How long since last sleep, question?

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

Today is Thursday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

It's June 5th again!

I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane

To phrase this more clearly: “public indecency” laws were the primary tool for brutally enforcing gender and sexual conformity, so applying a “public indecency” lens to pride parades of all things is a slap in the face of everyone who ever suffered under gender & sexual oppression and took their anger (and yes their pride!) to the streets. If it makes you uneasy or uncomfortable maybe you’re not on the side you think you are!

No one else's identity or presentation cancels yours out. It's ok if you share a gender with someone and they experience it differently than you. It's ok if someone with your same gender uses different pronouns. It's ok if someone with your same pronouns is a different gender. It's ok if someone shares your gender and has other gender identities. It's ok if you both identify as gay or lesbian but those mean different things for each of you. It's ok if someone's identity is complex and you don't relate to or understand it. It's ok if someone reclaims slurs that make you uncomfortable. Other people's identities and presentations are not hurting you. There is no such thing as a "respectable" queer. Be aware that trying to further marginalize queers you disagree with is siding with your own oppressors.

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)