dont cry ok? there is the sun and there isthe ocean and there are butch gay women
Wow isn't it wild how Target just immediately caved to queerphobes? Anyway, you can spend your Pride money at @nerdykeppie or other community-owned companies and that won't fucking happen.
Hadn't heard anything about this, so for others similarly in the dark, here's an article
Capitalist corporations are total cowards, but it is disconcerting that they have decided bigot money is better than queer money. This is a trailing indicator of social standing for us, but a palpable one.
Hahaha omg y'all so
Do you remember back in the day when a company from the UK sent us a bogus legal threat over our raised fist pins, trying to say that we were infringing on their intellectual property, demanding that we send them everything we raised on Kickstarter and stop selling the pins, but they shut the fuck up and disappeared the second our lawyer slapped that shit down?
That was Abprallen, the company who just got dropped by Target.
See, both of our pins make use of the same public domain Raised Fist image (which is literally on Wikipedia).
Theirs (which is literally just that image with a Clipping Mask of a flag over top) is on the left. Ours is on the right.
I guess if you send shitty fake legal threats to another company owned by queers and try to demand they send you everything they raised on a Kickstarter, karma comes back at you.
Assholes. :)
#LOL I was gonna think of something when I realized at least half of my OC"s are in some sort of contract with a demon or spirit already#I guess one of my favorites if Margie because she made a contract out of desperation#and fully expected to be taken advantage of without realizing Domingo would become her family
Faces carved into the walls of the Paris Catacombs
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Frenchmen be like “this pitch black cave full of skeletons is not scary enough, I must make it worse”
der-ewige-retard
You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?
It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!
because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.
Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.
let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done
Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.
Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.
i know i attract more ace followers than anything else lmao so y'all better show up for this one
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden