#there was something lgbt between them

[ajajshdhdhdjfj]

they're girlfriends your honour 🫡

#there was something lgbt between them #i dont make the rules #except i do #wlw #ann x kuina #kuina x ann #aib #alice in borderland #kuina alice in borderland #kuina aib #ann alice in borderland #ann aib #imawa no kuni no alice #imawa no kuni no arisu

[kindaorangey]

i need 70 million trans girl spider gwen fics stat

#spiderverse #thunder rambles #just a million different coming out scenarios with her and miles please. perhaps even some lgbt bonding between the two of #them. #lest we forget that miles is bisexual #this is something i never knew i needed until now

[trashsketch]

not to brainrot on a new thing but witch hat atelier is everything to me right now (i am not done, only finished vol 6 but boy when i am done i will probably despair)

#witch hat atelier #coco #agott #my art #okay but these two. these two. theres something lgbt happening between them i know it

[specialshinytrinkets]

The weirdest gripe I have with Mr Small enjoyers part of the fanbase is as to why he was unanimously agreed to be Canadian

Like

Is it some sort of American thing I don't understand or?????????

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#random.dusty #dusty.art #tawog #tawog mr small #steve small #meme #i seriously do not understand. can someone explain #just so that you'd know: i do not have a problem with this headcanon (or i guess by this point it's fanon) #it just??? confuses me??????? like why specifically canadian is there a large auditory of hippies/vegetarians in canada #???????????????????? #at least with the cloud headcanon (yes i'm still just. a bit not over it) it can be easily disproved. he canonically has flesh and bones #that face has traumatized some people; my ex-pal used to use the screenshot as a meme to torment me (as a friend) 😭😭😭😭 #you do you. just. idk not my thing #but the canadian headcanon - i can't even say anything about it cuz?????? you can't prove it. and neither disprove it #the only flag he's had in the show is an lgbt flag and honestly thank you #again #maybe i don't know something. i am not american. neither am i canadian. i've never been to either of these countries #amd do not know the relationship between them #the amazing world of gumball #fursona #plushsona

[musclesandhammering]

I could get cancelled for this immediately, but does anyone else get really irritated when you see a certain subset of the queer community inserting themselves into other subsets’ issues?

Like when cis gay people think they can speak for trans folks just because “well we’re all lgbt.”

Or like gay men thinking they can make misogynistic comments about lesbians and use the word d*ke etc just because “well we’re lgbt too”.

Or (and this is a big one lately) queer women inserting themselves into conversations that are about issues specific to queer men, and acting like they have exactly as much credibility in the argument because “well we’re just as lgbt as you.”

It’s just like… yeah we’re all queer. But each individual group is their own mini community, and they all have their own things that are specific to them, and if you aren’t in that exact demographic then you don’t have the experience necessary to add your input on those topics. And if you go ahead and shove your way into the conversation anyway, then you’re like… only 5% better than a homophobe. If that.

#scrolled past a thread on Twitter earlier about how Billy porter complained about media giving Harry styles #who is maybe straight maybe not #so much attention for doing things that openly queer men have been doing for ages #so obviously very much a debate that should be happening between queer men and nonbinary folks as well as gnc straight guys #but the ENTIRE comment section was either straight women or queer women #most of them were Harry styles stans #and it was just so annoying cause like you guys aren’t the ones this conversation is about #you’re not the ones directly being talking about or effected by this topic #and yet you’re here dominating the conversation arguing with actual gay men over something that affects them #… just because you got mad that someone insulted ur senpai 😒 #annoying af #queer issues #queer discourse #q slur mention #lgbt #anti harry styles #just in case lol

[solradguy]

Arcsys having solky fanpages on their old guilty gear website doesn't surprise me imo. the artist that drew the most recent recap manga on their current website used to draw solky art back in the day.

