queer pranks played by lightning

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

people who do a PhD are running from something

#something very heteronormative is going on here…#<prev. and something very orientalist as well not to be the friend who is too woke.#there’s something to constantly writing the one non-western character as singularly in need of civilising in a way that like.#flies directly in the face of the character the canon has actually given us.#we’re all playing in our sandboxes &c. but the canon isn’t only a suggestion😭 not when the alternatives for it too often rely on bias

something white people (and nonblack people of colour) need to know is that if your friend of colour comes up to you to tell you that you were being racist in some way or another, that is an act of trust.

ilya being rachel reid’s lestat is like okay obviously. and shane springing castiel-like into the narrative bc she already gave scott a barista love interest is like okay i see what she’s done here. bottom pov romance because shane is a self-insert because rachel wants to fuck lestat, of course. we get it. AND THEN. the thing is is that jacob tierney is a gay man and he does not (necessarily?) need to bottom self insert. and therefore, suddenly, shane is so real. like that post about rachel having ilya say in the book that shane came “untouched” (fanfiction language) and jacob having him say “hands free” (gay porn language) like the show is an act of translation and in that act jacob AND HUDSON. created a shane that is so real. he is #ourshane forever