Here’s the inked version of the StedexEd fan art I’m working on. Ed’s hair was super fun to ink.
All of us, collectively: fuck bots
Haiku bot: sometimes I mess up!
Us: 🥺
Us, collectively: there you go little buddy! You did pretty great!
Us, collectively:
there you go little buddy!
You did pretty great!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Do we want to wish
Sentience on anyone
Is it haikubot
“The oldest olive tree in the world located on the island of Crete. It is estimated to be as over 3,000 years old and still produces olives.”
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gotta share @telesilla’s tags -
peakyarthurs
This is officially the best response and a big ass mood right there
At all the people in the notes saying: “Unless it’s this” and “Certain types of shippers need to die” this is fucking targeted at you.
We need a digital archive of LGBTQ+ works of art, science, and every other conceivable work we can share between each other because we are beyond the genocide warning level in most countries in the west and they’re already trying to purge us from libraries.
If other people are interested I’ll make this a priority
Speaking as someone with a background in archives, stuff like this does already exist. No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating an archive and making sure it’s accessible and searchable and actually preserves things for the long time (especially digital things) is actually a huge undertaking. Show some love to these already existing collections and maybe even consider contributing. There’s the Digital Transgender Archive off the top of my head. I know more I just have to think.
The History Project, based in Boston, is an LGBTQ+ community archive that’s existed for decades. Many of their collections are digitized.
The Lesbian Herstory Archives, based in Brooklyn, is similar.
The Digital Public Library of America covers a great many topics, but they also have LGBTQ+ stuff.
I’d also recommend searching “lgbtq+” and “libguide” in your preferred search engine. Many universities list helpful resources and databases, some of which are freely accessible.
Many public and academic libraries in the US and Canada (not sure where you’re writing from) subscribe to the Gale Archives of Sexuality and Gender. If you have a library card or are a student at a given library, you can access it for free.
In general, I’d really recommend searching around to see how you can support existing museums, community archives, college and university archives, etc that specialize in LGBTQ+ history and media local to you, whether that’s in your same town or regionally.
You are not alone! People are working on this and some of them have institutional budgets!
But also kind of looping back to the first post: you personally might have relevant records. Photos of Pride or protests you’ve been to, journals, a blog full of trans headcanons even. That’s all part of queer history and that’s the stuff these archives and museums are made of.
Label your stuff carefully, make backup copies, and get to know your local organizations!
We’re also working on building an open access archive and actively looking for content contributions! https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/hiv-aids-the-arts/
University and community archives both are doing so much important work in curating and preserving queer history! And even the academic collections are generally still open to the public, whether that looks like you coming into the reading room at a local university to look at their materials or emailing the librarians to ask for photos or scans of them.
Also, like, even if they’re affiliated with institutions, queer archives at universities and museums are generally still curated and cared for by queer folks. I work in a queer history archive at my university, and all of us who regularly work with the collections are queer, the curator is even another trans person, and we have strong connections with other queer people and organizations in the surrounding community.
Academic and cultural institutions like historical societies, libraries, and universities have facilities built to preserve archival materials – everything from books and zines to pins, banners, t-shirts, and etc – and people trained in curation and conservation. And often we want to connect with the local community so we can house and preserve their stories and materials for a long time!
All the archives that have been added to this post are great, but here’s a few more to look at if you’re interested in finding a queer archive near you – or one further away with materials that interest you. Australia: The Australian Queer Archives
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Kvir Arhiv
Canada: The ArQuives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives)
Germany: Das Lila Archiv
Spinnboden Archiv (focused on lesbian history)
Forum Queeres Archiv München (focused on queer history in Bavaria and Munich)
The Netherlands: LGBT Heritage Collection at the Internationaal Homo/Lesbisch Informatiecentrum en Archief
South Africa: GALA Queer Archive
Switzerland: Verein Schwulenarchiv Schweiz (focused on the history of gay men in Switzerland)
The United Kingdom: LGBTQ Collections at the Glasgow Women’s Library
The United States: The Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University
OutLoud Collection at StoryCorps (an oral history project)
The Rainbow History Project (focusing on queer history in Washington D.C. and the surrounding area)
The Invisible History Project (focusing on queer history in Alabama and the American South)
The Gerber/Hart Library and Archive (focusing on Midwestern queer history and culture)
Also – I know what’s happening today is incredibly scary, but there are so many archives all over the world documenting our history, and so many people devoting their lives to preserving everything from groundbreaking political manifestos to kitschy ephemera. And supporting queer archives is more important than ever. My first day of work in the collections, the curator handed me a charred book that had been rescued from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft book burnings, and nothing has ever driven home more that the work of archivists is both critical and powerful, especially in this day and age. Support queer archivists and queer archives, save materials and find one to house your own collections no matter how random they might seem, and go out and learn about our history!
To add to the list of Canadian sources there is also the Transgender Archives through the University of Victoria:
I also want to pitch my friend, Amelia’s website: Not Your Average Cistory. Amelia writes blog posts and has also compiled trans museum sources.
Hi,
It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:
I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.
That is my anti-permission.
Thank you for your attention.
boopsloop464
This is really sad, but it's at least kind of encouraging that he's still trying
Absolutely. The spirit of learning should be nurtured at any age. Read on, info warrior!
Hey, this is exactly how you expand your vocabulary - stumbling across new words, looking them up, and then remembering that. And they're still having fun reading the book, so they're probably going to remember the words they pick up. This is good!
I see y'all in the notes making fun of this, don't fucking shame people for learning stuff late. It's not like this guy can go back in time and do more reading as a kid/teenager, do you want people to learn new things, or do you expect everyone to just wallow in ignorance if they weren't lucky enough to be taught things as a kid/teenager? And they don't need an easier book either, if they're engaged with this one and understanding it, they're fine.
And the more words you look up, the more words you'll know and enjoy in the next one, and the avalanche of books you'll enjoy will just keep widening.
You know what it’s like when you don’t know anything at all, and yet you’re totally certain that everything would be better if you were near one particular person.
GOOD OMENS (2019-)
Our trailer for Good Omens Season 2 has just been released. It is moderately entertaining and may help pass a couple of otherwise uneventful minutes.
I would watch the hell out of this
And, of course, this:
Ritamäki in Värmland, Sweden (June 2, 2022).
neil saying they're nonbinary never gets old 💚💜❣️
without the agender/genderfluid colors
It's pride month so y'all better do a sense8 rewatch. If you've never seen it run do not walk.
EXTRA! EXTRA! Trailer Tomorrow, Fans Run Frantic With Excitement.
Wow everyone is going through it. Hold my hand
reblog to hold the hand of the person you reblogged from
The only pic that matters from MCM May 2023
The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
#the big sleep#this is one of those movies where i remember none of the plot and all of the vibes#i even read the book too and nothing. story is just 404 file not found#but the ~experience~ (via @mylittleredgirl)
That’s probably how it was meant to be experienced! From Wikipedia:
This process — especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by cutting and pasting paper — sometimes produced a plot with a few loose ends. An unanswered question in The Big Sleep is who killed the chauffeur. When Howard Hawks filmed the novel, his writing team was perplexed by that question, in response to which Chandler replied that he had no idea.
This exemplifies a difference between Chandler’s style of crime fiction and that of previous authors. To Chandler, plot was less important than atmosphere and characterisation. An ending that answered every question while neatly tying every plot thread mattered less to Chandler than interesting characters with believable behaviour.
HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY