Hope 🏳️‍⚧️

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

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bill potts sketch 2017 vs 2023!

Brother: What does the order mean?

Person filming: They/she?

Brother (increasingly frantic): Yeah but I’m, I don’t wanna fuck it up. Is it— what does that mean you said she/they and then you said “oh wait no use they/she,” which one do I use?

Person filming: They- they more than she.

Brother: Oh god

[laughter from the person filming]

Brother: Okay, like, how- how much more though? Is it like if- do I- am I being an asshole if I say, like, they maybe like 4 times and she 2 times?

[more laughter]

i updated it due to current happenings

Rose is selfish and complacent and, yes, homophobic, all in very offhand, average ways for a normal 19 year old from 2005, and then she gets spirited away on an adventure with The Doctor, who refuses complacency, who stands up for people at risk to himself; someone who is, in both symbolic and very real ways, queer. Rose's character arc pivots around her changing into a person who, when sent home to let the Doctor die alone in the far future, realizes that she can no longer exist in that same quiet, selfish complacency that her mother and Mickey still do. She has been made fundamentally different by her travels, and a big part of this, of Rose learning to care, is her relationship to queerness. Being queer is framed as intrinsic to the Doctor and his more active, empathetic way of engaging with the world, which Rose learns to embody. She meets Jack in a story about a woman haunted by the ghost of her sexual shame (a teenage mother in the 1940s hiding the fact), a story that ultimately treats the embracing of sexuality as redemptive and healing. It ends with the Doctor, Jack, and Rose dancing together, something the story uses as shorthand for sex and sexual liberation, a suggestion that Rose is now actively engaging with queerness rather than rejecting it. She fundamentally grows as a person through the act of loving a very openly queer man. You can trace a line in her arc directly from "You're so gay!" and her discomfort with jack's sexuality to the way she exists within queer intimacy:

There’s this:

“I felt quite protective of Roger. There is a scene in The Sea Devils where they needed to shoot Roger floating in water to get an establishing shot. Now, Roger was terrified of water. It took a lot of persuading by me to get him to do it and a lot of Katy talking gently to calm him down enough to actually get in the water. Just as we had done that, the idiot assistant director shouted out: ‘Come on Roger, for God’s sake, you’ve wasted enough time already!’

“I was furious. I said to the AD, ‘Can’t you see how much it takes for him to do this? You shouting like that just ruins his confidence. Why don’t you stop being such an arse and jump in the sea yourself?!’ I never could stand anyone bullying people.” — Jon Pertwee, DWM 457.

And this, from an article about the filming of Terror of the Autons:

“The short-sighted Manning sprained her right ankle when she ran into a rock on the rough terrain, and started to worry that she might have to be replaced. When production assistant Nicholas Howard John—the brother of Caroline John—joked about this, he received a stern reprimand from Pertwee about upsetting his new co-star.” — DWM 311.