12 years ago today "no its becky" happened.

And the rest was history!

Becky

Part 1 of the story is this image:

ignore the Dylan-saunders-is-sex part, I took that image from Google. Part 2 is that Taylor, who at the time was more active on social media, wears this on September 25 2014 in NYC

She then also posts this 1989 reference (original below)

Part 3: And THEN she meets David Karp (founder of Tumblr) and he is wearing the shirt

And THEN she posts about it on her own Tumblr

What a legend

hey swifties, there’s a thing by a fellow swiftie, dr becky smethurst (an ACTUAL becky)

everyone out here with their intricate and eloquent discourse about what exactly goncharov (1973) is in order to explain it to others, throwing around words like "mandela effect" in order to make it seem a lot more complicated than it is; meanwhile, here i am explaining to my nephews and niece that what we're doing is basically, collectively, telling everyone "no, it's becky" everytime they point out a picture of taylor swift a.k.a goncharov

The second time I quilted Joan of Ark.

This one just got first place at the Utah State Fair

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

and it was love at first sight

(this joke comes from the below textpost, but the idea of this being a bkdk meetcute is all thanks to @sapphicflower-ao3)

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

i was randomly going through a quote generator and it gave me this and i was like yeah. george would prob say this JKSDFJKSDFKL

yor gives advice

SPOILERS (Spy Family Manga)

Just a normal day with a bunch of six-year olds following you.

our favourite underachiever

Dream big panels have been around for years, we sold tons of them when I worked for a quilt shop. But I never saw a color that I was dying to have a go at until this fiery one. It was my project to wrap up 2023 and sneak in some free motion therapy. I loved every second of it. It’s edges are now trimmed and faced and it’s hanging in my living room. New year, new quilted art!

A little late but Happy Halloween! My country doesn’t celebrate it so I’m kinda jelous of these guys 🥹