Lionel Lindsay (Australian ,1874 – 1961)

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

hey music gays

reblog this post with your sexuality/gender and what instrument(s) you play!

Bisexual/Aromantic and Trombone/cello

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.

Yowch, disgusting.

If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

Always reblog this

If you Dont reblog this if u see it then i cant call u my friend

IF ANYONE TELLS ME THAT MEN CAN’T BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RAPE, I AM SICKENED BY THEIR MERE PRESENCE ON MY BLOG.

If you disagree with me, unfollow my blog, block me and never look at my blog again.

If you want to debate about this or send anon’s about this, I will reply but your actions have consequences.

Out of 19000+ followers I have, only one of you actually reblogged about this issue, yet a lot of you have reblogged and liked a picture by playboy about catcalling and that how men should never do it.

Additionally, I have received abuse in my ask box (which I will be answering when I can) and threats. In particular death threats and rape threats.

I can see the real problem here already. Male domestic violence and rape is just invisible in our society because we don’t want to talk about this because it just damages the status quo of this fucking website.

I’m a male victim of child sexual abuse. We matter. Please, reblog this.

Please never forget male victims are real and it can happen to everyone/anyone

Always reblog.

Which has it down. It’s not that domestic/sexual violence against men doesn’t happen, it’s just that society is constantly turning a blind eye to it. It’s a really messed up and often institutionalized “if we can’t see it, it doesn’t happen” mentality re-enforced by the fact many male victims are afraid to come forward. Especially if they’re the victim of a woman because then they just get treated like the butt of a joke.

Y'know, whenever people want to talk about why aspec people 'count' as an oppressed identity, they tend to go for the big stuff like corrective rape and conversion therapy. And like, we should absolutely talk about that stuff. Obviously those things are terrible and important and we need to raise awareness and deal with them.

But I feel like people often gloss over how… quietly traumatising it is to grow up being told that there is only one way to be happy— and that everybody who doesn't conform to that norm is secretly miserable and just doesn't know it— and then to gradually realise that, for reasons that you cannot help, that is never going to happen for you.

You're not going to find a prince/princess and ride off into the sunset. Or if you do, then it's not going to look exactly the way it does in fairytales. You're not going to get a 'normal' relationship, because you are not 'normal', and everybody and everything around you keeps telling you that that's bad.

You see films where characters are presented as being financially stable, genuinely passionate about their work and surrounded by friends and family, but then spend the rest of the plot realising that the real thing they needed was a (romantic and sexual) partner, to make them 'complete'.

You absorb the idea that any relationships you have with allo people will ultimately be unfulfilling on their side, and that this will be your fault (even if you discussed things with your partner beforehand and they decided that they were a-okay with having those sorts of boundaries in a relationship) unless you deliberately force yourself into situations that you aren't comfortable with, so as to make uo for your 'defects'.

You grow up feeling lowkey gaslighted because all the adults in your life (even in LGBT+ spaces. In fact especially in LGBT+ spaces) are insisting that it's totally normal to not be attracted to anybody at your age, and then you go to school and everybody keeps pressuring you to name somebody you're attracted to because they can't imagine not being attracted to anybody at your age.

And then you get older and realise that one day you're going to be expected to leave home, and that one day all your friends are going to be expected to put aside other relationships and 'settle down' with a primary partner and you don't know what you're going to do after that because you straight up don't have a roadmap for what a 'happy ending' looks like for someone like you.

(And the LGBT+ community is little help, because so many people in there are more than happy to tell you that you're not oppressed at all. That you're like this because you don't want to have sex, and/or you don't want to have any relationships, that your orientation is some sort of choice you made— like not eating bananas— rather than an intrinsic part of you that a lot of us have at some point tried to wish away.)

Even if you're grey or demi, and do experience those feelings, you still have to deal with the fact that you're not experiencing them the 'normal' way and that that's going to effect your relationships and your ability to find one in the first place.

If you're aiming for lifelong singlehood (which is valid af) or looking for a qpp, then you're going to have to spend the rest of your life either letting people make wrong assumptions about your situation (at best that your relationship is of a different nature than it actually is, at worst that the life you've chosen is really just a consolation prize because you 'failed' at finding a romantic/sexual partner) or pulling out a powerpoint and several webpages every time you want to explain it.

