it's me. it's mumsy.

“I want to take someone back to the cloud recesses… take him back and hide him.”

🕰️ 4 DAYS TO GO 🕰️

Embark on a trip through time with today's preview--Mumsy's Shakespearean AU! Mumsy's (thnkurluckystar.bsky.social) immersive prose and Momo's (@giornos) dreamy illustrations bring to life this breathtaking period piece (loosely) inspired by The Winter's Tale!

hello fan creators!

Year of the OTP is officially back for 2025 with a new set of prompts!

we've switched some of the prompt categories around in an effort to make the event more inclusive of all kinds of fanworks. we've also included song prompts this year! the playlist is on spotify here.

we want to give a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the last event - it grew so much larger than we ever expected and it's truly amazing how you all took our last set of prompts and made so many wonderful things. keep it up!

a couple housekeeping notes: we will not be reblogging every entry this year. mods will keep an eye on the blog if you have any questions, but the reblogs were too much last time. thank you for your understanding!

we will be closing the 2023 collection on December 31. thank you for your continued participation, but it's time to look forward!

the link for the new collection will be posted here January 1.

we're looking forward to seeing what you create this year!

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Greetings everyone. I'm considering hosting a Tumblr Diminand Week in 2025, and am currently holding an interest check.

If you'd be interested or you know someone who might be interested, please feel free to share this around. I'll be keeping the form open until September 30th.

10/28/2021

NOW. It is important that you know Green Day was primarily a 90s band. This is important because it means they came of age in a time period where we were trying to reclaim “faggot,” and among the counterculture—which, again, was Green Day, they were a pop/punk fusion—it WAS within-the-community reclaimed. If you read a lot of queer zines from this period you’ll see it used routinely. Dan Savage’s advice column originally ran under the name “Hey, Faggot,” which he himself had chosen. There’s a section in the musical RENT where the characters refer to themselves as “faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross-dressers too,” and while Jon Larson himself was straight he was writing as someone who was in daily contact with these cultures. Pride parades from the time often have it on at least one sign. This was not unusual language.

This is part of the background from which American Idiot was born. It came out in 2004, and while the queer movement was losing a little steam in the counterculture direction at that point (although not as badly as it has today, good lord), this was still an ongoing thing. I was hearing it as late as 2009.

This was, indeed, Billie Joe challenging the mainstream that had come to love Green Day: maybe I’M the faggot, did you think of that? We haven’t just supported queer artists, I AM a queer artist. Fuck you.

This whole album is political commentary. It’s practically a time capsule of Everything Wrong With The Bush Years, including Bush’s attempt to put “marriage is one man and one woman” in the Constitution. (This is why, as a Jew, I don’t object to the lyric “seig heil to President Gas Man.” It’s a pretty succinct takedown of the Islamophobia he stoked as a way to justify war with Iraq.)

So SING that “faggot,” and do it with your whole chest. It’s a word of anger and protest and taking back autonomy with your own two bloody hands.