i looked at queeringthemap today and had a good cry but these especially touched me

yeah.

frank was so involved in the bands earliest days before he even joined he was molding their history before he was one of them he was their biggest fan and advocated for them and encouraged them and saw their potential im so. emotional. frank iero.

shitty vid but !!!!!!! they played summertime at the rotterdam concert!!!!!

stop whatever you’re doing, pay attention to this. x

No because I’m gonna cry for real reading this. Because it’s TRUE. They really did it…

Shout out to trans women who aren't computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the "gay Taco Bell", but since I was coming from the "gay Howard Johnson's" I wasn't shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they'd worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the "gay Taco Bell" on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven't changed much in 20 years. I'm still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city's version of the "gay Taco Bell" is key to survival.

Thank u for sharing this with us

something not a lot of people have touched on is the line ‘ANTIHERO!’ in foundations, and i think it’s pivotal to the meaning of the song. mcr has always had a narrative savior complex, going so far as to spell it out explicitly with ‘savior of the broken and the damned.’ the formation of the band was in direct response to the country shaking apart, and the band members decided they had to be part of the coming change. think about the thesis line in skylines: ‘and if the world needs something better/let’s give them one more reason now.’ mcr essentially forced themselves into the hero role because they wanted to be the band that saves kids' lives. and then they were! for ten years they were, but we all know what happens next; it was too much, and they realized they couldn't fill that role completely. that was a major reason they broke apart, they felt like they didn't have that spark to change the world like they used to have. it was bitter and painful, and i think it scarred them for years afterward. which is why gerard screaming 'ANTIHERO!' in foundations, a song about reckoning with their past as a band, is so fucking essential to the moral of the lyrics. foundations is about raging against the role that killed you; you can't lay in your own rot, you can't die in the shell of the role you tried to fill. that's not an ending. ANTIHERO is directly connected to 'you must fix your heart' because mcr's role is no longer to act as the saviors they know they can't be. instead, they must heal themselves. by screaming ANTIHERO, gerard contradicts the band's 12-year-long narrative and contradicts the reason why the band broke up. go against the hero role, go against that weight you put on your shoulders, go against the rot and decay, fix your heart, and get up, coward.

Amazing

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

Some of the highlights of that video include:

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

this reply in the comments tho

This did not go where I expected from the first tweet and now I am laughing so hard I am crying.

when we try to befriend cats we mimic their meows and get down on the ground to their level and try to gently coax them to interact with us right

that horrifying entity mimicking human noises at us maybe just thinks we’re cool and wants to pet us?

had to draw it

a few people pointed out that they probably wouldn’t understand what they were saying and just mimicking whatever sounds they happen to hear so I wanted to add this

★ a rare colorful dan howell has appeared! ★

why chloe moretz eating spaghetti from wooden boxes?why everyone lookin in the camera??WHY SOME DUDE SUCKIN DICK???

Why is her date using chop sticks

Wtf is this lmao

we’ve been having a full on debate about this picture at work and I’m so tired

im like 90% certain the dude sucking dick is from a different picture so who put him there

???????

The funny thing is, those two are photoshopped into THAT picture as well

where are they from send them home

This is absurd because the original image is by far the most surreal one

The holy trinity

date of origin: 14th of april, 2016.

I'm late to the party but here is my part

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”? 

I fucking hate republicans,,

On the 50th Anniversary of Scooby-Doo let us celebrate the musical group of goddesses known as the Hex Girls (x)

literally no one is forcing you to go to a “safe space” so if you can’t fucking keep your mouth shut and stop yourself from spewing bullshit hate, … you literally don’t have to go to one. 

… you have no reason to be in a safe space … their existence does nothing to you you fucking asshole. it’s literally fucking meaningless to you. you’ve just picked a fucking buzzword and decided to arbitrarily be against it based on how it sounds because you hate marginalized people, but you don’t want to say that’s why you’re uncomfortable with safe spaces

and just to be a fucking asshole: sounds to me like you want the world to be your safe space, whereas marginalized folks just want one small area where they can relax. you’re not asking for safe spaces to stop existing, you’re asking for everywhere to be YOUR safe space. that’s literally what your doing. 

yall out here like “if consequences exist in any place, even a place i will never go to, i hate it.”