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do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.

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just realized riz never told anyone about his financial issues so when he just showed up to junior year and gave fig and kristen enormous binders with an itemized list of all the things they needed to do to graduate with a certain gpa they just did it bc riz asked them to and literally no other reason at all

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the duality of van

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The thing about the silkworms that really kills me is Brennan in an instant accounted for the 20 FUCKING YEARS of being abandoned.

Bc Ally didn’t— they didn’t think about the fact that like…how on earth would a terrarium left for 20 years still be alive and well??? Ally just wanted to give Emily worms.

And Brennan literally had to factor that into the world building in that moment. And his solution was, obviously, if the worms have survived for 20 years, then they have been through thousands of generations so of course they would have gotten to their Iron Age by now, and that they can now create textiles. Of course Marya would be a religious figure that has existed only in myth for generations for these fucking worms. Bc obviously.

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Longspot Gotch: Maxwell, I want you to go evict this couple and their son and possibly get shot dead while you do it.

Some guy: actually, they have a daughter.

Longspot Gotch: Ah, I hadn't heard, good for her! Maxwell, I want you to go evict this couple and their daughter and possibly get shot dead while you do it.

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

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So you are telling me, according to the San Antonio Police Department, its not a hate crime when you:

- threaten to burn a gay couple’s house down for two years and openly calling them slurs

- actually do burn down the house

- kill their dog and place it’s skull and harness on top of the couple’s mailbox for them to see

- shoot and kill one of them while they are crying over seeing their murdered dog’s remains while you are also calling them homophobic slurs

During both Pride and Indigenous History Month nonetheless.

Rest In Peace Jonathan Joss.

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I think Rhythm of War is my favorite Stormlight book but man. Oathbringer has so may moments that just stick with me.

Moments that live rent free in my brain, in no particular order:

Veil basically being like "yes I would like to buy an alcohol" and then chugging horneater white. then when someone puts a hand on hers she stabs them through both their hands

"he's learning to read? isn't that kinda... feminine?" "Drehy you are literally courting another man" "and? what does that have to do with it" "yeah don't be homophobic Kal ://"

Kaladin being unable to think about sex without imagining Syl giving him pointers and being so disturbed by it that when someone asks what's wrong he passes it off as reliving a traumatic memory

no mating!!!

"what'd you do, punch a lighteyes?" "yes" *punches the brightlord*

Shallan doing the family guy death pose and flashing everyone for science

Shallan getting stabbed through the chest and Kaladin frantically trying to tear her shirt off without thinking to see where the blood was coming from because he forgot about tits existing

Adolin managing to acquire a nice outfit in Shadesmar and Kaladin's complete bafflement

Dalinar: Adolin, I am putting you in charge of finding who killed that guy. Adolin, who killed that guy: what

Shallan: another murder done exactly the same way! the murderer must've struck again! Adolin, who did not kill this one: what

Lift just appearing in visions when Dalinar tried to talk to Yanagawn and talking about his butt

the Assassin in White joining the final battle and everyone just going okay this might as well happen. everything about this is already so damn weird

Dalinar's solution to EVERYTHING being challenge someone to a fight. this is how everyone communicates they engage in combat. what better strategy could there be than making it clear to someone that I could destroy them by force at any time it worked great on my nephew

young Dalinar walking out into the highstorm to get his knife, stabbing an assassin with it, then rinsing it off in his wine and using it to cut his meat

"stormfather!" "what?" "that was a curse"

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i dont normally repost instagram shit but the wording of this comment is killing me. like the armored carapace of a beetle. phenomenal

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stop being silly in front of me

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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The fucking movie didn't just have Nani sing Aloha Oe to Lilo because it was a soft Hawaiian song

She sang it to Lilo because it's about the American goverment tearing apart the nation and her peoples by imprisoning and threatening Queen Liliʻuokalani and her people so she would be forced to hand over her homeland under threat of destruction

Its a scene about how Nani and Lilo's situation is a microcosm of the suffering of all of Hawai'i and her native people as colonialism is continuously perpetuated against the island

AND THEN THEY REMAKE IT AND HAVE NANI GIVE LILO UP TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WILLINGLY AND FUCK OFF TO THE MAINLAND

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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when I was a kid I read a sci-fi story where some researcher discovers that all crocodiles since prehistory have had the same congenital heart defect, so they set about curing it. when they do, suddenly their research specimen starts getting stronger and healthier and growing rapidly and developing new appendages, and it turns out all crocodilians were actually stunted sickly forms of dragons. that story really stuck with me because it's basically an expression of the "what if I went to the doctor and they discovered I was deficient in one special vitamin and then I took a pill and all my problems and ailments vanished immediately" fantasy.

unrelated, I started taking daily antihistamines this month for the first time in my life,