It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

by Gerard Donelan

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.

By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.

The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.

You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.

If you’re unable to access the quilt, here’s a zoomed in screenshot of the bottom left corner:

The quilt is made up of several panel, each panel itself consisting of 1 to 8 quilts.

Here’s a screenshot of the whole thing:

This is only about half of the people - our people - who were left to die because the government didn’t think “the gay disease” was a problem. This is why we march.

My favorite thing about fanfic authors is they can identify any gap in a canon timeline where characters are offscreen and exploit the ever living fuck out of it

They see a time skip of any length and go

Darlings, best boys, saviours of Middle-earth!

Every now and then I get hit with nostalgia and LotR always has a place in my heart. So here's Sam and Frodo!

happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only

bites u but i have abandonment issues so i never let go and am now a permanent ornament to your person

male anglerfish in the abyss

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King dir. Peter Jackson

A year ago I got black-out drunk at a charity bar crawl. My best friend commissioned a painting of his favorite photo of me from that night.

truth trying to go back into her well after dealing with mankind

Mermush!

@sashaforthewin you gotta see this mermush.

The staff at Daily Planet would always start gossiping among themselves whenever Bruce Wayne visits their headquarters. It’s a rare opportunity to see the awkward bumbling reporter Clark Kent standing up a little bit straighter with his arms akimbo whenever he’s deep in conversation with Bruce Wayne, while the typically vapid smiley billionaire starts scowling and growling. Rumour has it that these two have beef with each other because someone once caught them post-argument with disheveled clothes outside the meeting room.

for a bonus tag what country you’re from bc most of my schooling was in portables and I am not sure how common that is

What the hell? Did you guys all like live out in the wild or something?

Nah it’s just a lot of schools are poorly run/badly funded so they find it easier to get a trailer or old bud and fix it up to be a classroom (or some other school type room) than to try and fund the building of more rooms. And/or they get the temporary building while construction starts and then it doesn’t get finished

Your country seems... Depressing...

not just an american thing, this also happened to me~!

I'm Australian and this is very common here. In one of my primary schools, all of the classrooms were portables, and only the libraries and offices were permanent buildings.

Northern Constellations Star Quilt

I think it's about time I make a masterpost for this quilt, pattern by Haptic Labs -- I started making it in February 2021 as fulfillment of the 2nd wedding anniversary gift of "cotton" for @starfoozle and I. As of May 28th, 2023, I completed the last stitches. Last night we were able to sleep under it :')

also tell me in the tags what you normally eat it with. like. do you just have a chicken leg and pair it with rice or something tell me i want to know

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

“shit tier ugly ass elf” is Up There in terms of internet phrases that make me laugh every time i remember them

arguably the funniest post ever made

aight fuckers I’m doing it I’m spending a full $4 to watch the first lotr movie, for the first time

so like I get, you know, power and malice and cruelty were ‘poured’ into the rings, but like. what did they actually put in those things. what fuckin gold gives a ring malice. why did the elves only get three.

holy shit it’s Agent Smith with pointy ears

this ring was made of weet-bix and nutri grain

it was in this moment, when all hope was lost, that issieldor-whoever took up his father’s sword -

I’M SORRY BUT I’M LAUGHING THE RING GIVES THE BIG BAD GUY LIKE DARK MAGIC AND A DEMON ARMY TO CONTROL BUT EESEELDOOR PUTS IT ON AND HE JUST TURNS INVISIBLE

holy shit I just experienced seven and a half minutes of introductory exposition by a mysterious lady who apparently thinks VERY little of hobbits

omg is this WHOLE movie exposition

it has been remarked by some that a hobbit’s only real passion

is for food

FOOD

a wizard is never late

says Ian McKellan, wishing he was Julie Andrews, Queen of Genovia

I know absolutely nothing about either of these two but I already fucking love their relationship it’s beautiful

OH SO BILBO’S THE FUCK THAT CAUSED ALL THOSE JUMP SCARES

oh shit son he’s got the ring and the golem voice

okay so that’s pretty fucking cute

apparently every hobbit has an instinctual urge to hug Ian McKellen and honestly? same

holy shit guys I’m not even 20 minutes in I’m gonna have to make multiple posts

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Watching OP stumble ass over teakettle in love with this movie is amazing and these posts made my week

It’d be a missed opportunity if I ignored the date