A Mishmash Of Shiny Things

my parents trying to figure out what to get me for christmas

[Image ID: screenshot of a tweet by Hurt CoPain (@ SaeedDiCaprio) which reads “what the hell is that fruit passionate about” /end ID]

So I was looking up some stuff for reasons and I ended up looking into the official stance on homosexuality of the Church of England.

Apparently they think it’s okay for people of the same sex to be in a civil partnership, but not to have sex.

Discrimination aside that is the funniest possible stance you could take. You’d better not be having sex in that marriage of yours. It’s fine for you to be bound together forever in love but I’d better not catch you touching your privates. We’ll bless your union but you’d better not do the sex.

I must become an even bigger faggot these next four years. As is the way

I feel like I'm mostly queer in the social way. Like I'm horny for women dgmw but that's such a minor part of my queer experience. I'm not trying to date anyone and hookups take too much energy. But any time I'm in a new town I'm like ok where are the queers?? Where are my new best friends?? I'm not trying to get a girlfriend but I am trying to find out which bar has the best karaoke night

im worried some of my mutuals might be gay. how do i address this?

im worried some of

my mutuals might be gay. how

do i address this?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

shoutout to ace lesbians. shoutout to aro lesbians. shoutout to aroace lesbians. can i get a round of applause for a-spec lesbians!

A little over 8 years ago, a friend of mine, L (name redacted) was hit by her scum-bucket boyfriend.  It wasn’t the first time he’d hit her, but it was the first time he’d hit her in front of her best friend J. (name also redacted.)  J objected to the abuse, you might say she objected violently to the abuse (which is one of the reasons why the names are redacted even if the statute of limitations should be up.)

After scum-bucket had fled the scene, J decided that L needed some more support, so she called every women she knew.  Everyone available showed up to L’s apartment with weapons and booze.  Imagine if you will, around 30 women stuffed into a one-bedroom apartment comforting L and passing around the drinks when someone spots scum-bucket’s car pulling into the parking lot.

It was decided that a few ladies would stay in the apartment with L while the rest of us when downstairs to confront scum-bucket and prevent him from entering the building.

Now all of us ladies at that time happened to belong to the same theater group that specialized in swashbuckling plays, lots of sword fights and the like.  So, when I say we brought weapons, I mean we brought things like broadswords, battleaxes, crossbows, rapiers and like.

So, scum-bucket gets out of his car and starts walking across the parking lot only to spot 25 or so heavily armed women marching out of the building, raising their weapons and charging at him while screeching like furies.

Scum-bucket had a pretty good sense of self-preservation and the sight of us was inspiring.  He ran back to the car and peeled out of the parking light like the hounds of hell were at his heels and I suppose we were.

Anyhow, L never heard from him again.  Eventually, she and J started dating and they’ll have been married for 5 years next September.

I’d watch that on TV

[Image ID: Tweet from (skull emoji, snowflake emoji) (@/ sadkxit) reading: queer eye, except with lesbians helping straight girls get out of crap relationships /End ID]

Shut ur up, people can wear whatever they want to pride, also ur misgendering a random guy because how dare he be proud of his body huh?

This is absolutely something that was and is done by older lgbtq+ people and flamboyant people during protests and marches to normalize the fact that men can have breasts, that men can look like anything and still be men.

It reminds me of how trumeds like to claim that the community founders would have hated people like me, but trumeds are the ones who would have hated the community founders. The people who started the protests, the people who were “too” flamboyant, too loud, too non-conforming, the people who put themselves in the line of fire for harassment and hate, etc.

It’s almost like pride was originally supposed to be a protest and was never about licking the boots of cishet people

official boob post

Aren't plushies beautiful? They were created so a sick child had something to hold. They were created so an adult living alone might have a friend to keep them company. They were created for a teenager to clutch to her chest as she cries. They were created to accompany a college student to his geology classes. They were created not for any material benefit, they don't change tires, but to be loved.

They were created for the purpose of love.

Fact: Today (September 23rd) is bisexuality awareness day. Be aware of bisexuals. They are dangerous.

Just because we’re vampiric in nature doesn’t mean we’re dangerous. Some of us are quite nice. You’d see that if you came closer within biti- I mean appreciating distance

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[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison.

We talk about “fish” (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of “fish” that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be “fish”-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it’s still a useful label when we talk about certain features that “fish” tend to have in common.

Gender is absolutely the same way.

homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.

Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis

The Alan Turing statue on my campus

wait fuck this is soooooo important always reblog

I will never NOT reblog

“Queer people need to get weirder-” you can’t handle like. A lesbian.

reblog to handle a lesbian

"Pride is not a party"

Yes the fuck it is, stop being a baby

Yes pride is a riot and a fight and yadda yadda yadda but you are not revolutionary for sucking the joy out of queerness. Sometimes, pride is a party. It is a celebration of the fact that we are here, we're queer, and we're not going anywhere. And that is just as important as throwing bricks and fighting cops, actually.

If your activism doesn't allow you to enjoy the fruits of your labors you will burn out babe. Go suck some dick. Hit on that lesbian. Get the faggy haircut!!! Dance, for the love of god.