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So I’m going to be bitter and old here for a minute.

The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.

This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.

It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now I’m expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience don’t matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded it’s illegal for me to “force it on others” and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.

Like, fuck off?

Fuck off.

I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.

And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say “here, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you go” like

Fucking, why would I ever.

Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?

I damned well will use queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.

I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who don’t know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how “well, actually” when they can’t even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.

The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.

So yeah.

Queer as in fuck you people in particular.

And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.

I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.

My point is, I’m not going to be referring to the “LGBT” community at all, anymore. It’s going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because it’s so dangerous.

but it’s fuckign not.

We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.

And ‘m not going to let it sneak back in.

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HOMESTAR RUNNER: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

The year is 2003. It is a kinder time, a simpler time.

Every single one of your classmates knows how to draw Trogdor the Burninator - first, you draw an S, then you draw a more different S.

“Everybody to the Limit” is a staple at middle school dances.

Your best friend’s little brother owns a plush The Cheat, and you can kick it, and it makes noise.

The year is 2003, the golden age of Homestar Runner.

Basically, every online content creator, every webcomic artist, every YouTube entertainer, owes Homestar Runner a shitload.

Once upon a time, Homestar Runner was the definitive Flash site, an online destination for kids and immature grown-ups alike, fielding millions of hits and thousands of e-mails a day.

Homestar Runner, the earnest athlete with a pure heart and a love for mankind, and his arch-nemesis, Strong Bad, a wrestler with a penchant for issuing snarky responses to fanmail, defined a generation through weird, surrealist Flash cartoons tinged with outdated pop cultural references.

Ten years later, there’s a new generation of Internetters who have never experienced the pure, unadulterated joy of H-Star-R, and that breaks my heart. 

So, here, I’ve compiled this beginner’s guide to Homestar Runner. Every cartoon on this list is shorter than five minutes. Get into it. Do yourself a favour.

STEP ONE: STRONG BAD E-MAILS

dragon

techno

comic

japanese cartoon

caper

stunt double

kids’ book

caffeine

army

different town

crying

for kids

montage

bedtime story

hygiene

STEP TWO: TEEN GIRL SQUAD

Episodes #1-15 are available here. Watch them all.

STEP THREE: SHORTS

An Important Rap Song

Where My Hat Is At?

Best Caper Ever

Play Date

The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw

One Two, One Two

Fluffy Puff Commercial

STEP FOUR: TOONS

A Jorb Well Done

Cool Things

Date Nite

DNA Evidence

A Folky Tale

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BEES SUPPORT THE PUNCHING OF NAZIS

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I like how people are all like "but free speech!" Yeah no. Free speech means the *government* can't punch you in the face for saying shitty things.. Doesn't mean we can't.

punching nazis is the dream

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Most people I know had that one movie as a kid; that one movie that they would watch over and over and over to the resigned acceptance of their parents. I’ve always thought that movie says something about a person. What was your movie?

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Deal News!

K.A. Doore’s debut fantasy trilogy, ASSASSINS OF GHADID, was acquired by Tor in a deal by Kurestin Armada!

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Revenge

Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war. I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism; I’m gonna eat all your guns. Swallow them lock stock and barrel and spit bullet casings onto the dinner table; I’ll give birth to an army of mixed-race babies. With fathers from every continent and genders to outnumber the stars, my legion of multiracial babies will be intersectional as fuck and your swastikas will not be enough to save you, because real talk, you didn’t stop the future from coming. You just delayed our coronation. We have the same deviant haircuts we had yesterday; we are still getting gay-married like nobody’s business because it’s still nobody’s business; there’s a Muslim kid in Kansas who has already written the schematic for the robot that will steal your job in manufacturing, and that robot? Will also be gay, so get used to it: we didn’t manifest the mountain by speaking its name, the buildings here are not on your side just because you make them spray-painted accomplices. These walls do not have genders and they all think you suck. Even the earth found common ground with us in the way you bootstrap across us both, oh yeah: there will be signs, and rainbow-colored drum circles, and folks arguing ideology until even I want to punch them but I won’t, because they’re my family, in that blood-of-the-covenant sense. If you’ve never loved someone like that you cannot outwaltz us, we have all the good dancers anyway. I’ll confess I don’t know if I’m alive right now; I haven’t heard my heart beat in days, I keep holding my breath for the moment the plane goes down and I have to save enough oxygen to get my friends through. But I finally found the argument against suicide and it’s us. We’re the effigies that haunt America’s nights harder the longer they spend burning us, we are scaring the shit out of people by spreading, by refusing to die: what are we but a fire? We know everything we do is so the kids after us will be able to follow something towards safety; what can I call us but lighthouse, of course I’m terrified. Of course I’m a shroud. And of course it’s not fair but rest assured, anxious America, you brought your fists to a glitter fight. This is a taco truck rally and all you have is cole slaw. You cannot deport our minds; we won’t hold funerals for our potential. We have always been what makes America great.

-e.c.c.

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Re-bageling for the evening crowd.

So I made an official Writerly tumblr, because apparently I’ve decided now is the time to create my social media presence as an author. Friend me! I’ll friend you back and re-bagel and send love from that account.

Right now, I plan to use it mostly to re-bagel book and writing posts as well as throw in intermittent inspo for my current WIP, which means a lot of desert-themed rebagels. I’ll also post any news I might re: my writing over there (although I always reserve the right to rebagel here). But, you know, follow there to see it first. I mean. Not that there’s any news coming. *COUGH*

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So I made an official Writerly tumblr, because apparently I've decided now is the time to create my social media presence as an author. Friend me! I'll friend you back and re-bagel and send love from that account. Right now, I plan to use it mostly to re-bagel book and writing posts as well as throw in intermittent inspo for my current WIP, which means a lot of desert-themed rebagels. I'll also post any news I might re: my writing over there (although I always reserve the right to rebagel here). But, you know, follow there to see it first. I mean. Not that there's any news coming. *COUGH*

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This! And the person taking your call will appreciate the short & sweet and your opinion will be counted all the same.

If calling the Rep's office scares you, as it does me, please know you don't have to say much.

All you have to do is say your name, identify your self as a constituent/concerned American, and say, “I am asking you to speak out against the appointment of Steve Bannon as Trump’s chief strategist. Racism and white supremacy have no place in an American presidential administration.”

It’s short and simple and does not take long to say. Others who are less phone shy can make longer and more eloquent pitches. The point is to be heard and counted.

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Informative Ancient Egypt Comics: BROS

Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.

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You can make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence’s name and he’ll receive the certificate of the donation.

Office of Governor Mike Pence State House Room 206 Indianapolis, IN 46204-2797

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Needs more rainbows.

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