wait, what?

Commencing #hotnotagirlsummer

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

across fandoms and time and space, fans of [insert any white male character/actor] are always going to be the most annoying and hateful and racist and they will be loud and proud about it

Sometimes you’ll just see niche untagged fandom discourse without tags and say to yourself, “who is Larry and why are people mad about them getting divorced on a horse on acid” and you’ll never know.

will never not be mad about gig economy apps making a 4 star rating mean “unacceptable quality”

been sick literally all day, havent got to eat or take my meds yet, even $1 or a kind word will help <3

still sick,, grateful for any donations <3

been up and sick, in a lot of pain, goal is soup <3

see my dr this morning, grateful for any help <3

at my dr literally sick as a dog, idk wtf they can do for me but i have to go home soon bcs its getting worse grateful for any help getting home <3

i hate the "we should only have queer actors playing queer characters" argument for several reasons. but what annoys me the most is that people who argue this straight up don't realize that it's illegal to ask someone about their sexuality in relation to a job interview. like an audition. i don't think breaking anti-discrimination laws to screen people's sexualities to determine their employment is the woke take you think it is.

and just. setting that aside. if you're saying "we should only have queer actors playing queer characters" you're saying that queer people must be publicly out to play a queer character. even if that actor and that character have the same sexuality. that actor has to disclose that to the whole world. again. i don't think demanding queer people to out themselves in order to engage with a queer acting role is doing anyone any good.

head in hands. it's acting. it's playing make believe. i don't care if the actress playing a lesbian character has kissed a woman before. i care if she's good at pretending she has.