#out in the country

[honeycombhank]

1/2/24

[highonjen]

gas station restroom pics

[vital-information]

“But the Berea students’ Lobby Day experience…demonstrates the dilemmas rural young people face when they rely on similar strategies of visibility and assertions of difference deployed by their urban peers. Unlike urban gay and lesbian communities able to mobilize significant numbers of people and dollars to generate visibility, rural youth and their allies live and work in communities and legislative districts that prioritize solidarity, rely on familiarity, and lack the public or private resources to underwrite sustained, visible dissent to assert queer difference. These are also places where media representations of LGBT people outpace the tangible presence of locally organized constituencies able to or invested in prioritizing queer recognition.

This book [Out in the Country] addresses how young people in the rural United States who lay claim to LGBT identities confront the politics of gay visibility, expectations, and constraints that define and shape the recognition of LGBT-identifying people in popular culture and public life. I take an interdisciplinary approach to examine how rural queer and LGBT-identifying youth, contrary to popular narratives of escape to urban oases, stand their ground to name their desires and flesh out local meaning.”

Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America

[starboundanon]

uM EXCUSE! I've made this thing fit in a little box and you're not writing something that fits in MY VERY SPECIFIC BOX how very dare. I'm gonna complain about it instead of just hitting the "back" button and moving on with my life cause this TOTALLY effects me in a VERY DEEP WAY. (Love you Herbie! <3 <3 <3)

Oh how rude of me! I shall immediately purge all active WIPs from my account and replace them with saucy, character-driven romances in order to satisfy you and you alone, because I certainly do not write for myself, or my fellow fandom members who claim to enjoy my content — just you, o Queen of my heart, light of my life. ♥️

(Love you too, Inky. 💋)

[totto70]

Escape to the countryside. A hot warming Spanish stew and a fireplace. Relaxation ❤️

[re-bee-key]

Empires S2 Festival AU set in a traveling carnival hidden in the magic woods fantasy universe

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[honeycombhank]

Water proof hiking shoes? Check! Happy dog? Check! Beautiful world? Check!

Two mile walk with nelly noodles today!

[demigods-posts]

sometimes. i just have to remind myself that percy took annabeth to paris. like, canonically. he forgot their one-month anniversary. and took his girl to paris to make up for it. the standards are in elysium.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Hardly the sort of place Chessie the Autograph Hound could be imagined trying to coax autographs out of the Cattanooga Cats because sheer isolation and remoteness:

@tinyhomedreams @this-old-stomping-ground

[emo--chanel]

thank you for participating in this very important professional scientific study!

[ikarakie]

love hannibal because every single killer has a different, fun little thing! like making a mural or making a totem pole. none of them are just killing for fun they’re all fucking dramatic about it

[totto70]

Why do I always wake up with the birds those days I’m off? 🤣

[united-under-skyfall]

leverage is so fucking funny. man manages to find the most mentally ill and neurodivergent group of thieves on the market + an even more mentally ill guy whose literal job description was trying to chase all of them, and forces them into a found family speed-run by trying to blow them all up. they lowkey stage a full fucking country wide coup and are like eh 🤷 just another wednesday. this might be a fun place to vacation tho i guess. sophie shows up to her own funeral twice. they're so good at convincing people of their shit that they make a guy's body start reacting to an illness he doesn't have because it isn't real. go completely out on a limb and basically hand this one guy a new password for his computer so they can get into it and he goes with it. parker and hardison have straight up just "fake it 'till you make it"d into the fbi without even attempting to cover their tracks beyond just These Two Guys. half their clients never asked to be their clients and don't know they're their clients, and the other half are random people who find them who fuckin knows how, meanwhile no government agency can track them down without selling their soul to sterling. they make a point to have a dramatic scene w a Big Bad Shadowy Government Guy who doesn't actually get caught or brought to justice or anything telling them he's going to hunt them all down, and in any other show this would probably earn at least a minor arc later on but he literally never shows up again. an entire season finale hinged on a cake and a bunch of clams. they accidentally made eliot a celebrity not once, not twice, but three times. parker blew up her foster parents' house when she was like. nine. and it's hardly a footnote. hardison is just casually an artistic prodigy but it's only ever brought up for the most background of background gags. eliot's biggest beef with parker and hardison for like two and a half seasons is that they won't stop making weird food with lasers and refuse to realize they can't make a decent beer to save their lives. sophie's immediate response to being shot is to call her shooter a wanker. there's a character who has literally killed a man with a mop and they had the audacity to only put her in one episode.