NYC Data Stories: Allyship

For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.

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:

movie vs book (i adore them both) 

How could you leave this in the notes, excellent addition

Actually, this makes the childification of Michael in the movie when he’s 15 in the book really funny:

Sophie, a 20-ish year old woman from a fantasy land where getting married at 16 or 17 does not seem to be unusual: Yes, this is a young man who is almost an adult.

Howl, a man in his late 20s from our world: This is a BABY and he does BABY things.

subtitles should be on automatically. people who don’t want them should have to turn them off

Howl’s Moving Castle - Guiding Rings

Annual Firefall event in Yosemite National Park.

I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

it’s pride month so it felt appropriate to make screencaps out of the perfect scene in Galavant where an army of gays save the day 

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

found another one

liking star trek is a red flag. it's also an orange flag. and a yellow flag. and a green flag. and a blue flag. and a purple flag. liking star trek is gay. YOU are GAY.

Startrek pride flag

star trek heritage post (July 17th, 2022)

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

how does this appear every june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

"you're not man enough, not feminine enough"

so gender is something we can fail?

that means gender is not genetic and absolute and unchangeable

but something we can build and perform, and fail at (the standards they set) but also redefine?

if i can fail at being a woman, does that mean i'm not a woman? so does that make me another gender?

i agonized for 15 minutes about the wording of my post and you manage to simplify it with a perfect mean girls reference

I keep forgetting I unfollowed the r/polyamory subreddit, and then I'll randomly see Some Bullshit someone screen-capped in a group chat, and I'll be like, ah. Good call on that one.

Is functional polyamory possible in humans? Yes, I believe so. but much like room temperature fusion, I don’t think we have yet demonstrated it. 

... as someone with friends in polyamorous relationships older than me (36+ years and counting), I'm going to have to disagree on that one.

We only hear about the ones that end badly because happy people don't post on forums bitching about their disastrous love lives.

Also, just to add: I know I used the longevity of a relationship there to make a point, but the longevity of a relationship is not always an indicator of a healthy or happy one.

Some polyamorous people would consider multiple, short-lived relationships that end amicably to still be successful because they were happy while the relationship is what vibed for them.

Not everyone looks at love or relationships in the same way. Not everyone wants to get on the relationship escalator. That doesn't mean they've failed at polyamory. It means they are successfully being polyamorous in a way that is best for them.

So yes, actually. I think it is more successful than people realize. I think we're just more likely to hear about the people who jumped ass-first into a situation they weren't equipped to handle and, frankly, probably have similar issues in monogamous relationships as well. The problem is just magnified tenfold when you add more people to it.

Can I also add that using room temperature fusion is an atrocious metric because the only time that's ever been considered viable was a NOTORIOUS HOAX. Dont compare cold fusion, something that has only ever been faked and not truly attempted, to polyamory. You think you sound so smug and smart for saying that glib little reference? You're not. You know fuck all about fusion AND polyamory, sit down go home and learn why saying nothing when you have nothing to say is a virtue (:

"magic mushrooms"? uhm, actually, all mushrooms are magic, so jot that down

magic isn't always "find connection with all things in the universe," sometimes it's just "make tasty soup" or "shrivel your kidneys" yknow how it is

Literally begging on my knees for the world to read the discworld witches series

this post was written with nanny ogg's voice in mind, i'll have you know

if thousands of conservatives could quit bud light over making a SINGLE can with a trans persons face on it, you can quit chic fil a for them donating millions to anti lgbtq groups and harry potter for being written by the face of TERFS.

Don't let conservatives be the ones with the stronger resolve, guys. If we want to act like we're better than them, we're gonna have to like... Actually be better at following our own ideologies.

Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭

Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!

From what I recall, the first time I saw 'rainbow capitalism' from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.

It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn't take it down. They were unapologetic and didn't try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.

And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.

"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild

"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"

Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum

Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link