#were erased from history

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

If Angie’s parents were erased from history by the Gap in spacetime,

how did she continue to exist?

#Inspector Spacetime #Temporal Paradox (trope) #Temporal Paradox #Angie Lake (character) #young Angie (character) #if her parents #were erased from history #erased from history #they never existed #by the Gap in spacetime #how is it #she still exists #how did she continue to exist #why did the Inspector find her #questions better left unasked

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Do you think Ian and Barbara fully understand that without them the universe would cease to exist

#they were SO influential on the doctor #doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #ian chesterton #barbara wright #first doctor #the doctor #if anything ever erased barbara and ian from history the universe would start to burn just as it did when simeon entered 11s timestream

[rushingheadlong]

You know something I don't think I've ever seen people talk about is how Freddie changed the lyrics for Big Spender.

Because in case you don't know, all original versions of the song are sung by women - and it is made very clear that they are singing to men:

The minute you walked in the joint I could see you were a man of distinction A real big spender [....] So let me get right to the point: I don't pop my cork for every man I see Hey, big spender Spend a little time with me

Probably not too surprising, then, that when Queen performed this song in 1974 Freddie had to do a bit of a gender-switch on it:

Though, it would probably be more accurate to say that Freddie made this song gender-neutral because he didn't change it to be about a woman. He eliminated the first use of "man" entirely and then sang "I don't pop my cork for everyone I see" (instead of "every man").

And honestly there's probably a whole dissertation you could write just about those changes alone, but what I really love is when Queen brought the song back in 1986 and Freddie changed the lyrics again:

Because yes he still dropped the first "man" but the "everyone" is changed and Freddie instead sang "every guy" with just the barest hint of a "-rl" sound at the end to give him plausible deniability if anyone asked about it.

So much of Freddie's music speaks to his experiences as a queer man but, because of the nature of the times in which he lived, he couldn't always be directly open about that fact. Most of his love songs are intentionally vague, and he sang about "somebody" or "you" to avoid having to use gendered terms as much as possible.

Freddie singing "I don't pop my cork for every GUYrl I see" wasn't just an adjustment to the original lyrics, it was a specific change from how Freddie had sang it before in order to make it more gay in a way that he could rarely be with his own music, and that is what I adore about this. It's such a little thing, but it gives such a unique insight into how Freddie balanced his sexuality and his stardom, and how the relationship between those two changed over the nearly 12 years between these performances.

#freddie mercury #queen #queen band #freddie #text #ramblings #long post // #I got the Rainbow on dvd for xmas and I've been thinking about this a lot since then #and thinking about it even more after posting yesterday's gifset #it's SUCH a little thing but it's made me emotional ever since the first time I've noticed it #the transformation from Freddie ''I can't tell anyone I'm gay or it'll ruin everything'' Mercury in 1974 #to Freddie ''Four cocks fighting - ooh it's getting nice this!'' Mercury in 1985 #perfectly summed up in two video clips #idk. sometimes I feel like in defense of Freddie's queerness some fans take it to the opposite extreme #and insist that it was SO UNBELIEVABLY OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE ALL THE TIME in the 70s/80s that Freddie was gay #when in actuality... no it really really wasn't #and that's IMPORTANT. the ways in which Freddie had to hide himself and the ways in which he chose not to are IMPORTANT. #and erasing those decisions from his history or pretending they were easy ones to make isn't defending his queerness #it only serves to erase it even further

[bugeyedfreaks]

Currently miffed that the popular internet website called Know Your Meme says that this one Professor being angry image set is from a so-called “unknown source.” Ummmmm, sweaty, it’s from 2016 and it’s from my blog. Sheesh! 😤

lol okay I don’t actually care but this tickled me

#this and the ‘hey Billy we thought you were dead’ meme were from screenshots I took #but I get no credit……. [violin music as I slink away crying over my shoulder] #my marks on shitposting history………. erased…………. #on a semi-serious note it IS interesting how often I do not credited for certain things… 🤨

