Just Indian things

I loved this

I am in love with both the elaborate welcome this little fellow received as well as the look of complete bafflement on the puppies’ face that clearly says “I am eight weeks old and what is this.”

Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”

And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”

Her response was, “Well, are you?”

My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.

The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”

I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.

Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.

Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.

Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.

Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.

Signal boost to this unbelievably important message.

I’d reblog this a thousand times if I could.

Stop attacking allies. Educate. Not hate. 

This is incredibly important. Please read!

Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving.

Gonna Reblog this every time

I would argue on one point: “Tumblr is not reality.”

It would be more accurate to say “Tumblr is not the entirety of reality.”

Because, and I want to stress this, Tumblr is, in fact, real. It has the capacity to help, and it has the capacity to hurt. Most of the people that have been driven off didn’t leave because they just weren’t having fun anymore, they left because they were being hurt and chose not to continue being hurt.

Furthermore, Tumblr does have an impact on non-Tumblr reality. I’m not saying it’s a Massive Impact, but yeah, the way people get treated on Tumblr can and does affect how they behave outside of Tumblr.

Buy her books!!!

She won that season too!  She’s so cool and upbeat

Despite being cool.and upbeat (and she is) she also suffers from anxiety and recently started speaking about it in social media. Instagram posta detailing her inability to even go downstairs and how support her fam are etc. She also recently did a bbc documentary about anxiety disorders.

Nadiya is also a perfect example of why diversity in media is important. A government report on community cohesion said she’s done “more for British-Muslim relations than 10 years of government policy”, because her presence on TV has helped to humanize the image of the hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the eyes of the public. She’s not even really a political activist or anything - she’s just a nice, honest, down-to-earth person. Sometimes that’s all it really takes to convince people.

She has her own series on Netflix now!

Idk if this counts as a peeve more of an art-astronomy pet peeve

but when people draw the cresent moon and where the dark, shaddowed part of the moon is they put in stars

like studdenly that part of the moon is invisible instead of just being in the shadow

like wtf

wait no peOPLE ACTUALLY DO THIS???

 really stupid question though but like, aren’t there stars in front of the moon??? like??? space isn’t two dimensional so someone putting a couple stars in front of the shadow wouldn’t necessarily be wrong?? because aren’t there stars all around in space and?????? im just going to be confused forever frick uvu; 

hun if there was a star infront of the moon we’d be fucking dead

i’m fucking crying

As this handy little chart says:

I FINALLY FOUND THIS

the cowboy hat in question

“people with uteruses” and “people with ovaries” and “people with testes” and “people with breasts” are completely harmless and useful phrases to use when discussing legislation & medicine I think yalll are just mad at the idea of trans & intersex people having medical & legal autonomy & the ability to describe our experiences without misgendering ourselves

reminder: trans people can be denied coverage on their insurance because the legal terms describing those treatments are gendered. a trans man with ovarian cancer can be refused access to treatment that a cis woman in the same position would be afforded because of a loophole created by the word choice.

they’re not just harmless and useful phrases, they’re potentially life saving.

Intersex folks too.

I love the respect

Good morning to the drunk stranger and him ONLY.

Actually yknow what shout out to connoreatspants for failing upward.

Got busted out of prison on accident, got free netherite, found the arctic base on accident, joined the syndicate for funsies. You love to see a girlboss winning. He’s the only one to make it out of this entirely unscathed.

“I fell, Starlight.  From the fourth circle.  All the way down to the sixth.  I was pushed, actually.”

Hi, so this has been bothering me for a while (read: since the video came out) and I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere.  Avior, darling, if we’re the only ones in here, then who or what pushed you to your non-death?

Was it one of those awful gusts of wind?  A phantom monster native to the dream-hell?  Surely not another person.  Surely if there was another person that would have been mentioned.  What have–what do–who–we’re the only actual people in there, right?  Avior was put there by Blake, then Avior pulled Starlight in.  There’s no one else, right?

I’m not very familiar with Dante’s Inferno but presumably the other denizens of the dream-hell (if there are others) can’t affect Avior–unless they can.  But that would be something he would tell Starlight so that they would know that there are things that might get them, right??

idk I just needed to yell about this because he says that and then we never talk about it again Avior who PUSHED YOU

Also Starlight, love, of all the things not to latch onto and question him about I stg–

Mellohi plays in the background

For people who are confused with their expressions :

Marriage is a contract. Make sure to read the fine print

wilbur joins the family :>

A Wild Inniter Appears!

bonus:

I offer you a Damien meme in these trying times

One of the frustrating things about Supernatural being filmed in and around Vancouver instead of on actual U.S. backroads is the lack of batshit religious signage that’s a key feature around the Bible Belt and in especially rural parts of the Midwest, and would have taken on a deliciously ominous tone in seasons 4-5, season 11, and season 15 in particular.

Like where are the Jesus Lives signs painted in what might well be dried blood on rotting wooden planks nailed to random trees along the state highway? Where are the falling down barns no one has bothered to repair, but someone sure put in the effort to paint GOD IS ALWAYS WATCHING on the side facing the road? Where are the gigantic white crosses looming over the interstate like pale angels poised to rain God’s wrath upon us? Where are the wackadoo church bulletins trying to sound cheeky and relevant?

Truckstop America’s aesthetic is steel, concrete, and the smell of gasoline, true. But throughout a good third or more of the country it’s ALSO batshit religious signage and I think it’s pretty indicative of how they failed to go hard enough with their own premise that in fifteen seasons we never see any.

behold, the single best shot in the whole show (from 5x10)

@cowbeau SCREAM yes we got it One Good Time. SPN really said less is more except when it comes to homophobia misogyny and really going all in on our show’s basic premise.

