#this seemed important to document

[battlesluts]

With over 60K members, the workers of the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 in NorCal recently voted to pass a resolution condemning the Israeli genocide in Gaza and promising to push reps further for a ceasefire.

[monstermoviedean]

anyone else have the weirdest and most vivid dreams between snooze buttons

[minorfamilysupremacy]

quick note: if you're turning on build due to the most recent chat leaks, do me a favor and unfollow, then learn critical thinking skills and ask yourself why you're happily playing into the hands of a known liar and abuser.

[ollyou]

IMPORTANT!!!

In light of recent (albeit poor) doxxing attempts made towards me by people who associate with the following user, along with other very absurd things I’ve been sent, I’m putting my foot down once again and letting all of you know that I want any of you to hardblock me if you support @sound-hz / @tentamissile-maestro, as this person has openly encouraged harassment towards me and obsessively namedrops me for their followers to go after me.

I’ve been in the process of writing something as this person has attempted to spread an overdramatized and inaccurate document full of negative assumptions towards me, however as my own document is not finished, I cannot send it here at the moment. I’m only writing this here because I’m getting annoyed with their followers telling me “I know your address :3” and such.

I do not want such toxic and drama-hungry people anywhere near me. Please, please do NOT interact with me at all whatsoever if you support sound-hz. Thank you, and I’m sorry any of you have to see this. I wish this never had to happen, but it was forced upon me after enduring so much harassment.

[immaterial-girl]

btw if there are any other young americans out there who are extremely intimidated by filing your taxes and don’t know where to start, i really recommend H&R block. I use the free one because my taxes are pretty straightforward as a single person, and even when ive moved across state lines like 5 times i can still do it with H&R block for free

just go to their website, make an account, and you’ll have to click “yes i want to use the free version yes i promise NO i don’t want to give you money” a couple times but i find it really direct and simple and it walks you through the whole process in one sitting. it takes me less than one afternoon every year

[toxooz]

considering more and more abt how straight up buying a house is the best option for me and im

[bytebun]

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[neroniiii]

There's a lot of things I could've clarified on in that post but probably the most obvious one is that Shin's feelings about his friendship with Hiyori are also being actively warped by the fact that the person he admired so much is the same one putting him in a death game.

[in-tua-deep]

when i was younger i always had this vague idea of creating a time capsule and burying it deep in the woods. there was just something about the idea of putting everything into a waterproof case to be discovered, buried treasure for someone in the distant future that would end up in museums, proof of what life was like

it was almost like a love letter to the future. here i am. here i was. here’s my favorite book - what do you think about it? have i shown you a picture of my favorite stuffed animal? picture because i can’t part with them, not even for this. i put my math textbook from fifth grade that i forgot to return in here. do you do math the same way? i like algebra but geometry was really hard. has the world progressed past the need for proofs yet? hello, how are you, what do you think?

i never did make myself a time capsule to bury in the woods. i realized today that i don’t really think about it anymore, either. that i no longer have this intense drive to be remembered in some way in the far distant future. is that sad? is that good? 

i think i have started to appreciate the ephemeral a little bit more. the temporary moments with no documentation. maybe these moments and thoughts and feelings aren’t for the world, they’re just for me. they don’t serve a purpose of educating future historians about what life was like, they’re just me trying to live and be happy and that’s okay. i don’t need to serve a grand purpose. i don’t need to be remembered.

but even as i write that, i think that there’s a certain piece of longing in me to reach across time. but i don’t think it’s about what life was like for me, it’s about the person who finds it: communication without boundaries, hand reaching out

how are you? do you like math? do you have a favorite stuffed animal? do you know about how bull sharks can swim in freshwater? do you have any pets, what are their names? are you happy? are you kind? are you okay? can i help?

