a sun shining backwards

Thinking about some of the responses to that gatheringbones post from a few days ago where people in the notes are all “uwu how dare queer people be allowed to imagine fantasy worlds without oppression”, completely missing that lack of imagination is kind of the whole point. Why is your utopian queer-friendly fantasy society just Christian feudalism with the serial numbers polished off? Why is empire and the divine right of kings so appealing and romantic when you include yourself in the mythology? The reason people are sickened by it isn’t because they hate queer people enjoying fantasy escapism, lmao—it’s the idea that rainbow-washed Benevolent Unproblematic Monarchy Where We Don’t Have To Think About The Spoils Of Empire is a fantasy worth escaping to is extremely disturbing.

Also, frankly, if your oh-so-essential “escapism” is to the world where tomatoes are indigenous to Fantasy Europe… what is it you’re allegedly escaping from?

#and why is it white guilt

Every few months y'all will be like "Hey you have to check out the cool new Internet funnyman Squeebus he makes hilarious observations and talks about what's really going on" and I'll be like "I dunno, Squeebus just seems like kind of a mean-spirited shit-talker to me" and y'all will be like "No no it's satire" and then about a week after that Squeebus starts posting about how he hates trans women like they murdered his long-lost father or something

I was gonna ask if this was about that mousegirl post but then I remembered, like, at least three other funnymen who had abysmal takes on important issues

The Supreme Court just gutted unions' ability to strike entirely so that's where we're at now.

2/3rds of the ‘liberal’ justices on the court sided with conservatives against their voter base

A comic about Seagulls. If you feel like this comic doesn’t accurately represent you, and that you personally don’t act like this, good. That means this comic isn’t about you.

If you DO act like this, and are working on a counter argument about how not all _____ are ______ , well that’s just disappointing. 

cats when they are playfighting

happy pride to those who are unable to celebrate for any reason, not just including being in the closet. happy pride to those who are too hurt to muster up the strength. happy pride to those who are simply scared to. we see you and we see your struggles. you are not alone. the rest of us love you. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

wake up babe new dumb orange cat just dropped

💖💖💜💜💙💙

the funniest thing about tumblr fandoms for good well-made thought out media is seeing people point shit out while saying "i know its not that deep but-" girl it literally is. sometimes good writers will make the curtains blue on purpose to symbolize something. you are analyzing and interpreting bro

"the TVC vampires can forgive anything" yeah that's clear from the fact they don't kill one another for publishing these books

I mean, I guess when you know that other person is going to be around forever, your only two choices are to kill them or to find a way to coexist. (Or seal them up in some kind of oubliette, which is just putting off the inevitable.) And when there are so relatively few beings on Earth who can truly understand what it's like to be you, I can't imagine it would be an easy thing to cut even one of them completely out of your life with no hope of reconciliation.

the two (2) kinds of response

"Bonjour, Lestat here! I've recovered from my last round of beatings and learned nothing, so here's the nonsense we've been up to since the last book"

Ah yes, the ol “B-17 survivorship bias” lesson

Okay but this is a hilarious explanation

cc: @petermorwood

That's how Plot Armour works.

Here's what "survivorship bias" is all about. BTW, I know this isn't a B-17 (it's a Lockheed A-29 Hudson) and anyway, the survivor-bias thing doesn't refer to any particular aircraft type.

sometimes your owns against homo/transphobes arent funny enough to warrant consciously reminding me that people hate me for immutable characteristics about myself

POISON IVY in BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM (2023)

rb and put in the tags what shiv named her baby (wrong answers only)

happy pride month to this post specifically

#hayley saying “gay” for a minute straight in respons to florida’s “don’t say gay” policy

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