Also bestie you simply must not leave this in the tags:

I would HAVE LIKED TO SEE IT.

Also consider: Cas having his crisis of faith in season 5 and “Are You Right With The Lord” signs.

For the folks in the tags going “this can’t be real” here, have some Muricanatural Aesthetix:

Increasingly Forboding Roadside Signs:

And I couldn’t even find any examples of the painted barn signs but trust me. They exist.

Allow me to direct your attention to what we here in Cincinnati call, “Hug Me Jesus,” or “5 Dollar Footlong Jesus.”

It’s 52 feet tall, and impossible to miss on the way to…oh, literally anywhere that far up 75.

Bonus points because it replaced the old version of this statue, referred to as “Touchdown Jesus,” after it was struck by lightning and burned for OVER A DAY.

Thanks, Ohio!

Oh, but we can’t forget Six Flags over Jesus Christ of the Ozarks if we’re talking Unsettling Large Jesus Statues.

This one can be found near Eureka Springs. As to the irreverent nickname, it basically rises up out of the Ozarks like the eponymous amusement park flags. Always fun to be driving down the road and BAM GIANT JESUS.

Also now I wish I had my dashcam footage from when I worked as a delivery driver because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a few of those barn signs around here, but I am not driving around looking for one, sorry.

MORE GIANT JESUSES.

I give you…. The Eggbeater Jesus.

Here’s some barn Jesus pictures for you.

And these are not even as crazy as some I’ve seen on road trips myself.

Okay, look, I am from Kansas. I have driven all the major highways and several of the slightly less major highways of this godforsaken state. And y’all are sleeping on THE STAPLE of religious signs in Kansas.

Behold, WHEAT JESUS. It’s the same on the other side, btw. There are two Wheat Jesuses out there.

Also, at least along I-70, for ever “DRAGON’S DEN ADULT ENTERTAINMENT” billboard or something similar, there’s a corresponding “PORNOGRAPHY IS SIN” billboard.

Look I’m not all that into Supernatural as a whole, but those two idiots from Kansas who drove all around the country would SURE AS HELL know Wheat Jesus and SURE AS HELL associate the religiosity with the adult entertainment industry, probably from a young age.

Please allow me to add some of my local crazy Christian landmarks

That middle cross is over 150 feet tall. One hundred. And fifty. Feet. Tall.

But yes damn do I wish they had used some of this in the show.

I don’t even go here but guys I really hate to break it to all of you that Canada does in fact have landmarks like this too. Maybe not as MANY and maybe not as widespread but and generally not in places like Vancouver but. We have them. There is a particularly ominous “PREPARE TO MEET GOD” sign on the highway not far from here which is *really* not something you want to drive past during a terrifying summer thunderstorm.

There’s also some massive “JESUS SAVES” signs on certain local businesses (which have also been putting up increasingly unhinged covid denier billboards over the course of the pandemic) and a collection of cross-heavy anti-abortion displays that the local farmers rotate around through their various highway adjacent fields. “Protect Unborn Men” and “Protect Unborn Women” being my favourites because God forbid we say People, better make a pink sign and brown (not blue) sign just in case.

Good Lord. Okay okay okay now I wanna know: if SPN was set in any given country, what weird and ominous sights would the protagonists drive past on their way to hunt vampires n shit?

The U.S. - deranged massive Christian iconography right next to advertisements for porn and sex toys. Also ads for guns and anti-abortion propaganda.

Canada - slightly less deranged Christian iconography, anti-abortion propaganda that apparently doesn’t include unborn enbies, and covid denier billboards.

New Zealand (according to the tags): Ominous stone pillars

Any others???

Wheat Jesus is in Ohio too. We used to see him driving back and forth to GenCon, and as a celiac Jew it felt like a threat.

Join my club or you get the wheat!

Now you can understand how it sounds when i hear any siren

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tornado sirens normally: 📢⚠️🌪 THERES A TORNADO 📢💥❗️

these tornado sirens: 💫🌸✨ there's a tornado 🥰 🌈🌱

✨😻💖🎶four tornadoes 🎶💖😻✨

Okay we don't get tornadoes in Wales so I am admittedly unsure of the etiquette but if four of the fuckers are going off simultaneously should he not be staying in a house right now

Tornados move fast and are erratic

it's best to get in a storm cellar or the most internal room of your house

So... not wandering around outside making a Tiktok of the pretty sound?

Categories of answers I have received to this question:

Thank you to everyone who submitted this data for my analysis, my conclusion is that I don't understand America

A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

Love that some of you are reblogging this. You looked at a picture of a guy with his head in a mailbox and went "yeah"

Can't wait to see if everyone did something like this or if they had a normal reaction. I will keep you posted.

[ID: a photo of a pale person wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with his head in a mailbox /END ID]

Hello to everyone asking for an update!

The professor has said that he will put all submitted pictures into a powerpoint to be shown in class tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9th). I am very much looking forward to seeing the reaction from him and from the rest of the class. I promise to keep you informed.

Update: the professor saved my picture for last. I was told that I had "truly embodied the spirit of the assignment" and that I had gone "above and beyond."

Also, to everyone who is worrying about whether or not I got my head out, I was gifted with a very small head, and while I got out just fine I would NOT recommend this if you have a large head or even a normal sized head.

Hey you guys should make this into a meme.

Hows this?

Perfect

the reason o!techno thinks he's a frog and keeps making frog noises

Slaps the roof of Last Life: this baby can fit so many melodramatic fan interpretations in it!

*ships m/f couples but in an un-mistakably bisexual way*

i've seen this post a half a dozen times and every time it was replied to with a different picture of jessie and james