[zozo-01]

lahori wala porter and karachi wali darlin, you will always be famous to me <333

#i just think it would be funny if porter and darlin were dancing around each other trying to guess if they're the same brown #porter says something in punjabi and when darlin doesn't get it he assumes that they're a desi no sabes kid #and when darlin says something in urdu and porter doesn't understand (lies he does he just wants to mess with them) they feel so embarrased #for assuming he spoke urdu #darlin should take him to their fave kulfi place #porter gets them clothes and jewelry from back home #they celebrate eid together even if neither of them are the most religious #porter tells them stories about british india: the good the bad and the horrific #porter having a lump in his throat when he sees darlin. because they are alright. that his people are ok. #that even after one of the most terrible moments of their history. his people survived. the traditions and languages the british tried to #erase still lives on in the next generation. in people like darlin who have an iron grip on their history and freedom #maybe one day he too will be relieved of the generational trauma he faces. maybe he'll start a new family with darlin. #ok this got deep too quickly fjaweifjewiafregh #this started at a regional rivalry and went onto how the next gen can help relieve the generational trauma of their great grandparents #this is zo speaking #redacted porter #redacted darlin

[dimitrscu]

really need to get into bg3 so i can finally move on from elden ring. that game (fanbase) has been nothing but pain and suffering i actually feel like i’m starting to resent it now

#don’t get me wrong i love elden ring it’s just it’s whole online presence is awful #the fanbase is made up of primarily dudebros #it’s just… fucking terrible ngl #i have had to actively erase my yt history on the daily to remove anything er related because i end up seeing something- #-that will no doubt annoy me #reddit is.. well reddit #the sheer amount of r*pe comments i’ve seen about malenia over the past year and a bit is just insane #never going to forgive from for having her be naked in the game sorry i don’t care how artistic it’s supposed to be #or symbolic or whatever #gamers™ were always going to be weird about it let’s be honest #i think i just need something to take my mind off it at least till the dlc comes out #and then when the game becomes popular again and everything kicks off once more surely ppl will be normal right? …right?

[mueritos]

(different anon) u don’t see how it’s inappropriate be drawing western usa “cowboys and indians” genre romance art?? and with the fake polynesian tattoo on the white guy,,,,,

i understand being detribalized as so am i, but we still have to be careful about how we’re interacting w current native communities especially those to whom we are outsiders

thank you for clarifying you're a different anon and this one i'll respond to with care, and thank you for sending this because it is a genuine critique. I drew that header after finding a western/cowboy artist that I liked, and I wanted to draw something t4t centered. After finding the artist again (linked above), yes he is not indigenous, but in the article he describes his work with the Wampanoag community in MA. But you're right; there is a fine line between depicting western/cowboy culture that doesn't negate the colonization/manifest destiny of its time. I believed I made the image more "contemporary" (both have punk/lgbtq patches in the full image), but if that's not clear because the man on the left's patches are cut off from the header, then that's on me.

as for the white dude, I wasn't clear on either of their races, but both of the men in the photo are drawn from the indigenous people in my life. When i think of dark haired dark skins indigenous folks, I think of my long time best friend who is Nahuatl and detribalized, and for the "white man", I based him off myself and other detribalized/mixed folks who are paler and look "less native". Obviously none of this is clear because the image is just there, but these were the thoughts that went into that drawing. It was all based on the Mexican culture around me in terms of vaquero, because I associate the masculinity that I am comforted by with vaquero culture.

as for the tattoo, I made it up on the spot. but you're right, it does look similar to indigenous communities' like the maori or polynesian/samoa. I'll be more careful about that and I have not drawn any tribal like tattoos on anyone else since that drawing (the drawing is from 2019).

and you're right about your last point. I have been thinking of changing the header, but it has also been there for several years so I don't know what to change it to and I have had many folks in my inbox say they were comforted/affirmed by the header. at the same time, I don't want to drive off any folks who don't know im detribalized and may think i'm just randomly drawing indigenous people because I am like, fascinated with them.

i'll be more careful from now on, but thank you for sending this and feel free to lmk anything else, or if any indigenous folks want to add any other points feel free to do that in the notes!

