this pride month kiss your local library on the mouth

group project🕸️

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the bloker (british joker) would say 'cheer up batman mate'

you really need to learn how to 'ave a laugh, bats

There actually was/is a British Joker! In Paul Cornell’s miniseries Knight & Squire, which is about the British heroes that never get much attention in America, he introduces Jarvis Poker, the British Joker, who’s much more of a cheeky mad lad than a murderous maniac:

He even had his own in-universe comics celebrating his antics:

He actually kind of rules? I don’t want to spoil what happens to him in that series, but I can promise you that he is basically the best. Jarvis Poker, the British Joker, is a fantastic addition to the canon and deserves more love—and that’s no joke.

tumblr is kind of like fortnite if you think about it

i hate this post

tumblr we bout to get down

Additionally,

“Superman’s Secret Identity doesn’t even Work! It’s literally So Stupid! All he does is part his hair different and wear glasses.”

Blah, blah, blah! Shut up! Superman’s Secret Identity is Abso-Fucking-Lutely Genius and I’ll tell you exactly why. Ask Any Metropolite(? What is a Metropolis citizen called?) what Superman’s Real Name is, and they all know it. It’s Kal-El! (Duh.) And they all know Exactly where he lives full time, too! The Fortress of Solitude. They might not know which part of the world it’s in, but why does that matter when “Shot heard round the World” is more than just an idiom to the man that regularly also breaks the Sound Barrier while flying. Of course he doesn’t need to Live in Metropolis to Save Metropolis; He’s THEE Superman!

So, when a Metropolite(too late, I’ve decided that’s what they’re called now) sees Clark Kent, doing his weekly grocery shopping at a mom&pop store; someone that looks Uncannily like Local Legend/Superhero Extraordinaire Superman, their first thought is Not going to be “Oh my god, Supes shops at the same grocery store I shop at!?!” NO! They’re gonna think, “Oh my god, he looks Just like Superman. How funny!”

Some of the braver ones might even approach him to voice this thought. At which point Clark Kent, “Kansas Born and Raised” will chuckle bashfully and say his Ma always cracks that same joke too. They walk away, amused and none the wiser, and this interaction will just become a funny “I met someone that looks Uncannily like KNOWN ALIEN KAL-EL SUPERMAN, but he was from Kansas, of all places” story to share at the Pub with the boys.

Honestly, having Two “secret identities” one of which is publicly acknowledged and known to live Pointedly Not In Metropolis is a fucking Genius move, and needs to be talked about more, in my opinion.

Woke up this morning

and out of nowhere remembered this rando that had beef with me On Here for, and I quote, because i’ll never forget this phrasing, “getting too close to almost saying that people should be able to draw whatever porn they want”

like there are so many layers there

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

via New York Times

(6/8/2023)

Oh hey, this is my library. Absolutely LOVE that the Indy Star decided to leave out that this started with moving EVERY book containing queer characters to the adult section, which has *already happened.* The library pushed back for ages against it before finally caving - and moving ALL youth non-fiction to the adult section as well, because they refused to only move the queer nonfiction. Kids at Hamilton East cannot check out a nonfiction book without parental consent.

This is a perfect way to continue the historical erasure that is being pushed regarding racism, the Holocaust, and America's history with unions and fascism. All because they didn't want children to know queer people exist in the real world. A dear friend of mine teaches middle school English in Noblesville and had to remove all of her personal books from her classroom for her own safety. She's having to feign ignorance about her trans students because she is legally required to out them now, which she refuses to do. Earlier this month, Holcomb approved making gender affirming care for minors illegal.

This has very little to do with "protecting children from inappropriate materials." This is an attack on queer children (especially trans children) first and foremost, and I am ashamed - but not surprised - that Indy Star chose not to report is as such.

We are in extreme danger, here in Indiana. Prisoners can no longer receive gender affirming surgeries, even ones deemed medically necessary, which prevents trans adults from safely protesting against these laws. I am currently making plans for when - not if - I have to flee the state. If you know queer people in Indiana, reach out to them. Make sure they know they have your support. And if you can donate to the Indiana ACLU, please do. Kit Malone is a trans woman who is one of the faces of the ACLU here. She could use your help.

Please don't just sit on this as a book ban from conservatives - this is a calculated attack on trans people in Indiana. Don't let them do this in the dark. Tell them your eyes are watching them, and that you do not agree with what they're doing. It makes a difference.

They're doing it because they see an easy target. They're doing it because they're making a bet that people like my well-meaning but "I get gay but I don't really understand trans" uncle (cousin and I sat him down like this is a judgement free zone for you to ask us any question and we'll tell you what you can and can't say in public and how not to be an inadvertent dick to your coworker) will look the other way until it's too late the metaphorical frog is fully cooked.

It's our job to be too loud to ignore.

Happy incredibly normal New York Daytime.

It looks like the 1970s

I bought a container of apple cider donuts a few days ago… now they are all gone. I want more apple cider donuts… but that would mean buying them. I cannot make them. I can make other baked goods… but nonetheless this is a terrible personal crisis. I ask for thoughts and prayers during this difficult time

love my worm 🪱💘

saw something that unfortunately reminded me how widespread this idea was, so here is a refresher:

masculine sun and feminine moon symbolism is not universal across human cultures, not even within a given continent or subcontinent.

feminine solar* deities or deity-like figures include: Amaterasu (Japanese), Arinniti (Hittite), Eki (Basque), Mārīcī (Buddhism), Saulė (Baltic), Shapash (Canaanite), Siqiniq (Inuit), Sól/Sunna (Norse/Germanic), Tokapcup-kamuy (Ainu), Yhi (Kamilaroi), and in Egypt alone you've got Bastet, Hathor, Raet, Sekhmet....

masculine lunar deities or deity-like figures include: Bahloo (Kamilaroi) Chandra (Hindu), Kunnecup-kamuy (Ainu), Máni (Norse), Mėnulis/Mēness (Baltic), Nanna/Sīn (Mesopotamian), Taqqiq (inuit), Tēcciztēcatl (Aztec), Tsukuyomi (Japan), Yarikh (Amorite/Ugaritic) and again with Egypt there's Iah, Khonsu, Thoth....

*not including the huge number of dawn goddesses across regions descended from proto-indo-european cultures

(representations throughout history and across regions vary; several of these deities have been represented as both male and female or left ambiguous/androgynous, but i went with their most common identification in the present day)

let’s get a big huge round of applause for spinach 🥬

hobie motherfuckin' brown!!!!!!

Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?

Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.

Seriously.

What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.

Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.

dancing imps for imp thursday