#thinking about this lately

[fruity-phrog]

The virgin H*rry P*tter: Somehow discriminates against every minority all at once, basic plot, no queer characters, shoved into a new format ever three or so years, the main characters are dicks but we're supposed to find it endearing, created by a literal nazi denier, needs to just shut the fuck up at this point.

The chad A Very Potter Musical: Does NOT discriminate or use boring and harmful stereotypes, much more interesting and amusing plot, literally one of the main ships is queer and healthy despite being between the antagonists, packaged into a neat trilogy, created by college students that have begun to reinvent musical theater, when the main characters are dicks it is actually acknowledged, whenever they play the entire audience sings every word.

[pretentiouswreckingball]

Think about James dancing quebradita...

[tomwambsgans]

tom would never ASK greg to pull out any particular dynamic during sex but it's inevitable that at some point tom says "do you like that?" while fucking him and greg says "yes sir" and tom comes so hard and abruptly that he cries

[iamthemaestro]

can we reclaim “fairy” as a queer term? idk I resonate with it so much I’m fucking fancy and frilly and I like boys!!! I’m the foppish and effeminate dandy your parents warned you about!!!! bitch. I’m a fairy

[captain-k8kat]

There's a lot that I don't like about hanahaki disease but the worst is how the angst option often ends in the other dying because "they would rather die than not be able to love" and while I'm sure it's unintentional, as an aro person, it always reads as "I would rather die than be like you"

[nagdabbit]

to the tune of nickelback's seminal classic, photograph

look at this buttt. every time i do it makes me nut.

[forthegothicheroine]

When I was a kid, my family had a collection of Julius Lester’s retellings of the Uncle Remus stories, intended to preserve the folktales while excising the framing device. The voice they were told in didn’t have a specific named character (in case, Lester said, people didn’t like one he came up with) but they did have personality, making jokes and commentary on the situations. (”Just because you die in one story doesn’t mean you have to be dead in the next- that wouldn’t be any fun!” is a line that stuck with me.)

One of the most important lessons I learned about folklore came from a story where Brer Rabbit did something bad and violent without any good reason, as trickster figures often do, to Brer Wolf. At the end of the story, the narrator addresses the reader. And he says, paraphrasing from my memory: “I don’t like this story. I don’t think what Brer Rabbit did was right, and it upsets me. But when I think about what sort of things could be done to the tellers and their families to make them want to tell a story like this, then it starts to make sense.”

When we teach inherited stories, be they religious, mythological, or folkloric, I think that’s a good way to approach it, especially when teaching to children. If they think what happens in a story was wrong, you don’t have to try and find a way to say it’s alright. You can say “Yeah, that does read as really strange. Let’s talk about it, and why people might have told it that way!”

[modernlovez]

I forgot to mention but I actually have some League ship playlists on Spotify... I've got 5 so far and I'm curious to know if there's any ships anyone out there thinks needs a playlist

[nanachie]

religious parents teaching kids that pride is a sin so those kids grow up unable to be proud of their own accomplishments so they constantly seek external validation

[itsanikk]

[tr-shb-g]

"never too late to be who you might have been" by sara yukiko mon | still from i saw the tv glow, "there is still time"

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[nymphoutofwater]

And why? Cultural norms? Personal schedule? “Cause I’m always late to everything”?

Bonus points: Region and/or ethnicity?

[sunbloomdew]

do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely

like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day

[iamthemaestro]

I think the real answer is all of them. like in order. but answer as if you had to pick one!

[pouletpourri]

more of that "kaufmo didn't get abstracted" AU