the straights are at it again

Reblog if you are a greedy gay hoarding refracted light all for your greedy gay self

I totally am, but also: I have a story. The time: 1995. The place: a small liberal arts college. We decided to participate in “denim day” which was a widespread event wherein on National Coming Out Day, you would wear denim to indicate SUPPORT FOR the LGBT community. Our support group made posters that were very, very clear about this. Wearing denim did not mean that you were coming out, it meant you supported anyone around you who might.

I have never seen so many suits and khakis IN MY LIFE. People who accidentally wore jeans went home and changed.

The community took it as a rebuke. We drew in closer to eachother, and felt unwelcome everywhere we thought we had friends before.

And I had people later tell me “You know I support you, just… I didn’t want anyone to think I was.” First off, I DON’T know you support me. Not if you refuse to, for one day, change nothing about your life to show it. Second off… why is that such a terrifying thought to you?

I remember before rainbows were a “gay thing”. They were everywhere. Church walls next to arks. School walls next to sunshine faces. People have VOLUNTARILY abandoned every other use. I have HEARD PEOPLE SAY they just couldn’t use rainbows anymore because people would think of “gay stuff.”

So I know this is a joke, and a stolen one at that, but you’ve done this to yourselves. If someone is so terrified of being perceived as queer that they will INSTANTLY abandon something they like if it has queer germs on it now or something, then they don’t deserve refracted light.

Maybe help us change the world into a place where being mistaken for queer would be just a thing to chuckle about and you can have refracted light back.

The LGBTQ+ community didn’t steal the rainbow. The straights abandoned it.

OPEN RP

Would you care for a free lollipop?

Would I?!

Would you?

Would I!?

Would you?!

Ẅ̴̨̰͚̟̤̅̓̀͌͆̇̈̎ͅǫ̴̢̳͙͈͍̰͇́̀̄̈̎͜͝ͅu̸̢̘̦̩̠̭̿̈́̆́̋͗̇l̷̨̛̥͔̠̳̯̘̹͎̎̀̐͑͑͊͒̋̍͘̕̚d̷̨͇͚̲͈̈́̄̏̈́͊̀̀̆̽̔̍́ ̵̧̧̰͖̻̻̞̘̖̳̤͌́͗̎̆̾͛̾̈̅͗̿́͠͝I̵̢̨̛̯̯͔̜̠̬͐̃͋͆̔͂́̃̀͑̆̚͠͝!̶̧̢̡̛͔̥̮̱̉̇͊̆̊̐̃̀͝?̸̧̛̩̝̫̰̟̫͕͖̦̾̀̚̚

W͙̤̬̼͇͚͔̮͍̲͔̘̹͜͡ͅÒ͕̭̗̞͖̤̹̘͈͔̬͙͖̥̀͢U̶̡̲̩̺̟͕̭̖̮̲͡L̝͖̺̲̺̩͚̲̙̠̟̺͖͚̯̘̺͟͟ͅḐ̟͈͎̥̤́͘͝ ̢̢́͠͏̣̝͓̱͙Y̛͔̱̫͍̲̲̻͎͈̤̦̠̜͡Ó̷̼̮̥̖͎͍̭̜̘͍̭̦̼͘͟͜U̡͞͞͞҉̜̼̱̖̟?̫͙̹̤̘͔͉̗̖̝͎̜͞͞͠!͍̩̗͔̯̘̗͓̦̟̱̝͕̟͎͚͠

….would I what?

Would you care for a free lollipop?

Would I?!

RADDA RADDA

Yes. I would. Thank you.

I haven’t seen the episode where this is from, but I have no doubt in my mind it went exactly like that.

the fucking “do you like your new toy??” “aaAaOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH” video is the best video ive seen this month

this goddamn dog has such a powerful aura

I mean batman being the dramatic type is nice, but honestly i think gotham is just Like That™

He’ll be standing on a gargoyle because it just happens to be the best vantage point of everything, minding his own buisness and as soon as a somber thought creeps up in his mind there’s a fucking thundercrack and it starts pouring out of nowhere and everytime it happens bruce is just like “fuck yes, i love this city”

Superman: Why does Gotham have so many gargoyles

Batman: huh, hadn’t noticed, does Metropolis not have gargoyles?

