#Kween

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[bitter69uk]

Q: Do you get off on being tempestuous?

A: “What do you mean “get off”? That’s just the way I am.”

Q: How would you like to be remembered?

A: “I want to be remembered as a diva from beginning to end who never compromised in what she felt about racism and how the world should be, and who to the end of her days consistently stayed the same.”

Q: But isn’t life about evolving and changing?

A: “Not for me.”

/ Brantley Bardin interviewing legend-with-an-attitude with Nina Simone in Details magazine, January 1997 /

Born on this day: lacerating, regal and fierce High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone (née Eunice Kathleen Waymon, 21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003). I’d argue Simone was at her artistic zenith between 1964 – 1966, when she recorded essential statements like “I Put a Spell on You”, “Work Song” (“I left the grocery store man bleeding …”), “Ne Me Quitte Pas”, “Wild is the Wind”, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, “I Hold No Grudge” and especially “Four Women” (“I’m gonna kill the first mutha I see …”). Pictured: portrait of Simone by Herb Snitzer, 1959.

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[run2yujin]

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[ohhaithere225]

Wow stunning!!

[themomentthat]

Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967) | UCLA restoration

A short film showcasing the extraordinary life of a Black trans woman, predating the LGBTQ rights movement at Stonewall in 1969.

[geoffreytoday]

In the Star Wars RPG I'm running, the party is currently on a planet that's having it's big annual Harvest Festival. The festivities include a Harvest Kween* Pageant.

I now call upon Monster Fucker Tumblr to render judgment on my fake space beauty pageant!

Please Reblog for reach, as I don't have a lot of followers, and be sure to keep the tag "kween" for the benefit of my players so they can block this post and not be spoiled!

*"Kween" being a non-gendered word for monarch on this planet.

Alright, here we go!

Here are your Harvest Kween Contestants!

You're bound to love Buttercup Hazelburry!

Hailing from Pandala city on the east coast of Macbraulth, Buttercup, or "Butters" to her friends, is a personal trainer who enjoys hiking, skiing, and participating in the local burlesque scene!

Always on the cutting edge of style, here comes Cleo!

Local fashion icon Cleo is making her Harvest Kween debut this year, and she couldn't be more excited. Growing up here in Zamora, Cleo has been something of a local entrepreneur since childhood, when she started her own fashion line while still in primary school!

What more need be said other than his name? This is...

✨ Destiel ✨

An awed hush please for our next contestant, Karga!

A bouncer and local Rap-Battle participant, Karga is a force to be reckoned with, possessing brains, brawn, and beauty! We could not be more thrilled to have her in this year's competition.

A tour guide at Magmar park, on the famous Vulcorr expanse, please welcome Palmenno Frolins!

Palmenno brings his signature joie de vivre to everything he does. Whether he's hard at work, or hard at play, Palmenno's personality is always front and centaur!

All the way from Iscandar, this is Starsha!

This mysterious beauty from a distant star came to Hibor to work as an astronautical engineer on The Ring, and are we ever glad she did!

Hey Fam! It's Strombella!

Zamora's most prolific Holo-Tok "influencer", Strombella Enduran is a near constant presence at every event in our fair city, so it should come as no surprise to see her here today!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, here comes Tibur Jauzen!

Tibur comes to the Midron system all the way from the opposite side of the mid-rim, from the aquatic planet of Karkarodahn. Here on Hibor, they work as an engineer at the Kazzanth deep sea power station. A dangerous job, but "Danger" is their middle name!

A visitor from the planet Bofuunidal, it's our pleasure to introduce you to Todd.

In his own words: "I thought I was in line for the concession stand, but it turned out to be the line for the Harvest Kween competition! By the time I realized my mistake, I figured What the hell."

Priceless. Good luck Todd. Win or lose, we'll make sure you get fed!

And now, our final contestant...

He's 8 feet of trouble in a 4 foot body, this is Tommy Midnight!

Tommy is a loner, a rebel, a bad boy with a heart of gold who's nothing but trouble, or so his business card says. Tommy is unemployed by day, and an unemployed musician by night. If you have a band looking for a front man, Tommy is interested.

