heatherwitch:

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

daphnetrodon:

sidneyia:

daphnetrodon:

you’re no Hamburger Helper

you’re just a Hamburger Hindrance

if you’re not part of the hamburger solution, you’re part of the hamburger problem.

itarille0797:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

ugly-bread:

dragon-from-the-burning-mountain:

anidragon:

moshingtothesherlocktheme:

Well uh…

1.) one or both of people you see as a “straight couple” could be pan/bi/poly/ace

2.) one or both of them could be trans or non binary

3.) you could be misgendering someone

4.) They could be there to give moral support to a queer friend or family member who didn’t want to go alone.

Number four is important

5. They could be there because they support the cause stop fucking gatekeeping

6. They could be there in memory of a loved one, don’t forget Pride used to be a memorial as well as a celebration. I know a good number of straight people who go to Pride to celebrate the lives of friends and family who have died because they want to remember them as they lived, happy and joyful and surrounded by a community that loved them.

ALL OF THE FUCKING ABOVE.

chantylay:

A note about kink at pride

So it’s pride month so it’s time for all the baby queers to complain about people wearing leather straps and or gimp masks at pride events because BDSM is not LGBTQ+. And they are right. They are also wrong.

There is a misconception that BDSM is the “logical conclusion of patriarchical power structures”. That’s just not what it is. A quick Google search of the acronym will tell you that BDSM grew out of the leather culture movement, and leather culture was started by…… gay men. All of BDSM’s fashion statements and consent rules and safewords came from gay culture if it really was patriarchy in action, there wouldn’t be so much care put into ensuring that everyone is safe or such a rigorous emphasis on the idea that the sub can call everything off at any time. That comes from viewing your partner as an equal even as you play at a power dynamic. BDSM may have been co-opted by the straights, but it comes from gay culture.

When people wear their fetish gear at pride, they aren’t saying kinky is a sexual orientation and part of LGBTQ+. They are paying homage to the queer history of the lifestyle, and many of them may be queer themselves.

Sincerely, a bi/ace-spec submissive who did the fucking research

malefeministthor:

glamazord:

I joke a lot about dualism (”two is the onlyest number,” etc.) and its social effects.

But it makes sense that dualism feels right to a lot of people.

It’s in the features of our bodies– most of our features come in pairs.

And when there’s more than two of something, the total number is too large for useful categorization:

• bones (206)
• joints (360)
• lymph nodes (500-700)
• red blood cells (trillions)

The only easily viewable exceptions I’ve thought of so far are fingers/toes (10 or 5 each side).

Dualism is so ingrained that people who attempt to think beyond 2 end up with a 2-sided spectrum instead of considering 3.

Maybe if we evolved from starfish, some people would insist that there are exactly 5 genders.

elodieunderglass:

thisisntmyrealhair:

blissfollower:

meeresbande:

I just realised that our parents LITERALLY NEVER showed the slightest bit of interest in any of our hobbies or interests except when we picked up their hobbies or it was for school. Everything else was always, automatically annoying, bothersome and a waste of time and silly.

10 years later we still feel convinced that what we like will only ever be annoying and bothersome to others.

What’s fucked me up is that I’ve only recently realized that I actually isolate myself by hiding my hobbies and interests from pretty much everyone I know in real life in order to avoid potential ridicule.

Like, oh shit, that pattern of behavior…where I only share my interests with folks online…that comes right from feeling like there was no one else I could share my interests with back when I was a teenager.

Reading this helped me realize that I did the same thing for the longest time. Tbh I still do it. I’m still afraid to talk too much about the stuff I’m interested in to people that I love and trust. This is one of the hallmarks of childhood emotional neglect that can impact your relationships for decades if you’re unaware of this behavior and where it comes from.

I think this is one reason why my Tumblr is such a wild swing, where my presence is either 10,000 word rants that come across as weirdly aggressive, or shyly and silently reblogging a gifset of something I love. I either go Too Hard over something too small, or stay completely silent about something I love very much, lest someone take it from me and destroy it. 

Recently been noticing that my mom only asks me questions about one of my interests if she needs that knowledge for herself. Everything I talk about quickly turns into an opportunity for her to monologue. It’s impressive and it’s horrible.

Please don’t do this to your kids. If you truly don’t care about them then you shouldn’t be raising them.

juza-the-cloud:

memeitism:

tredlocity:

tredlocity:

tredlocity:

Bridge the generation gap by combining old and new slang into one

Mood to the max!

Tubular af

groovy, i hate it

If she breathes, she’s a square