#muertoresponds #ty again! #i appreciate critique #theres a reason why i havent drawn anything regarding to indigeniety since then and its because i was beginning to question my roots then #i believe around that time my friend had/was finding out about her own nahuatl history so we were having conversations about it #and ive refrained from drawing anything else because yea im detribalized and doing my best to reconnect #but i also know i cant depict any experience but my own #and that is the deeply detribalized and confused and mixed person #its something im still learning to be open about but while i have no tribal affiliation i also will not negate the fact #that i am half indigenous and half spanish slash portugal #and ive had people say i shouldnt say i am indigenous but i dont see a reason to not say i am mixed and detribalized because well #i dont want to erase that part of me even if i have no tribal affiliation #im rambling at this point but thank you again ^-^

[statementlou]

tbh as an israeli, i was so embarrassed that they put the flags there and i wish they didn’t do that. I don’t support that at all.

❤ and that's why YOU are my people, not those flag wavers- it's definitely my identity as a Jew that makes me extra outspoken about this issue in particular because like you say I feel personally embarrassed on behalf of my kin, and a responsibility by association to speak out against the israeli state's genocide. And it's made so much worse by the way people think israel= all jewish culture, or that to be anti-Israel is anti-semitism which, as @captainrayzizuniverse pointed out in tags (YES! well said and thank you!! you are also my people❤), is a tactic of zionist propaganda used to shut down criticism of the Israeli state. I think anon meant well and wants to keep an eye out for anti-semitism during this terrible time of its rise everywhere and I appreciate that! But that's why it's important to talk loudly and constantly about the fact that taking a stand against anti-semitism does not have to include defending the Israeli state- and indeed to be broadly anti-racist, one must call out Israel's colonization and genocide in Palestine

#I can't cover hundreds of years of history here but I will briefly reference (and encourage people to read about it more) #the fact that zionism and a lot of zionist propaganda has always come from goyim colonists who wanted to carve out space in the middle east #and have used our struggling people and exploited us at our most vulnerable times in order to realize that #NOT erasing the complicity of the jewish people ESPECIALLY in today- but follow the money #we were originally just fucking pawns as usual and to this day a lot of goy colonizer gov'ts #are a big part of that propaganda wing and it REALLY isn't because they love or support jewish people #and anon has a point too in that *I* know what I mean; but some people are just straight up anti semitic #so it's good to be clearer #blah blah blah #sorry not really what yall are at this blog for but anons manged to poke me in a Special Interest whoopsy #also you know: important #israel discussion #free palestine

[true-blue-sonic]

There's really nothing to indicate that Silver is actually from Soleanna. He's just kinda associated with it like Sonic is with Green Hill. Even with Crisis City Silver mentions searching for answers and seemingly being pointed there plus the place is the epicenter of Iblis and its minions so it wouldn't make sense for survivors to be born there.

Within '06, there are hints that Soleanna New City became Crisis City, due to the similarities between the skyscrapes and allegedly also some advertisements/billboards. As for where Silver was born specifically, we have no evidence, as far as I am aware. His intro cutscene states the entire world was devastated before he was born, so I figure everywhere would be most unsafe for people to have children anyway. And Iblis is last fought by Silver in Flame Core, which appears to lay outside of Crisis City and is overrun by Iblis' minions too, so I do suppose Iblis and the enemies he creates can move over the planet? But there is indeed nothing concrete that indicates where Silver was born, assuming I am not missing something. I feel like we at most can tentatively say that the entire world was caught up in flames, following Silver's statements in the intro and the fact Iblis and his creations seemingly can move between areas without being confined to Crisis City specifically.

