a smug indulgence. tell yourself, “i’m gonna do this thing because i like it, and there’s nothing you can do to make me feel bad about it!” eat that cake! read that romance novel! be free!!!
also consider: LOTR but hobbits have Tapeta Lucidum
Boromir gets the fright of his life their first night on the road
Boromir: *glances over his shoulder* ??!!!!???!!
Hobbits:
Hobbits: what
i will never get over that you used an image of raccoons for this purpose because it is incredibly accurate
LOTR au but instead of hobbits literally raccoons
Gandalf: well this raccoon found the ring and has been carrying it around. unfortunately we can’t take it off him or he gets very bite-y. so I figure, the raccoon is the ringbearer now
Elrond: what are those other three raccoons doing here
Gandalf: he brought his buddies. I call this one ‘Merry’
Aragorn: *watching Frodo & Sam scamper off in the direction of Mordor* our hopes lie with those raccoons now
Legolas: do they… know where they are going
Aragorn: I sure hope so
Faramir: father why is this raccoon in the livery of the citadel
Denethor: haha doesn’t he look precious
Elfhelm: Dernhelm, is that a raccoon in your bag?
Dernhelm: *sweating nervously* Uh no, sir.
Eowyn, later: And I said no, you know, like a liar.
Denethor: WHY did you let a raccoon go off with the Ring??
Faramir: ….it just seemed like the right thing to do
Gandalf: he scratched you up real good huh
Faramir: ……………gouged my FUCKING arm and bit me on my face
Witch King: no living man can kill me – AUGH FUCK, RACCOON, RACCOON ON MY LEG ARGHHHH
Eowyn: *stab*
Wraiths break into the room at the prancing pony: *UnHoLy ScReEcHiNg*
Trash Panda Hobbits:
Wraiths: Oh, what the fuck, whAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!
Treebeard: Baroom, humm, where are my small, impatient friends?
Merry and Pippin:
Don’t go where I can’t follow, Mr. Frodo.
~~~~~~The Hobbit interlude~~~~~~
Thorin:
You’re the burgular.Go on and…burgle something! Bilbo:
Saruman: Well since some fucking TREES took over Isengard I guess I’ll take over The Shire. Farmer Maggot and ever other Halfling down to the Sacksville-Bagginses:
Wanna remind y’all that Bea Arthur actually opened a homeless shelter for LGBT+ youth in NYC
Wow this moment.
When my father came out to me as gay, I was eight, but I understood, roughly, because I had seen THIS ONE EPISODE of The Golden Girls.
I think I actually said “Oh, like on the Golden Girls.” Which was not what he was expecting. But this show made it super simple for me to understand that:
Being gay was intrinsic
People were discriminated against for being gay
People shouldn’t be discriminated against for being gay
And that, under the circumstances, was all that I really needed to understand that his coming out was a big deal, important and scary for him, but also something to respect and support, even if it meant changing our family.
So yay for sharing this iconic moment during pride.
This isn’t Golden Girls! It’s another show called Maud.
Yep! Flights For Families is being run by the same coalition that ran the Families Belong Together marches, and processed through ActBlue, which I believe screens its clients because it works for Democratic causes only.
This is not to scold at all, but I’m now trying to educate people as we go in how to confirm these things for themselves; I didn’t have any special tools or foreknowledge (other than that ActBlue was a Democratic thing) when I fact-checked this. I checked by:
1. googling duvernay plus “flights for families” in quotes, which led me to a (unfortunately defunct) page about Families Belong Together being the ones who ran it. Because all I could see was the Google blurb and it wasn’t cached, I
2. Googled “families belong together” and “flights for families” both in quotes, which took me to the Mashable page, which included quotes from and links to the chair of Families Belong Together talking about it.
Remember you don’t have to work in nonprofit or be a researcher to fact-check! 😀
Rachael McRae, a fifth-grade teacher in central Illinois, was sitting on the couch the other day with her 4-month-old when she saw the email.
“He was having a fussy day,” she says, “so I was bouncing him in one arm, and started going through my emails on my phone, just to feel like I was getting something done.” In her spam folder, she found an email from an organization called My Pay, My Say, urging her to drop her union membership.
Last month, the Supreme Court in Janus v. AFCSMEdealt a major blow to public sector unions. The court ruled that these unions cannot collect money, known as agency fees, from nonmembers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Organizations on both sides across the country sprang into action.
anyways it’s REAL fishy and obvious when people demand we call Janelle pansexual while completely erasing her statements about being bi and i’m not about it :^) she’s a bicon and y’all can cry about it.
like, again, bisexual people have been saying FOREVER how our sexualities do not revolve around people’s “parts” or genitals or the cis binary.
but when the prevailing narrative continues to paint us as sex-obsessed degenerates, OBVIOUSLY people are going to be like “hmm well I am not only attracted to men and women… so maybe i am Pansexual instead” because that’s the artificial falsified line that has been drawn in the sand by 2010s rhetoric around bisexuality.
so demanding we call someone, who HAS said they are bisexual, pansexual under those pretenses is just shady. y’all refuse to acknowledge the way you have demonized, stigmatized, and pigeon-holed bisexuality as a concept.
i don’t think i’m at the point where i’m like “pansexuality isn’t a valid label”, but I am increasingly suspicious of people who continue to draw lines between bisexuality and pansexuality as materially different, ESPECIALLY when the lines they draw involve elevating pan ppl over bi people in popularity or acceptability.
it’s just a manifestation of biphobia and a gigantic erasure of our culture and history as a group and i am sique of it!
While I completely agree with your point there is a difference between the two, bisexual is the attraction between two different genders, whether that be Male and female, Male and NB, female and two spirited. Or any other combo. Because bi means two. Where as pan means all so instead of being attracted to two genders at a time they are attracted to everygender.
No, it’s not. I am bisexual and unlike you am very aware of bisexual history. Bisexual people never came up with the “bi means two” beyond “bi means two groups” ie. “those genders like and unlike my own”.
Pansexuality is a new conception that started in the 2010s, MAYBE as early as 2006ish, which has developed out of the absolutely ahistorical, transphobic assumption that you must be pansexual to be attracted to trans people because you “don’t care” about genitals or gender.
As I JUST said, bisexual people have always extended our definitions of ourselves beyond the cis binary and making assumptions about people’s “parts”. To claim otherwise is biphobic rhetoric that has been used to pathologize bisexual people as sex-obsessed degenerates with no discretion.
Learn to read.
The bisexual manifesto defines bisexuality as two or more genders at that was published in 1990, people have definetely been using that definition for even longer. I know y’all can’t get past your second grade “bi means two! Like a bicycle!” Understanding of things but in the real world things don’t work like that.
Another little autobiographical comic I whipped together (this was drawn in like two hours tops so don’t judge the drawings lmao). To clarify, I am in a happy long-term committed relationship with a non-ace girl and we’re both very happy with our relationship, and I have never had bad experiences with relationships because of my asexuality. Being ace isn’t a big deal to me – I barely think about it – but asexuality is something that a lot of people seem to have trouble fully understanding, so I wanted to take some time to describe it the way I see it in my life and from my perspective. Every story is different – here’s mine.
Such a beautiful story. I hope this helps more people understand.
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