oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved

simon and garfunkel rekindled their friendship, the blowjob brothers from oasis reunited i think, buckingham nicks are somewhat amicable, taylor invited karlie to her wedding. paul mccartney it’s time to learn necromancy.

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

“can’t believe women fought to work!! i don’t wanna work!!” women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?

i would love to be straight for like a week not due to internalized homophobia but because honestly i fetishize their culture

Happy pride lgbts who’s ready for the same discourse we’ve been litigating for 10+ years to hit the internet?

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

about 90% of fanfiction takes place in a utopia where men are thoughtful and unsure of their place in the world

Like yes brendon urie sucks but are we really going to pretend that decaydance wasn't started because pete wentz wanted to buy ryan ross. Panic is the genesis

This record label was built on ambiguously homosexual mentor-student relationships, misplaced hero worship, and pyrrhic betrayal and it will be snowing in hell before I let you all forget it

Trans women know more about being women than trans men do.