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Rohan! Rohan!

I’ve always felt like The Hand looks very very shy

Look I know he’s supposed to be scary and ruthless in this scene but can we take a moment to appreciate

MY MAN HAS DIMPLES

Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.” You’re right!

From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.

He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses. William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.

He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.

When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.

Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

Favorite Male Anime Characters [5/?]

Undertaker from Black Butler

I get that these two panels really broke our hearts but recently I discovered something lol. Someone might have discussed about this already but I feel obligated to do this or else I would lose my sanity because these two are never absent in my mind sdknsjad so have some Satosugu, I guess.

I think the one moment that really hit me after they parted for good was Gojo telling Megumi, “You better get strong. Don’t get left behind.” Which is a bit of a dichotomy because Gojo was left behind despite being strong (does he view it like that, though? Are you strong if you can’t even save your one best friend?) but I was always stuck on the, “being left behind” part. That’s how Gojo views Geto going rogue. Not Geto betraying him (and the jujutsu society) or Geto becoming an enemy or anything like that; Gojo was never even upset that Geto killed a whole village (probably shook about the parents bit) or that Geto wanted to eradicate all non-sorcerers (he never said, ‘that’s wrong’ just that, ‘it’s impossible’). All these things didn’t matter to him. - The one thing that hurt him the most was Geto leaving him behind. Just like that (in his eyes). 

It’s why Geto thought they ended their relationship there, that they severed their bonds for good (he said his piece and thought that was it for them) but for Gojo, that was never the case.