remember how utterly inescapable how i met your mother used to be with the memes and references and barney and bro code and wait for it... and then the finale was so hated it vanished overnight

The finale so successfully erased the show from public consciousness, that when people tried to come up with a name for the "extremely popular show with finale so bad that people just immediately stop talking about it" phenomenon, people called it... the Game of Thrones Effect. HIMYM got memoryholed so hard that people forgot it even existed

The Black Tapes Podcast fandom: *slinks back into the sewers, silently, unseen*

My Illustration for Classics but make it Gay vol 3! The book is on pre order now at http://novaandmali.com/shop full of more queer history fun!

Medieval Pride! I know I have probably missed some folks 😭 but I hope you enjoy the pride gone Medieval parade full of colour coded clothing, doggos, horses and a little zodiac fun cos you know how we all love a little horoscoping!

The original is Les Treis Riches Heures de Duc Barry month May (because alas the june image wasnt as fun for a pride set up!)

WAIT THIS IS FUNNY

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Wish we could get back to the “dark fantasy films with hopeful ending” vibes of the 70s and 80s. Something about movies like Dark Crystal, the Last Unicorn, Willow, etc., have something else. Idk what it is, exactly, but it’s something.

It was that you could meet the monsters where they were, fight them, and win. That's what it was.

A lot of people have a super, super skewed idea of what rural towns in America are like.

I grew up on a farm two miles outside a town with less than 200 people. For a short while, there was a queer-owned coffee shop/art gallery on the main highway. It's where I spent the better part of an entire summer, just hanging out with my laptop. The owner would start experimenting with new drink ideas on slow days, and give me free ones in exchange for feedback.

"And he didn't get run out of town?!" Nah, because his mom owned a hair salon and did the hair of all the old ladies in town, and if they were jerks to her son, she would have stopped doing up their hair and they'd have had to drive half an hour into the city to find a new hairdresser.

My hometown isn't some bastion of progressive politics or anything, but like...it's not a two-dimensional caricature, either. I still live in the area. There are queer people. There are a lot of people of color, especially Black elders and Latinx immigrants. There are disabled folks. There's an entire group of found-family queer leftists who bought a farm together. I know of at least two pagan families, and multiple Jewish folks.

If you read "town of 200 people" and immediately assumed that all of them are white, Christian, cis, straight, able-bodied, republican landowners? You're extremely mistaken.

Rural America is more diverse than you think.

#*farquad pointing* NORTHERNER

I'm from Florida, actually, which you'll recognize as being pretty notably in the South.

The American South has the highest population of Black people in the entire country. The three states with the highest population of Black citizens are Texas, Georgia, and Florida. [x]

Texas and Florida are both listed in the top three US states with the highest populations of Hispanic/Latinx people. [x]

Texas is listed as the overall second-most ethnically diverse state in America. Out of the five least ethnically diverse states, three of them are Northern states--Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. [x]

Six--SIX--of the world's top 50 largest Pride events happen in the American South--Houston, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Charlotte, and Miami [x].

Florida and Texas are both listed in the top five US states with the highest percentage of queer & LGBT people [x].

Of the top five American states with the highest percentage of disabled people, four of them are in the South [x].

I could keep going.

The South is more diverse than you think.

This post is going around again, and people are so fucking determined to prove that I didn't "really" grow up rural.

"Half an hour outside a city isn't rural!" The literal definition of rural is "relating to the countryside instead of a town."

I grew up on a farm. I did not get an "allowance," I just did Farm Chores because that's what you do on a family farm. We traded shit with the neighbors because it was faster and easier than driving into town, much less the nearest city. Going into town for groceries was an Excursion. There was no such thing as a "corner store." I know what the stars look like. We had to worry about coyotes and foxes and bears getting into our trash and harassing our livestock. We had a flock of yard birds. We had a big garden and a pond stocked with fish and crawfish that we would fish up and eat. I grew up running around in the woods. I was taught basic wilderness survival safety from the time I was a small child, just in case I got lost or ran into a dangerous animal or otherwise had to navigate a dangerous situation out in the middle of nowhere. Not sure what else y'all want from me.

But all of that is a moot point anyway, because it's not even the actual point of the fucking post. Your arbitrary standards of "true rural" are irrelevant to the actual topic, which is that the South is more diverse than people pretend.

Also, to everyone who keeps telling me that I must be from the most utopian small town in the country: did you willingly ignore the part where I literally said my hometown is not a bastion of progressive politics, or are you just a pathetic little troll who will ignore everything someone says just to pick a little loser fight?

All I said was that marginalized people live in the South. If you decided to take that as, "so obviously it's not dangerous and Republican," that's...not really my fault. Get a hobby.

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

Welp, so much for the prediction that he and Chris could host within a few years as the ultimate Oscars gimmick.

Two genuine apologies and he resigned from the academy. But it's just not enough for these people.

All his projects are on hold. Deals are on hold. Now he can't attend the Oscars for ten years.

I've never witnessed anyone in Hollywood actually be punished by Hollywood until now.

Just so we’re clear: Jim Carey forcibly kissed a teenage Alicia Silverstone without her consent at an awards show. Was not punished. Adrien Brody forcibly kissed Halle Berry at an award show without her consent. Also was not punished. John Wayne had to be physically held back from attacking Sacheen Littlefeather at the Oscars. Was not punished. Roman Polanski was given an Oscar in abstention because if he came to collect the award in person, he would have been arrested due to his conviction for statutory rape. Was not removed from the academy until 2018. Casey Affleck was given an Oscar shortly after he was accused to sexual harassment. Woody Allen has been nominated and awarded several times by the academy despite allegations of molestation being public since the 1990s.

I wonder what seperates Will Smith from all these people. Hmm.

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.

also it sounds stupid lol

intersex bodies are just as natural and regular as perisex bodies, the only difference is that perisex bodies are more common. being intersex is not a birth defect in the same way being a perisex woman is not a birth defect. nothing broke, nothing is "wrong" with us, we are just less common.

being a perisex woman or a perisex man isn't a medical condition and neither is being intersex. when our intersex conditions cause other health complications it is not because we are intersex, it is because of a medical condition associated with being intersex.

a person with a uterus who has endometriosis isn't experiencing a symptom of having a uterus they are experiencing endometriosis.

intersex bodies are heavily medicalized. they are treated as problems that need to be solved, but being intersex isn't a medical condition. we don't need to be diagnosed and forced through "treatment" to make us as close to perisex as possible, we need support, awareness, and acceptance.

tldr; intersex bodies are just as natural as perisex bodies. intersex existence needs to stop being medicalized

This European Eagle Owl’s tippy taps

Source

I love science

Is no one ever going to talk about how Björk said “Sound is the nigger of the world, man.” Source below:

https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/bjork

Also I would expect no non Black person would have the idea to reblog or like this, right ? Right ?

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