Shout out to everyone doing the hard yet necessary work of posting about fictional characters kissing online.

He's trying to learn

fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can't eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they're starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something

People finally think they’re attractive and cool and funny but they’re dead. People finally treat them well but they’re dead. Do you see the vision

Transforms into a shell of my former self and finally gains the respectability society never bestowed upon me before

imagine being so ignorant you think that women’s right to wear pants just fell out of the sky. women fought for it. they risked their jobs, reputations, relationships, and education for the right to wear functional clothing. women have always fought for the right to simply exist in public and you vile misogynists think that it’s a sign of privilege!!!!! eat glass!!!!!!!

I often think about the fight for pants specifically because it’s so mindblowing from our perspective today. We cant even imagine what women went through, and often knowing it wouldn’t pan out in their lifetimes. They did it for US. I was reading about Elizabeth Miller Smith and her movement for practical dress, how she actually abandoned it because it was too distracting from other elements of the movement. It was so controversial just to say “this clothing is uncomfortable and I don’t want to wear it.” It was so revolutionary she couldn’t even continue doing it out of fear for safety and progress. She knew it was important to keep it on the backburner for OUR sake and this quote will stay with me for life:

“All hail to the day when we shall have a reasonable and beautiful dress that shall encourage exercises on the road and in the field – that shall leave us the free use of our limbs – that shall help and not hinder, our perfect development.”

She knew it was over for her. She knew that day wouldn’t come while she was alive but she envisioned for ME to have that option someday, and I just cant let her be forgotten knowing how much she cared about me and other women who would come after her.

As late as the 1970s in Chile, women were physically abused for wearing pants. And the new Pinochet dictatorship no longer allowed women to wear pants. Pants was the symbol of defying gender roles and being a Marxist egalitarian subversive. A 1970s western country probably isn’t most people’s stereotype of where women are beaten for wearing pants.

Junta soldiers would tear the pants of women to shreds in the middle of the street, leaving them with the additional humiliation of public exposure in their underwear. Pants are considered indecent but tearing them to shreds is decency. It just shows patriarchal control of women’s fashion isn’t about “conservatism”. Revealing more or less of a woman’s body, the point is that men control it by force.

Source:

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Carmen Aguirre

Photos just months before under Allende of all the young women wearing pants-

Ooh I have a story for this! So my mom and I went to the same middle school (also high school) and at one point when I was in eighth grade I got in trouble for violating the dress code (this was ~2009). They said my skirt was too short in spite of the fact that I’d worn it before (their actual problem with my outfit was that I was wearing black lipstick but that wasn’t actually against the rules). So they went through the rigamarole: called my mom to tell her to come bring me a change of clothes, make me wait for her in the office in spite of the insistence that the problem with my outfit was that it was distracting from my studies.

Them having to call my mom for this is perhaps the best example I have of the phrase “you got the wrong one”. Not only had my mother attended the same middle school as me, but she had actually been dress coded in eighth grade as well, for wearing pants. (This was ~1969). She’d actually planned it purposely as a protest. The dress code didn’t allow girls to wear pants, and she’d had a custom pantsuit made—classy, good quality, well suited to any class president even if she was a Negro—and she wore it to school one day I think after mid winter break. She didn’t make it past first period before she was called into the office. Admin called her mother, who noted that she didn’t have an issue with her daughter’s outfit, so in order to reason with her, they called my moms friend’s (white) mother—one with a lot of pull in the pta and the wealthy neighborhood that fed the school—to try and convince her to side with them. This backfired spectacularly, as she also didn’t have a problem with the suit, and they were forced to drop it and, within a month, change the dress code, lest all the wrath of the Laurelhurst mothers reign down on them.

My mother is the reason Seattle Public Schools dress code allowed girls to wear pants, & she was very excited to bring this up when she was called to the office about my skirt which, needless to say, I was allowed to continue wearing. SPS dress code allowed for students of all genders to wear pants from ~1969 to ~2018, at which point the dress code was eliminated from the district entirely.

what a good morning!! im gonna draw a dog!!

apRIL FOOLS I DREW TWO DOGS THEY’RE BEST FRIENDS

the only good april fool’s joke

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

funniest fucking thing

Love that Rayla is the assassin, but Callum the government official and Stella the literal baby monkey are the only ones in the family capable of committing murder

Silly little post

Context:

The original video, for anyone who hasn't seen it:

And the relevant album cover:

Sessler was a teenager when "We're Not Gonna Take It" it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.

No fuckin' idea how he thought it was in support of "traditional American values."

Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.

-fae

No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.

Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they'd get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.

DUDE THE VIDEOOO

For those unfamiliar with this ICON

This is why my working definition of queer is "queerness is that which accepts queerness."

It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from "the norm" and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.

Dee Snider is the embodiment of "Queer as in fuck you."

I love seeing this post make the rounds

dee snider is a fucking icon, man

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

Every follower I gain is another child ripped from the hands of God. I am the path to hell and you just bought a first class ticket.

Ooh, I’ve never traveled first class before! Sounds fun!

Every follower I gain is another child ripped from the hands of God. I am the path to hell and you just bought a first class ticket.

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I’d pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!

SPREAD THE WORD THIS IS FUCKING GOD TIER OH MY GOD, SOMETIMES I HAVE SPOONS SOMETIMES I DON’T BUT NO COOKBOOK OFFERS LEVELS IN THEIR RECIPES THIS ONE DOES!

also found here:

the ebook is FREE here also