#LEAVE HER TF ALONE

[blackkat15]

Me surviving the school prom and watching everyone else die bc I didn't bully Carrie:

[harry-sussex]

Ah, there it is. I was wondering when the good graces, “I swear it’s not personal” best wishes were going to get leaked. Like clockwork. Kate doesn’t need your “well wishes” after these past few years - she has the whole world, charmed by her very existence, sending their well wishes. Stay in your lane - you’ve made it very clear that you don’t actually wish Kate well at all.

[garykingz]

F1 fandom stop trying to ship Bianca with Lando or Oscar challenge: absolutely fucking difficult apparently

[moonlightsapphic]

Y’ALL NEED TO STOP ARGUING ABOUT BILLIE EILISH I SWEAR

She was obviously just being funny and in the comments of her post, it looks like other queer public figures (JVN, Lucy Dacus, Amybeth McNulty, Stevie Boebi, Alix Traeger, even Autumn Kennedy who runs tstourtips) are playing along in the comments. I think it’s heartwarming!

Yes, it’s clear she personally does not want to let the topic of her queerness overshadow her art in interviews, and she wasn’t quite ready for that follow up question from the Vareity interviewer. She looked nervous. she wanted to be able to come out casually and move on. (Perhaps she was just tired of being assumed straight or called a queerbaiter, and it was as simple as needing to quickly clear up public misconception. Which is so fair.)

> Especially considering how she was in good spirits during the red carpet interview in question (watch the video, just please watch the video and see for yourself), it’s obvious she’s just trying to lighten the mood (for both herself and everyone else) with that IG caption.

All of that said, she could have taken into account that the media and public can be both dumb and malicious, and that they would try to twist her funky li’l IG vent out of context and then blame the sweet reporter, who was quite nice (plus queer and PoC herself!). To an extent Billie should have expected and prepared for the polite follow-up questions, considering that her ideal world (where sexuality isn’t a big deal) isn’t the world we’re living in yet, especially outside of rich celebrity circles. It is important information that she should clarify, even for her own protection from the media/public trying to twist her initial vague statements about attraction to women this way or that. Her team prepared her poorly.

(We can make the argument that the Variety reporter could perhaps have started with “Are you comfortable answering questions about your sexuality?” … but I’m sure if at any point Billie had said “Actually I would rather talk about my music or fashion right now,” the reporter would have immediately complied anyway. I think she makes it quite clear that she is a part of the community, and ally and a safe space and well intentioned. Billie was just put on the spot, she didn’t think of that route. And she wanted to vent on IG, because it must be so much to deal with when millions of people and the fucking BBC is suddenly talking about your sexuality. That’s all.)

Still, I agree with y’all in that Billie’s wording on the IG post was poor considering how the masses are unsurprisingly thinking of it as an accusation. Perhaps most importantly, using the word “outing” lightheartedly is tone deaf considering recent events where celebrities have been forced to come out or actually outed. And that’s something Billie could take away from the absolute media clusterfuck this is becoming.

Finally, I agree that she is very privileged and has a lot of influence she could use to support the LGBTQ+ community. But she’s still a person and she deserves to “come out” (or like, just start talking about her queerness) and have people not make a big deal about her identity if that is what’s most comfortable to her. This is a right all queer people should have regardless of their status. She doesn’t owe it to us to immediately become a queer spokesperson. Identity is hard for everyone. You guys are quickly forgetting how people accused her of queerbaiting back when she put out the Lost Cause MV and captioned a photo “i love girls”. (Why people are obsessed with labels, and the nuances of it are a whole other rant for another day, but I digress.) And honestly? She’s so right, leave her alone. She’s had fucking enough. Let queer people be.

TL; DR: Billie is not mad at any reporters for “outing” her. Billie doesn’t think anyone “outed” her in the first place! Billie is just annoyed that a big deal was made of her sexuality after she started talking about her queerness (which she did, intentionally and of her own accord, and also confirmed that it was a coming out of sorts from her end). She simply did not feel ready to talk about it again at 11:00 AM on the red carpet and all the attention was nerve-wracking. So she was venting using (albeit tone-deaf) hyperbolae on an IG post. The reporter was great, too, and absolutely should not be canceled. I hope this clears it up.

[knifeslidez]

Hayden Silas is a rapist

He has taken advantage of young kids.

I don’t think you understand the consequences of this

blah blah blah transphobic liar in my inbox

[louuieferrignojr]

the only people who are misogynistic in this rachel zegler discourse are the people hating her.

[sailingfireshipz]

Idk, maybe like Casey, Stella can get a meritorious promotion from this Chief Pascal questioning her leadership! 🙂 It bothers me that he's questioning her leadership when he hasn't seen what she's done or been through to get to this point. She literally created a community outreach program for girls that has yielded from our knowledge 2 successful candidates & saved the life of another. She threw herself over Carver & Pryma & took the brunt of a blast, saved 2 kids from abuse. & you're questioning her leadership? 😂😂😂

I have a feeling the turnover on her rig, Carvers conduct & whatever tf Damon has done will be used against Stella by Pascal when he's making his assessment of her leadership

[anonymousdidsys]

The disability advocacy leaving peoples’ bodies when Ironmouse does literally anything

[sunflowervolum-6]

Deuxmoi posted list of things taylor ordered when she went out to dinner with her friends like 😭😭😭😭😭

[allyouwantedwassweetnothing]

These people at the wedding are so not okay

[angelofthe2000s]

Blah blah blah Buffy’s so mean to Spike blah blah. Have you considered that he deserves it? That he likes it, even?

[elvesdragonsanddarkmagic]

[raylaismad]

me when people ship two people that literally act like siblings so it doesn’t make any sense and then blatantly ignore a ship that doesn’t feel like incest:

[not-so-rosyyy]

remember when Percy wanted to physically tussle with music because it was hurting Annabeth? yeah, I'm really gonna be so normal when Walker and Leah finally get to act out this scene.

[renesassing]

love tyler the creator using gender-inclusive language in his song about the taxing lack of privacy that comes with celebrity status and wanting to be left the fuck alone