#almost 20 years ago

[apocalypticdemon]

I would say I have no explanation for this, but uh. I really do. Behold: the first ideas for a Terror IndyCar AU that has possessed me for the last 36 straight hours. It would not leave me alone until I put some of it to paper.

Behold: Crozier as an established, relatively liked, if cynical, driver, upstart rookie James Fitzjames, and Hickey, who is, as always, totally normal and not causing problems.

The art is rushed, but I needed to purge the demons as fast as I could

[gilbert-dauterive]

I remember setting my alarm early to get up and watch this on VH1 the morning it was released.

Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Released: September 12, 2006

[intermundia]

can you believe they filmed these on the same day

[ilovedthestars]

A thought I’ve been having: While it's important to recognize the long history of many current queer identities (and the even longer history of people who lived outside of the straight, cis, allo “norm”) I think it's also important to remember that a label or identity doesn't have to be old to be, for lack of a better word, real.

This post that i reblogged a little while ago about asexuality and its history in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and before is really good and really important. As i've thought about it more, though, it makes me wonder why we need to prove that our labels have "always existed." In the case of asexuality, that post is pushing back against exclusionists who say that asexuality was “made up on the internet” and is therefore invalid. The post proves that untrue, which is important, because it takes away a tool for exclusionists.

But aromanticism, a label & community with a lot of overlap & solidarity with asexuality, was not a label that existed during Stonewall and the subsequent movement. It was coined a couple decades ago, on internet forums. While the phrasing is dismissive, it would be technically accurate to say that it was “made up on the internet.” To be very clear, I’m not agreeing with the exclusionists here—I’m aromantic myself. What I’m asking is, why does being a relatively recently coined label make it any less real or valid for people to identify with?

I think this emphasis on historical precedent is what leads to some of the attempts to label historical figures with modern terminology. If we can say someone who lived 100 or 1000 years ago was gay, or nonbinary, or asexual, or whatever, then that grants the identity legitimacy. but that's not the terminology they would have used then, and we have no way of knowing how, or if, any historical person's experiences would fit into modern terminology.

There's an element of "the map is not the territory" here, you know? Like this really good post says, labels are social technologies. There's a tendency in the modern Western queer community to act like in the last few decades the "truth" about how genders and orientations work has become more widespread and accepted. But that leaves out all the cultures, both historical and modern, that use a model of gender and sexuality that doesn't map neatly to LGBTQ+ identities but is nonetheless far more nuanced than "there are two genders, man and woman, and everyone is allo and straight." Those systems aren’t any more or less “true” than the system of gay/bi/pan/etc and straight, cis and trans, aro/ace and allo.

I guess what I’m saying is, and please bear with me here, “gay” people have not always existed. “Nonbinary” people have not always existed. “Asexual” people have not always existed. But people who fell in love with and had sex with others of the same gender have always existed. People who would not have identified themselves as either men or women have always existed. People who didn’t prioritize sex (and/or romance) as important parts of their lives have always existed. In the grand scheme of human existence, all our labels are new, and that’s okay. In another hundred or thousand years we’ll have completely different ways of thinking about gender and sexuality, and that’ll be okay too. Our labels can still be meaningful to us and our experiences right now, and that makes them real and important no matter how new they are.

We have a history, and we should not let it be erased. But we don’t need a history for our experiences and ways of describing ourselves to be real, right now.

[melancholyghoul]

During my lectures I've been drawing the bad kids, working on colouring them, have an Adaine !

[starstruckodysseys]

can you imagine being thirteen and having the world at your fingertips. everyone loves you - why shouldn’t they? you’re the epitome of a good girl, the ideal, the popular cheerleader type who gets The Guy. you giggle and you flirt with the football players and you have sleepovers with your friends (who don’t really feel like your friends but you’re all popular so you have to like each other, right?). you do your makeup and you bat your eyelashes and everything is perfect.

and then you start growing horns. you start looking like the devil - and you might as well be, the way everyone turns on you, starts looking at you as if you’re a freak, a monster. and, well, if everyone’s going to treat you as such, you might as well play the part, right?

so you rebel against your parents (if they’re not lying about that, too). you go out and you buy a bass guitar and you pluck at the strings until your fingers bleed. it’s better than listening to the arguments downstairs. you transform into people you’re not to pretend you could really be someone instead of the shell you are now. you flirt with guys twice your age to pretend you still have it in you, even if it feels hollow. you grin and you bear it but it’s hollow, in the end.

if you can’t be perfection anymore, why bother being anything?

(and then you meet the most wonderful people in your life. and they accept you as you are and don’t ask you to change. but you find yourself changing anyway, because they make you feel like you can be something. like maybe it’s worth it again. and you finally get The Girl. and maybe life isn’t perfection anymore, but maybe perfection is overrated, anyway.)

[kandadze]

I can't give you my shoes, Sergeant Lee.

Beyond Evil, episode 2

@kseniyagreen just so you know, your pitch was excellent and I practically inhaled the first 4 episodes in one sitting last night. It's insane, absolutely insane. I'm so invested in everyone I'm afraid I'll be a blubbering mess by the time the shit really hits the fan (which I feel is actually already happening, in every episode, with every little reveal and misdirection, with every layer of the onion that is Manyang and what's happened before and what is happening at present removed, the insanity gets just a little bit deeper)... Thank you, and I hope you'll be there with pom-poms at the end. ::clutches heart::

[chestnutroan]

A very old fallout 4 oc, Calvin

[somecunttookmyurl]

gonna have to get a new (old) phone soon because although this one functions perfectly, it's getting to the point now where a lot of apps require ios 16.0 minimum and the iphone 7 stopped at 15.8

the current ios version is 18.0

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Junior Year episode 17

[cometconnector]

do you guys like my new pfp

hii werewolf tommy kinard.. welcome to my brain..

[funstyle]

its so fucked up how much sonic youth looked exactly like that. cartooning fell off

[starstruckodysseys]

love that gorgug just sounds like. anxious this season bc that was literally me junior year. what do you mean i have to start thinking about my future?? i’m literally just chilling??

[zahri-melitor]

#like. listen. you do not have to accept or like the sexism present in tim's comics

#it might make him a fundamentally unlikable character to you

#but tim's comics also don't exist in a vacuum and should also be considered within the genre and time era itself

#we can doylistically tear it apart but if we do that let's also doylistically tear apart far more egregious comics as far as sexism (h/t @scintillyyy)

Yep. Because if you really want to Doylistically tear apart 90s comics for sexism, and you want to talk Chuck Dixon…

Look I have a soft spot for both Connor and Kyle but good god is there stuff in this from Dixon and Ron Marz to talk about!

[chestnutroan]

A very old fallout 4 oc, Calvin

[mildmayfoxe]

it’s always so funny when you read a book where a character works in service & you can tell the author has never had a single service job in their life. working at a cafe or a bar isn’t all sunshine and roses babe. you have to count the drawer and do a hell of a lot of cleaning at the end of the night actually. your cute little two person staff is NOT cutting it