#we can have nice things

[marxalittle]

I keep saying this and I'll say it again.

The minimum, in this the twenty first century, for a famous person, celebrity, artist, whatever; a person whose image and work is widely known but whom you do not know personally (no really, you don't); whom most people encounter via the media; a public figure; that kind of person. okay? to be considered a

queer icon

The absolute bare minimum, for a celebrity born after 1980, to be considered a queer icon is, ought to be, and must be: that they're queer.

This grandfathers in everyone who acted opposite Montgomery Clift and all the straight celebrities (mostly women) who championed and supported and fought for gay and queer people during the worst years of the epidemic. Allies and idealizations alike, they can stay, part of the cuckoo's egg history of queer culture in the twentieth century. This doesn't erase them, or that half-imaginary mind of the life.

But it does raise the fucking bar, our standards, and our expectations. Of ourselves not least. Get a grip.

Queer icons should be, at minimum, queer people. We're out and proud now, we don't have to project ourselves onto the accommodating public images of (cis het white and mostly female) celebrities and movie stars when there are publicly queer artists and performers ready to wave the flag and reflect our love back to us.

[museaway]

saw someone complaining about getting too many boops and blocking people. the opt out button is right there.

feel free to max out your boops on my blog. hit that button 1k times idc. you earn those paw badges

[lucyfishwife]

I will tell you what’s nice, it’s finding that that notification you got was NOT in fact yet another pornbot to report and block

also this is nice what with the Pedro Pascal hot sauce combo as I am a vocal advocate for both (i knowwww it’s not new but i am hungry and now want wings and hot sauce)

[hinamie]

congrats on your recovery n all yuuji but unfortunately for you I thought the scars were cool >:/

[chloesimaginationthings]

i absolutely love your characterization of movie vanessa,, like she is so mentally unwell but also she is full of whimsy!

The duality of Vanessa Shelly,,

[catmask]

i dis not have cake today yet but forrest took me out for birthday lunch and then we got these to split for dessert ^_^

[hannibard]

Say what you will about the witcher season 2 but all the "Yennefer took Jaskier in the divorce", "Geralt and Yennefer are a divorced couple rasing a kid and dating the same man", "geraskefer love triangle with an oblivious Jaskier in the middle" memes and fics were top tier

[pokeberry5]

thug beatdown round 2: electric boogaloo

(extras, cw flashing gif:)

alt:

the fit:

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[anemonet]

pro tip: you can always put the bugs in little outfits :thumbsup:

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[deoidesign]

It's my right to tell myself I can do just a little animation just for fun just for really quick to do some action and then spend 3 days straight on it

[tomaturtles]

Got inspired by this and had to

[marzipanandminutiae]

What if Good Omens were about two women (and no, don’t try me with that whole “they’re not technically men/they’re women sometimes“ deal. Yes, it is strictly speaking true, but it’s incredibly hard to tell when they’re being women on screen and they’re men most of the time)

What if IWTV were about two women

What if OFMD were about two women

What if all of these Tumblr darling shows were about women with sapphic romance or sexual tension. Cis women, trans women, women of various ages and races and classes and abilities

What if genre media about queer women got the same love from its showrunners and from fans alike that genre shows about M/M couples get now. What if that trend hadn’t briefly flared into glorious light in the 2010s and then died again

Damn I might actually watch those shows then

[spitblaze]

"Well I WASN'T gonna watch the show about the deeply discriminatory wizard world that thinks slavery is cool and good with writing that constantly employs racist and homophobic and bigoted metaphors and language written by a violent transphobe who pals around with nazis that has stated multiple times that she considers all engagement with her work, ESPECIALLY monetary engagement (money that she uses millions upon millions of to fund discriminatory organizations and legislation by the way), to be validation of her views but you were kinda mean about it on tumblr so you've really twisted my arm here"