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happy april 30th!

#eheeheheh that time of year agaaaiinnnn #may 1 #just tumblr things

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So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

#important #history #equality #queer history #yes I will use the word queer and no you can’t stop me

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ELLE ARGENT + OUTFITS Heartstopper (2022-) | Season 2

#heartstopper #elle argent #so pretty!!!

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"And we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't" is the queerest line in good omens for me. I mean, most Queer Experience line, for me personally. It's like a gut punch. It wakes me from sleep. Fuck.

#good omens #ineffable spouses

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My mind still trying to fathom how Mai and Aang get along

#WHOLESOME #I do think she and aang would actually get along #atla fanart #atla #atlaverse

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Is LOTR trending because they just announced they’re showing ALL the extended editions in theaters in June?? Cause that’s a thing that’s happening!!

Click here to see if they’re playing near you!!

#lotr #movies #my post #mine #you bet your ass I’m going to all 3 too #HELM’S DEEP IN CINEMAS??!!! #FUCK YES

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The Fifth Element (1997) dir. Luc Besson – costume design by Jean Paul Gaultier

#the fifth element #movies #JEAN PAUL GAULTIER BITCHES #fucking iconic

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911onabc: We are thrilled by the opportunity to tell Evan ‘Buck’ Buckley’s story and are grateful to Oliver Stark for portraying it with love and care. Discovering and expressing yourself—at any point in life—is a beautiful thing and we hope you feel loved and seen here.

(🎨: @/zuna_craft, @bucksketch , @skyhighrollins911 )

#FUCK YES!!!! #911 abc #bisexuality #equality #I don’t go here but I love this!!!

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Bonus:

#percival in his head #COME ON GUYS GET A ROOM ALREADY #lol #merthur #bbc merlin

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#AAAHHHHHH I LOVE THEM #vultures #birds #animals #obligatory ornithologist reblog

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#BITCH #sorry still not over it #sherlock cast #freebatch #martin freeman #benedict cumberbatch

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This is what I'm thinking while reading this sentence:

Is this what Neil and Terry meant?

PLEASE TELL ME @neil-gaiman

#snake!crowley #good omens #book omens #cuttttteeeeeeee

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What’s your favourite line from Good Omens? The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale. part 1/3 || [insp.]

#good omens #ineffable spouses #😭😭😭😭😭

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Fright Night (2011) + Letterboxd Reviews About David Tennant

+ Bonus:

#fright night #fam I haven’t seen this one since like #2012 #….I think it’s time for a rewatch

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Michael you're killing me with your acting choices. Aziraphale placing his hand just above Crowley's heart wasn't on my S2 bingo card

#good omens fanart #good omens cast #MICHAEL AND HIS FUCKING ACTING CHOICES #(it’s david tho can you blame him)

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Leverage Did It Well

I didn’t notice this the first time I watched Leverage (or the sixth), but when I posted a GIF of Hardison last week I noticed something…

The line is adorable, the writing fantastic, but the big thing I noticed is YOU CAN SEE HARDISON. Aldis Hodge is lit up so you can see his face easily.

Here’s another GIF.

And another…

So, here’s the thing. In most shows black actors fade in the background. They’re lit incorrectly and the dark background combined with the dark skin means the character vanishes. Especially on shows with cops and a lot of white people. 

Poor David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard) of Numb3rs is invisible in every night scene because he’s not lit up correctly. 

Before the advent of colored TV there were more black actors. They were common almost. But with color came the problem that a dark background makes a fair skinned person stand out while making a darker skinned person vanish. The Hollywood solution was to stop hiring darker skinned people. (Not a good idea).

In the first GIF Hardison is in a darker room. He should have vanished, they back-lit him, had ground lights, and framed him well. 

Same with the second on, notice the light on his head. He’s glowing like an angel.

Third GIF… notice the lamp placement? The light almost washes out the color of the green towel behind Hardison, but it means the viewers see him perfectly. And isn’t that really the goal? 

#leverage #I love this show so muuuccchhhhhhh

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↳ elizabeth bennet + roasting her way into darcy's heart

#they’re just so perfect together #pride and prejudice #2005 p&p #jane austen #elizabeth x darcy #it takes a true man to love a woman because she calls him out on his bullshit lol