Fanboys of the Universe

Maybe I’m crazy but I think when Mark Hamill was young he kind of looked like he could be a real life 60s/70s greeting card character. It’s not exact but they’re so Mark Hamill adjacent.

Vintage 1970s iron-on transfers

There's something I've been dying to ask you.

I own this beauty! In the box! ❤️

This week, the Trump-appointed Supreme Court ruled that it’s not okay for private or public institutions to level the playing field for people of color with affirmative action, but they also ruled that it IS okay for private institutions to discriminate against the LGBTQIA community. On this last day of Pride month, I’m just pledging to do my part to keep fighting for equity, to keep fighting to make this society we can be proud of. (Also, Cas is gay.) 

CHRIS HEMSWORTH Instagram 

STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

V : The Final Battle 1984

Kenner Star Wars toys catalogs

Honestly, this shit with Hogwarts Legacy is just like what happened with Chick-fil-A like ten or fifteen years ago. Some of y'all might be too young to remember it, but it went almost exactly like this shit today, only the target was technically gay people (not like we aren't all lumped together when push comes to shove, but gay was the political scapegoat in US politics at the time, as trans people were still on the fringes of social awareness).

It came out that the people who own Chick-fil-A were donating to organizations in other countries that were actively working to get gay people there killed, and were also very monetarily invested in stripping gay people of any legal rights they'd amassed in the US. So a lot of queer folks were asking for allies to boycott Chick-fil-A to show solidarity.

And it turned into a giant fuckin circus for bigots to rally around. There was even a support Chick-fil-A day, I remember it because I was a server at the time and our restaurant was empty most the day - while the line for Chick-fil-A down the road was like a mile long consistently.

But while that was obviously annoying, that wasn't what hit people the hardest. Cuz we expect clowns to wear the shoes, right, it's not shocking.

What disappointed people, or really demoralized a lot of young queers at the time especially, was the allies who would still go there. Because they like the sandwiches or fries or whatever. The people who'd march with them in the parade or be supportive of marriage equality, who would then turn right around and give their money to people who were trying to actively harm their friends.

Because the chicken was good.

I remember a friend of mine being really just absolutely broken up over that, trying to understand some of her friends reasoning and at the time I couldn't give her an answer. I could now, though.

And it's this:

Talk is cheap.

It costs nothing to say things. A person can say whatever the hell they want, any feel good flowery thing, and it doesn't really cost them.

But when they are asked to actually give something up - or put their money where their mouth is and just....can't do it. Well then there isn't much else for them to say, is there? At least nothing that's worth anything.

Some people had to find out the hard way that the choice between a chicken sandwich and funding people who did not believe in their dignity as a human being was, in the eyes of certain allies, apparently really hard. Too hard, in fact.

These allies would march in the colorful parades and go to the bars for drinks, but in the end, you couldn't actually depend on them to inconvenience themselves. They were fair weather allies, and they were there for the party and that's about it . They wanted entertainment, and it didn't matter if that came from having fun gay friends or a tasty sandwich.

This is the same thing, really, or pretty close to it.

These types of people just wanna have fun. Either you, their friend or whatever, are fun or the game is fun, and if you stop being fun by incidentally making them feel a little guilty about where they spend their money , then they might just choose the thing that doesn't make them currently uncomfortable.

And I'm not saying these people who say trans rights online but who also really, really want to play wizard game and already have are horrible people or anything - they're just not very good. They have no real character. And unfortunately there's not much you can do to change that, other than investing time and energy in people who do.

it’s unsurprising but continuously disappointing how many people will pick something pleasant and fun over solidarity with you, then get defensive and unhappy when you make it clear to them that because they picked something besides you, they lost you.

‘are you really ending our friendship over--’ you ended it! that’s the price! you picked doing something i said would hurt me and people like me and you did it anyway and you liked it and i watched you do it right in front of me. how little do you think of me and what i deserve, that you expected me to forgive you?

if you chose what’s easy over what’s right, you lose the friends you have wronged. that’s how it works. that’s what the consequences of your choice are.

PEDRO PASCAL for Wired (2023)

these guys friggin crushed me istg this is not fair

It has been a while since I posted anything, this is mostly because I have been terribly stressed with work. Today, however, I wanted to give you guys something fun, so here a cross between princess Leia and Henry Cavill, I hope you enyoj it.

Brandon Routh in Partners 1.05 “2 Broke Guys“

Gil Gerard - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)