felt like they didn't have that spark to change the world like they used to have. it was bitter and painful, and i think it scarred them for years afterward. which is why gerard screaming 'ANTIHERO!' in foundations, a song about reckoning with their past as a band, is so fucking essential to the moral of the lyrics. foundations is about raging against the role that killed you; you can't lay in your own rot, you can't die in the shell of the role you tried to fill. that's not an ending. ANTIHERO is directly connected to 'you must fix your heart' because mcr's role is no longer to act as the saviors they know they can't be. instead, they must heal themselves. by screaming ANTIHERO, gerard contradicts the band's 12-year-long narrative and contradicts the reason why the band broke up. go against the hero role, go against that weight you put on your shoulders, go against the rot and decay, fix your heart, and get up, coward.

Amazing

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

Some of the highlights of that video include:

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

this reply in the comments tho

This did not go where I expected from the first tweet and now I am laughing so hard I am crying.