be fae do crime

A few weeks ago a 15-year-old called me “Grandma” for being able to remember when the first Twilight film came out, and I still haven’t mentally or emotionally processed this

tag the age u were when twilight came out (2008) i was ten

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

There's a model of culture that I like to cite for this idea, called the Iceberg Model:

The LGBT youth (and young atheists, too) will cut off the stuff "above the water" but not really examine the stuff down below that line that they have as part of their upbringing.

So you get young LGBT people making comments like OP cited, or young atheists acting with an Evangelical persecution complex, and going, "Don't call me Culturally Christian!"

This is the sort of thing I keep talking about when I’m saying identity is not the same as ideology.

Who you identify as (who you are) says absolutely nothing about what you believe (your ideology). 

Same goes for any subcategory.

“I can’t be racist, I’m black.” If you're making “ching-chong” jokes about Asian people, you’re still racist.

“I’m can’t be misogynistic, I’m a trans woman.” If you’re slut-shaming sex workers, you’re misogynistic.

“I can’t be queerphobic, I’m non-binary.” If you’re saying bi/pan/trans people can’t bring their hetero partner to Pride, gueeeess what.

Punching down within your own culture is still punching down.

Also people disagreeing with you doesn’t mean they’re any kind of -phobic if the argument has nothing to do with your identity. You’d think this is obvious but some insecure/unhealed people really do use that attack against others as soon as they encounter any disagreement or conflict. And the tone of discourse these days encourages people to believe those accusations without questioning.

ID: An infographic of an iceberg divided in half. The top half, floating above water, is labeled : Food, Music, Language, Visual Arts, Festivals, Performing Arts, Literature, Holiday Customs, Flags, Games, Dess

The second half, submerged, is labeled: Nature of Friendship, Values, Religious Beliefs, Body Language, Notions of Beauty, Rules, Etiquette, Norms, Gender Roles, Expectations, Learning Styles, Language, Leadership Styles, Attitudes towards Social Status, Notions of 'Self', Perceptions, Atitudes towards Age, Notions of Modesty, Thought Processes, Views on Raising Children, Concept of Fairness, Importance of Space, Approaches to Problem Solving, Notions of Cleanliness, Importance of Time, Assumptions. END ID]

Oh, cool. Cool cool cool.

So... we're heading for an era of extreme reactionary backlash.

The question is it going to be like 1980's style or 1930's style.

We shit on rainbow capitalism (as we should), but it is a good indicator of social acceptance of LGBTQ people. When brands are loud and proud about how much the support gay people('s money), it means the social conditions have moved in our favor and the potential backlash is weak.

Right now, the power is shifting back to the fascists. That's bad.

Dog sculptures turned golden from tourists petting them throughout the years

Monaco's actual sea wall

when it comes to hubris italians are running the game

Monaco is bordered by France, France, France, and That Water Right There. The official language is French. Are you insinuating that Italy is the cause of the Mediterranean's attack on Monaco or

goodnight to my beloveds with chronic pain & fatigue 🫶 i hope tonight will be gentle to you all & that you will wake up tomorrow morning feeling rested & in minimal pain

i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

elaboration

if I may:

hair by nikki nelms & photography by adrienne raquel

hi love you guys do me a favor. big big big BIG breath in right now all the way all the way breathe in feel your belly expanding hold hold hold.. hold.. now everything out like ur a deflating balloon. whoosh. whooooooooosh. imagine water streaming from the top of your head down your shoulders off the ends of your fingertips and toes. u are a reed in a river a beam of pure light a steady anvil solid and heavy. ok that was all thank u

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

being on the internet

some of you don’t know what scrunkly even is anymore :(

you know what? im posting my own tags on this, because complaining about something and not explaining why it bothers me is a bad habit:

and to address the comments of prev, who pointed out that people have also seem to have lost the definition of "wet cat":

a scrunkly is a character or critter who is UGLY and GROSS and a LITTLE STRANGE TO LOOK AT. They are cute in an odd, unorthodox way.

a wet cat is a character or critter who is PITIFUL and SCARED and JUST A WRETCHED LITTLE THING. They are cute because they are so pathetic and sad that it's a little funny.

while a character can be scrunkly and a wet cat at the same time, they are NOT the same thing. a character can be a weird and strange little critter without being a sopping wet beast, and a character can be soso scared and miserable without being an unidentified fucking thing.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

by the way I HAVE been reading all of your blorbo taggings and I have indeed been grading you guys on them. So far the class has an average of 86%.