GayAsF*ck

DreamWorks’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has already cemented its place among the short but rapidly growing list of children’s animated shows with impactful LGBTQ representation. Showrunner Noelle Stevenson made it a point to push and fight for more diverse characters in every aspect from race, to personality, to sexual and gender identity. However, the finale of the GLADD Award-nominated program delivered on a revolutionary promise built up throughout all five seasons and completed one of the greatest queer narratives ever seen in children’s media.

As She-Ra progressed, Stevenson became more encouraged and inspired to pressure executives to allow more and more explicit LGBTQ characters and relationships. While ever-present in the series, season one only featured a background couple, Spinnerella (Noelle Stevenson) and Netossa (Krystal Joy Brown), and of course, the famous dance sequence between Catra (AJ Michalka) and Adora (Aimee Carrero). While this amount of representation is comfortably leagues ahead of the vast majority of cartoons, the show only upped the ante and the amount of representation from there. Season 2 introduced viewers to George (Chris Jai Alex) and Lance (Regi Davis), Bow’s fathers. The series presents them in a normalized fashion as a happy gay couple in love that built a family together. Jacob Tobia’s non-binary Double Trouble featured heavily in season four, making them one of the first non-binary characters in children’s animation and one of the first to holding an integral role in the show, a major step in representing such identities.

The many achievements and strides She-Ra in LGBTQ representation featured in She-Ra will doubtlessly affect other projects in the industry and help further programs walk a similar path. However, the greatest queer story inShe-Ra is the spectacular series-long arc exploring the relationship and dynamics between de facto antagonist Catra and protagonist Adora. The former friends, who grew up together in the ranks of the Horde, turn enemies at the start of the series after Adora gains the power of She-Ra and betrays Catra, joining the Rebellion.

Fans quickly began speculating on the nature of Adora and Catra’s relationship during season one, mainly because of the Princess Prom dance scene. After the young women shared a charged and sinister dance, fans quickly began supporting and analyzing “Catradora.” The next three seasons would gradually and gracefully define both characters’ complicated feelings for each other. Initially, Catra attempts to rationalize Adora’s leaving as a relief or else forces herself to appear apathetic towards it. She continuously uses the excuse that she is no longer living under Adora’s shadow to gradually build up more power, rising through the ranks of the Horde while stepping on those who helped her.

I can’t give you much advice on streaming. if you want to stream, you can probably just google it and dig around a bit till you find a site. I don’t know a lot of good streaming sites because it’s a hassle and I don’t like doing it, but there’s less risk of viruses or your isp getting pissy. So if you don’t mind extra legwork for less risk, streaming is fine.

Now, if you want to torrent, there’s some initial set up but after that getting what you’re after is a lot easier.

Step 1: first you need a torrenting program.

there’s a lot of options but right now I use Tixati. Go ahead and get that installed. This is what allows you to download torrents.

Step 2: Now you probably want a VPN. This helps prevent the previously mentioned ‘isp gettin pissy’ problem. some torrents will have trackers that tattle on you to Comcast or whoever provides your internet. A VPN disguises your ip address to make it harder for them to figure out where you are. In my experience, if you’re just torrenting the occasional game or movie and not like, guzzling terrabytes of just-released content, the worst that will happen is your isp will shut your internet off till you call them and apologize and make some excuse about your neighbor’s kids using the wifi. they can’t actually do shit besides that. But if you want to avoid the hassle, use a VPN and torrent smart. Only get torrents from trusted sources, avoid brand new or leaked content which is more likely to be being watched, and don’t leave the actual torrent file (not the downloaded content but the torrent itself) sitting on your computer longer than necessary. 

For VPNs, there’s a lot of options. Tunnelbear is generally well respected service. But it’s not free, and I don’t think something that heavy duty is really necessary for casual torrenting. If you’re messin around in the dark web and shit or torrenting on a daily basis, maybe. But for casual use, I get by with the free VPn built into the Opera web browser. Important note- Opera is basically the lite version of Chrome, it’s owned by google. Companies can buy their way through its security. It’s not perfect. But like I said, if you’re being smart and only torrenting occasionally, it’s a decent free option.

