I wrote a longass thing about kink and pride and how people are trapping themselves in a closet of their own making and getting mad at everyone else for not similarly engaging in normative sexuality but I deleted it. I deserve some kind of reward... dubloons perhaps

Hahaha okay I'll just say one brief thing [handing back some doubloons] queer people who happily engage in the whole "Eww i hate these icky degenerate other queers, we're normal unlike them" the gates of heaven are closed to you and you will never be happy defining yourself solely by the Aesthetic Du Jour and what you are Not (the caricature of queerness that right wingers have crafted) and I think deep down you know that too

Call me crazy, but I don’t think the people that use Pride Month as an excuse to expose non-consenting adults and sometimes children to their fetishes and be gross in public are the arbiters of who goes to heaven and not.

I'm gonna be as polite as possible:

1) You have almost entirely imagined this group of people. They do not exist. You have fallen for a specific caricature of gay people as sexual predators designed by homophobic right wingers. I would take a second to pause and take a step back and wonder what basis in reality your fears about exhibitionists exploiting kids at Pride have.

2) Gross does not mean harm. Part of living in a public space means learning to distinguish between the two. The temptation to conflate it in order to lend moral credence to your feelings of disgust is powerful but it doesn't make it valid. People will see a gay couple chastely hold hands and be overwhelmed with feelings of disgust. They will see a gay couple give each other a peck on the cheek and think it's the grossest thing they've ever seen in their lives. Disgust alone can't be the sole measure of what is and isn't allowed in public spaces.

3) Sorry to dig up old discourse, but unfortunately there is a difference between "performing" kink and engaging in kink. A person in a dog mask at Pride is, most likely, not necessarily titilated by the activity or feeling aroused in a particular way. Same with people in leather. They're almost certainly just preoccupied with advertising their lifestyles to other queer kinksters in the same way that anyone in a rainbow tee is. Why do you think people wearing leather to Pride are secretly getting off to it? Have you ever spoken to them? Because you'll find their primary emotion, at least in my experience, is largely variations on a theme of "It's so fucking hot here and I wanna go home and shower and get a vodka soda." They're not like, secretly nutting. Seeing someone in leather gear is not "participating" in their kink any more than seeing someone in a rainbow shirt is participating in their gay relationship. You can't "not" consent to seeing someone in leather gear any more than you can "not" consent to seeing someone in a shirt that says like, "I love blowjobs."

3) Pride isn't "for" kids. This isn't to say kids aren't welcome; rather, as an event it did not originate as an activity or gathering catered towards kids. Its rules and goals were never formed with children in mind. I would again urge you to consider why you think Pride is an event that needs to cater to children and why you think a statistically significant number of them are attending Pride specifically with the children in attendance in mind.

BDSM gets a bad rep as like a violent (male) dom pushing the boundaries of a reluctant (female) sub but in my experience it's a lot of subs with wildly elaborate fantasies screaming shit like "PUT MY ASS IN THE CHILI" while a new dom is like "Okay I think, we are reaching yellow for me,"

Sub: Okay so before we begin how familiar are you with the ancien régime? It's not super important but it does help contextualize this. Essentially I'd like for you to be a ravenous, semi-cannibalistic Antoine Barnave-esque figure

Dom, holding a pen and notebook: Yeah okay

alright but this isn't complete without out the ai ad they used to promote the event. it's beyond words.

A PASADISE OF SWEET TEATS

and this is reportedly the sole oompa loompa at the event

WILLY, WE HAVE TO COOK

#is no one gonna point out the bear’s pussy(via@xaveria) XD

I do find it fascinating how transphobia is like, the canary in the coal mine for absolutely rancid political opinions, like no one is ever normal about everything EXCEPT trans people, it's always like indicative of some utterly wretched comorbidities

Saw another tiktok of someone making fun of pretentious cinephiles who like eight hour long Latvian movies or whatever and I'm so tired of this shit, man, I'm tired of the stupid explanations people come up with to wave away this dumb, dumb joke

Crazy how their hypothetical "bad" movie is always foreign. I'm sure that doesn't betray something about the person making the claim at all, no sir

Carefully navigating a pin over a global map and seeing how far east I can go before getting in trouble, constantly glancing back at my audience for approval.

"Eight hour long... Hungarian movie?"

[Audience titters]

"Eight hour long... Turkish movie?"

[Fewer chuckles, some muttering]

"How about those boring eight hour long... Iranian movies?"

[No laughter, concerned muttering]

"Oops, I meant uh, Romanian."

[Relieved laughter]

God bilingual people are so cool. I'd love to be bilingual someday.

"Aren't you alrea--" Shut the fuck up I've never spoken any language in my life

The thing people don't understand is that mathematically speaking, being slightly bilingual actually makes you LESS bilingual than people who are monolingual. I've created a helpful chart to assist:

This is known as the I'd Rather Die Than Attempt to Converse With A Native Speaker paradox, and it has befuddled scholars for centuries

monolingual: an idiot in one language

bilingual: and a fucking moron in a second

Seinfeld if it took place during the Heian Period

Jerry: Wait so tell me again, what did she say to you when she got to your place?

