this lesbian bar doesn't have any fire exits

mostly i just do embroidery & talk about my cat 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️ - please no minors 🔞 - my art tag - etsy: symadethis - insta: syshapiro

(t*mblr does NOT like this image, let's see if this works out & if not i'll find another creative way to get around these comstock laws v.2023)

don't have a title for this piece yet. it's based on page 48 of the november 1984 issue of honcho magazine, from a photoshoot titled "take a licking!"

hand embroidery, 4½ by 6½ inches on cotton fabric. materials are PVC vinyl, cotton & polyester floss.

see the uncensored version here (website still in progress but social media doesn't like when i embroider big gay dicks so i need to build my own space cuz i have no plans to stop)

#my art #embroidery #hand embroidery #queer art #leather #gay leather #leatherman

Take one!

finished the border for my leslie feinberg patch, just have to put it on my vest. finished the front of the pinhead hoop for lor, just need to put felt on the back & close up the hoop. put some stitches on another iron-on patch on my vest that needed some extra support. sneepy. might go to bed early & read a book or something.

physiqueandfantasy

i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes

“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”

and friend got kinda mad at me lmao

that-twink-over-there

Fuck his dad

#fuck 👏 his 👏 dad 👏

gravityfallstar

itgetsbetterproject

LGBTQ+ youth: what would your ✨LGBTQ+ utopia✨ look like?

Queer youth ages 13-24 can submit your visual art, photography, poetry, short essays/stories and more NOW through September 15, and they might end up in QUEERBOOK 2024: a powerful collection of queer youth voices capturing your thoughts, feelings, and hopes during this year.

(Y'know, like a yearbook...but make it queer!)

Creators of selected pieces will be compensated for their work AND receive a free copy of the published book. Queerbook 2024 will also be sold in our shop at itgetsbetter.org and free copies will be distributed to select schools/GSA clubs throughout the U.S.!

Submit your piece now and read all submission guidelines (including word counts, dimensions, number of submissions, etc) here!

🔗 itgetsbetter.org/blog/queerbook-2024

Can't wait to see what you create!

gravityfallstar

Just an fyi, this organization specifically states that they aren't affiliated/owned by any social media site, so idk why Tumblr decided to take credit for something that very specifically said they aren't connected financially or otherwise to any social media/third party in the fleshed out rules doc linked on their site (for those who see this not under the false "Tumblr exclusives" thingy, that's what I'm referring to when I and other people talk about Tumblr taking credit for it)

#it gets better has existed for a long time #founded by my friend terry & his husband <3

demoralizedlycanthrope

THAT'S THE LIGHT RAIL COYOTE SHOW SOME RESPECT

discworldwitches

ringneckedpheasant

#i think it's 12. 14 if you count airports

really the butchest thing about me is that i fucking LOVE opening jars, i lose my mind about jars. i'm actually intensely weird about it because i just find it so satisfying & i'm so GOOD at it.

one time at community college these 2 girls who were NOT in my program who i did NOT know were struggling to get this jar open & i was watching them & like salivating because i'm just REALLY INTO JAR-OPENING & i wanted so badly to get my gay little hands on that jar. anyway one of them was like "i'll just get my boyfriend to open it" & i just screamed "NO!!!!" & grabbed the jar from her & got it open & it was. heaven. i just couldn't stand the thought of a man doing a dyke's job.

"just torrent it" bold of you to assume other people care about the kind of movies i care about

when people put "MEN DNI" on their posts does like a big klaxon go off in their house if a man looks at them? does the man receive an electric shock?

#magical thinking is fine i guess but it just seems exhausting

the way letterboxd organizes things is too annoying (you don't need to include all the salacious hollywood murder documentaries, come on!!) so i had to make my own list & hey look i'm only 3 short

it used to be much harder to find movies.... in college i used to carry a photocopied print of his filmography in my wallet to mark off which ones i'd seen & which ones i owned.... i've got 14 of these on physical media

#not hard to be a completionist #just pick a favorite actor who had a short career & died young #i've seen EVERY film james dean ever made! see? sounds impressive

the way letterboxd organizes things is too annoying (you don't need to include all the salacious hollywood murder documentaries, come on!!) so i had to make my own list & hey look i'm only 3 short

hmmm 🤔

www.oneletterwords.com

Source details and larger version.

