fun fact viki oftentimes translates titles into whatever language your device is set to, in my case German, so 'The Spirealm' becomes 'Die Spirealm' (since, uh, 'spirealm' is somewhat hard to translate).

and i keep reading it as 'Spire-alm' because 'Alm' is an actual german word BUT

an 'Alm' is this fucking thing:

and that does not exactly fit the aesthetic of the drama, to say the least.

science fiction was invented so lesbians would have something to talk about with their fathers

Just saw a video like "um actually rocky horror isn't good queer representation because frank sexually assaults janet" girl he kills and eats people. It's called the rocky HORROR picture show not the rocky cute gay rep tw t-slur picture show

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.

:-P

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth.

-Gaal Dornick, Foundation

also. idk about anyone else but back when I watched cql for the first time, Song Lan stabbing Xue Yang to death felt.. almost anticlimactic. definitely not as satisfying as I hoped it would be.

but it FITS it fucking fits bc alright he's dead now but everything he did. is already done. none of it is reversible. so in the end killing Xue Yang felt more like a formality to me - Song Lan obviously can't let him live but he knows, he knows that it won't turn back the time, everyone that matters to him is already dead, and taking revenge for himself, for what Xue Yang has done to him, is probably not on his mind in that moment

girls who have issues

blurry zosan bc i forgot to make the canvas bigger

The Bible says Tetris and Puyo Puyo, not these "DT-cannon" and "4-wide" abominations.

hmm anyway. holds u in my arms

playing with her pretty pussy in front of a mirror while she sits with her back to my chest, holding her legs open so she can see how wet she gets just from my fingers, how good she looks all fucked out after i've made her come multiple times

Happy pride (2)

iskallman does indeed provide! it’s just a matter of people just accepting his help ..

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