pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it’s like, “oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism” and that was very very brave of them
“But I didn’t consent to see kink” yes you did by coming to pride,
a place you know and have repeatedly said you know kink is at, a place built by kinky people, the mother of pride Brenda Howard was a queer kinky polyamorous sex positive anti war bisexual Jew and to try and remove its history or sanitise it is is spitting on her grave, you are consenting by choosing to go there
I agree this, but think this ignores the queer youth who would probably like to be involved in events like this, or show their parents that being queer is widely accepted
i used to be in that same boat but honestly i feel like people severely underestimate how few shits kids give about stuff like this. most of them will either be like “huh that’s weird why is that guy wearing a dog mask— WOAH LOOK BALLOONS” or if they actually ask you can just be like “sometimes people like to wear fun costumes” and just leave it at that. most adults who think “oh no! kids are being exposed to sexual stuff!” are coming at it from the perspective of an adult who already knows that these things are associated with kink and sexuality. kids for the most part have no clue, so if you just give them a filler answer like “they just like the way it looks” or “they’re wearing a fun costume” they’ll just accept it and move on. cause honestly kids see more nudity and sexuality in commercials and movies than they do at pride. it’s just that at pride it’s stuff that’s specific to queer sexuality.
Okay, but what if my bi sis wanted to take our Good Christian Parents to a pride parade? My mother couldn’t handle a maid dress and male-titties edit I was doing of the subway CEO (“I prefer modesty” so the nips had to go) so I doubt she could handle any kink.
Yeah, yeah, pride, self-expression, own your sexuality and kink shouldn’t be demonized, I get that, but you want to encourage minors (could be a 17-year-old) or teens of whatever to come, you’ll have to make some sacrifices. Cause I know children don’t care. But teenagers would if they’re trying to bring their parents.
Maybe we could have like “Pride After Dark” that’s like not the parade, but something that showcases the more adult side of queerness. There are many non-adult things about being gay/queer and maybe we can highlight those for certain events over others.
“but you want to encourage minors (could be a 17-year-old) or teens of whatever to come” yeah no buddy, we ain’t doing that, actually. You just made that up.
They’re allowed to come, of course - if they stay respectful, same as everyone else.
Like yeah, it sucks for them if this means they can’t come bc they feel like they can’t bring their parents, but that teen’s parents don’t have more right to be there than kinksters do. Your mom does not have more right to be there than kinksters do. Simple as that. Sucks for your sis, but she’ll just have to leave your parents at home if she wants to go.
I love that this argument also completely ignores the MANY pride events specifically geared towards younger people that don’t involve kink. Your local high school’s GSA party will not have kink. Your local teen and young adult meet-ups will not be hosted by a domme in full gear. You can always organize YOUR OWN events that don’t allow kink. You have literally every right to pick and choose what events you do and do not show up at.
For the love of fuck, stop putting it on other people to cater to your specific tastes, and go out there and do your own dance! If the current party is run by people you don’t like, stop trying to go to it and just throw your own!
Also if your parents aren’t supportive of you, that’s a problem they need to work out.
It isn’t our job to “teach” your Good Christian Parents to stop being homophobic. It’s your parents’ job to do their duty and love their children unconditionally.
“but what if it’s not palatable enough to a Good Christian Mum that a child can bring her along” do these people know what Pride is and why it exists. Do they think they’re going to the town-sponsored christmas pageant. What.
yall are so scared of giving up a leather face mask so bad its crazy
Bold of you to say that with that boot so far down your throat
“Maybe we could have like “Pride After Dark” that’s like not the parade, but something that showcases the more adult side of queerness. There are many non-adult things about being gay/queer and maybe we can highlight those for certain events over others.”
how to tell everyone that none of u ppl bitching have ever once actually been to a real life pride parade cause that is *literally* already what happens
like that is literally already what we do! there will not be dudes in puppy play masks on leashes licking eachother on the float!! u will not see gaping hole at the parade!! nobody is spanking u with a paddle infront of the fucking wells fargo booth!! that literally does not exist!! people do that shit at after hours parties and in bars and clubs where it is already age restricted entry and everyone who goes inside knows whats up.
all the accomodations and consent barriers yall are asking for ALREADY exist and are standard practice at every mainline major pride parade in the us!!! if any of u actually fucking logged off for a single june and *went* to ur local parade u would know this!!
Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.
It’s not good when skilled tradesman are standing in the middle of your room pinching the bridge if their nose, is it?
Mark just referred to the wiring in our bedroom as “creative” and “interesting”.
This is fine.
And now he’s taking apart the ceiling. I’m not worried, are any of you worried? I’m not, haha, it’s not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselves…or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcove…
Ha ha…
Ha.
Hm.
Fuck.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO NEUTRAL WIRES??!?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S GROUNDED INTO THE SCREWS HOLDING UP THE CEILING LIGHT???!?!!
This post crosses my dashboard every so often and every time, I’m reminded of when I discovered that my whole house was grounded to a gas line.
today I learned that if you want to slash someone’s tires, don’t slash all four; only slash three because if you slash all four their insurance will pay for it but if you only slash three they have to pay for it all out of pocket
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today on satan makes a blog post
Life tip: if someone slashes 3 of your tires, slash the 4th one yourself and blame it on the person who slashed the first 3. Now, your insurance will pay for it.
Life tip: If you slash 3 of their tires, hide out nearby until they discover their slashed tires. Take pictures of them slashing their fourth tire. Show police when they arrive on scene. Convicted of insurance fraud and still have to pay for tires.
i feel like i’m reading a Spy vs Spy comic in text format
It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
wdym you can hear it?
Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.
YO what the FUXK
The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a distant thud and the air displace.
I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.
This was easily the first ever viral post on Tumblr back in 2011/12. Perhaps even before the great “what your leg feels like after falling asleep” followed by a picture of a static teevee channel.
TV Executives: “if the strike goes on, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”
Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.
Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.
And the thot plickens….
HOLY FUCK
SAG-AFTRA = Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
More info:
- The actors walk off at the end of June if the studios don’t sit down with the writers
- Rumor is directors will follow. This will grind everything to a halt.
- Nobody is asking for a boycott. Neil Gaiman has pointed out that making Good Omens S2 a huge hit actually puts more pressure on Amazon to negotiate with the writers
- This implies it’s okay to catch up on old streaming content without breaking the line too
- This is a screenwriter strike; books will keep coming out.
- Movies already made will keep coming out for months. Again, actors have not called for a boycott; you aren’t breaking the line if you go see a movie.
- I don’t know where this puts podcasts but none of them have studio funding or platforms so they’ll probably keep going.
- Substack/Tumblr book club are all public domain works and will keep going. In addition to Dracula Daily there’s Whale Weekly, Dickens Daily, My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters), Letters from Watson (Sherlock Holmes) and more.
- Your local library always needs love. With the Libby app you don’t even need to physically go there.
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it’s not killing the mood at all but it’s totally making both of them giggle like they’re twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I’m seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can’t see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
…Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
Your pupils contract in response to visible light, but not all of the sun’s light is visible. During an eclipse, your pupils widen because it’s dark, but there’s an outer layer around the sun that mostly only puts out light that’s not visible to us, but that can still damage your retinas. Thus, looking at an eclipse makes your pupils open up like it’s dark, which lets more of the invisible damage beams in.
The sun doesn’t get a critical multiplier on its damage when HP is low. Equipping the moon gives the sun a bonus to backstab.
Your pupils contract in response to visible light, but not all of the sun’s light is visible. During an eclipse, your pupils widen because it’s dark, but there’s an outer layer around the sun that mostly only puts out light that’s not visible to us, but that can still damage your retinas. Thus, looking at an eclipse makes your pupils open up like it’s dark, which lets more of the invisible damage beams in.
The sun doesn’t get a critical multiplier on its damage when HP is low. Equipping the moon gives the sun a bonus to backstab.
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