what is like... the most on brand, stereotypical zodiac sign trait is true for you?
here’s my one whole discourse post for pride month. you fucks will never ever ever wean off the radfem shit if you keep trying to give “cis men are evil” nuance. no, it’s not bad because they could be closeted or questioning, it’s bad because gender essentialism is a fucking brain poison and it makes you stupid
Amazing things happening off the coast of Spain
As one who's seen the season 2 trailer of Good Omens one too many times, I'm getting the feeling that Gabriel is up to something that Heaven and Hell don't know about. I feel as though he became human on purpose to find out what Aziraphale's weakness is to get rid of him as well as Crowley. Correct me if I'm wrong
Gabriel came to Earth to go on holiday to Spain with Aziraphale and Crowley and their wives, Dottie and Sadie. He's working as an art critic and when he sees the picture hanging in Crowley's bed and breakfast bedroom he realizes it's an original painting by Jerry Picasso (Pablo's baby brother) and resolves to steal it on the same night that the neighborhood Dress as a Burglar and Win a Fridge competition is held. Hilarity ensues.
I have been laughing for ten minutes straight
i feel like there's a trend i'm seeing, esp in online queer spaces, of being, like, oddly against the idea of people being attracted to each other
like I've been seeing the word “sexualization” tossed around to mean sexual attraction and framed as a bad and disrespectful, bordering on nonconsensual, thing.
recently in a sapphic group I’m in, a teenage lesbian mentioned that she’s attracted to her friend and and keeps getting distracted by her boobs. she was immediately dragged by dozens of grown ass adults telling her this was gross and inappropriate
it would have been one thing to tell her not to stare (she already wasn’t tho tbh), but the general gist of the comments was that seeing someone’s body and feeling attraction is *inherently* inappropriate and unethical
it’s totally fine to be attracted to someone. and you know what, a lot of people like boobs and that’s also fine
basically i just keep seeing stuff cropping up in the queer community with the message that sexual (and i guess now romantic?) desire is bad
and that’s uhhh what’s the word, fucked
on the other hand people are chill with tinder and hooking up and there are a ton of “normalize having sex with your friends!!” posts
people are cool with sex but they are not ok with desire
tinder, i think, feels fine because it’s really not about attraction. it’s about fulfilling a general need for sex and isn’t about the person at all.
being attracted to someone, though — looking at or thinking about a specific person who’s already in your life and wanting to have sex with them — that’s what it seems a lot of people aren’t ok with
there’s a level on which i get it. the person is just existing, they didn’t specifically and intentionally put themselves in a space for sexuality like tinder
but, y’all.
this is how attraction works. you spend time with people, you do things alongside them, you get to know them… and maybe you start thinking they’re hot. maybe you want to fuck them or kiss them. this is literally so totally fucking fine.
the thing that’s disrespectful is when you actually do shitty stuff! don’t say vulgar things to them. respect their boundaries. don’t make them uncomfortable. if you approach them for sex or dating and they say no, accept that. etc
but there’s literally nothing wrong with wanting to fuck someone or wanting to date someone.
In the hollow of my hand
Our Flag means Death fanart by me, inspired by Vico‘s comments at the Outfronts festival about the yin-yang nature of Ed and Stede’s relationship: an exterior of toughness with an interior of softness contrasted with an exterior of softness with an interior of toughness. Coloured pencil on Strathmore toned tan paper.
sure, a guy from patriot front who runs a 1942 nazi rp server on gmod got caught trying to sell "femboy tummy pills" within a day by leaving his full legal name on the paypal transaction site. why not
The irony is Paypal showing people a name you don't want them to see is a very common trans experience
Just some fun things I've noticed in the Good Omens 2 promo material so far, interpret how you wish:
- prominent use of 'up' imagery, not just 'something's going down in the up' but the 'this end up' box, the ascending? feathers, the up arrow in the opening, Crowley on the elevator and then at some point actually in Heaven
- in the series 1 opening all the marching figures are choosing to move upwards or downwards (towards Heaven or Hell) as they proceed. in the s2 opening EVERYONE is moving in the same direction. sometimes temporarily down but usually upward culminating in an ascent up a very pointy mountain
- said pointy mountain reminds me of the monologue about a bird sharpening its beak on a mountain representing 'eternity', and if ALL the figures are ascending, are they ascending towards eternal life? (Eta: Neil did say that some dialogue from the book they couldn't use in s1 slotted nicely into this season.)
- A pointy mountain also looks like a giant up arrow, so there's that.
