Can we please stop associating being a good person with how much you're willing to suffer in silence for other people? You can be a kind person and still say "no, I don't have the time/energy to help you with that." You can be a kind person and still say "this makes me uncomfortable, please stop." You can be a kind person and still say "I disagree and here's why." You can be kind and still say "I'm not okay with this." Being kind is about treating people with kindness and respect, not about being the human equivalent of a doormat!

When Adam bit the apple he did it because he trusted Eve. Because he loved her. Adam bit into the apple because the woman he loved told him to, no matter what God said. No matter the rules of heaven. What’s heaven to a woman’s love anyway? What’s God to your wife? The first sins of humanity, were trusting others. Eve trusted a snake, Adam trusted Eve, and I trust you. Maybe that’s a sin, just like the first couple. Maybe everyone’s right about us and we’re sinners and we offend God. But like I said, what’s God to a woman’s love anyway? What has heaven got that I can’t find sitting next to you on a cool autumn morning?

I want that shirt

i keep seeing jokes about Imagine Dragons showing their support by performing for WGA strikers, like about how bad their music/singing is and jokes about how it’ll hurt the movement and normally i’m neutral to the hatred of popular/used to be popular things, but GOD. as a queer ex-mormon i so badly wish more people knew what this group and what specifically Dan Reynolds has done to support queer kids

(article from screenshots)

also while im here Enemy (the arcane song) is also about queer mormon kids <3

I absolutely hate how people took a kind, progressive, good band and decided to give it the nickelback treatment.

(Frankly I don’t even necessarily think they’re bad, sound wise, either. But I guess music is subjective so if you disagree that’s your right, just don’t treat it as some kind of unilateral truth)

My cousin (who is a christian fundamentalist and a massive homophobe) once mocked me for liking the band as an atheist because they’re religious, and I just went silent because I didn’t feel like getting into an argument, but

Like

Dan Reynolds has been an outspoken ally for a while.

“Believer” is about queer religious trauma. “Love” is about queer acceptance. He called out Eminem over homophobia. He was part of the Loveloud Festival, that raised over a million dollars for queer charities like the Trevor Project.

Gee, it’s sure a funny coincidence he and ID got branded as cringe. I wonder what motive someone could possibly have to do so.

I got the honour of seeing Imagine Dragons live, and, a. they’re fucking GOOD what the FUCK especially live, like their music style has changed over time and it’s fine to not like that but the live performance was just so passionate and wonderful, and b, I can’t coiuldn’t take any pictures of it but one of the guitarists has a trans flag guitar with a trans flag strap and it’s so fucking beautiful and I nearly cried when I saw that clear and open support in such a subtle way. I’m glad someone else put into words how fucking annoying that attitude has been towards them with the strike.

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.

Reword every headline they put out. “Due to not wanting to give writers money, Marvel has shut down pre-production on…” You can end this strike any time you want to, pal.

"Marvel too cheap to pay writers, production shuts down"

"Disney too greedy to pay residuals, deletes shows/movies"

"Studios cut corners on safety, production values, writing, acting, etc. in order to make more money; won't share with anyone below CEO level"

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

even setting aside the fact that gendered bodytype averages aren't universals, and plenty of individual (cis) women and (cis) men could easily go to toe to toe. have we considered that the fact that all the most prominent and well-paid sports are ones that require things like Being Tall and Having Muscle Mass, as opposed to, ex, gymnastics...is itself an artifact of sexism

also to people who are like "well do you think WOMEN should be playing AMERICAN FOOTBALL against MEN" actually I don't think anyone should be playing american football on account of, you know, the irreversible brain damage.

maybe a controversial thought but i think job should pay you enough to live

dichotomy of “nothing in the digital age is permanent, we are losing physicality and thus part of ourselves” vs. “everything in the digital age is permanent, everything you do is recorded and stored for later use against you or to exploit you”

#big fan of how both are true in the worst possible way

there is like. genuinly no reason why massive youtubers still have autogenerated captions. if its that much of a bother why cant u pay someone to do it with your million subscribers money? is that too much??

just to clarify: i think every youtuber should be adding captions, its something that should be normalized to the point that people feel bad for not including them. it’s just more annoying when someone who gets hundreds of thousands of viewers (many of whom are probably deaf, hoh, have auditory processing issues, can read english better than understand it verbally or another reason why captions are crucial.) doesn’t even bother in the slightest to make their videos accesible, it just simply makes no sense.

there is like. genuinly no reason why massive youtubers still have autogenerated captions. if its that much of a bother why cant u pay someone to do it with your million subscribers money? is that too much??

just to clarify: i think every youtuber should be adding captions, its something that should be normalized to the point that people feel bad for not including them. it’s just more annoying when someone who gets hundreds of thousands of viewers (many of whom are probably deaf, hoh, have auditory processing issues, can read english better than understand it verbally or another reason why captions are crucial.) doesn’t even bother in the slightest to make their videos accesible, it just simply makes no sense.

it has been 0 days since some weird motherfucker has said being punk is about being nice or whatever nerd shirt. being punk is about getting a throbbing erection in tight leather pants and flexing it

It only lasted 15 minutes, but this is the funniest shit ever.

every band has those two members who keep sucking and fucking on stage

“every band has those two members who keep sucking and fucking onstage” factoid actually just statistical error. average band has 0 members who suck and fuck onstage. My Chemical Georg, which has 4 members who suck and fuck onstage at shows they’re not even a part of, are an outlier adn should not have been counted

The Tumblr Twitter account is literally the only good thing about Twitter lately (or maybe ever)

I'm like 65% sure that's the fucking crab from Moana. Why is Tumblr so obsessed with crabs.

i do this to u