#silver the hedgehog #sonic 06 #and besides as far as we know Silver's history got rewritten entirely after '06 got erased from the timeline so I do not think it's- #-impossible that he was born somewhere entirely different before Rivals 1 #but also there there is nothing concrete to indicate that is the case or not haha #though tbf we don't know of most members of the cast where they were born anyway so it's not particularly strange we don't know it from- #-Silver either

[kenshiv]

something funny happens when you're reading beatle books by outsiders (not the ones close to them) which is. most of them say how they never assumed john and paul were that close because they just never hung out or were seen together outside the studio. which can be true but it's also a wild contrast to how john and paul were obsessed with each other and each other are all they seem to talk about in the years post break-up. it doesn't add up and in a way it does. hm

#i dont even read beatle books anymore but i read sandra shevey and ofc she had ONE interview w john but she interviewed a lot of people #and paul is mentioned maybe 5 times in that 200 page book. same thing with larry kane and ray coleman or ray connolly #and you can't really blame it on yoko trying to erase paul from john's history because these are 1st person accounts of ppl who interacted #with them #were NOT close but knew them in a mostly superficial way #but they all seem to agree john and paul had nothing in common on the surface and that's interesting considering their own quotes #about each other #anyway. who cares. i do #mclennon

[queerofthedagger]

Just hunted down a physical copy of "Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914" that's in good condition, affordable, and without abhorrent shipping fees, and yes yes, having to wait three weeks until it gets here is entirely reasonable, but also I'm so excited for it, my already non-existent well of patience is a little kid waiting for presents on Christmas help

#mona rambles #I've started reading Maurice and it reminded me to check and lo and behold! my bookshop can order it for me #bless their hearts so shortly before Christmas too #still though *three weeks* I am Not A Patient Person #like. I know it's reasonable!! just. aghhh #that one has been on my list for A While and it's always been either expensive in itself or for shipping fees #like. i mean you can get it from amazon i think but i kinda doubly refuse with books like this so. that aside #also there are pdfs yes but i just. yeah #like it's absolute high-level being picky stuff #but like. if you were familiar with my bookshelves you'd not be surprised 💀 #I just. really really like having physical copies of stuff and something about queer history and how much it's been erased #or attempted to be erased #makes me feel all the more strongly about. you know. having physical history so #ANYWAY #YAY to me I'll get a belated Christmas present from myself in roughly 3 weeks! #if i frame it like that often enough i might stop vibrating out of my seat

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

BALTIC COUNTRIES SWEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP 🇪🇪✨🇱🇻✨👊🇱🇹

#COMES FROM A GIRLIE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL WESTERN GERMANY AREA!!!!!! (yes I have that foreign patriotism flu!!!!!!! ☝🏻 ) #I love #Eestiblr #Latvija #lithuania #24/7 reading something about the Singing Revolution #these people were just geniuses #HOW COULD THESE SOVIETS BE SO COLD HEARTED & MAKE EVERYTHING BALTIC RELATED ILLEGAL #Baltic flags- illegal #National hymns- illegal #they wanted to raise them as “Russians” #Soviets wanted them to erase the Baltic countries' histories #everyone who didn't speak Russian - DISCRIMINATED❕ #(shut up your soviet country is big enough. losers) #(Iron curtain's hungry again. beware & don't lose patriotism) #communism #random mind

[heartburstings]

hi b/apo friends. don't want this getting in the tags as i am so so scaresicles. but i went into the tags bc i haven't been there in a quick sec and uh.

i doubt that they'll be a staple of the community but it should be good for u to know that they were highlighted by shinigami eyes, and and that this is a terf. (likely bc they reblogged this post from another terf. and idk abt you but rbing a post claiming that transactivists are erasing gay history and then not only adding onto it, but also not disputing that itty bitty little part... yeah <3)

scrolling thru their blog a bit (w/ shinigami eyes) will show that they follow a few other terfs. it will also show u that they rb and agree w shit like this and this (which isn't transphobic but uh... still wild). anyway. hope ur having a good day friends.

