Thoughts in the Shade of Oleander

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From "Who's Who at the Zoo," written by George Mazzei and illustrated by Gerard Donelan for The Advocate in 1979. Possibly the first recorded usage of the term bear to refer to a gay subculture.

Edit no no here it is! https://www.out.com/today-gay-history/2016/7/26/today-gay-history-when-advocate-invented-bears?pg=full

Oh baby fight

okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spock’s in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or he’ll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, he’s also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesn’t die. but then spock’s fiance (t’pring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the ‘blood lust’ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get what’s happening. and t’pring picks kirk to be her ‘champion’ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he won’t marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so he’s like of course i’ll do this fight if it’ll help spock and then he gets told it’s a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc he’s killed his ‘best friend’ only to discover kirk’s alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride

I gotta meet this character.

You see, Mr Ganges had a full-grown Elephant for a daemon. I’ve never seen anything like it, not before and not since. She had a pretty-sounding name, apparently after some Vedic goddess, but my tongue’d mangle it if I tried to repeat it, so I won’t. She didn’t talk much, but I watched Mr Ganges stop mid-sentence to listen to her one time so I reckon they were not unlike ole Hester and me. He often credited her with his success. “Elephants have perfect memory!” He would wink and tap his forehead knowingly. “I never forget a face!” As far as I saw, he never did.

what have you done

Instead of telling the truth and letting everyone down, she and Sokka pull on an elaborate charade and go on a journey to convince the world that the Avatar is back.

After they started, he got super into the idea and started crafting an elaborate backstory for her Airbending predecessor, and devising ways for her to fake-bend the other elements.

Bumi: So is the real Avatar. I think we can bend the rules of reincarnation a bit.

That’s very in-character because Aang never wanted to be the Avatar anyway.

She respects Katara a lot more as a fake Avatar than she did when when she thought she was the real one (which is none).

Alice White, silent film actress, 1927

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

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