#I REALLY DID

[deliriousbean]

"And it is this moment of not just release, but relief."

- Oliver Stark

HAPPY ONE WEEK OF CANON BI BUCK!!!

[cappulcino]

Gwendoline Christie served AND ate AND left no crumbs.

Her laugh legit added 10 years to my life expectancy.

[fatherofpuppets]

You, too, are not immune to the influence of pretty podcast man

[mulderscully]

THE X-FILES | 6.06

[mikesbasementbeets]

the snowball

aka mike watches all of his friends abandon him for heterosexuality and becomes increasingly distressed

[minas-linkverse]

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During my worst depression, I'd hide in whatever distraction I could. Video games, shows, art, I'd just sit in my room for hours. My mom at the time started working from home to care for me. She had the unfortunate job of reminding me I continued to exist in the real world, and make sure I ate and went to appointments. Yet she always did her best to smile... It felt wrong because what was there to even smile about?? But now I look back on it fondly. Despite my annoyance it gave me hope.

In other words, sup! I'm projecting over here! (For the record, the times spoken of above were pre-covid, I'm doing excellent nower days.)

[wish-i-were-heather]

oh dear

[forzacinquesedici]

made these into polaroids and gave myself some Big Feelings

[sheepkebby]

Last night I had a dream that there was a new pokemon called a Stringull and it looked like this

[cocoabubbelle]

SCOGUE-“Tember”

Day 4: [🦇] Addams Family

Nobody asked for this:

But I did it anyway 😜

[fuckingfishfuck]

We always talk about the amazing themes and raw emotion of the "Apologize to England" speech, but this morning I was thinking about some of the earlier, less quoted lines in that scene.

"There is no life here, there is no joy here there is no love here.."

"What are you talking about? What do you think I'm out there fighting for if not to make all those things possible here?'

"You'll fight a war, so we can make a life?"

"You don't get one without the other, my sweet"

Specifically, I was thinking about these lines and how they're relate to early queer activists, whose lives Flint's story very much parallels.

Fint is presented with two options in this scene, and these options are mirrored in the story as a whole. He can continue to fight, to build a life that is true to him and to Thomas's legacy, or he can apologize, capitulate to the beliefs and policies and rules of the crown and build an easier, more comfortable life in Boston.

Think about the early queer activists, for whom it also required an intolerable sacrifice to apologize for who they are and what they believe. For whom asking for a "pardon," renouncing their identities and integrating back into society was an option they weren't willing to accept. A sacrifice they weren't willing to make.

Think about how these people, like Flint, weren't willing to allow society take everything from them, call them a monster and then ask them to apologize.

Think about how people around them, people who loved them, might have seen the agony they were putting themselves through by resisting and begged them to give up the fight. To accept a pardon, even if it means admitting that society was right and living an easier, simpler life.

Think about how their loved ones must have felt, waiting home as they risked their lives in protest of a system so much bigger and stronger than them. Think of how Miranda must have felt, sitting in that house and not knowing when, or if Flint would ever walk though that door again.

Think about how these activists, just like Flint, saw no other way. How they were willing to fight a war so that they could build a life in a world that would accept them for who they were. How they couldn't get one without the other.

[neonliminality]

Being forced to watch Petticoat Junction vs the joy of watching the Beverly Hillbillies.

[markscherz]

Have you seen the new Metazooa browser game? It’s like wordle, but for guessing an animal by drilling down taxonomically. Today’s answer made me think of you!

Yeah, unfortunately I am not a big fan. But I think I am really not the target audience. I would want a game that gives you the option to guess by Latin name, and that would have a much, much more comprehensive list of species that you can guess, rather than a very short predetermined list. Such a thing would be possible to build if you drew on existing databases, but of course, would quickly stop being fun, when >50% of the games are trying to guess some random beetle.

[weirdcat1213]

saw 2 posts (on twitter) saying matakara is now an asshole and beyond saving AND WE'RE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN. ITS BEEN 4 YEARS WE ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT DOING THIS AGAIN

[woundedheartwithin]

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

Not against ppl somehow making Edwin Stanton a babygirl but they’re not doing it in a right way & they interpret the lincoln cabinet relationship terribly (maybe I should just say they did not interpret anything at all) so please don’t go after manhunt abe/stanton that’s not right