god remember that cursed tumblr phase where thered b like. personifications of websites constantly. and every personification would be white except for like, youtube or some shit. and tumblr would be a pale white girl with blue hair and a tardis sundress. deviantart was some scene kid, always. inevitably ppl would ship like google x wikipedia who were both white men with some 500 word fic in the comments followed by ship fanart.
this concept was also applied to things like planets and fast food chains and really anything else
remember when ppl shipped tumblr chan with 4chan
thank you for reminding me of these i hate it a lot!!
I love seeing this shit as someone who joined after all this drama. It really is like scrolling through a museum with cursed artifacts
Wait shit people were still drawing that ship after “normies” became a term? Jesus that’s more terrifying than being reminded of that phase at all
THIS IS IT THIS IS THE FUCKING PICYURE
looks like its been eaten by maggots and dust and shit. fossil fanart
not that my input really matters, but i don’t know much of lgbt history other than bits and pieces of stonewall, a little bit of the aids crisis, and the legalization of gay marriage; i’m an actual child and nobody here (kentucky) educates anyone/gets educated on it
how about instead of shaming people—especially young people—for not knowing our history, we provide them with credible resources?
here’s a long list of LGBT+ historical events worth googling and learning about. i’m not sure if all the dates and details are spot on, but, again, this is really just a guide for what to research on your own. to warn you, a lot of this history is ugly, including things like the conflation of pedophilia and LGBT+ people, genital mutilation, homophobia, transphobia, nazis, and wide scale persecution.
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (warning: this documentary was made in the 80s and is dated in a lot of respects as a result; it also features quotes from Allen Ginsberg, who we now know was a pedophile, but it’s still very informative in terms of history)
(most of these can be bought used online for pretty cheap and some can be found in libraries)
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context by Vern L Bullough (it’s a bit dated, but still informative)
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World by R. Parkinson
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women (Intersections) by Leila J. Rupp
Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) by A.B. Christa Schwarz
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal Ortiz
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
The fact that we don’t know our history is the result of deliberate erasure and the fact that alot of the people we’d learn this in person are dead. It’s good to see online resources like this, spread them and archive them (webarchive, waybackmachine, downloading, saving physical copies even)
more information about the upcoming movie Adam (2019) from trans actors who worked as extras in the film
for those who don’t know Adam (2019) is a film based off a book written by Ariel Schrag and the reason why it’s so gross and offensive is that the plot basically revolves around a cishet boy pretending to be a trans man so he can sleep with lesbians
my solution to a terrible party is making grilled cheese. i was at this awful party one time so i went to the kitchen and just started grilling cheeses and everybody at the party was like “check it out this guy is grilling cheese” and i made everybody a grilled cheese. the party was good after that
this is the most casual post i’ve made ever so why is it being treated like a scorching hot take and also why am i seeing this on my dash
