suffering from a serious case of FOMO (fear of mysterious orb)
Las Vegas spent 2.3 billion dollars on this thang?
Oh it’s so much worse actually
WHY
May his memory be a blessing.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
"Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak."
From Wikipedia
He was also a pretty great artist
Reblog to include his artwork!
May his memory be a blessing
Asexual people — how old where you when you found out you were ace?
I’m currently questioning whether I may be ace-spec, but I’m also still a young teen, and I don’t know if it’s alright to feel this way just yet.
do u guys wanna see the best picture of fish i ever took
council has spoken. here she is
Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)
It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.
I had this idea rotating in my head for a couple days so
that post that's like "okay but she did utilise girl power what happened to supporting women's wrongs" annoyed the fuck out of me when it was doing the rounds on here bc the original joke made by eric andre was about MARGARET THATCHER
the joke was intended to undermine that kind of wishy-washy popculture white feminism that leads to people uncritically supporting any woman in power to the point of praising and idolising war criminals and colonisers. the original joke goes "did she effectively utilise girl power when she funded illegal paramilitary death troops in northern ireland". it wasn't a fandom joke!
The duality of the word fairy
I think there's also a Z-axis that goes from "twee and harmless" to "you've been turned into an equal volume of spiders".
ice cold take but if you have to pay for accessibility features it is not in fact accessible
If you need to jump through one billion flaming hoops for accessibility accommodations they are not in fact accessible.
I wish all of you would understand that “non-binary” and “androgynous” are not synonyms. And yes, that means you, even though you already consider yourself a trans ally, or maybe are even trans yourself.
Non-binary and androgynous are not synonyms. There are non-binary people who, say, love sports and have rugged beards. There are non-binary people who maybe love fashion and have long hair. There are non-binary people who are none of these things. They’re all equally non-binary.
And yes, this DEFINITELY includes non-binary people who were amab and are masculine, and non-binary people who were afab and are feminine.
Hey y'all why are writers always cold?
...why?
They're always surrounded by drafts!
How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Oh god.
How many?
Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!
What do writers have for breakfast?
Coffee?
Synonym buns!
Where do all the struggling writers live?
How are you coming up with all these?
Where?
Writer's Block!
What do writers suffer from each spring?
(I've heard a lot of them over the years.)
Allergies. Next question.
you were close; A case of allegories
Why are writers always in great shape?
Circular prose
Nope! It's because we're always running out of ideas!
Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?
I did not
His life had it's prose and cons...
Why is editing a better job than writing?
It's more rewording?
Correct! I am out of jokes. :(
"it's not queer fiction unless the queerness is explicitly declared in the text according to currently accepted terminology and in a way that meets the approval of the entire audience" I mean follow your heart I guess but I trust myself as a queer person to recognise queer themes
"but doesn't this risk giving the author undue credit for queer representation" I do not care about the author
being disabled online is just like [post that boldly assumes disabled people don’t exist] [argument that eugenics isn’t ‘inherently bad’] [joke about someone wanting to die before age disables them] [someone innocently ‘just asking a question’ about whether disabled people wouldn’t be better off dead] [post equating humanity to mobility and physical ability] [post innocently stating that abled bodies are obviously just innately ‘better’ than disabled ones] [someone using person-first language to discuss disability at large and arguing when corrected] [someone innocently ‘just asking a question’ about whether we ought to allow disabled people to be born] and half of this is written by twitter bluechecks with sociology or science degrees and positions of academic power or by people whose job it is to advocate for disabled students
[question acting politely befuddled that people can be physically disabled in a way that a mobility aid will not 'fix'] [inspiration abelism and denying the reality of disability presented as the only way to humanise disabled people] and the entire time you have to remain staunchly, nigh-eerily calm while repeatedly explaining that people like you and your friends 1. exist and/or 2. deserve to exist or else you are at fault for, from someone else's perspective, blowing up at them for no reason