sick of the satanic panic

branwyn-says:

branwyn-says:

normalize my 12th grade English teacher, who admitted that his favorite TV show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and when a male student suggested that it was because Buffy/Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot, wrinkled his face like he’d bitten into something rotten and dead, and said, “At my age (he was 53), there is nothing less sexy than a teenager. You’re all disgusting messes.”

It was 1999, I was 17, and I’d grown up in conservative Christian schools and churches. In my life I’d heard heard dozens of sermons from male preachers and teachers and even some older students, whining about how hard it was to be a dude and not commit the sin of thinking sexual thoughts, and how they needed women to wear long skirts and cover their bodies to not objectify them

and my bitter, misanthropic, atheist Brit Lit teacher, who hated my class because he was obsessed with teaching Tom Sawyer but got stuck with Shakespeare and Jane Austen, was the first, and this day the last man I have ever heard articulate a rebuttal from the depths of his soul to the idea that it was normal for teenage girls to be desirable to middle aged men

RIP Henry Dickerson, who passed away last night. I tried explaining to him once that he was a tumblr legend, but I’m not sure it took.

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xwiredearbuds2014x:

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bluesturngold:

rui-cifer:

communist-ojou-sama:

ALT

It feels like this is the biggest story to still be flying relatively under the radar in the anglophone press. If a single phonecall from a racist pig American can get hundreds of your senior engineers and their families, who are only there to oversee factory construction up to spec, rounded up and sent to the Gestapo torture dungeons then suddenly it’s an open question if any Korean, Japanese (and indeed eventually potentially even European) firm will ever feel safe directly investing in the US ever again

the relevant Korean captions read:

“Handcuffs heated in the summer heat gave burns” and “feared gravely that they might lose their unborn child.”

i cannot stress enough how bad this situation was, if you have a twitter account you should click on OP’s embedded tweet to read both of the threads

ALT

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homunculus-argument:

nerdypagan1:

homunculus-argument:

Imagine that one day as you’re walking on a hot sunny path, your hat jumps off your head and lands into a muddy ditch. And you look at your muddy hat and ask it: “What did you do that for?”

“I don’t want to be a burden anymore”, your hat answers. “You are always carrying me around, and I can’t carry you. That’s not fair.”

“I don’t mind carrying you, little idiot”, you tell your hat, “you hardly weight anything at all, and you shelter me from the sun.”

“But that’s different”, your hat protests. “I don’t mind the sun scorching on me. That happens anyway. It’s literally no trouble for me to shade you too.”

“Just the same it’s no trouble for me to carry you. But now, because you wanted to stop inconveniencing and bothering me, I am now hatless and you are in the dirt.”

hello Aesop; how’s the underworld been?

Every day I wake up and Hades kicks me in the nuts.

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i-am-a-fish:

crazydoodlez:

i-am-a-fish:

kaiseaya:

i-am-a-fish:

I hate when I open a drawing app and try drawing something and then it looks bad. to solve this issue instead of opening my drawing app I simply lay down, do nothing, and feel a combination of guilt/shame. this is a skill I am much more practiced at

wait, so it’s like gambling?

it appears so!

that’s so awesome I really gotta make more art

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certified-muppet-posts:

princesssarisa:

yogi-bogey-box:

frogosaurus:

Happy Pride month to all the gay folks who should still be with us but were lost to AIDS. So many of them had (and continue to have) huge impacts on the world, despite their lives being tragically cut short.

Since this is primarily a Muppet blog, I wanted to take a moment to talk about Richard Hunt.

Richard Hunt was a gay man and a fantastic puppeteer who started working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, and company in 1970 at age eighteen and joined the cast of Sesame Street two years later. While working with the Muppets, he originated the characters of Scooter, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums, and Wayne, but also became the primary performer of Janice and is responsible for the flower child personality she is now known for. He was also known to be a fantastic singer.

