#so i KNOW they can do it!!!

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lgbtlunaverse]

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.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[hoofpeet]

14 year old artists listen to me right now (gripping you by the shoulders) STOP caring about your "internet presence" right naow. Draw slower and stop trying to boil your art down to an acceptable marketable brand

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

long post where i talk about Halloween Horror Nights, rant about Howl-O-Scream, and then also say some good things too lol

safe to say that HHN setting their swamp zombies themed scarezone in Louisiana might be an attempt to disassociate the concept from Vodou? I'm unsure if that's disappointing (a well-created swamp zombie theme set in, oh idk, south florida, based on vodou, would've been interesting IF pulled off correctly?) or if I'm grateful that FL HHN AND both Howl-O-Scream's seem to be managing to pull of their events without any misused Voodoo motifs this year?? all three of them?? oh I'm so proud

2021/2022 HoS Tampa had a Louisiana Voodoo scare zone that was weird. Inaccurate. Very uncomfortable. The whole thing was themed around Voodoo dolls— which aren't even used in Louisiana Voodoo. (And aren't prominent in Haitian Vodou, either.) And some time before that they had a "Voodoo Queen" event icon— which I guess is sort of more accurate than having white people in Spirit Halloween Dr. Facilier costumes walk around (Seriously, the scare zone was bad)— and her house (which ran for like a decade straight, actually) was at least sort-of grounded in Voodoo, it at least referenced the folklore of zombies, but again, featured fucking Voodoo dolls!

And Howl-o-Scream Orlando has been no better, using the same "Witchcraft Bayou" scarezone ALL 3 YEARS SO FAR, with fucking Voodoo dolls as the imagery, and AGAIN the knockoff Dr. Facilier costumes 😭 This year they don't have it listed on the site, though, thank god.

My thing is that, I am BY NO MEANS an expert on Voodoo or Vodou, I just wish that the cultures weren't so heavily demonized by using them exclusively for horror, and misrepresenting them, at that. [Especially here, where people do practice vodou/voodoo, it seems very insensitive] AND NO MORE VOODOO DOLLS! So yeah, I'm so grateful that after a whole fucking decade, that Howl-O-Scream (and hopefully HHN) may actually be letting go of the distasteful Voodoo motif

And of course to end on a lighter note, I'm happy to point out that Tampa is doing a SKUNK APE themed scarezone!!! That's Florida culture right there babey!!! I'm dead set on going to Orlando's HoS this year, which makes me sort of sad to miss skunk ape :[

Orlando also has teased a beach-themed scare zone that hasn't been announced yet, called "Paradise Palms", which I'm so morbidly excited for. The teaser photo is a counter bell, so maybe it's gonna be resort themed, and GOD that's fun!! I'm guessing it's gonna be paired with the unannounced "Water's Edge Wellness Center" haunted house? Which is ALSO something I'm dying to hear about tbh. Orlando has had such interesting themes, and yet they've been pulling them off so well that I've been tripping over myself to go every year lol. They've also yet to announce a scare zone called "Cannibal Harbor" which is also gonna be exciting, I'm sure.

So yeah, mixed feelings galore. Somebody should tell me if there's a word to describe the downright Orientalist view of Voodoo that most people have thanks to it being misrepresented in horror. (Actually, maybe it's JUST Orientalism? note to self, research that more later when my tummy don't hurt)

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[foolsocracy]

identity reveals are always fun

[batcavescolony]

*Talia visiting Damian*

Talia: Damian, how are you? *glares at Dick*

Damian: I am doing well mother

Dick: *from behind him* *mouthing: why the fuck are you here?*

Talia: oh that's great! I see you have a new pet? *Mouthing back: to see MY son*

Damian: this is Haley, Grayson's dog, she's staying with me while he goes on a mission.

Dick: *flipping Talia off where Damian can't see* yep, he's so good with animals

Talia: I'm aware *throws a knife at him*

Dick: *throws it back*

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[napping-sapphic]

take your clothes off and get on the bed what no we aren’t having sex right now we’re cuddling and pressing every inch of skin together as close as possible for the next six hours

[hinamie]

10 years later