And now it's up to you!

[vesperione]

“I can’t declaw a cat! That’s inhumane! That’s like chopping off someone’s fingers! Anyone who does that should FUCKING DIE!” GET EM MELISSA YEA

[whitesinhistory]

Queer Mother & Trans Child Relocating For Safety

Currently we live in a state that does not want trans people to live their lives freely and I need help relocating to a safer place for me and my child so that I can help them thrive and live without being discriminated for existing.

About: Hello! My name is thescreamkween aka Kween (she/her) and I am a queer black single mother raising a trans & non-binary 14 y/o name Jay aka Blorpington (he/they). They are an aspiring animator and a self taught artist making various forms of art since they were a toddler. Now their favorite art medium is digital. They also love gaming. Their favorite games are Splatoon & The Binding of Isaac. They also love Dungeons & Dragons.

[neworleansvoudou]

New! KWEEN Intention Candle - Use it to amplify your confidence, attract love and abundance, and manifest your deepest desires. Light the KWEEN candle to clear negativity, enhance self-love, and open the doors to new opportunities. 🪄https://www.creolemoon.com/store/p1118/kween-candle.html🪄

[beardedmrbean]

I'm pretty sure this counts as a marriage proposal

[bitter69uk]

On this day 69 years ago (14 September 1955), a promising still mostly unknown 22-year-old rhythm and blues musician calling himself Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) recorded the outrageous landmark rock’n’roll single “Tutti Frutti” at J & M Studio in New Orleans. In his ambitious 2024 book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955 - 1979), Jon Savage (author of the 1991 tome England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock – a sacred text for me) argues “Tutti Frutti” represents year zero and forensically deconstructs and analyzes the song. “From the first eruption to the final exclamation, “Tutti Frutti” had a harsh, relentlessly driving sound, with an unrestrained vocalist who punctuated the simple lyrics with gospel shrieks and weird outbursts,” Savage writes. “Honed in the dives and drag bars of the American South and informed by his thorough knowledge of the sexual underground, Richard’s lyrics were a deliberate provocation: “Tutti frutti, good booty / If it don’t fit, don’t force it / You can grease it, make it easy …” In the volatile climate of 1955, they were also a barrier to any kind of wider exposure. [Producer Robert] Blackwell knew that a verse about sodomy would create such a storm as to kill both the record and Richard’s career. Substitute lyrics were needed if the record was ever to get a chance of airplay … Riffing off this basic phrase, Richard pounded the piano, yelled, shrieked and testified over just under two and a half minutes, and in doing so opened up the underground that he had inhabited … By early November, “Tutti Frutti” had sold 200,000 copies, entering the R&B charts in the middle of the month at #12. It was the breakthrough sound of freedom, couched in an extreme androgyny. The game was on.”

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April 2023 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker’s‘s THE OTHER MARCH SISTERS, pitched as a queer feminist take on the lives of Jo March’s sisters, set in the world of LITTLE WOMEN, inspired by details from the very real lives of May Alcott Nieriker (Amy), Lizzie Alcott (Beth), and Anna Alcott Pratt (Meg), with each author enabling these women to finally tell their own stories, to Wendy…

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Parte II de la gira norteña de la Co

[ohhaithere225]

Brooke is so stunning!

[whispersofsilence]

Genteel maiden

Steer clear of that genteel maiden. I've seen it before, How she charms the boys with her laughter-filled voice, How she mesmerizes the lads with her alluring smile, How she captivates the men with her aloof and downward gaze. Indeed what an enchantress that woman is. For that is as far as any of them chaps will ever go. Oh, how I've seen it before. For the moment the poor wee lads fall for it, She gracefully declines any advances in winning her favors, Courteous yet direct in saying, again and again, That there was never an interest in the first place, And that perhaps the signs were misread, And everything is all but a big misunderstanding. Indeed what an ice princess with such frank demeanor. Whether she be an artist who lavishes in the spotlight, Or a naive child who likes to play friends, We will never know. For she is a queen that hath no need of kings in her life.