GOD. I can't believe Sol/Ky was like a sneeze away from just being canon at one point. This is hilarious and explains so much about how they're often depicted in official art even here in 2023

#asks #I wonder if ASW never had those issues with the IP and Sega in the mid '00s and if- #-LGBT rights had been further along by then if they would have just made it canon and then did something else with Dizzy #I'm glad it didn't end up that way because (as I've mentioned before) even setting aside the fact that Dizzy marrying- #-Ky makes Sol his father-in-law and therefore makes Sol/Ky... Not great haha #Their dynamic is so much better without them being in a romantic relationship and the age/life experience gap between them is crazy too #It just wouldn't have been a good way for their stories to go imo #But still I wonder... How close was it to ever actually being canon... In a different timeline how would it have played out...

[prolibytherium]

Absolutely death gripped clenched trying not to comment on reductive posts on ancient greek homosexual relationships

#It is neither wholly '0mg two gay guys in love!!' and 'I am humiliating and debasing a lower man by making a woman out of him' #There's heavy elements of that in how they conceptualized penetrator vs penetrated but the erastes (lover/protector) and eromenos (beloved) #relationship was significantly more complex than that #Like it is conceptualized as sort of a mentor/mentee relationship and a positive element for an adolescent's development #It was the subject of romantic plays and you get things like people in antiquity in heated debates over who is the #erastes and who is the eromenos between Achilles and Patroclus (to better depict them in plays) #The bottom line is more 'the socially accepted m/m relationships were (what we would now consider) an adult and a child #(or young man) with the age difference being a fundamental element to the dynamic.' #And more broadly being penetrated in sex assigned a 'lower' or 'womanly' role and it would not be conventionally accepted #for an older/more socially powerful man to recieve penetration (which certainly DID happen though) #So absolutely a moment in the history of male homosexuality and not something to just go 'ew ew bad evil ewwie' about but also #not something you want to project modern conceptions of LGBT identity upon #Also we know relatively little about relationships between women in ancient Greece due to lack of sources due to being a #highly patriarchal culture but we can't actually know that they did not involve similar power dynamic #Certainly not to the same extent or in such a well socially defined way (bc they conceptualize sex almost entirely through a lens of #penetration) but I think you should be treating relations between ancient Greek women with the same degree of #historical distance from our lives and identities today. #Ok death grip failed I just typed an entire rant. Fiuck it

[stressfulsloth]

I am getting so annoyed with the word wholesome at this point like I see it and immediately the rage blinders come down

#'wholesome' you mean sanitised and nicely censored so that it's easier to sell? #'wholesome' you mean wrung clean of any hint of sexuality bc that's dirty and gross and unclean? #'wholesome' queer content? you mean queer content thats palatable for cishet people #sorry this is not a vaguepost about anyone on here jsyk!! #person irl complaining about the lack of 'wholesome' lgbt+ content aough as 8f that isnt a concept that's been used to exclude us #from public view for decades #the dichotomy set up between dirty sinful unwholesome content featuring characters actually attracted to each other #vs the most bland handholding dead eyed 'representation' being valorised as something wonderful and new #as if desexualising lesbians hasnt been a tactic to deny them rights 👍 #im so mad im a bit incoherent but man. shut the fuck up #queerphobia #personal

[estpresso]

I'm just putting Wenclair in the context of every media I have ever consumed. Nothing to see here!!!

#lesbian #lgbtq #sapphic #lgbt #wednesday #wednesday addams #enid #enid sinclair #wenclair #wednesday x enid #this is either a week or 2 months #nothing in between #i cannot #there's something about them

[rythyme]

"You'll always be my lavender." "If you ever get sick of your husband, let me know. I'll be your second husband." "You're already my number one." Coooooool cool cool cool. Feeling very normal about this.

#''if i didn't know better i'd have thought there was something between them'' #-says her ex fiance (a gay man) #p.s. i hate you #lgbt drama #thai drama

[facelessnamelessanarchist]

I have so little sense of identity that i get like. Secondhand identity. See a lot of posts about being excited to be trans? Suddenly I am One of You. Seeing a lot about otherkin having a good time? I have become a Creature alongside y'all. Have there been many happy gay posts on my dash lately? I have gained Attraction.

