think of the saddest moment in history. it’s that gif of the raccoon putting its cotton candy in water and then frantically searching for it when it dissolves, isnt it
but it really is so important to find people who don’t lose patience with you or get angry if you’re being irrational or insecure or downright ridiculous, it is so so necessary to be treated with gentleness from loved ones and not to be made to feel like you’re irritating or a burden
I love that musk is groveling asking people to pay for their blue checkmarks while tumblr’s fundraising solution was to sell a tiny shitting horse, shoe laces, forced post visibility, and crab rain
any time i hear the insufferable transphobic athlete arguments i think of that one time in middle school when my boys lacrosse team did a full-contact scrimmage against the girls team (who typically play with limited contact) and i, a six-foot, 180lb defender, got utterly laid-out by this 5-foot-nothing girl experiencing the newly-unleashed animosity accompanied by violent sport and as i looked up at my assailant from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality and fell wildly in love and then had to be taken to the ER because i had a concussion
There’s a post going around with the sentiment of like ‘you can tell when a gay character is written by a gay person bc the stereotypes are the right ones” and people keep adding what the ‘right’ gay stereotypes are with things like ‘always getting iced coffee’ or ‘having enamel pins’ and honestly….
Honestly, on a more serious note, the number of times in the past few years someone who was assumed to be straight wrote a gay storyline and loads of people kept talking about how they wrote their gay characters in a straight way because they were straight only for the author to end up publicly coming out due to all the pressure should probably lead at least some people to reevaluate whether their ‘straightdar for authors based on how they write gay people’ is truly always accurate lmao.
also it’s weird how commodified this supposed representation is. being lgbt becomes a list of things you buy. enamel pins, iced coffee, certain music. it’s a consumer identity and not a means of relating to other humans. :(
not to sound too adbusters, nor to imply that somehow being lgbt is a capitalist conspiracy (surprise: every identity can be commodified! we’re not special!). i love my stupid pins and my rainbow booty shorts and my ‘BE GAY DO CRIME’ shirt. but in the end this isn’t representation, it’s a grocery list. it does not threaten the status quo, and i think it would be a lot sexier if we were ungovernable U___U
I never speak a sentence without saying actually, genuinely, seriously, or literally because I need everyone to know how sincere I am about the bullshit that comes out of my mouth
