#you're aware I'm queer

[fandomfluffandfuck]

I did not expect to start my morning by having my father call me the f-slur, but... uh, here we are, huh.

[transmonstera]

i have no caption for this other than i hope anyone else who read That report - especially those of you who under 25 - are doing okay and keeping yourself safe today and that it's okay if you need to log off and find a distraction for a while (that's exactly what this piece was to me!)

[IMAGE ID: "salvation exists in the eyes of any transsexual who sees their own divine potential" in white wavy text which a dark pink border. behind the text is a collage of white eyes with pink hearts in the pupils. white starts and heart decorate the image. the background is pink and the border is white. END]

[sirenium]

'Safequeer' mfers when people are queer in a way they don't like:

[GIF ID: a toy decor skeleton getting absolutely eviscerated in a blue shredder with silver blades. Said skeleton looks like it's thrashing and flailing about as it slowly gets consumed. End ID]

[gouinisme]

i don't think our #doomed girl number one is actually gonna die anytime soon* but now my brain is going mag 40 mode like "alice, you didn't die here did you?" anyways if she ends up either already being some sort of undead/construct or turning undead at any point i'm a genius and otherwise i was just kidding teehee

[bear-cubs-art-things]

"how do you make your boyfriend understand the concerns you have regarding trump becoming president but he's being a dense mf" Google search.

[autisticgayplushie]

I will delete this in a few hours because I don't like to leave these things up on my blog that is dedicated to queer affirming plushies but to all those who are leaving upset messages in my ask box regarding the vinician puppy design - I did do extensive research beforehand in regards to which mlm flags to use! If you have concerns about the ocean mlm/vinician flag I will ref this post to you which has sources and clears up several misconceptions about the flag. tldr (but I seriously recommend reading it) the creator of the flag is a completely different person than the problematic person who people often claim is the creator, and all pride flags take influence from each other.

it is important to me to spread queer positivity which is why I aim to be as inclusive as possible with my pride puppies. I was requested to make a mlm puppy quite a lot and I initially did not want to use this flag due to the controversy I had seen around it. Because I wanted to be inclusive I looked into it and learned that what I had heard was incorrect and changed my perspective.

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

I think it may say something about gamer culture that one of the oldest first person shooter franchises¹ only has two canonically queer characters², and both of them are from the same short story released in 2009³, where they are both killed.

¹: Halo

²: Felicia Sanderson and Allison Stark

³: Dirt

[aeide-thea]

saw a post that was like

'i'm so floored by the fact that this mid-20th century author of historical fiction wrote about queerness as though it was natural and important!'

and it's like. the author in question was queer! queer people have been writing work in which queerness was natural and important since much earlier than the 50s—forster wrote maurice in the 1910s! whitman was writing poetry that celebrated queerness in the mid-19th century! i'm sure that if i did any actual research into the history of queer fiction instead of just whipping out the things that spring immediately to mind for me, many more examples would present themselves!

anyway i just think like. that sort of reflexive naive modern chauvinism is a real mistake (especially considering how things have been going in america lately…), and for anyone who is, or wants to be, a serious student of the past, worth scrutinizing and uprooting in oneself. queerness is present and positively depicted in some of the oldest literature we have; and when we encounter matter-of-fact, even celebratory, representations of it from eras we reflexively conceptualize as more conservative than ours, i think we need to be aware that any startlement we feel at that is an artifact of the repressive, erasive, homophobic thinking inculcated in us by our own particular milieu(x), and not in fact a neutral or historically informed reaction?

[zeldahime]

do secular people who didn't grow up with religion even know how many gay academics studying religion there are

"my academic study of christian apocrypha makes me anathema to all other gay men" have you tried meeting ex-catholics, or current episcopalians. maybe hanging out around seminaries. come on man it's like you're not even trying

[aromacaque]

queer discourse i hate you. do whatever you forever i literally do not care what labels people use i cannot imagine caring that much about what arbitrary words people use to describe themselves. gender doesn't make sense because it's a social construct so if you want to not be transphobic you have to completely omit enforcing gender entirely when it comes to labels. nobody is forcing you to date people you're not attracted to so if someone who identifies as a lesbian isn't your type you can still exist peacefully with them you ignorant conservative fucks

[undead-potatoes]

Now that some of the biggest voices in right wing media is openly attacking asexual people the same way they've been attacking LGBT people, you think all those aphobic queer people are gonna have a rude awakening and realize just how fucking stupid they've been, or are they just gonna keep following in the footsteps of TERFs like they've always done and go "well the fascists are right about this one!"

[leatherbookmark]

dear god that would be turbo cringe or whatever, but seeing all those annoying little things in fics over and over again really makes me want to write one in which they're not obligatory funnymoments but rather like, words that have meaning and weight and so on

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

every time. every time i'm like I Just Think This Person Is Neat, it turns out they're some flavour of queer and i'm just sixth sensing it

[bibiana112]

"The handmaiden is male gazey" did you know lesbians like fucking other women sexy style? Did you know that a large theme in the handmaiden was the male gaze and misogyny and if you can't separate explorations of a harmful idea from endorsements of it you may be hopeless?

guys I knew it I knew that would be a comment inflammatory enough to attract my first hate anon cut the cameras we did it bois :D

[torgawl]

unpopular opinion but a ship being queer coded doesn't make it compelling

[nymphantasia]

God I truly truly hate the way people decide to engage with art based on the social context around it rather than anything to do with what the art is in itself. Obviously almost everything I like has an audience in mind to some extent (as most everything does under capitalism) but there's something that deeply fucking bugs me about the way people decide whether or not to engage with something based on whether it's "for" them, rather than engaging first and deciding if it's for you as a specific person after the fact.

I understand that art (and especially discussion of art) exists within a social context but why should that context override a person's own sensibilities and experiences? Outside of like, shit that is personally off-limits (for trauma reasons or smth similar) I think people should at least try to keep an open mind about as broad a range of art as possible.

Go watch Eega, The Wicker Man (1973), whatever's the highest rated episode of Bluey on IMDB, Terrifier, Double Indemnity, an uncommentated playthrough of Heaven Will Be Mine, and the 1980s soviet-produced adaptation of Treasure Island.

In that order.

Now.