But maybe most importantly, he made so many people happy. According the book “Of Muppets and Men” by Christopher Finch, Hunt “seems to get more unadulterated pleasure from performing than anyone else in the organization. When he is not working on camera, he is apt to have Scooter or Beaker or Janice – anyone – on his arm for the purpose of entertaining… He makes the crew laugh, jokes with the guest star, clowns for the shop personnel. He is one of the chief reasons for the loose atmosphere that exists around Studio D despite the pressure and the slow pace that are endemic to television production.”

Hunt died at age 41 due to AIDS complications. The Muppet Workshop made a panel for the NAMES Project AIDS quilt in his honor. The Richard Hunt Spirit Award is presented every year at the Sesame Street wrap party to the cast member that best honors Hunt’s generosity and dedication on set.

Rest in peace Richard. Thank you for the laughs and the smiles, and happy Pride 💛

Besides his Muppet Show characters mentioned above, he was also the performer of Forgetful Jones, Gladys the Cow, Don Music, Plácido Flamingo, Sonny Friendly, and one half of the Two-Headed Monster on Sesame Street, as well as Junior Gorg and other assorted characters on Fraggle Rock.

certified muppets post ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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veal-exe:

nothorses:

nothorses:

are you afraid of fun or something

you’re mixing up cowboys (real people, real history and modern-day subculture) and cowboys (ahistorical white supremacist lie fabricated for the comfort and entertainment of white american audiences).

cowboys were and are largely people of color, indigenous people significantly and fundamentally included. I shouldn’t have to explain to you that the cowboys were the people doing the labor; the slaves and indentured servants. the people herding the fucking cows. I shouldn’t have to explain to you that the outlaws and the “undesirables” of the American West at that time were not the white colonizers.

it is at minimum genuinely embarrassing, and at worst actively fucked up, that you are erasing that history in order to perpetuate a dumbass tumblr lie designed by a white settler pulling shit out of her ass explicitly to denigrate trans people she doesn’t like.

anon I’m on my knees I’m begging you to think a little. PLEASE.

Anon, I am indigenous, stop whitewashing our history so you can pretend to play Cowboys and Indians: White Savior Edition, this isn’t fucking dances with wolves, we don’t need you to try and erase our history so you can feel better about being the grandiose hero who saves the savage natives.

We’re not extinct, we can speak for ourselves if we have issues with things.

ftmtftm:

Once again working through my annotating reread of Whipping Girl and I think this is a passage people who use Serano’s work as a weapon against other trans people’s lived experiences need to internalize:

“And while this book primarily focuses on transsexuality, and more specifically on trans women (as that is my experience and perspective), it is not because I believe that transgender people who are not transsexual are any less important or legitimate; their experiences of gender are just as valid as mind and the discrimination they may face as a result of those expressions is just as real. It is also crucial for us to recognize that it is equally valid for a trans person to decide to transition and live as the other sex as it is for them to instead choose to blur gender boundaries and identify themselves outside the gender binary. There is no right way to be trans. Each of us simply needs to figure out what works best for us and what allows is to best express who we feel we are.”

— Julia Serano, Whipping Girl - “Coming to Terms with Transgender and Transsexual People” (emphasis mine)

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audhdspacewizard:

lethalbutterfly:

enki2:

That’s a side quest. You’re supposed to go find him.

Or at least find his environmental storytelling skeleton along with a unique weapon or piece of armor.

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annexingkirkwall:

Talking to my str8 guy coworker and he called two women who are friends with each other “girlfriends” and then he paused, like he was worrying he shouldn’t have said that, and then referred to himself as his guy friend’s boyfriend

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pierce-the-aayu:

dallmustdie:

“Nurse Gerard” “Nurse Gerard”

What about Nurse Iero?

oh i’d break a few bones so he’d nurse me

patronsaintofgirls:

what comes after mcr summer G WAY AUTUMN BITCH!!!!!!!!!

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jupitereyed:

loverbearbutch:

“how long have you been on tumblr?” i remember the term “nightblogging”

*takes a drag from an imaginary cigarette* I remember you knew you stayed up refreshing your dash too late when the Australians started posting

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