Flash: Central City has exactly 4 gargoyles

Superman:…

Batman:…

Flash: Sometimes I get bored, run through town, and count things

Flash: did you know there are exactly 168 public water fountains in Central city?

Batman: exactly how much free time do you have

let’s stop kidding ourselves, we all know the true otp is Jedediah and Octavius from Night At the Museum 

they quote gay movies

they watch cat videos on youtube 

they take selfies

I’m pretty sure they actually became canon in NatM3? 

come on there’s no way you can’t ship them

That last gif looks like Octavius was looking for a kiss, and well Jed misunderstood completely.

Being a homosexual in Octavius’ time was perfectly acceptable, which makes this all the more funny cause I think he thinks there can be something more, but Jeb is literally clueless as hell.

Cowboys in the Old West were also notoriously gay

Reblog this post with your weirdest ancestor’s name.

I had a great-grandfather named Kermit Dickman.

why did you start a competition that you’ve already won

Why lush is so expensive

Please remember that Lush is a fair trade company. This means that all they pay ALL of their workers a livable amount, and don’t take advantage of workers and harvesters in third world countries like many brands do. They test none of their products on animals as well.

Please keep these things in mind! Just know there is a reason that they cannot sell their bath bombs for 99 cents each. Doing so would mean that hard workers are being under paid.

other reasons it’s expensive: 

this is… actually really nice information to know? im too broke to be able to afford their products, so the only access to any info about them i have is either word of mouth or if i were to actually look up information about them. 

i always assumed it was some status symbol thing like apple but im always happy to learn that things arent like that!

*hits rock bottom once a week* 

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

*slams reblog*

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

AND TO CONTINUE THE OP’S THEME

IT’S SNEAK PEEK

NOT SNEAK PEAK

A SNEAK PEAK WOULD BE A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE

THEY ARE VERY LARGE AND WOULD FIND THIS GENERALLY DIFFICULT 

THANK

(OH AND ONE OTHER THING

BULLION = PRECIOUS METAL

BOUILLON = STOCK, FROM THE FRENCH “BOUILLER,” TO BOIL)

SHUDDER:

SHUTTER:

NOT SAME NOT SAME

sleight of hand: magic tricks slight of hand: President-Elect

I love this post so much oh my god 😂

“A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE” I’m losing my shit

To my followers who speak & write in English as a second language: the caps locks and the frustration might come across as scary or even personally pointed, but all the information is valuable, even (and lbr ESPECIALLY) to native English speakers & writers!

Break= To shatter, stop working, be made to fall apart; the verb and noun form of “broken”

Brake= To attempt to stop; the part of a vehicle that allows one to stop

I do editing and proofreading semi-professionally, so believe me when I say that this is something a lot of native English speakers could learn something from. *pointed look*

The caps lock is a bit off putting, but as a native speaker (who actually isn’t too bad at the language and was testing far above her grade level all through school) that these are common mistakes and it’s okay if you make them- work on not doing it, but don’t beat yourself up if you make these mistakes. Especially if English isn’t your first language.

Listen. I’m an English Major who’s planning to go into editing professionally, and just this month I learned that Commiserate and Commensurate are not spelled the same way. If I can fuck this up, and learn from it, so can you. No judgement, just opportunities! 

Affect vs effect can still kiss my ass too cause I will forever have issues with which one to choose.

All of the above are great btw. I learned a thing or two and I’m not ashamed to admit that.

when the clock struck midnight she fled from the ball leaving nothing behind but one magnificent shoe

This might come as a shock to some of you but saying “I’m not informed enough on this particular topic to have an opinion” is about 100 times more respectable than being misinformed

I know in school they often teach us that ‘I don’t know’ is the worst possible answer and that you are better off making your best guess than admitting ignorance, but that’s because the educational system is a dumpster fire, and this is a habit that it pays to un-learn.

The Shapes Of Ideas [Illustration]

This isn’t surreal this is high school