it's just fine to be out of your mind

"wouldn't that be fucked up or what?"

"anyway I'm Rod Stirling."

"and what if the world was made of pudding?"

"calm down edgelord."

"kind of cringe, not gonna lie"

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia.  This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

As previously mentioned, the idea originated at Pride (Brisbane 2003) in reaction to punitive anti-marriage legislation

“On the 14th day of June 2004, at this highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world. God Save our King!”

The campsite/capital Heaven was named after the London nightclub

War was declared on Australia in September 2004

The aforementioned stamps were issued in July 2006 “with the aim of creating a high and distinctive reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity”

They were never recognized legally/internationally as a micronation (and in fact Anderson refused to attend a conference in 2010 because they weren’t actually trying to be a sovereign nation)

In Feb 2017, Abetz was objecting to the flag of a “hostile nation” being flown

"Somebody may as well."

"And you, sir-"

"Yes, yes, I suppose."

Terry Pratchett really knew how to make het ships, huh?

refs under cut

Photos from Darkness Emergent featuring Mark Meer's Nosferatu character (incredible make up!) and the cast of LA by Night!

From Mark Meer's Instagram page

Originally drew this for Mexican Independence Day + Bi Visibility Day last year but I never posted it so happy pride month instead !

Prints sold here:

everyone wants thaisha

the cat burns all of grace's science shirts. grace is initially distraught, but it's okay. the cat has replaced his wardrobe with far more fabulous items from the cat's own cast-offs. [this will cause problems later given the cat's absolutely snatched waist.] grace is like oh um no thank you, this is awkward, i really don't-- IS THAT REAL WOOL? the cat is like obviously 😾do i look like a guy who touches polyester?

kryten sees the living quarters aboard the hail mary and goes catatonic. then he comes back online. then his head explodes. grace and rocky are horrified. rocky accuses grace of being so utterly filthy he killed their new robot friend. lister says not to worry, they've got a spare head back on the dwarf.

rimmer is INSUFFERABLE about the existence of aliens being proven. he then declares himself acting general of the human defence army against the invading eridians. grace explains that it's just him and rocky and they're actually on their way to rocky's planet, not the other way around. rimmer quickly declares himself the leader of the human colonisation of erid project, and claims erid in the name of humanity. lister declares that they should just ignore him.

lister, inexplicably, walks around in the eridian atmosphere just fine. rimmer is hysterical and sure he'll die, but refuses to enter the atmosphere, despite being indestructible.

they discover that lister can do this when he gets hungry, wanders off, and they find him munching on rocky's food in a xenonite tunnel. grace is gobsmacked. "how can you do that." "aw, it's not so bad. me gran's old flat smelled like cat piss. really takes me back, actually." "that's not - i don't - okay." grace has a breakdown. then, "... what does eridian food taste like tho." "kinda like gran's burnt kippers, actually."

holly hits on mary. mary wasn't sentient before, but the power of lesbianism awakens her. she declares that she is running away with holly. grace explains that he and rocky will die if she does that. she says she doesn't care. grace pulls the dead crewmates card. she begrudgingly agrees to stay onboard. technically, she did kill them. holly is like aw come on, as if it was your fault 🙄

lister makes grace a triple fried egg butty with chili sauce and chutney and grace bursts into tears. rimmer gets weird and possessive and claims HE was the first person lister ever made a triple fried egg butty with chili sauce and chutney for. lister says that is NOT true, wtf? rocky comments that this is the most disgusting food-related human activity he's been witness to yet, and rimmer interprets this as a threat against his life and again attempts to declare war on erid.

Do you know how much I enjoy fandom's ongoing love for fem!Holly and how much it feels like she's the primary Holly despite the disparity in screen time? DO YOU?

i thought you aware on how awful people can be since judging from things you reblog you are aware of ongoing genocide and witnessing autistic children abused for their condition

Every day I choose to believe that every human being is fundamentally the same. That every adult was once a child, that every child had fears and hopes and joys, and every person desires to live happily and free of pain.

This does not absolve them of their cruelties. This does not condone or minimize their transgressions. This simply is to say, "I too could become monstrous: what would it take to push me there, and how could I prevent it, and if I could not prevent it, how could I stop?"

I believe that to be human is to be an animal like any other. I believe that we are not evil. Because if I believed that humanity was evil, fundamentally cruel, and incapable of better, what hope would I have? What purpose? What life could I live, as a plague surrounded by plagues?

I don't believe that people are good because I have not seen evil actions. I believe that people are good because I have to.

Do you understand?

I must believe in humanity. I must believe in kindness. I must believe in good, and change, and positive intent.

Because otherwise, I'd have nothing to live for.

Because otherwise, all I would have is myself, and self-loathing, and decades of existence in all directions, and a hopeless wasteland to spend it in.

Maxwell Gotch (Murph)

Torse (NPC - Brennan)

Figueroth Faeth (Emily)

Fabian Aramais Seacaster (Lou)

Gorgug Thistlespring (Zac)

Adaine Abernant (Siobhan)

Marya Junková (Emily)

Riz Gukgak (Murph)

Evan Kelmp (Brennan)

Sundry Sidney (Emily)

For Murph: Maxwell (120) and Riz (68) = 188 fics. For Brennan: Torse (89) and Evan (54) = 63 fics. For Emily: Fig (88) and Marya (80) and Sid (54) = 222 fics. For Lou: Fabian has 86 fics. For Zac: Gorgug has 82 fics. For Siobhan: Adaine has 91 fics.

While Murph's characters' numbers are certainly respectable, and Maxwell is the most paired-off individual character, Emily's characters have him beat on this preliminary analysis.

This is making the assumption that fics rated E are rated as such for sexual content rather than high-level violence, and that a character being tagged in one means they are involved in the smut. These assumptions are both extremely broad and potentially incorrect, but I've had a really long day and I'm tired. If anyone wants me to go deeper (I have thoughts about examining the top pairings, which tell a very different story), let me know and I'll try to come up with a more robust test soon!