no webcomic will ever be as funny as this strip from oglaf

i know its been added but the follow up is also hilarious

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

This

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fucking SLAY

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.

“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."

Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.

Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride

Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie.

In the 1980s, Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week for Californian AIDS patients after she realised it eased their suffering and depression. Despite multiple convictions, she remained an active marijuana advocate until the day she died.

I had to fact check this and her Wikipedia page made me like her even more:

“She was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended Catholic school. At the age of 13, she was involved in an altercation with a nun who tried to cane her, but Rathbun fought back.”

“Social activism appealed to her from a young age; she traveled from Chicago to Wisconsin to campaign for the right of miners to form unions. In the late 1940s, she worked as an activist promoting abortion rights for women in Minneapolis.”

“Rathbun often appeared in public wearing polyester pantsuits, and she was said to have a ‘sailor’s mouth.’”

conversation i keep thinking about

“Peony temptation” by Alisha Petrova 

I was at work and I had the hiccups and I was stocking an aisle and this lady in the aisle heard me hiccuping and said "oh have you got the hiccups?" and I said yeah and she said "...Do you want me to get rid of them?" and I thought she meant she was going to scare me so I was like "n-no thanks" and she was like "you want to keep your hiccups??" and I said "yeah please dont scare me" and then I wandered off

And then a couple minutes later I still had hiccups and she walked by on her way out and she said "I wasn't going to scare you you know" and I said "you weren't?" and she said "no -- I have a way I can cure hiccups" and I was like "well what is it?" she's like "theres something about me that when I talk to people their hiccups just go away. i just chat or maybe tell them a story and after a minute or so their hiccups are just gone" and I thought she was like definitely on some pseudoscience shit so i kind of laughed and joked like "you should expect a call from the X-Men soon then" and she said "no. For real. I bet your hiccups are gone now aren't they?" and sure enough my fucking hiccups were gone. They stopped while she was speaking to me and didn't come back all night

what the fuck kind of power did this woman have... was she a hiccup witch??? I have so many questions for her

When I was a kid I had a theory that superpowers were real, but only one person in all of history could have 1 superpower, and all the cool and noticable superpowers were already used by the time we got to modern society, so we just had weird, almost unusable powers that you don't even notice

Perhaps my theory was correct.

Okay that is an extremely cool concept holy shit. Kid-you was onto something there

From Если в лесу сидеть тихо-тихо by Suzanne Byalkovskaya, 1989. More pictures and information in fairyroom.ru (it’s so pretty!)

Really correct image for when you need to envision snails and their environment

who doesn’t need to do that

Wanna be radicalized?

We sent our kid off to Germany for a year as an exchange student.

As a foreign national, you have to buy into their national health care plan, because you don’t pay taxes there to support it.

Wanna know what it costs to buy into Germany’s health care for a year for a healthy 18yr old?

a solid YEAR of “everything is covered, no deductible, no copay, we don’t send bills?”

$500.

for. a. whole. year.

Now this is what I mean (metaphorically) by "enrichment in my enclosure"

Otter enclosure immersive experience...

Girl Help! I was checking the bottoms of my quiche for cooked crust and immediately thought of.that post about weird bearded steak bros running the knife over the crust on their steak to signal they are in heat and I can't keep living like this

I do not believe this sentence was formed organically. You predicted this on a keyboard.

that genre of male online food personality that's marked by a fetishistic obsession with wagyu beef and bone marrow and getting the perfect rock-hard crust on a steak and they all sell their own line of spice blends.. there's no joke or further observation here they're just so grotesquely interesting.

when they do that thing where they drag a knife over a steak after they cook it so you can hear how much it sounds like pulling a rake across concrete, that's actually a mating call so that all the other nearby dudes with beard silhouette branding know that they're in heat

@catboycrimsonrain I'm actually going to kill you in the Akashic Fucking Records for this

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

everyone please remember that this DOES NOT mean that they are genderfluid canonically. may i point to the other one thousand asks neil has replied to about headcanons where he says that word-of-god does not make his own headcanons canon unless it's explicit in the text. genderfluid crowley is a great headcanon that i personally love and it's nice that neil likes it too, but don't take this and run with it too far. it's not canon and other crowley gender headcanons are also valid!

all in all DO NOT start bullying children online who think crowley is transfem or Whatever The Fuck

This is what we have from the book:

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Two of these were wrong; Heaven is not in England, whatever certain poets may have thought, and angels are sexless unless they really want to make an effort. But he was intelligent. And it was an angelic intelligence which, while not being particularly higher than human intelligence, is much broader and has the advantage of having thousands of years of practice.

and, later in the book we learn that,

For those of angel stock or demon breed, size, and shape, and composition, are simply options.

And from the TV show we have a couple of scenes in which Crowley is presenting as female, particularly the scenes in which he's Nanny Ashtoreth, and nobody turns a hair. So that stuff is canon.

Beyond that, whatever you want to think or believe is absolutely fine by me. And, because headcanon is headcanon, it can also contradict any of that as well....

this is, of course, where the tumblr revamp would always lead. Just in time for Pride month, the "Queerest Place on the Internet" is attempting to crack down on fags like us for self-identifying with slurs, rather than doing something beneficial like reducing the large ever present transphobe/terf population. Advertiser friendly is the name of the game and I'm sure in a few years this site will be identical to every other sterile neutered social media site available. Have fun while it lasts folks.

this comes right after they stole your joke too funnily enough (about.tumblr.com)

THEY MUGGED ME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND THEN SHOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD

cannot stop thinking about this skit from the new i think you should leave season

Omg y'all Y'ALL