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seriously i wish people understood that queerbaiting has almost nothing to do with the actual content of a story. two men can gaze soulfully into each other’s eyes for 45 minutes straight and then at the end be like “oh yes my good pal friend no homo” and its still not anything more than homoerotic and kind of stupid writing.

queerbaiting is a marketing technique to get gay people to buy a ticket. it’s hemming and hawing whenever someone asks about subtext, giving long answers that don’t mean anything to sort of imply “maybe you just need to wait and find out. ;)” it’s interviews where the actors talk about how much they love that particular relationship, and they think they will ~surprise~ you with how it turns out. it’s every single trailer showing these two people almost kissing, even as the creators talk about how offended they are that anyone would think it’s gay.  it’s disney’s 65th First Gay Character that they sort of imply might actually be a main character this time but is yet another nameless asshole. it’s evil, because it’s completely deliberately misrepresenting the actual media just to make a buck.

Portal 3 shouldn’t be about Chell but should be about another guy going through Aperture be it a combine soldier or human survivor or whatever else and GLaDOS is like Is that you rustling around back there. You know, I’ve had a lot of time to think about it. followed by a long unusually heartfelt and vulnerable one-sided conversation with you. And then you reach her chamber and she’s like Oh. You’re not. And then she opens a trapdoor under you and sends you hurtling into the incinerator.

I think it'd be really funny if you could be honest when applying for jobs though. Like hi I'm so fucking autistic. I hate standing up for long periods of time and I don't work well in groups. I resent your establishment and all it stands for but I need money to live. Hire me please god hire me I can't keep living with my parents. Because I'm transgender. Okay fuck you email me back. God bless

This is so

Unnecessary

how do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humour

“What could the audio possibly be?”

*unmutes*

“Oh,”

If I ever don’t laugh at this, assume I died.

i've been reading a bunch of stuff online about public opinions in the USA about climate change, and. We need to talk about this.

Widespread climate change denial in the USA is a myth.

A majority in every single state believes that climate change is real and supports taking action to stop it

Source source source state by state maps from previous source

I encourage y'all to play around with these maps because they have some super important insights in them

Low-income Americans and Americans of color are the MOST concerned about climate change, but they are perceived as being the LEAST concerned

Social scientists have been sounding the alarm on this because even though most surveys and studies show that at least 70% or so of Americans across all states believe in climate change, Americans estimate that only a minority of other Americans believe this

This is BAD

Because the erroneous belief that climate change is controversial stops people from talking about it and emphasizing it in political and social movements, and fuels a sense of hopelessness that stops people from acting

IT'S NOT CONTROVERSIAL! AT ALL!

Talk to your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers about Native Trees, Ecosystem Restoration, Community Gardens, Farmer's Markets, and Building Local Community Resilience

Talk to the people you encounter every day about the reality that we are part of an ecosystem and the responsibility of learning about and caring for each other and the life forms around us

"I think I've been shadowbanned:(("

Buddy I've been on this site nine wretched years and I've never gotten more than 17 notes on a post. And I love it here. Get on my level

Hey stop reblogging this assholes

Remind them that the alternatives to them treating us fairly at the negotiating table is Open Goddamn War

Today's court ruling weakening discrimination protections for LGBTQ people stands out as extraordinarily strange to me for the simple fact that there was no case. The web designer in question never received a request to create a website for a gay wedding, but instead argued that a hypothetical situation in which she did would violate her rights. I've never really heard of anything like this before— how does she even have standing to sue? Can @radiofreederry or someone with more knowledge of legalese than me elaborate on this?

Melissa Gira Grant, "The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People," The New Republic, 28 June 2023:

Can the court rule on thought experiments?

Did you read Melissa Gira Grant’s other article, also on The New Republic, from the following day?

Apparently the case was indeed rejected at first; but then they eventually brought proof that Smith did, in fact, receive a request for a gay wedding website. 

But in the article Grant says she contacted the person who supposedly sent this request... and they claimed to be a straight man who never made any such request?

Something is happening

REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

btw mutuals every time i see yall in my notifs i do this motion as a means to express my joy at a mutual enjoyment of content

its instinctual at this point

What are your baby’s stats?

I go outside regularly

no you don't

okay fine I go outside weirdly

rat bastard is such a funny insult

something about it is so weirdly hard hitting. you rat bastard. if someone called me that i’d be more offended than if they called me a motherfucker

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

Article here | Organization here

#I love the hashtag women in STEM bc at first I thought they meant the rat 🙈 (via @sprotteswelt)

until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”

why are we sleeping on this

Im a firm believer (and always will be) that maya and mia had a very complicated relationship. I think part of what makes mia so interesting is the fact that she kind of sucks? She left home to chase down what ruined her family, but she never even got the chance to fix it. And now maya’s left with this huge burdan to deal with alone. Don’t get me wrong, maya *loved* Mia and always will, but i think their relationship is alot more interesting once to take into account how much strain mia put on it by leaving. Idk. They’re the sisters ever

Here's my pitch for a new PnF OWCA agent character:

His name is Tony the Hawk (the agent names don't have to have alliteration, Pinky exists). He's a genuinely really good agent, like great at fighting, clever, all that. He doesn't have a host family either, cause he's a hawk, so he spends most of his time fighting his nemesis or doing work at the physical agency.

But no one recognizes him without his hat. NO ONE. Not his nemesis, not his fellow agents, not his superior officers. He gets stopped by security all the time at work cause he'll forget to put his hat back on going to the water cooler or some shit. Not a single person recognizes him without his fedora.

Except Doof.

Bonus if Tony Hawk guest stars as Tony the Hawk's nemesis.

That's it that's the character pitch, thank you for joining me.

What you need to know is that the entire Canadian economic model is premised on the assumption that indigenous land title is a trivial formality, so you’re never really going to have “reconciliation” or “decolonization” under capitalism.

It was also premised on the idea that apocalyptic global warming would be our grandchildren’s problem, but hey.