#does anyone else get this or am i just severely mentally ill #i know i need to talk to my therapist #but is this something i should add to the list #otherkin #alterhuman #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #genderqueer #i can only add so many tags cause these three groups have at leat 7000 tags between them #otherhearted #queer #transgender

[werewolf4vampire]

people have become really, really comfortable assuming that other people are neurotypical when there's like. kiiiinda no way to actually tell most of the time and it's very weird and concerning

#feels adjacent to when people assume you can't possibly be LGBT unless you're specifically out #and that often forces people to out themselves to get bad faith interpreters to finally shut up #people also treat it as if there's like a super hard line between neurotypical and neurodivergent and that's just completely not true #like i think these words are useful to a certain extent like in discussing oppression and psychiatry but #it's weird to project them onto everyone you meet. especially when it's often used to mean like #'person who i don't understand and i have trouble communicating with' #'person who appears to be confident and good in social settings' #or my personal favorite‚ 'person who has a different opinion than me on something regarding neurodivergency' #i have a Lot of thoughts about this. might add onto this post later #darryl speaks

[azuremist]

A message to Twitter users coming to tumblr: a message from your local duel-hellsite citizen

So, I’ve seen a ton of Twitter users talking about making and sharing their new tumblr blogs, to escape Elon Musk’s “anti censorship” bullshittery. First of all: welcome! I know it’s looking bleak over there; especially for trans people. But, now that you’re here, I’m here to tell you all about tumblr etiquette, how this website works, and how it’s different from Twitter. Because you can’t come onto here acting like it’s Twitter, lest The Beast get to you.

First, here are a small handful of tips and tumblr facts!

Your likes and who you are following are automatically set to public. You can make them private in your settings!

You can block tags from the settings, too.

There are lots of bots on here. If you’re not careful, you could be mistaken for one! The main way you can avoid this is changing your icon and header from the defaults. Adding a bio helps too!

You can queue and schedule posts so that your account posts throughout the day.

Like Twitter, tumblr has a radical feminist and TERF problem. However, they’re pretty easy to spot. There are lots of guides out there to help you learn how to spot tumblr TERFs!

Tumblr, for the most part, does not have any celebrity or brand accounts.

Your tumblr follower count is private.

You can have multiple accounts with the same email, and they’re very easy to switch between! These are called “sideblogs”.

Your main page is not a “timeline”. It is a “dashboard”!

You can have a custom desktop theme using HTML! Think like ye olde MySpace days. There are tons of pre-made tumblr themes available, if you’re not already proficient in HTML; including free ones!

Now, let’s talk tumblr etiquette and how it’s different from Twitter. You’re a tumblr user now! It’s time to start acting like it!

Don’t just like posts. They don’t increase visibility whatsoever. The way that you can help posts that you like is reblogging them to your blog. Especially for art!

We don’t say “oomfs” or “oomfies”. Just “mutuals” is fine, thanks!

Adding onto a post with pointless comments is frowned upon. If all you have to say is “this is so true,” or something else to that effect, you should put that in the tags of your reblog.

Most people don’t have carrds or rentries on here. Some of us do, but it’s not an obligation like it is for Twitter.

Similarly, we don’t censor words like “die” and “death”. Posts about wanting to brutally murder people in power go viral all the time, and it’s completely allowed. I’m serious! Enjoy your newfound freedom!

Blocking isn’t a big deal here. Get rid of any weird notion you have that morality is linked to blocking certain people.

But lastly, and most importantly:

Drop your discourse at the door.

If you try to post about most of the things that Twitter users discourse about, you will be laughed off the site. Especially Twitter LGBT+ discourse. Posts actively mocking topics of Twitter discourse go viral on here regularly.

Tumblr has mostly healed since its discourse-ridden days, and it’s now much more chill. Of course, discourse still happens, but it is so easy to avoid now. For a lot of us, tumblr is the last pleasant social media site left, so don’t ruin it.

Here is a list of discourse-related things that tumblr users don’t do:

Most of us don’t do callout posts, unless it’s something actually serious (like that one blog that had a human slave).

Everything that you heard on Twitter was “exclusive” to certain LGBT+ groups is used by just about everyone on here. Bi women use the double venus symbol on here. You’ll just have to learn to live with that.

In particular, I want to emphasize how much we don’t do flag discourse. To the point that somebody caring about flag discourse of any kind is how we tend to identify an ex-Twitter user.

