“For I am Walter the Wise, Walter Meth-maker, Walter of Many Colours!”

I looked then and saw that his meth, which had seemed white, was not so, but was woven of all colours, and as the crystals moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.

“Yo, is this pride month meth, bitch?” I asked.

does anybody else remember that reality show where they gaslit a bunch of americans into thinking they were competing to marry prince harry but it was really just some guy

I am fucking. Obsessed with the menu of this Asian fusion place on Uber eats. Hold on.

What makes Dr. Doofenshmirtz such a fun character is that he chooses to be evil as a career but in his day to day life he’s actually a very nice and considerate person. Unlike Francis Monogram.

Unionized labor vs unpaid labor, hmmmm.

When we talk about Stonewall this month, let's not forget to talk about how the entire thing was sparked by the arrest of a butch transmasculine lesbian- Stormé DeLarverie, a mixed drag king, who fought back against the cop who was violently arresting her for crossdressing.

Drag queens and trans women deserve recognition for their role in the Stonewall uprisings, and so do butches & transmascs. We all fought for each other.

Also remember, these are Delaverie's own words about the Stonewall Rebellion:

"It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn't no damn riot."

Y'know thinking about how I've already seen a pride post that emphasized honoring the queer people of color who gave us pride but completely ignored Stormé, I am reminded of this quote about the lack of widespread support from gay activists as she aged & began suffering from dementia & other issues:

Talk about Stormé DeLarverie. Stop promoting the myth that transmasculine people gave nothing to queer history.

Kill yourself? No no, noble warrior. I said "kill those elves!" Those bastards have had it coming for far too long. Here, take this axe.

AXE OF FROST added to your inventory.

Good luck out there.

QUEST STARTED: I Guess They Have It Coming

What!? Those brutish dwarves would have you slaughter us wholesale? They've got another thing coming. Thank you for speaking with us instead of choosing violence. Now...

BOW OF THORNS added to your inventory.

Go give them what they deserve.

QUEST UPDATE: I Guess They've Got Another Thing Coming

Psst, hey. You want the real source of the elven/dwarven conflict? I hear the goblins are orchestrating the whole thing. Here's their location... And a little someone extra.

Map updated.

DAGGER OF SHADOWS added to your inventory.

They'll never see you coming.

QUEST UPDATE: I Guess They'll Never See You Coming

Hey, warrior. You didn't think you could just waltz into the goblin chieftess' tent and not be noticed, did you? Especially when I know you were coming. Speaking of... Wanna fuck? You can think on it. I know you've got a lot on your mind.

GOBLIN CHIEFTESS PHONE NUMBER added to your inventory.

You'll be cumming all night, I promise.

QUEST UPDATE: I Guess I'll Be Cumming Tonight.

COMPLETE: I Guess I'll Be Cumming Tonight.

REWARDS: 220,000 GP, GOBLIN WIFE, ENCHANTED WEAPON (x3), 1,013 EXP

are you going to buy snacks for the demon outside the 7-11

it’s pride month so it felt appropriate to make screencaps out of the perfect scene in Galavant where an army of gays save the day 

Senator Porp Gringle is a hardline conservative who delights in making the world a difficult place for those who disagree with his hateful politics. He’s a powerful figure, and today he plans to wield this power by stopping the Unicare Reform Bill—a legislation designed help unicorns with broken horns—from passing. Senator Gringle’s speech is interrupted, however, and with a newly free afternoon he decides to wander the National Mall.

It’s here that Porp stumbles upon a protest in the form of a musical performance from one of his favorite bands, Anger Against The System. Senator Gringle rocks out a bit, until discovering that he is the target of these protests and the musician’s he grew up on have nothing but distain for his hateful ways.

Now Porp and the physically manifested realization that the protest music he grew up on does not actually support his current hateful ideology are diving deep into what it means to be a rebel, culminating in a hardcore gay encounter that will change Porp Gringle forever.

This erotic tale is 4,300 words of sizzling human on gay living concept action, including anal, blowjobs, cream pies, rough sex, and the handsome sentient realization of artistic misinterpretation.

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So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.

Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!

Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about

It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.

unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists

Kissing Kate Did Nothing Wrong

And the technical writing of Holes is perfect. Like, it’s one of the most technically-perfect books ever written. Basically any plotting or pacing or characterization issue you’re having, read Holes and really study how Sachar did it. THE LIZARDS! THE LIZARDS.

the twisty prophecies! the lizards! the lipstick! the humor! this book doesn’t play. a true classic.

A fruit fly is a little messenger of god born to fly into your mouth and deliver 1 calory to you

There is no ‘rest of the Mona Lisa’ - it doesn’t exist.

Tech bros fundamentally don’t understand art, and it’s why all AI art looks ugly as sin.

The mona lisa was actually a landscape painting but this random woman decided to just like sit there and block the view and da Vinci just rolled with it

I think bad writing is genuinely quite rare. The more you learn about writing, the easier it is to find something to love in even the most rough and amateurish work. New authors often have crackshot skill in at least one arena of their craft, and there is always something to learn from a text like that.

I've read a lot of clumsy writing. But when an author is passionate about their practice, it's hard to truly hate it. I think much of what we consider bad writing is only called "bad" out of convenience and context.

In my mind, Truly Bad Writing has a sort of naive malice to it. The best example in my mind is Ben Shapiro's work. It is cruel, arrogant, a bit pompous, and powerfully, embarrassingly, ineffective.

You don't read academic journals do you

Academic journal writing is the sulphur vent tubeworm of technical writing. It discards every possible shred of readability, all to communicate the necessary elements of a hyper-specialized idea. In this, there is beauty.

