step into the daylight and let it go

the fact of the matter is, all of the online harassment and bullying of kit connor about his sexuality absolutely stems from people’s entitlement in knowing everything about a celebrity’s personal life and the community’s inherit biphobia and biphobic rhetoric. there’s a rumor he’s dating a girl, people go feral, claim that he’s straight, and cry queerbait, despite the fact that it’s a fictional term used for fictional media purposes and that real life people can’t actually “queerbait”. even now, after he’s been bullied into coming out, there are people telling him to “prove it” or calling him a “bihet” and saying that he’s lying, all because he might be with a girl and ignoring the fact that this could affect his career because bigoted old white rich men run hollywood. i’ve seen others ask what the big deal is, and wonder why it’s hard for him to come out at all when he already publicly plays a bisexual character, when there’s a difference between acting and being ready to come out in real life. all of this is coming from a place of entitlement and it really ultimately stems from biphobia in the community. if you’re bi and date someone of the opposite sex, you’re not gay enough. if you’re bi and date someone of the same sex, you’re not straight enough. it’s absolutely revolting, and if you think harassing someone into coming out is something to be proud of or something that is owed to you, especially an 18 year old kid who’s barely lived his life, you’re a piece of garbage and i hope you rot.

this situation with kit is exactly why the “only queer actors should play queer characters” attitude is incredibly flawed and should stop btw

i wish everyone who made kit connor feel he had to come out a very merry FUCK YOU. you forced an eighteen year old into coming out publicly, before he was ready, when he stated many many times he wanted to keep it private. how many more times does this shit have to fucking happen before some of you fucking clock that YOU CANNOT QUEERBAIT IN REAL LIFE. this is the natural end to the discourse of ‘if somebody is in the public eye playing a queer person they owe us their sexuality’, and it’s DEEPLY FUCKED UP, they do NOT owe you an answer, and this mindset JUST FORCED AN EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD TO OUT HIMSELF BEFORE HE WAS READY TO

We desperately need to get stay at home moms into 3D modeling/3D printing. I say this every day and it never gets any less true.

We need to give these women the tools to do with 3D printers what they've accomplished with cutting machines. There are youtube videos out there with a woman who looks like she is personally your mom clearly using her own phone camera to record and saying "Ok we're going to learn how to make a suuuper easy and fun cricut project! I whipped up the design for this while the kids were at school :)" and then shows off some 3D paper masterpiece that would take me 3 years in an architectural college to have designed. We need this for the 3D printing world.

"Waah but then people might take the art less seriously and we'd see a bunch of people making a printing 3D knick knacks for etsy and it won't be an exclusive club anymore :(((" GOOD. I would LOVE for 3d printing to be relegated to the realm of "mom craft" the way laser/cnc cutting and engraving have. I would love for companies that know they can hike prices because it's seen as a "techie" thing to have to make their product more accessible for lower income people to stay competitive with the market. I would love to see a bunch of little cute 3d crap on etsy or at craft fairs. I see no downside to this. And if you see an art form as "less serious" or "less legitimate" because women are getting into it, then that's on you.

John Mulaney’s dad was absolutely right, being sat over on the bench and watching on whilst someone else gets hurt and doing nothing about it is horrible and it makes you a not good person and if John had perhaps listened to him at 6 years old, he wouldn’t have just invited a transphobe to open for him and aggressively hurt an entire community whilst he watched on. But no, he’s quite comfortable over on the bench.