iHateFridays

Pride Icons are now available for June! Made one for Nyra with the various examples/combos of how they can work :) You can also get one for yourself if you don't want one for a character! ((and obviously multiple flags can be used especially if you want one flag for the flower colors and another for the BG))

FLAMING GAY RIGHTS!

[phone ringing]

Scout: “Yeah, pizza.  What do you want?”

Demoman: “Let me get a… BONELESS PIZZA WITH A… TWO LITER OF COKE.”

Scout: “Fuck kinda pizza…?  And TWO LITER MACHINE BROKE.  We got a one liter, though.”

Demoman: “Fuck you mean, B?  Aight, look, let me get that pizza BONELESS.”

Scout: “Uh, pizza don’t got bone on it.”

Demoman: “The fuck did I just say, then?”

Scout: “You said, ‘LET ME GET IT BONELESS’, like pizza got a damn bone in it.”

Demoman: “Y’ALL GOT BONES ON THE SHIT, THEN.”

Scout: “Naw!”

Demoman: “So what’s the problem?”

Scout: “DICKHEAD.  Name one pizza that got bone on it.”

Demoman: “JUST DON’T PUT THOSE SHITS IN MY PIZZA, BRUH.  How many times do I gotta say it?”

Scout: “Bro, just explain to me how the fuck pizza can be boneless.”

Demoman: “If it don’t got bone in it, it’s BONELESS.”

Scout: “Son, what school you go to?”

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

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I know Inktober is over, but I still have some leftovers XD

Hello everyone! @kyra45 made me aware that the official ko-fi team has posted on their Discord that they are aware of the ko-fi scam messages going around, and that users can disable messages from people who are not logged in.

Their statement:

Hi Ko-fi Bean! The team is aware of a scam circulating on Ko-fi and is already working on a fix. If you receive a comment or commission request DM from a user claiming to be from the Support or Trust and Safety team, please do not click any links and report their ko-fi page. Please know that official communications from these teams will always come via email, never via ko-fi DM's. Note: Official ko-fi emails will end in @ko-fi.com To prevent DMs coming through via the commission messaging function, you can temporarily disable the ability to receive messages here.

You can find out how to read a url to tell if a link is real by checking out this post here:

https://www.tumblr.com/scam-alerts/818429962255220736

And you can see my previous reblog talking about this scam here:

https://www.tumblr.com/me-and-my-gaster/818427433719103488

This is unfortunately the same scam as Tumblr's 'verify your account' scam that's going around. So be careful! You can read up on that scam here:

And if you go here you'll see just how dangerous this scam truly is..

Stay safe and remember to help others bee scam aware!