#wynn speaks #i feel like i'm literally going insane whenever i see a terf in the tags . and going thru their blog to find terf stuff to point out. #but not all of them are super obvious. #so if u r still not convinced: they rbed the first post from the source which either means they follow this person already OR #they were in tags which would give them this post which is meant to and let's not kid ourselves here #accuse trans ppl of erasing gay history as if they are not part of the lgbt community #and if u scroll thru the blog of the op of that post btw u don't need to scroll far to see 1. aphobia and 2. transphobia #which isn't a lot. but you know. i feel like i'm going insane with red string over here anyway. BUT #jsyk. there's someone to block and hopefully they don't show their face again. #but if you want you can go to their blog and search up 'trans' and find the post i found. and then some #not so blatant stuff. but they did rb a post abt how 'queer' isn't something ppl should identify as and if they do it's a red flag. so. #you knowwwwwww. :P. #anyway. back to living life.

[pinterest-comments-ooc]

I wish my brain looked like this

#ronald reagan #your experiences are not universal #but I wish they were #erase him from history #pinterest #funny comments #out of context #pinterest comments out of context

[constantvariations]

Probably one of the most unfortunate things about RWBY is, for all it's inclusion of characters of color, there's no real cultural identity behind any of it

Outside of names, what is there to identify Yang or Ren or Sun as Asian? Other than skin tone, what marks Emerald as a Black woman? What marks Maria as hispanic besides her surname and clothes loosely inspired by Dio de los Muertos?

The few times crwby genuinely tried to tie these things together have ended in total failure. Flynt Coal is so unambiguously Black that his weapon and design are just Jazz... and that's his entire character. The Black One to counter our White Hero for 4.2 minutes, then claim he digs her style, thus negating every relevant real-world implication of a large, wealthy white family driving small time entrepreneurs of color out of business

Every single attempt at inclusion is through such a glaringly White lens that it's no wonder that people often mistake Sun or Ironwood as white despite being named after a Chinese deity or being modeled after their Asian VA. And that's so disappointing in ways I don't think I could ever truly put into words

#rwde #idk man #im thinking abt how all my ancestors cultures have been boiled down to nothing but White and im fucking mad #i cant even imagine how it must be on the other side #my cultures were erased to appease a power structure my ancestors wanted an in to but other folks had theirs STOLEN #to have your identity stolen then repackaged to you in the most insincere way possible by idiots who think they know best #its a disgrace unlike any other #anyway this is a v long winded way of saying please let other cultures have a chance in fantasy/sci fi settings #let black characters have kinky hair and cornrows and african specific jewelry like the lip gauges and gold neck rings #let asian characters be more than aesthetics and ramen and wisdom spouting gurus #and also remember asia is a big fucking continent so theres a myriad of cultures under the Asian name w lots of history and conflict #we are well beyond the point of pinning all Asian rep on one character a la Hikari Sulu #also also remember that indigenous people EXIST #and they exist beyond bandit stereotypes or as nObLe SaVaGeS #also middle eastern folks could def use some rep beyond evil terrorists and helpless victims in need of rescue (by americans!!1!) #this doesnt even cover shit like religious or disabled or queer cultures- all of which have rich complicated histories that affect today #there are so many things to consider when building a world from scratch and they did absolutely NOTHING AHHHHHHHHH

[sun-marie]

Also also. I don't go here and I may be striking the hornet's nest but the actual audacity of the creators of Final Fantasy XVI not to include people of color by using ye olde "this game takes place in fantasy europe and black people hadn't been invented yet" stupid argument while also centering it's major world building around slavery is soooooooo icky 🤢

#it smacks of 'we don't acknowledge the existence of this traumatized people but we still want to profit off of their pain' #like it's so gross #i didn't play it but I was interested in it so I watched one of those 8-hour supercuts of the cutscenes so I know the basic plot #and before any international peeps come at me for being another american who assumes they're the center of the universe #yes I know people of all races have been enslaved throughout history all over the world #but idk from the way the developers talked about it just seems like a convenient excuse to erase people of color #and not like they were trying to tell some specific story that required their exclusion #anyway Ben Starr deserves the nomination for his performance of Clive and that is the only acknowledgement this game deserves #marie speaks