forgot to post ;;

they should give me 1000 dollars in the mail daily for being a handsome boy & beautiful woman.

Big Pride Month shoutout to the late Maddie Blaustein, the wonderful trans woman who was the iconic first English voice of Meowth and my introduction to transgender people. 🏳️‍⚧️ She is missed to this very day and will always be the best English Meowth to me! :D

PSA for Across the Spiderverse:

Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors.

I will not be spoiling the plot or anything happening in it, but it is important that people know, because ohhh my god the AMOUNT of flashing lights and rapidly changing colors from beginning to end was so rampant that even I, a non-epileptic autistic person, got a severe headache and wild overstimulation. They do not give a warning in theaters at all that this movie is NOT epileptic friendly from the literal beginning with the beginning credits - which is so, so sad!

This is a beautifully made film, it's wonderful, it's amazing, but unfortunately, it's not a good time for anyone super affected by bright flashing lights in rapid succession, especially those seizure prone.

I wanted to put this out there BECAUSE there are no theater warnings. Idk if anyone else has put it out there, but it is SUPER IMPORTANT!!!

I wish you all a lovely day and hope they eventually have a remaster that will be much more friendly to epileptic and other people affected by bright, flashing lights.

[plaintext: Do NOT see the new Spiderverse movie if you have any form of epileptic condition or conditions affected by bright lights and rapidly changing colors. /end plaintext]

celebrate trans day of visibility by being trans and having just a shit ton of eyes

that’s what I’m talking about

every time i clock out at work i understand how the final girl in a horror movie feels

Get it here at hirbawi

In honor of pride month and the continuing struggle of the Palestinian people, please consider supporting the talented people at Hirbawi by buying a rainbow kufiya (or any other one for that matter) and help keep a traditional craft alive.

🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

(This really shouldn't have to be said but terfs/swerfs do not touch. This post is for all LGBT+ people)

hirbawi is the last factory in palestine for kufiya. all the rest had to shut down along the years bc of the occupation. please consider supporting them and buying their pride kufiya or any kufiya. i bought their kufiyas myself and theyre top notch - theyre beautiful and really high quality as you would expect from handmade palestinian craft and are so varied and colorful. if you cant buy please consider reblogging and sharing their work.

Pride Month upon ye

Photography/Art was done by Michael James Schneider. You can find him on several sites.

[Image description: an art piece built around the following words: “It wasn’t about water fountains then. It’s not about bathrooms now.” This phrase is spelled out using large novelty balloons, each shaped like a capital letter. A Black person poses in the foreground, sitting on a bicycle, and holding a dandelion flower with both hands. The colors of the photograph are vivid and aggressively cheerful: metallic hot pink balloons, arranged on a bright cyan blue wall. The Black person is wearing a sharp yellow long-sleeved shirt and yellow earrings, which match the color of the dandelion. Their jeans and bicycle are black, to match their beautiful, long, natural hair. The effect makes the message impossible to ignore. End ID. /]

Janelle Monae for Rolling Stone Magazine - May 2023.

HORROR FILMS + paintings

A 2017 classic updated for the new game.

autism is living by vampire rules. light sensitivity. eating the wrong food makes you want to die. need to be explicitly invited places. weird sleep schedule. eating the same thing every time. specific rituals and routines. burst into flames at the sight of a crucifix. etc.

So obviously, the most obnoxious and useless sort of science fiction criticism is provided by angry dumb guys screaming into microphones about things being "woke"; but I also get annoyed by the people who insist on applying a sort of "roman-á-clé" reading, where everything in the story is merely a disguised stand-in for some real-world human political issue. Like, yes, obviously, sf is used for social and political commentary a lot of the time; but it's *also* used to just kind of play around on the frontiers of possibility. And it frankly seems kind of demeaning to the genre to pretend that its alien, its bizarre, and its inhuman features are necessarily just stand-ins for some mundane, real-world concept. Like, yes, clearly The War of the Worlds is about colonialism; but it's also about alien life; it's also about evolution and ecology; and it's also about "Wouldn't it be fucked up if THIS happened!?" And all of these are irreducible from the genre. Is your robot autistic? Well, maybe you can read it that way. Maybe it's a sincere attempt to imagine a nonhuman mechanical intelligence. Maybe it's both. Sometimes, you write a story strictly for "Wouldn't it be fucked-up if..." purposes and it ends up shedding a whole new light on the human condition; in fact, I think that, if you're taking your concept seriously, it should do this by default. But you have to take the bizarre on its own terms or you might as well be reading realism.

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