On here, you will never have to see another slur discourse post again, unless you actively seek it out.

You’re free.

You’re welcome. And enjoy your time on here! If you have the time, please consider watching StrangeÆons’ Tumblr Etiquette Manual on YouTube, as well.

#elon musk #twitter #tumblr culture #tumblr #azure does a thing

[villanevehaus]

(still letterboxd anon LOL) we love so many of the same movies, so maybe youve seen these, but if you havent!! some i definitely recommend are everything everywhere all at once (!!!), shutter island (not horror but not not horror?) all of jordan peeles movies ESPECIALLY us and get out, y tu mama tambien, minari, suspiria, all about lily chou chou, fallen angels, being john malkovich, thoroughbreds (!!) single white female, whiplash, and palm springs (kinda stupid but light and gave me a chuckle)

HI LETTERBOXD ANON!

ouh out of those ive seen shutter island, us, get out, and i actually saw thoroughbreds TODAY!!!! it make me fucking crazy bananas i think it rearranged some of my braincells. sometimes a movie is two weird teenage girls planning to murder a fuckass stepdad

suspiria, everything everywhere all at once, y tu mama tambien, being john malkovich, and whiplash are all already on my to watch list!! i obviously gotta get on that, and I've added the other ones you've mentioned :D

#asks #letterboxd anon #fr tho thoroughbreds is fantastic #the chemistry between the leads the camera work the weird score the entire premise #like it fucks so hard #its so Effective too like i felt so captivated the entire runtime #also there was Definitely something lgbt going on between them #like weird we both feel Something between us as childhood friends but we don't know what it is and its scary so we had a weird falling out #like lily is clinging so hard to her prescribed life whereas amanda is Not #ALSO the american opulence aspect... ogh #[being normal about media] #and the like #The Shot on the couch #with the blood and the gloves and the crying................. #<3

[catgirl-kaiju]

something worth pointing out in the case of Tumblr CEO @photomatt 's statement regarding predstrogen is the very clear side stepping of the conversation being had. the ask he chose to respond to as part of his statement was asking about tumblr's transmisogyny problem, and what he is commenting on is tumblr's transphobia problem.

transmisogyny is certainly related to transphobia, but the two are not the same. i've seen plenty of trans folks who are guilty of transmisogyny and have even been harassed by such individuals on this very website. he repeatedly refers to transphobia and accusations of tumblr staff being transphobes throughout the statement, but never once brings up transmisogyny. perhaps he is unfamiliar with the term, but he could look it up and read up on it before responding to a question directly asking about it. he is very clearly not doing his due diligence in addressing these concerns.

he mentions tumblr having "LGBT+ including trans people on staff," but this is not especially helpful in assessing tumblr's transmisogyny problem. based on this we don't know how many trans people, whether or not there any transfem or TMA folks (who might understand the nature of transmisogyny better than TME people) on staff, what positions these queer people hold in the company, or whether or not any of tumblr's queer employees are on the moderation team. and it's understandable why some of these specifics are left out; you don't want to put any staff members in danger of being doxxed or harassed, especially if they're vulnerable marginalized people. however, it seems to me a gross oversight to not mention if there are any trans folks working on the moderation team.

i think it's also a huge misstep to focus on predstrogen so singularly when the conversation about her account being nuked is part of a larger conversation about transmisogyny. what this reveals, too, is transmisogyny playing an active role in the decision to ban her for life. one of the aspects of transmisogyny is viewing transfem folks as especially and uniquely dangerous. i'd like @photomatt to ask himself if he would have taken "threats" like the one cited as seriously if they came from a cis person or a TME trans person. really reflect on that, Matt. i also put "threat" in scare quotes here because, frankly, it's pretty clear that said comment is a cartoonish and outlandish example of violence used to demonstrate that the intent to harm is not literal. i do this all the time both on here and in real life. telling a friend i'm going to "maul them to death" over a minor annoyance is a comedic way of expressing frustration in a way that communicates it's not actually a big deal. saying something like "i want them to explode after falling down the stairs when trying to evade a falling piano full of knives" about a public figure or someone who is negatively affecting your life works as a way of demonstrating the intensity of your feelings while not veering into territory where it sounds like you're literally planning an assassination attempt. if you're reading this, Matt, i hope you can begin to understand the difference between something like:

and a real actual harassment, like:

y'know, all actual comments and posts i've received on this website, and reported with detailed explanations for why i'm reporting them but never heard back from the moderation team about the situation. i have no idea if anything was ever done about any of these people sending me bigoted violent messages because no one ever does follow-up. the only time i've ever received follow-up on a report was when i reported an account for promoting self-harm in the form of anorexia. that's it. one time in the over a decade i've been on this website.