George, sighing: She said, "Looking out, I see how the wandering moon as well rises from the hills, finds no solace in the world, and then to the hills returns."

Jerry, sucking air through teeth: That's not a good sign--

George: IT WASN'T A GOOD SIGN, JERRY

Jerry, clicking his tongue: You gave her the morning after poem, right?

George: Oh we're doing the morning after poem now?! I'm taking a stand against all these poems! I'm a no poem guy!

Kramer, sliding in through the folding screen: Guess who's seeing the cherry blossoms with the Minister of the Right's first daughter!

One of my favorite Tumblr interactions was when I was like "I like when dudes do [x]" and someone was like, "Sure but let's not assume everyone does." And when I was like "I uh. Specifically said *I* like this" and they were like, "This was clearly written in a relatable, everyman affect designed to make broad generalizations about common preferences." It was then that I realized I am simply operating on a higher tier than most other users

Anyway love when dudes are hairy as shit. And now YOU do too. EVERYONE loves this. If you are reading this I am The Every Man and you now share this preference with me

It's wild to me how much furry art I was marinated in as a child and yet I am still not a furry. "You can be!" No, I can't. I've tried so many times. It's never taken. I'm like those cis+ people but for furries.

I do think it's worth "examining your kinks," at the very least because if you can find an underlying theme you can use it to find other, stranger kinks. Broaden your horizons

The actual reason behind this, btw, was because they believed the chili making person was trans, and therefore wanted to find any excuse to hate on her. It was obvious if you were there, but every external summary has missed this information.

correct, and for additional context the Chilli Lady has been an established and funny twitter shitposter for years who has had kiwifarms on her ass for a very long time. so what is happening here is the mob stalkers waiting for an opportunity to weaponize the insane outrage of that type of "everything is ableism and harassment is praxis" twitter leftist to take down an old enemy. this is why suspicion of "ableism" accusations and that type of moral outrage is warranted at all times. it's not JUST feds who do this kind of thing, it's also just the normal unaffiliated chan ghouls who are using your naive leftist frustrations against you. post smarter

Apparently there's a new Disney mobile game where the characters are all redesigned and idk anything about it but my Twitter feed has been going nuts at this Woody design which made me laugh so hard I had to run to the bathroom to wipe the tears off my face

okay fuckin. hold on. I just found it (it's called Disney Mirrorverse) and holy shit ALL of them are like this

like what the fuck is going on

SULLEY????

update: THERE'S MORE

love this

mother fucker they girlbossified cruella

“Sorry I don’t want to spend my precious free time reading a 400 page Russian novel about depression”

“Film bros when you tell them you like having fun instead of watching a 1923 Greek film about divorce”

Okay so like I’ve already talked extensively about people who say this shit are largely shadowboxing against their insecurities about not having what they perceive to be elevated tastes rather than addressing any meaningful “gatekeeping” in the broad realm of media consumption as a whole, so rather than that I’d like to ask why everyone who says shit like this feels a need to emphasize the foreignness of a particular work as another aspect of how undesirable it is to engage with.

Like obviously these people are not literally saying “lmao I’d NEVER read a Russian/Greek/whatever book” but once you start noticing this you start seeing it everywhere and idk man! Not a fan

OPINION | WHY MAKE FELLINI THE SCAPEGOAT FOR NEW CULTURAL INTOLERANCE? — Martin Scorsese, 1993, The New York Times.

I love Twitter bc everyone is dumb

Just pronouns in general

Are- are you trying to tell me "no one" is a pronoun? Is that what this is saying??

Yes

So if I choose to go by nobody/no one are those nemo-pronouns

i see through your tricks, odysseus

"Stealing books from the library to distribute the materials more freely is anarchist praxis" is genuinely the funniest discourse I've seen on Twitter in months, because the proposition here is literally to create a smaller and slightly shittier library for even fewer people

1) Steal books from gatekeeping institution

2) Distribute them freely

3) When some vanish, steal replacement copies and additional copies to meet demand

4) Find a place to house books

5) Find a way to disincentivize theft, perhaps by tracking who takes what

6) hey wait a sec

There's something extremely endearing but also fucking hilarious about my partner helping me kill these bosses and giving me huge swords and runes in Elden Ring and telling me it's payback for all the stuff I gave them in Animal Crossing

Mage brandishing an enormous crystal staff, eyes glimmering with sorcery: I grant you my strength and the broadsword of screeching death for the kindness you showed me in a previous life, in which you gave me a cool dress and several pumpkin seeds

A problem I have when reading romance novels is I cannot empathize with disliking someone but finding them attractive regardless. If I dislike someone I'm like "You are like a wadded up ball of sweaty socks and I want you to burn in a pyre, undying and screaming for days"

"He infuriated her, though she was willing to admit he was a handsome man" I couldn't begin to tell you what the people I dislike look like because I see red instantly. If you were like "Is he the blond one" I'd be like "idk he's the one who most looks like he should die"