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i want more people to write ambiguously straight stories. two people of different genders have a deep and important connection that could be either platonic or romantic, but it’s never directly addressed. other characters don’t comment on it and the whole thing is left up for interpretation. they don’t kiss.
Pacific Rim wins yet again.
Shit, you're so right.
dont CALL urself a horror fan if u dont know this classic
Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.
The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports.
Sir Ian said:
“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay.
“The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer. I quite like being queer actually.
“The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the case for us, so I think we should all be allies really.“
This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes.
Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender.
He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.
The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.
Top photo from The Talks.
1. KING SHIT
2. yes
3.”common or garden gay”
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing
learning new things about the german rail system today
ok but the way i've made this exact joke in a fic--
Because it turns out that what Logan really, really loves is getting railed. And not in the criminally underfunded Via Rail way, where you get trapped behind a freight train going forty for twelve hours and have to wait in line for the poorly ventilated bathroom. What Logan likes is the full on Japanese bullet train experience.
watched the stalks of a lavender bush by the bus stop dip and sway from the sheer amount of fat little bumblebees on it and you know what. some things in this world are good
idgaf if my parents are disappointed in me I'm not impressed by them either
maybe i’m a joyless bitch but i actually do NOT think it’s funny to see women being like “the house is just in my husbands name” or “my husband makes all the money” or “i don’t even know who our mortgage is with” or “the only bank account/credit card is his and i get an allowance” like i do NOT find that cute or romantic and i am begging these women to Stand Up. you should at least be named on the deed to your house and the title to your car and the bank accounts even if you don’t pay for them/earn all the money. you can’t stop existing in the eyes of the law and the credit unions simply because you have a husband. if you’re raising his children and washing his socks half of everything he’s got is yours and it needs to be yours LEGALLY BY NAME. "he takes such good care of me :)" girl you are a PRISONER!! that’s all
"But my husband is a good man! He would never abuse/leave/cheat on me!"
Alright, let's give you the benefit of the doubt and say your husband is a perfect angel of a human being. He does take care of you, and he does it well. Your life is great, you get along, you have beautiful kids and a beautiful home.
What's going to happen to you if he stops being able to provide?
If his job lays him off or cuts his hours? If he becomes too disabled to work? If he goes to prison? If he dies suddenly?
What if you have to get a job to make sure you and your kids can still eat and have a home?
If you plan on seriously sharing your happily ever after with someone, you are going to have to pull your head out of the romantic fairy tale clouds and start planning for the worst case scenarios.
if your husband was really a good man you would be on the mortgage so if he gets hit by a bus the bank doesn't take the fucking house back. if he was really a good man he'd make sure you had enduring legal protections to take care of you after his death, not just whatever bits of money he cares to dole out during his lifetime.
I feel like this rise in "trad" appeal comes from telling people that they can choose to never deal with certain hard parts of adulthood as long as they only do their traditional half.
Men, there's no need to ever bother with cooking or cleaning or nannying your own children (all degrading feminine work) as long as you assume the role of the protector and the household head who can win the bread and make the decisions.
Women, there's no need to learn the hard and complicated things about taxes, mortgages, utility bills and work (scary masculine concepts) as long as you focus on looking beautiful, keeping the house in order, and mothering your husband's children.
But actually, men who don't know their children's doctor information, or birthdays, or know how to change a diaper, or how to do laundry, or how to grocery shop, are NOT cute.
And in fact, women who don't know anything about their own finances beyond "teehee my husband gives me an allowance" are also NOT cute.
I get why these things are appealing, because they come with this false promise that you can fall into a role and never ever half to think about half the hard parts of adulthood.
But if you're an entire adult person, then you do need--for yourself, for your family, for your children, for your safety--to know these things. Especially financials, because if your partner leaves you (or if you need to leave your partner), you need to know your money and your bills.
When you ignore one half of these in favor of just your traditional gender role, you get men living in squalor whose children no longer talk to them and women in total financial ruin after their husbands leave or die.
Sharing responsibilities to ease a burden is fine. It makes sense. But that is not the same as closing your eyes entirely to half your life, thrusting that responsibility entirely on someone else, which could leave you dangling off a cliff if that person ever leaves
I keep seeing sinking ship links to other social medias and I just want u to know that if this place burns down I can be found Nowhere. I will at last be Free. Look for me in the Drift.
bros holding hands for comfort
ten minutes in bus stop time is equivalent to about 45 minutes in normal time
Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”
I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.
These kinds of things give me hope
like the fact that PrEP and PEP just kinda became a normal part of life one day without fanfare is something I think about a lot. Thousands of people died gruesome horrible deaths and now when I go on Reddit or ride the subway I see dinky little ads like "start this medication today so you don't contract/spread HIV! and if you get accidentally exposed there's a different medication for that to keep yourself from contracting!" and it's just an everyday thing. all those people who died fought for it to be this way.