how does all of this sit with you, Matt?

#tumblr #transmisogyny #transphobia #predstrogen #tumblr staff #tumblr ceo #death threats #anon hate #transphobia cw #transmisogyny cw #violence cw

[decolonize-the-left]

Ive seen an influx in posts asking the LGBT community to hold itself accountable for ace/aro bigotry and they're fucking right.

How are we supposed to hold homophobes and transphobes accountable and demand they do better when we won't even do that for each other?

We're a community right? A family who's supposed to look out for each other? What happened to everyone being valid? Is a sibling saying "you hurt me, please correct it somehow" not valid?

For my part I'll admit I was part of this.

I was on the side of the asexual exclus back in the late 00's/early 10's. I was deep in the belief that oppression had to be systematic in order to count and at the time I didn't see any systematic oppression faced by aces. I even identified as ace and I didn't consider myself oppressed for being asexual. I saw the hostility and vitriol directed at aces everyday...but I didn't see it as wrong. I didn't see it as bigotry. I saw it as righteous anger.

I know how awful things were because I was one of the people making them that way. There is Real trauma that was experienced. There's no fucking way that a normal person could be invalidated that much and take the vitriolic bigotry aces/aros did everyday and have it not leave a lasting impact.

I fucked up. That was wrong and awful of me and I'm genuinely so fucking sorry.

I see the broken trust and promises between us now in 2023 and I see how shattered the community is and it's partly my fault. That gap is there because of me and people like me.

We should have loved and supported and welcomed you. We should have saw the way you were being treated and said something. You deserved to be protected and loved and supported from people who treated you that way.

And you weren't. We didn't. And it was normalized.

We absolutely fucking failed you as a community and as human beings. I need to own that. And I need to be one of the first people to trying to repair that.

And I know an apology is barely even a first step and I know it's just a drop in a giant bucket but I am sorry. For everything it's worth to you, I'm sorry.

Because of me and people like me you experienced the kind of identity trauma that typically only homophobes are capable of. And you experienced it at the hands of the community that's supposed to be fighting specifically that sort of ignorance against a-typical sexualities.

We fucked up

And it'd just be hypocritical salt in the wound if 10+ years later we ignored your asks for accountability and didn't do anything about it when it's resurfacing.

So yeah.

I was a bigot. I hurt people. I hurt my own community. I thought I was right and I wasn't. I was wrong. And so is everyone who insists on continuing that today.

There is no excuse or justification for it. I thought there was too but I was wrong and I'm gonna spend the rest of my life making up for it.

Whatever justification you find for treating people with a-typical sexualities and genders is shit. It has no leg to stand on and it sure as hell isn't being done for the sake of the community.

The LGBT community was founded not by people with checklists on how to be a Good Gay or Acceptable trans woman but by people being treated like shit for who they were choosing to love or not love. It was founded by people who's gender didn't fit in cishet boxes. It was founded by people who just wanted to be free to exist as themselves.

You can't treat asexuals or aros or bisexuals or pansexuals like shit and say that it's in the name of the LGBT community.

It's not.

It spits in the face of everything our community is supposed to be and it's time someone besides aces and aros said it.

None of us should be okay with how they're treated and all of us should be part of stopping it

#aces #aros #asexuality #queer history #asexual history #i threw in the others because the bigotry for them back then overlapped a LOT #i didnt personally have a hand in anything against the other identities mentioned but itd be wrong not to include them i think #lgbt #queer #ace discourse #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #asexual #aromantic #lgbt history #aphobe #aphobia #aphobic