Here’s looking at you: over 1000 vintage “faces in things”.

Source: oneletterwords.com

discworldwitches

familyabolisher

I've walked past the Barbie branded selfie booth, sat through the reel of old commercials that precede the previews, and watched Margot Robbie learn to cry, and I’m still not sure what “doing the thing and subverting the thing,” which Greta Gerwig claimed as the achievement of Barbie in a recent New York Times Magazine profile, could possibly mean. This was the second Gerwig profile the magazine has run. I wrote the first one, in 2017, which in hindsight appears like a warning shot in a publicity campaign that has cemented Gerwig’s reputation as so charming and pure of heart that any choice (we used to call them compromises) she makes is justified, a priori, by her innocence. This is a strange position for an adult to occupy, especially when the two-hour piece of branded content she is currently promoting hinges on a character who discovers that her own innocence is the false product of a fallen world. But—spoiler alert!—the point of Barbie’s “hero’s journey” is less to reconcile Barbie to death than to reconcile the viewer to culture in the age of IP.

“Doing the thing and subverting the thing”: I haven’t finished working out the details, but I think the rough translation would be Getting rich and not feeling feel bad about it. (Or, for the viewer: Having a good time and not feeling bad about it.) One must labor under a rather reduced sense of the word “subvert” to be impressed with poking loving fun at product misfires such as Midge (the pregnant Barbie), Tanner (the dog who poops), and the Ken with the earring, especially given that the value of all these collectors’ items has, presumably, not decreased since the film opened. Barbie may feature a sassy tween sternly informing Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie that the tiny-waisted top-heavy billion-dollar business she represents has made girls “feel bad” about themselves, but if anyone uttered the word “anorexia,” I missed it. (There was a reason Todd Haynes told the story of Karen Carpenter’s life and death with Barbies, and it wasn’t because an uncanny piece of molded plastic has the magical power to resolve the contradictions of girlhood and global capitalism.) There’s a bit about Robbie going back into a box in the Mattel boardroom, but Barbies aren’t made in an executive suite; they come from factories in China. On the one hand, it’s weird for a film about a real-world commodity to unfold wholly in the realm of ideas and feelings, but then again, that’s pretty much the definition of branding. Mattel doesn’t care if we buy Barbie dolls—they’re happy to put the word “Barbie” on sunglasses and T-shirts, or license clips from the movie for an ad for Google. OK, here’s my review: When Gerwig first visited Mattel HQ in October 2019, the company’s stock was trading at less than twelve dollars a share. Today the price is $21.40.

Christine Smallwood, Who Was Barbie?

micahulrichdraws

micahulrichdraws

Within and without. Only a handful of my signed art collections are still up for grabs at the shop link in my bio - while supplies last, of course! Thank you all for your love and support over the years, I couldn’t have done any of this without you!!

it's not really about sex it's about confidence & being free of shame. that's the actual theme that unites my body of work so far. it's aspirational.

i'm very very inspired by the tom of finland ethos

the work i've done that people have responded most strongly to isn't considered erotic work, it's really just a guy. but it embodies that same spirit. it's something i want to continue to explore cuz it's something i feel i lack personally, & also something that's still as necessary to show now as it was in tom's time. i especially want to do more trans work. i mean i'm only at the beginning of my potential.

up & down by vengaboys 😐

#save it for later 😭

it's not really about sex it's about confidence & being free of shame. that's the actual theme that unites my body of work so far. it's aspirational.

i'm very very inspired by the tom of finland ethos

it's not really about sex it's about confidence & being free of shame. that's the actual theme that unites my body of work so far. it's aspirational.