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[hihimissamericanbi]

two years out today 🩷💜💙

[kuchipatch1]

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.

[home-and-having-tea]

My love for Benoit Blanc knows no bounds. He's just some guy, he's a genius, he's the new Poirot, he encourages women to speak their mind at people who screw them over, he hates rich people, he's married to malewife Hugh Grant, he dresses like a 70s queer man with access to online shopping, he has no consistent accent other than Vaguely American Southern, he can solve any mystery, he cannot win Among Us, and I would marry the hell out of him him if I wasn't a lesbian and he wasn't a gay dude.

[roxisucks]

do you wanna see the west with me.?

[porcelainnpines]

Divine Flesh

[prints]

[secret-agent-of-bullshitery]

Will: In loving memory of Nico

Will: He's not dead, i just love remembering him

[hiddenjane]

Poetry and picture by hiddenjane

[nellasbookplanet]

That post I reblogged about Imogen '8 strentgh' Temult being fanonized as burly is mostly lighthearted, but it also reminded me how the fanon depiction of Imogen has shifted. Earlier in the campaign, when Laudna was perceived as the stronger of the two, the one who took care of poor little innocent, anxious, migraine afflicted Imogen, fanon-Imogen was this short, round, soft looking person. Now, as canon has made it very clear that Imogen is the (mentally) stronger of the two, the one who's trying to stop Laudna from spiraling, her fanon self has shifted into something more traditionally masculine, leaning into the farmgirl aesthetic of pants and cowboy hats and muscles, even as her canon design has only gotten more feminine with sheer dresses and skirts.

And I'm not one to pass up on fun fanon designs; I've certainly reblogged my fair share of muscly Imogen because I'm only human and Imogen with muscles hot. I don’t think these designs are done with any larger motive than 'she looks good like this'. But I also kind of think we need to have a conversation about how fandom keeps trying to slot these two characters in a non-heteronormative relationship into heteronormative roles of (feminine) soft, weak, innocent person to be cared for/saved and (masculine) strong, heroic, saviour taking care of them, however unconsciously it’s done.

[celluloidrainbow]

SOUTHERN COMFORT (2001) dir. Kate Davis The final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man from the back hills of Georgia. "A hillbilly and proud of it," he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Though his home is nestled among tranquil hills dotted with hay bales, Robert confronts a world hostile to him. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a trans patient might harm their practice. Beginning in spring, he falls deeply in love with Lola, a trans woman. That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit their "lost daughter," a trip they know may be their last. His final dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation's preeminent transgender gathering. Beating the odds, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to "The prom that never was". (link in title)

[sunny-rants]

Crush by Ethel Cain and My Kink is Karma by Chappell Roan are the same cinematic universe to me, like do you see the vision?

[thenightpost]

Messages from the Skelter

made with the safety sign generator

[etherealitei]

Trigger Warning: Transphobia and mentions of Nex’s deadname in the donation link before the updated message.

As someone who grew up close to where Nex is from, I am absolutely devastated but am not surprised. I myself am trans and many of my close friends are also trans or two spirit and still live in the region. This type of violence has been ongoing for a while. Myself and my friends have lived with this type of violence for a long time. Almost every single one of my queer friends from Oklahoma has been on the receiving end of micro aggressions, hate crimes, systemic oppression, and/or domestic violence. And yeah, our state doesn’t give a shit about us. I am absolutely horrified but I am also angry. And I am so angry that for many of us the answer isn’t leaving either. Economic struggles are a barrier, but for many like Nex and my Indigenous friends, there is a strong cultural connection rooted in community and the land. I just want to make things better for the people who can’t or don’t want to leave. I want my state and my community to care, and I want to stop seeing my trans siblings suffering and dying. This is a bit of a rant but I am angry, and I am fighting feeling hopeless. As much as I am paralyzed with sadness, I don’t want to stop fighting. Please help in anyway possible. I am attaching links to queer organizations in Oklahoma and to Nex’s funeral fund.

[hamletthedane]

I know people complain about the film version of Fried Green Tomatoes burying the lead a little re: the main characters being in a romantic relationship….

But let me tell you: nothing will ever beat being a 13 year old queer girl and having all your conservative southern religious relatives invite you to watch a movie where a hot woman dips her fingers in her friend’s jar of honey and slowly licks the honey off her fingers with an intense amount of eye contact. That was the day that all the wlw southern girlies learned what a visual film metaphor was.

(And then - of course - the characters kiss, quote biblical wedding vows at each other, move in together, have a baby, open a cafe, refuse to marry anybody else, possibly commit a murder, confess their undying love for each other in sworn courtroom testimony, and raise their son as a family. you know….just as friends….)

[goth-oat-milk]

[versatilemess]

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

— 📚Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer // 🎞 Annihilation, Alex Garland (2018)

Trying to read more fiction and the Autism and Queerness and Transcendent nature of these books truly has me in a chokehold. Like there’s something so liberating in The Weird, the eco and the body horror, the undefinable, The transcendent nature of area x ugh