Full Of Love

no plan by Hozier

Me:

It shouldn’t be a riot. “Oh no the cops are preventing this parade from becoming a riot.”

People got fired for walking in these quiet, orderly, sunday-best marches. People were attacked at home, attacked in public, people were murdered for it. “A queer person stood next to me and it was so upsetting that I panicked and murdered them to death” was a legitimate defense that actually worked and blamed gay people FOR BEING MURDERED (this still happens btw, just not quite as often, and the charges usually go down to involuntary manslaughter instead of go away entirely… most of the time. some people still get off scott free with the gay panic defence). And no one saw anything wrong with that, people considered a gay person simply existing and doing no harm to anyone to be a crime punishable by death.

Imagine if someone walked up to you and shot you in the face and got away with it scott free because they didn’t like your freckles? Imagine if you could be murdered for wearing glasses. Imagine if the only thing anyone needed to say to a judge to 100% get away with murdering you was “They had ears! I’m terrified of ears! I mean, I could sort of tolerate them having fingernails but ears?! I’M GOING TO BE SCARRED FOR LIFE BECAUSE I WAS FORCED TO SEE THEIR EARS!! WAAAAAAAAAAA!” 

That’s what the world was like for queer people. In a lot of places this is what it’s STILL like. This shit still happens every fucking day.

I’m lousy with blouses.

Sam knocked out a female heavy weight wrestler in one move, after directly asking her “Hey I’m pissed wanna throw down” and getting consent. She was 100% prepared for combat at that moment.

Freddy Hacked into a military computer, made a youtube video that could permanently damage your eyes, and also turned a toy gun into a functional laser gun.

Spencer had the gift of pyrokinesis which went off at random and this was treated as only a medium inconvenience.

Carly was able to manipulate all 3 of these people, one of them being her legal guardian. Sam and Freddy were said to be able to argue indefinitely, Sam even getting into a fight with her mom for so long the therapist who forced them into conversation nearly went insane.