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hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever
You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules
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also i think this has been figured out at this point but the whole "i miss queerbaiting" convo is like... the part of queerbaiting that ruled was because the show was usually putting forward two dudes, those two dudes got to have character arcs and motivations and writing behind both of them. they could both be interesting individually. because neither of them were shunted into 'disposable romantic interest' for each other.
but if a gay couple on tv is now supposed to be there, writers can fall for the m/f trap of 'only one of these characters needs to be fleshed out, the other is just here to explicitly be the love interest and maybe die later' except now they can both be dudes. it's not that queerbaiting was inherently better it's that unfortunately people have always been bad at understanding what makes fictional romance compelling, which is 'who the fuck are these people in the first place and why should i care'
#shipping#queerbaiting#write characters who fall in love#those are the best romances#if i think of the m/f tv romance i think that work#chidi x eleanor#that one's top tier#another good example is how awful ross and rachel are compared to monica and chandler#when ross and rachel were deliberate while monica and chandler were the extremely popular accident#and it's because the whole point was that they were all friends and monica and chandler were two friends first who happened to fall in love#ross and rachel were never really friends#an even better example of this is how few animes have m/f shippers and the ones that do have very strongly written female characters#such as fairy tail for example#this is why supernatural is the most queerbaiting show ever btw#because it could write amazing male characters with complex and highly emotional ride or die feelings for eachother#while all its ladies were either domestic or sexual fantasies. it only really got the hang of writing complex female characters later
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I feel like my Hansry friends will enjoy this video:
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sorry i can't make it my girlfriend's doing experiments on me again
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Waiter! More Slay the Princess fanart!
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Ah yes, my favourite flavour combo. My personal ideal throuple. My Neopolitan, my tres leches.



Sad Wet Puppy, Snarky Twink and Competent Boss Bitch.
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Some 2025 news that doesn’t suck because news always sucks these days:
Some articles found by @reasonsforhope
$300 million in federal funding for Indigenous-led conservation in the Northwest Territories arrives
Portugal introduces paid menstrual leave for endometriosis and adenomyosis
Healthy, sustainable climate 'is a human right', rules UN court
Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia
Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct
Ciara Becomes Citizen Of Benin Under New Law For Slave Trade Descendants
Tennessee to become first state in South to protect access to IVF, birth control
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory
Ghana passes Affirmative Action Bill after decades of advocacy
‘Long Overdue’ Lead Ammunition Ban Announced in the UK to Save Thousands of Birds
Yellowstone aspen showing signs of recovery following 1995 reintroduction of wolves to park
Chess Lover Introduces Game to Malawi’s Prisons, Schools and Street Kids
Dutch Cities Are Building These Tiny Staircases to Help Cats Exit Their Canals
Arab women in maritime finalize strategy to advance gender equality
Endangered ‘Blue Dragon’ of the Caymans Roars Back from the Brink as Population Climbs Above 1,000
A Tiny Gecko Species Once Thought Extinct Just Made a Comeback in the Galápagos
Iran’s Asiatic Cheetah Population Rises to 20, Says Department of Environment + Video
Wattled Crane no longer Critically Endangered in South Africa
Gov. Jared Polis signs bill protecting gender-affirming care coverage in Colorado
Judge Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Landmark Ruling Backed by Letitia James
Wisconsin bear with plastic jar on their head has been freed, is safe
Spain offers 17 weeks of paid parental leave to new parents
Thailand ranks first globally for gender equality in women's education
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I know your title says queer history but do you have any recommendations covering the straight movement? Specifically, how did hating queer people become a priority for the straights and why did they build their political project around it?
Wonderful question! Yes, I actually have read a bit about this!
For a more modern look at how homophobia is enforced and expanded culturally:

The Pink Line
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For a very expansive historical look at this discussion:

The Construction of Homosexuality
(Affiliate link)
For a book that looks at specifically the heterosexual experience of this:

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
I hope this helps!
#queer history#I've been thinking about this too#there's this pushback atm against tumblr and shipping and media homoromanticism being defined as romantic or sexual in certain circles#and what strikes me is how much these circles crave that straight(heh)forward classical homoramantic friendship for themselves#but they fundamentally don't understand art and history and how censorship and historical erasure effects women and queer people#they wants the right to say sam and frodo a 'just friends' without understanding that they are canonically 'just friends'#a homoromantic interpretation of their friendship is a reclamation of a possibility not an attempt to marginalise male friendship#sex and romance is not a degredation of a purer relationship. It's simply a form a relationship can take.#it's clear how little they understand of queer history and art too when they start arguing that Alexander the great or Achilles wasn't queer#history and art is a lot queerer and 'feminist' than these people can take because they've never studied it or tried to understand.#they are blindsided by the simple truth that women were never as subservient as any misogynistic fantasy perpetuates#and that sexuality was always more flexible than any inflexible religious mores allowed for it to be.
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A quick drawing of those two, far from tired of them yet : D
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So if you're just waking up, itchio took down NSFW and a lot of queer content overnight. They did this with no warning or announcement, no emails, nothing. Their statement blames Collective Shout, the same people who went after Steam, for pressuring the payment processors.
Well. Let's pressure the bastards back.
List of starting points:
This person is filing a complaint with the Australian Consumer Commission:
Phone numbers:
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Alternative Mastercard numbers:
Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113
Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309
Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767
Websites:
Mastercard:
https://www.mastercard.com/global/en/vision/who-we-are/global-locations.html
https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/personal/get-support.html
Visa:
https://investor.visa.com/corporate-governance/contact-the-board/default.aspx
https://usa.visa.com/Forms/contact-us-form.html
Remember: don't be an asshole to rank and file employees. Don't yell, swear, or threaten. You're mad at the corporate heads, not the normies. Be firm but polite in all messages you leave, no matter where they are.
If you have any other links or ideas, please reblog with them! We're all in this together. If you're queer, remember that you're pornographic to them by default. They will come for you, so strike now while we can!
#itch.io#itchio#steam#politics#censorship#anti censorship#queer art#this terf group is also being funded by us evangelical lobby groups#which is unsurprising but deeply frustrating#censorship is always about control and never about protection
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SO👏 I work in a library and every year we strive to do pride displays, but theres a certain group of assholes who will check out the majority of our queer non fic for the soul purpose of gatekeeping that information from the public.
SO I WAS WONDERING if any of you lovely internet people had online resource suggestions, or potentially any pdf booklets full of queer information I could print out?
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Anti-intellectual attitudes are on the rise on social media, the billionaires who run these apps are banking on people being uneducated or uninterested in education slipping from their fingers. So now is a good time to invest time into following accounts that teach you things, engaging with their content, and most importantly LEARNING.
Communal learning is inherently anti-fascist. Give them hell.
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