Look if there's one thing, just one thing, that I wish everyone understood about archiving, it's this:

We can always decide later that we don't need something we archived.

Like, if we archive a website that's full of THE WORST STUFF, like it turns out it's borderline illegal bot-made spam art, we can delete it. Gone.

We can also chose not to curate. You can make a list of the 100 Best Fanfic and just quietly not link to or mention the 20,000 RPFs of bigoted youtubers eating each other. No problem!

We can also make things not publicly available. This happens surprisingly often: like, sometimes there'll be a YouTube channel of alt-right bigotry that gets taken down by YouTube, but someone gives a copy to the internet archive, and they don't make it publicly available. Because it might be useful for researchers, and eventually historians, it's kept. But putting it online for everyone to see? That's just be propaganda for their bigotry. So it's hidden, for now. You can ask to see it, but you need a reason.

And we can say all these things, we can chose to delete it later, we can not curate it, we can hide it from public view... But we only have these options BECAUSE we archived it.

If we didn't archive it, we have no options. It is gone. I'm focusing on the negative here, but think about the positive side:

What if it turns out something we thought was junk turns out to be amazing new art?

What if something we thought of as pointless and not worth curating turns out to be influential?

What if something turns out to be of vital historical importance, the key that is used to solve a great mystery, the Rosetta stone for an era?

All of those things are great... If we archived it when we could.

Because this is an asymmetric problem:

If we archived it and it turns out it's not useful, we can delete.

If we didn't archive it and it turns out it is useful, OOPS!

You can't unlose something that's been lost. It's gone. This is a one way trip, it's already fallen off the cliff. Your only hope is that you're wrong about it being lost, and there is actually still a copy somewhere. If it's truly lost, your only option is to build a time machine.

And this has happened! There are things lost, so many of them that we know of, and many more we don't know of. There are BOOKS OF THE BIBLE referenced in the canon that simply do not exist anymore. Like, Paul says to go read his letter to the Laodiceans, and what did that letter say? We don't know. It's gone.

The most celebrated playwright in the English tradition has plays that are just gone. You want to perform or watch Love's Labours Won? TOO FUCKING BAD.

Want to watch Lon Cheyney's London After Midnight, a mystery-horror silent film from 1927? TOO BAD. The MGM vault burnt down in 1965 and the last known copy went up in smoke.

If something still exists, if it still is kept somewhere, there is always an opportunity to decide if it's worthy of being remembered. It can still be recognized for its merits, for its impact, for its importance, or just what it says about the time and culture and people who made it, and what they believed and thought and did. It can still be a useful part of history, even if we decide it's a horrible thing, a bigoted mess, a terrible piece of art. We have the opportunity to do all that.

If it's lost... We are out of options. All we can do is research it from how it affected other things. There's a lot of great books and plays and films and shows that we only know of because other contemporary sources talked about them so much. We're trying to figure out what it was and what it did, from tracing the shadow it cast on the rest of culture.

This is why archivists get anxious whenever people say "this thing is bad and should not be preserved". Because, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe we'll look back and decide "yeah, that is worthless and we shouldn't waste the hard drive or warehouse space on it".

But if they're wrong, and we listen to them, and don't archive... We don't get a second chance at this. And archivists have been bitten too many times by talk of "we don't need copies, the original studio has the masters!" (it burnt down), or "this isn't worth preserving, it's just some damn silly fad" (the fad turned out to be the first steps of a cultural revolution), or "this media is degenerate/illegal/immoral" (it turns out those saying that were bigots and history doesn't agree with their assessment).

So we archive what we can. We can always decide later if it doesn't need preserving. And being a responsible archivist often means preserving things but not making them publicly available, or being selective in what you archive (I back up a lot of old computer hard drives. Often they have personal photos and emails and banking information! That doesn't get saved).

But it's not really a good idea to be making quality or moral judgements of what you archive. Because maybe you're right, maybe a decade or two later you'll decide this didn't need to be saved. And you'll have the freedom to make that choice. But if you didn't archive it, and decide a decade later you were wrong... It's just gone now. You failed.

Because at the end of the day I'd rather look at an archive and see it includes 10,000 things I think are worthless trash, than look at an archive of on the "best things" and know that there are some things that simply cannot be included. Maybe they were better, but can't be considered as one of the best... Because they're just gone. No one has read them, no one has been able to read them.

We have a long history of losing things. The least we can do going forward is to try and avoid losing more. And leave it up to history to decide if what we saved was worth it.

My dream is for a future where critics can look at stuff made in the present and go "all of this was shit. Useless, badly made, bigoted, horrible. Don't waste your time on it!"

Because that's infinitely better than the future where all they can do is go "we don't know of this was any good... It was probably important? We just don't know. It's gone. And it's never coming back"

Rainbow Katydids by Arthur Anker and Bernard DuPont

Happy Pride Month! Let’s bring back the rainbow katydid~

Happy Pride 2021!

Happy pride 2023! Apparently I missed reblogging this fella in 2022 so please admire them doubly

Legion of Gays Roll Call

The legion of gays is now in session.

It is the purpose of the legion to align our infamous forces against the heterosexual patriarchy, leaving us the rulers of Manhood.

To do this, we have gathered here the 13 most infamous gays in all of faggotry

the sturdy Bottoms:

the perverse mind of the Pigs:

the aging Zaddies and the Jocks

the frenzied PNP gays and Masc4Masc guys

the DL men and the Bears

the Scene Queens and the ever-flexible Versatiles

the feminine yet ferocious Drag Queens and the hideous Twinks

not to mention the brilliant leadership of us, the Tops.

happy pride month