Step 3: Now that you’ve got your torrent program installed and your VPN running, it’s time to pick a torrent site!

The Pirate Bay is the oldest and best option when it comes to torrenting sites, imo. In particular because 1. you can sort results by number of seeders (the more seeds, the faster it downloads) 2.they make it easy to identify trusted sources. Look for the pink skull next to the link. These torrents will generally be safer than any others.

Unfortunately, pbay is also the most well known pirate site, so it goes down pretty often. if you don’t feel like waiting for it to come back up, you can check out other sites like Kickass Torrents or  EZTV. If you find one or all of those is always “down” it may be that your isp is blocking your access to the site. Google a proxy, most of these sites have several, and use a vpn.

So, first lets search for gomens on pb.

Bam. There you go. Pick the third one down. The others have more seeds, but the pink skull means this one is safer.

click the green ‘get this torrent’ magnet link, and it’ll ask if it can open Tixati. Let it do its thing. Tixati will take a minute to download the basic info about the file, then ask your permission to start.

you can see the files included in the torrent there, and where they will be saved. If it all looks good, hit start and wait. Depending on your internet speed, it may take a while. When it’s done, hit stop and remove to get rid of the torrent file and go enjoy your content. And that’s it! You’re done! It’s much less complicated than it seems.

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

This is Megumi Igarashi

She’s a Japanese artist

Japan, the country with some of the most fucked up pornography and the penis festival

Where the vagina is basically illegal to talk about 

So she did a bunch of art featuring 3D sculptures of her vagina, including this kayak, and was put in jail for it

She was indicted again in December on obscenity charges for selling vagina art to crowdfund for the kayak and could spend two years in prison

In Japan, women’s vaginas are treated as though they are men’s property. The trains here usually display pornographic advertisements. As a woman, I find that blatant objectification to be humiliating. I’m disgusted by it. My body belongs to me. So, with this project I wanted to release the vagina from the standard Japanese paradigm. Japan is lenient towards expressions of male sexuality and arousal, but not so for women. When a woman uses her body in artistic expression, her work gets ignored, and people treat her as if she’s some sex-crazed idiot. It all comes back to misogyny. And the vagina is at the heart of it. The vagina is ridiculed. It’s lusted after. Men don’t see women as equals—to them, women are just vaginas. Then they call my vagina-themed work “obscene,” and judge me according to laws written by and for men. [x]

She plans to turn her trial in to a manga comic. She seems pretty sure she’s not going to do any jail time but if you’d like to help her pay for her inevitable fine and court fees, you can check out her online store. There are little glow in the dark vagina characters.

It’s easy to free up your cache and delete cookies. The option is immediately viewable in settings instead of hidden away in the alcoves of who knows where.

Unless you favorite a page, it automatically clears it after 7 days, which is awesome if you hate clearing tabs like I do.

They plant trees everywhere.

Ecosia updates you on their progress- not with annoying update notifications, but with a button you can click as you type up your search if you’re curious.

The tree count is shown just beneath the search bar.

It is an app too and only takes up 18.2 MB. That’s the equivalent of nine live pictures on your phone.

You can view your own tree count. Mine’s 2,475 trees. I have had the app for six months. Do you know how much acreage that is? It’s a heckin’ ton of acres.

- if it was really important, you wouldn’t have forgotten about it

- have you tried meditating

- you’re so dramatic, it’s not a big deal

- stop fidgeting

- ‘i dont know’ isnt an answer

- any ‘ooh shiny’ joke

- any ‘squirrel’ joke

- just go to bed earlier

- you can’t have adhd, you’re too smart

- stop procrastinating

- adhd isn’t real, it’s just kids being kids

- It’s all in your head!

-You just have to try harder

-It’s just parents feeding their kids too much sugar/crap food