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Your tags inspired me, @unsuspectable-weirdo​

Now imaging you’re one of the 1.4% of computers are running Linux. This doesn’t mean you’ve got a windows machine with a virus, it doesn’t mean your computer is broken, it doesn’t mean it needs to get replaced with a more common operating system. It’s not quite as good at some things most people take for granted, but it’s significantly better at a bunch of other things. But if you have a problem with your computer, the vast majority of people won’t have any idea what you’re talking about. They’ll give advice for how to deal with a similar issue on their own computer, and it will be worthless. The only people with any idea what you’re going through are going to be on linux forums. And you can mostly muddle through all the things everybody else can do with improvisation and lots of WINE, but it sure would be nice if the devs of that video game you were looking forward to would like, acknowledge the existence of your demographic.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to put into words just how much this show means to me, but I will say this-

Adventure Time is the purest reflection of human emotion I have ever seen. It makes me feel, down to my core, in a way nothing else can. It makes me marvel at the joy, and pain, and warmth, and grief, and above all- the sheer wonder of life.

Loss, candy and bacon.

How lucky we are to be alive.

How lucky am I to have been alive at the same time as you.

uh oh.

same happened to dream daddy, like you cant deny that that game was groundbreaking for the lgbt society, but suddlenly some people started shit like ‘uhhh but 5 years ago the game grumps made transphobic jokes’ and ‘you know that joesph is actually a satanist, right?’ and suddenly no one talked about the game anymore?

everytime someone tries their fucking best to be inclusive, diverse etc. people are digging through everything they can find just to justify that they dont like it? overwatch recently hosted a huge event to raise money for breast cancer research in association with the BCRF and without even doing one second of research people accused them of working with the susan g. komen foundation (which wasnt true) and tried to boycott a fucking charity event?

I write a webcomic with my wife and my girlfriend.  The comic’s called Sister Claire.  It’s about gay nuns and witches and giant goopy monsters.  Also, giant robots.  And cats.  Some of which are giant too.  We’re all really proud of our comic.  We devote tons of time and energy and love to it because we’re all profoundly queer in one way or another and we wanted — we still want — to see more representation in the media we consume.  Rather than wait for other people to provide us that representation (let’s face it, we’d die thirsty), we went out and made some ourselves.  Everyone in our comic is queer.  We do our best to make this both obvious and relatable to/for our readers, and for the most part this results in a very positive response from said readers! With that being said, y’all know the saying about how one bad apple spoils the bushel?  There’s truth to that.  We get people complaining all the time on a variety of platforms about how all the characters in our comic being queer is unrealistic.  Sometimes the comments section under pages is intense.  That aside, sometimes people also come after us individually on Tumblr, Twitter, etc. to accuse us of a variety of crimes great and small, and often one of the accusations in the mix is being too much or not enough of something.  Too white to write [insert ethnicity or relationship or identity or ANYTHING] here.  Too gay.  Not gay enough.  Or, our favorite:  “Did you know this creator shipped something once upon a time I don’t like???  Don’t read their webcomic that has literally nothing to do with that ship!!  This person is evil!”

We’re storytellers, so we know better than anyone how words have weight.  They have heft.  They have clout, and because we’re independent creators who rely largely on public opinion to buoy our comic, we generally need words said about us on social media to be positive.  It’s not an exaggeration to say that one person with a grudge and enough determination has the potential to do so much damage to us.