Bisexual contingent in NYC Pride Parade, June 1991 (source)
(Featuring: Brenda Howard, Mother of Pride)
The reason why social media has gotten so much worse recently (reddits recent fuck-up, everything on Twitter since Musk, FB being FB, Tumblrs various attempts at expanding profitability recently) is because it is no longer possible to exist as a company by fencing in large parts of our social life and having investment money pump in on the basis of expected future value of that amount of information when it suddenly costs money to loan money due to suddenly high interest rates after the inflationary crisis of the last year, which has made the current model of the Internet that has existed for the last about 10 years completely unsustainable. All of them need to become profitable or die, and they are learning very quickly that that just isn't possible no matter how much of the life and information of the users one steals. We are witnessing the death-throes of Web2.0, and what comes after is as yet unclear.
The thing nobody warns you about when you decide to start a crowdfunded publishing side-gig is that you'll find yourself hoarding the dumbest fucking boxes because what if you end up needing to ship something that just happens to be that exact size and shape? Packaging is expensive! That's where most crowdfunded projects with physical rewards screw themselves, after all – working out their shipping costs and failing to budget for the cost of a box to put it in. Every box you throw away just might have been the one that keeps you under budget, and by God, you can't take that chance!
There's only two ways I will accept Marinler as a ship. That is A, if it's part of a great big sloppy warp core four polycule, or B, if it's written by AO3 user Talik_Sanis because they do such an adorable Mariner-Jennifer-Boimler triad.
i had a bad day today, so i ordered takeaway pizza and it arrived and i ate it. mm delicious. ten minutes later the doorbell rang and i'm like ?? because it's half ten at night, so i get up and open the door to find... another pizza. the same pizza. same delivery guy even.
anyway, it turns out they messed up my order and sent another one to make up for it, but i did have an extremely surreal moment where i was convinced i had entered some sort of magical infinite pizza loop
i can't find sources on this anywhere any more, but i distinctly remember reading a blurb about Gene Ray's Time Cube that mentioned how one guy somewhere else in the US read Gene's ramblings and actually parsed enough meaning out of them that he became the world's first and only convert to Time Cube Thought other than Gene himself. this guy then flew down to Florida to meet his visionary prophet face-to-face, whereupon they promptly got into an argument over the fundamentals of Time Cube so bad that they never spoke again. i guess it was always possible to create a religious schism with the theoretical minimum of two people but it's funny to see in practice
@cryptotheism is this true
I remember this from the Down the Rabbit Hole video, but I don't know where that claim was sourced. I generally trust the DTRH guy though.
I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!
This flag is pissing off TERFs of course but i am seeing so much colorful JOY from trans lesbians and other lesbians in the notes like I've never seen a set of tags so happy before omg
Anonymous asked:
Obese Sphinx GF, she lays on top of you if she needs attention
ii swear to god ive been working on that sphinx lady with the puns but-
imagine that!! your personal fluffy cat lady who is MASSIVE and tall but SOFT and!!
also tells a bunch of weight related riddles and puns just because she loves to get a round with them! also she has kitty titty and is very easy to adore because her bad jokes are what give you life! as well as her massive, globular tummy she likes to plop on your face.
four funny notes ‘n maybe a suggestion about what kinda job she/they would have and i finally make an oc based off of this tonight, try me please-
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Monster Researcher Eclair and The Heart of the Cards.
A friend once said to me "I feel like I'm not actually working at my job because there's so little to do" and I was like "the way I see it, if you can't sleep and you can't jerk off, you're at work no matter what".
And I just realized this gives me a new perspective on homelessness. There's a certain baseline amount of labor you're expected to do in public, finding places to exist unobtrusively, moving when the cops tell you to. No one is ever truly "off the clock" until they're in their own home, if they have one.
I'm sure Michel Foucault or somebody wrote about this long before I did.
Or to put it another way, if home is the "first place" and work is the "second place" then the removal of third places from society means that if you don't have a first place everywhere defaults to being a second place
If existing in public is a job then police are the managers, and calling the cops on someone for sleeping in public is, in effect, snitching on a fellow worker. I guess this functions as an explanation for why police unions "don't count".
Here is the cover of my newest comic book, GET USED TO US! Because we’re not going anywhere and the world will only get more trans and queer. For this Pride Month, I wanted to create something that would be both a celebration and a statement. May this new comic book bring you joy, laughter and empowerment! https://ko-fi.com/s/669db5b805
Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?
Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.
Seriously.
What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.
Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.
- A comment like “I love this” or “Wow, that looks great!”
- An email about how much you’re excited about X event
- A call saying you wanted to let them know you appreciate this thing
- Tagging them if you share a picture or positive comment on social media
- “Cool shirt/pins/etc!” (Because people are also bring harassed about personally being queer, even if it’s not a library display)
- Literally anything that would be positive for them to receive
I realize the above might sound simple, like suspiciously simple, but you don’t have to just take my word for it—just take a gander at the notes:
So just to reiterate: it really can be as simple as a social media comment or a two-sentence email.
(Now is it possible to do more? Yes! Going to events when you can is always good! Voting for public officials who support the library—library boards in some places, but also school board members who don’t want to ban books, city councils who don’t act disgusted at drag queen story hour, etc. Contact your elected folks if they’re being anti-library, etc.)
Anything is better than nothing.
But as people will often point out on posts about libraries, they’re not all the same: your library may not have events, or displays, for a number of reasons. You can still support your library with easy things like:
- Comment/email/call/post about a book you enjoyed that fits the criteria, or how you were happy to find it for your child/nibling/friend/whoever
- Ask them for recommendations
- Ask if a Pride display is coming because you’d love to find new reads/any other reason
- Check out books/materials and return them! Libraries love statistics!
- Is your library not doing anything, or doing less (possibly because of aforementioned problems)? Politely express your disappointment. "I haven't seen a pride display yet this year, is one coming?" or "I'm disappointed not to see a display for Pride Month" or "I was excited for X event and sad that it's been canceled/not happening this year, are there plans to do it again in the future?" Remember you don't know what's happening behind the scenes (but check the notes of this post for a glimpse)
- Closeted or not otherwise able/wanting to be out? You don't have to out yourself to say you like or appreciate seeing things! “I just love the options here at X Library!” “What a lovely display!”
- Request a book they don’t have! Literally the worst that’ll happen is they say no, and patron requests can often build a case/show support for titles that the workers aren’t sure about/are worried about complaints. (A request doesn’t guarantee its purchase for reasons that are a separate post! But it doesn’t hurt to ask.)
The current tsunami of anti-library, anti-queer hate didn't appear overnight, but if you're not plugged in library circles, you may not realize how bad things really are. Supporting your library is a year-round endeavor, but as you can see, it can also be super easy. Libraries are for everyone, not just right-wing HOA members—so make sure that they hear from the rest of us, too.
Years into the future. Yet another Dracula movie/tv adaptation is to be released. You see the first shot of the trailer.
It is a bowl of paprika hendl. Jonathan takes a bite. He chokes, downs a flask of water... and then takes another bite.
The director is one of us. You cheer, for the curse of bad Dracula adaptations is broken.