#this doesn't even touch on how we start before creation in the new show#and the opening takes us into space and that moment even makes me think of the schism of heaven and hell#all of which makes me think we're dealing with the Fall and Crowley's whole deal#fandom: good omens#good omens#ineffable husbands#i am a meta gremlin#good omens 2#good omens 2 spoilers#go2 spoilers
It was a brilliant move to give Laszlo, Nandor, Nadja their own accents that are unique to them for most of the show. It really adds to the idea that they're all living in their own worlds that are separate from the real. They literally as well as metaphorically speak a language that no one else around them knows. They are from a culture no one around them recognizes. They are divided from their homes by distance just as much as time. They are separate from everyone else, and it shows with every word they speak.
(And Colin Robinson, of course, has his slow, monotone way of speaking that makes it so obvious just how draining it is to listen to him.)
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a Guillermo should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The Guillermo, of course, flies anyway because Guillermos don't care what humans think is impossible.
i found out but i didn't even get to fuck around first this is bullshit
guillermo’s tiny little bat wings reblog if you agree. i know for a fact that you agree
The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:
- the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
- That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
- oh, that hurt
- I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
- the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
- on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
- I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
- The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
- God.
- for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
- it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”
was talking with gwen yesterday and she was like “yeah leonard nimoy’s cool. it’s cool that he’s gay” and i was like “he’s not gay. i also thought he was gay but he was just nice. you’re thinking of patrick stewart” and she was like “he’s not gay you’re thinking of stanley tucci” and i, thinking of steve busciemi, said “FROM SPY KIDS?” anyway just checked and none of these people are gay apparently. thanks for reading
posts that make people say “stanley tucci IS gay, lol” and then google it and reblog again with “oh, huh. nvm”
I said 'of course Stanley Tucci isn't gay, he's bi' and then looked it up and it turns out I was thinking of Jim Rash, a mistake I also made when seeing Jim Rash's appearance in the movie Bros but that immediately passed out of my long term memory because I'm a goldfish
The pride bats are back! I thought it’d be nice to regroup them into a matching poster. The border on the moths one was changed to a rainbow gradient and some colours were tweaked for better readability/printing. Original posts: Pride moths LGBATs 1 & 2
ID: 1. Guillermo, dressed in a sweater and chinos, straining with both fists pressed to his chest as the tiny bat wings on his back flap and struggle to get him off the ground, hovering about 3 inches into the air. 2. He falls to the ground with a splat, chin first, butt in the air, wings limp at his back. /end ID
It’s probably a metaphor It’s probably a metaphor It’s probably a metaphor 🫠
#i am so in love with the concept of guillermo having tiny idiot bat wings#that the thought of it being a metaphor glided completely smooth across my conscious thoughts and out of my skull#let him have tiny fail wings and tiny fail fangs and turn into the weirdest little bat#fandom: wwdits#char: guillermo the relentless
From Nigerian-Indian photojournalist Yagazie Emezi’s TikTok
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Mavula Sape is part of La Sape - “Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes” (Translated as the Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant people), a subculture that can be traced back to the 1920s where young men as a form of protest against the French colonial powers, took the clothing of their ‘masters’ and created their own unique styles with them.
While the men, the sapuers, have gained international recognition over the years with their dapper and colorful suits, the women (Sapueses) were not as well known despite having Embraced the La Sape culture for decades.
I traveled with National Geographic to Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to photograph snippets of their lives.
Walking into the Mikalu neighborhood, we were greeted by loud music and members of Mavula Sape approached us in a flurry of fancy dance footwork. Each woman dons her favorite suit for the location and calls out nicknames and words of encouragement to each other.
Messani Grace, the leader of the group, joins in with flourishes of her own. Their colorful clothes and elaborate poses are more than just a fashion-statement.
The women are mothers, housewives, tailors, police officers, hair dressers, government officials and more - and as Sapeuses, they are challenging social and gender norms in a patriarchal society while being able to simply, yet most importantly, express themselves.
Would you like to see the photographs?
@yagazieemezi on TikTok
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every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had
Also the gentlemen with the black attaché case who offer you the choice between being safe or being free and the dead rats who live in the basement.
I have no idea what Wayside School is
It’s a trilogy of absurdist children’s novels published by Louis Sachar (the author of Holes) about a school that was supposed to be one storey with thirty rooms but is actually thirty storeys with a room on each floor because the builders were holding the plans sideways (and apparently this is how architecture works). Each book consists of a series of thirty loosely interrelated short stories about the students on the thirtieth floor, and there are a bunch of weird anomalous things that become running gags throughout the novels and, actually, now that I think about it, I can definitely see how Night Vale would have been inspired by this
Sideways Stories from Wayside School is basically “American Elementary School Gothic”.