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

me in 8th grade 🤝 me in 11th grade

mm arts related extracurricular is a safe space and a vaguely escapist coping mechanism <33

[bybdolan]

sweet nothing kind of adds to that theory like whatever is happening outside im going to run to you and we will stay in our domestic bliss

Gonna answer this + the idea of Sweet Nothing as a response to peace in the same breath: I think the undercurrent in all of her songs about her relationship is that it is incredibly quiet when compared to the noise outside (although we also get to hear about some of the troubles) and the whole idea of carving out a quiet life is SO prevalent in Taylor's music + interviews post-rep. The songs paint a really sweet image and I am glad she found that life and, more importantly, (as evidenced by e.g. peace) is willing to fight for it.

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

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[artsietango]

This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.

I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.

My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

"men are alone so its understandable that they want to murder women:(" you guys sound psychotic

[wulfhalls]

irulan is like im here im doing historian shit im documenting stuff im wearing cunty outfits im hanging out in the garden with my eugenic cult sisters im having revelations of geo political consequences im saying words @ christopher walken who doesn't seem to be in the room with us spiritually im wearing cunty outfits again im regal and poised and haughty im throwing looks at my new husband and his girlfriend while wearing my cuntiest outfit yet im doing voiceover work im walking im the best dressed person in the room at all times im the most important girlie in the whole wide world <3

[omgthatdress]

The Importance of Studying Queerness in Context.

When studying queer history, one always has to keep in mind two seemingly contradictory things: firstly, that queerness and queer people have always existed, but at the same time, that queerness and queer identities have not always existed the way they exist today.

Modern queer terms and identities did not exist to queer people in the past. They would not have thought of themselves as "gay" or "trans" or even "queer." While these modern terms may seem to fit certain historic individuals, these individuals would not have thought of themselves as such, and it would not be a part of their lived experience. To apply the modern identities of queerness to history is to erase the lives and experiences of queer people in history, and care must always be taken to understand queer history within the context of its time.

When looking at queer history online, there is a *lot* of misinformation and misidentification out there simply because people are eager to apply modern queerness to history, often in places where it doesn't belong.

A lot of old photos get misidentified as gay because they show two people of the same sex showing some level of physical affection towards each other. Okay, I'll admit that the open-mouth kissing photobooth pictures are probably actually gay, but an old picture of two men or two women holding hands or with their arms around each other, or even kissing on the cheek, were common shows of platonic affection.

I hate to break everyone's gay little hearts, but without explicit documentation saying so, assuming that these couples are all gay is putting modern queer identity in places where it simply didn't exist. The women in the final picture are sisters. The "not married" boys are bachelors interested in marrying women.

In the silent film Wings, the emotional climax of the film comes in the form of a kiss exchanged between the characters played by Jack Powell and David Armstrong. It often gets attributed as the first gay kiss in cinema history, even on the fucking YouTube clip I found:

Except it isn't gay. The two men spend the whole film fighting over who gets to be Clara Bow's boyfriend. When Richard Arlen's character is fatally wounded, his dear friend rushes to his side and kisses him goodbye, because in the 1920s, that was considered the ultimate show of friendship. The movie ends with Jack Powell falling in love with Clara Bow.

Similarly, a kiss shared between Lillian and Dorothy Gish in the 1921 movie Orphans of the Storm often gets attributed as being queer, but it wasn't.

They were sisters playing sisters. None of this was considered unusual.

Pooh-poohing on all of these images that so many people on the internet breathlessly and joyously laud as proud gay history isn't fun. It makes me feel like I'm fucking Ben Shapiro. But if misinformation is allowed to flourish, it allows people like Ben Shapiro to come in and make the argument that queerness is a modern invention and queer people didn't exist in the past.

Everyone loves to see queerness represented in history, but the fact is that none of the stuff in this post would have been seen as explicitly gay and thus shouldn't be called gay today. If we are to understand queer history in its fullness and richness, it is absolutely crucial that we get it right. We owe it to our queer ancestors to recognize, honor, and not embellish the actual lives they lived.