This what being aspec looks like for most people, and it is constantly minimised as being unimportant and not worth fighting against— even in aspec spaces— because we've all on some level absorbed the idea that oppression is only worth fighting against if it's big, and dramatic, and immediately obvious. That all the little incidents of suffering that we experience on a daily basis are not enough to be worth bothering about.

I mean, who gives a shit if you feel broken, inherently toxic as a partner, and like you're going to be denied happiness because of your orientation? Shouldn't we all just shut up and thank our lucky stars we don't have to deal with all the stuff some of the other letters in the acronym have to put up with (leaving aside the fact that there are many aspec people who identify with more than one letter)?

So you know what? If you're aspec and you relate to anything I've said above (or can think of other things relating your your aspec-ness that I haven't mentioned) then this is me telling you now that it's enough. Even if we got rid of all the big stuff (which we're unlikely to do any time soon because— Shock! Horror!— the big stuff is actually connected to all the small stuff) we would still be unable to consider our fight 'over' because what you are experiencing is not 'basically okay' and something we should just be expected to 'put up with'.

No matter what anybody tells you, we have the right to demand more from life than this.

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fuck you specifically

when in doubt just ask a dog 

someone send “BOOF!” to your crush/significant other and share the results with the rest of the class please 

better response than expected!

IS THIS WHY YOU SENT ME THAT MESSAGE?!

i honestly didn’t expect anything less

new ask meme where u send a boof on anon if im ur tumblr crush

send me BOOF on anon if I’m your tumblr crush ♡

im not gonna get any boofs but lets go

boof at all of you guys wow

Love me

success

send me BOOF if I’m your crush

yeah send in the BOOFs!!!!!

guys I prolly won’t get any but seeing the word boof in my inbox would be the BEST FUCKING THING

Dude wait actually send BOOF if I’m ur crush RIP

I’ll get none

boof me up

Boof me bitches

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Made me smile

The thrilling sequel

Sherry Rusinack - Poop, 2020

My babies for life ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

✧ like or reblog (don’t repost).

Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

I like how this post’s reblog/like ratio is over 100%

I’m Daphne

Fuckboy: Tolkien–a conservative, Catholic, white man in the early 20th century who has been dead for forty years–would not approve of you shipping his two same sex characters.

Me: 

Tolkien – a reluctant Modernist, British Catholic, white, middle-class and highly educated Language Professor from the first half of the 20th century who has been dead since 1973 – was a long-time friend of W. H. Auden, a known homosexual poet, who wrote the first and enthusiastic review of The Lord of the Rings. 

Tolkien who in his Letters (fn 110) praised the work of British novelist Mary Renault, who at this point in her career had already written the Gay classic The Charioteer. 

Both The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea feature positive male characters who loved and lived with men.

Tolkien who, as a medievalist, was intimately acquainted with legends of intense male warrior friendships, such as the one of Amicus and Amelius, friendships that transcend the distinction between platonic friendship and sexual love. While Tolkien’s depiction of Sam and Frodo was ostensibly modelled on the relationship of a gentleman officer and his batman in WWI (in itself not a resoundingly heterosexual relationship), the theme of the ultimate sacrifice 

points towards medieval models of male-male warrior friendships.

Tolkien who, other than his close friend C.S. Lewis, never felt the need to (however humble) publicly condemn homosexuality.

Certainly, Tolkien would not have liked the sexualisation of his characters in fanfiction. But that goes for Aragorn/Arwen as much as for Sam/Frodo. There is nothing in Tolkien’s writings and life that indicates that he would have been especially appalled about fanwriters shipping same-sex characters.

^ this. Also the obsession with homosexuality as the Ultimate Sin is a characteristic of US evangelical Protestantism. The Catholic approach tends to be much more “We are all of us sinners who fall short of the glory of God; let us pray”, and the Professor, rest his soul, was Very, Very Catholic.

Also x2, the Valar were canonically gender-weird! There are bits in the Silmarillion (which I would look up to cite but cannot as I am at work-if someone feels so inclined I’d appreciate it) where they are taking physical form ‘as one puts on clothing’ , and so were described in terms of forms they would “usually” take to best express their internal sense of gender, but with it acknowledged in text that that wasn’t necessarily a perfect fit.

Tl;dr Tolkien was an old white British guy and that doesn’t mean he’d agree with what modern US evangelical Protestants say about Christianity or morality or sex or gender (or much of anything, tbh)

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I’ve been trying to find this gifset because this is relevant now more than ever.

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