#[ the call is coming from inside the house ]

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[kaijuerotica]

me and my brother: *explains how adhd affects us*

our parents: that's not adhd, that's normal

me and my brother:

[poughkeepsies]

"you both like watching half-naked men pummel eachother" you're laughing. buck just called eddie a slur and your laughing.

[khaopybara]

❝Of course. That's why I didn't let anyone eat them. I planned to eat them myself. The ones Ms. Joy ate were probably Prang's.❞

❝He's my friend. His name is Taohu. He's been my best friend since secondary school.❞

OFF JUMPOL as JANE and GUN ATTHAPHAN as RYAN ANAWAT episode 6 and 8 of THE TRAINEE

[atomicradiogirl]

house saying “we're in a relationship, but we're really unhappy. communication's never been easy for us, probably because we're so closeted” in the down low about him and wilson is so funny cause it’s like so true

[valewritessss]

Annabeth antis who baby percy around act as if Percy wouldn’t hate them if he was a real person they knew

[lektricfergus]

just saw a post that used the term “braindead ableists”. can y’all understand the words you are saying

[hearts4popchyk]

Theo really called popchyk gay as if he didn’t kiss a MAN five pages ago like actually stop projecting onto the poor dog

[eroticcannibal]

Honestly tho I think the most frustrating thing about leftist spaces is the refusal to tackle the hard questions, the refusal to say "I dont know", accusing anyone of asking a difficult question of not being genuine and also outright lying about how things currently work to justify their fantasy about how they want the world to work.

[maladaptivewriting]

being on marauders tumblr has made me realize that a lot of people would actually share anne rice's (terrible) opinion about fanfiction if they didn't write fanfic themselves.

[strawbbfluff]

personally i think girls who get embarrassed easily should be tickled but that’s just me idk

[autumnhobbit]

nothing like hearing protestants say blatant historical untruths complaining about easter and how evil it is and how the catholics lied about saints and they’re all pagan gods actually while you sit there looking for mass times for easter

[amid-fandoms]

dab and evan: *wear peach and hotdog outfits*

dan: i think we’re learning a lot about dab and evan today…

HOW DO YOU THINK WE’VE BEEN FEELING SINCE LAST OCTOBER

[mycroftrh]

The thing about Edwin is that he’s an Edwardian gay man dropped in a 2024 gay situation

I dunno if you’ve ever been or known a gay man in a small town but like, you all fuck each other. Like, you drop a gay man with Grindr in a small town for three weeks and he will sleep his way through every single other gay man in that town in that period. And that’s the type of gay culture the Cat King and Monty are acting in. They’re in a small town and there’s finally a new gay in town, do you know how long it’s been since there was someone NEW to add to the rolodex?? Of course everyone’s jumping on him!

But then Edwin’s a repressed Edwardian gay man. So he doesn’t have any idea how to react to what is, honestly, pretty standard small town gay behavior in the modern era.

It’s a culture clash of gay culture from different eras.

[rempesluck]

Matt publicly trying to humiliate his sister by saying she has “no rizz” after an unsuccessful dating experience. Yet, he has thirst followed multiple girls this past week and not even ONE followed him back 😪.

[morthern]

Happy pride you fucking fruits.