being married to an elf would suck bc they’d just be like “i wrote a short ballad on the subject of our love. would you like to hear it?” *proceeds to sing for the next 12 hours without pause because that’s what’s considered brief by elf standards*and being married to a dwarf would suck bc they’d be like *spends 36 hours carving a pattern into a single face of a hammer they’re working on because you “can’t rush art” and forgets that you even exist until you’re forced to come down and persuade them to return to the surface to take a nap before they collapse of exhaustion* so you really can’t win
i love that doctor who is really just a show, and actors who don’t know anything about the fanbase are always like “oh yeah sure, I’d love to play the doctor,” but the second they set foot in this fucking arena, millions of us just go rabid and start drawing fan art and making fan cams and fan fiction and putting them in other doctors’ clothes. it’s like, by embodying the idea of the doctor, you’re immediately accepted and immortalized by a herd of internet gremlins, who now love you
“While it is true that in the period of time that Alicent’s life and Aegon the Younger’s reign overlapped, the queen mother was confined to Maegor’s Holdfast, she was periodically allowed to visit the chapel on Visenya’s Hill where Targaryen ashes were interned. There, she would sit beneath the plots of her children, Aegon II and Helaena, reading from The Seven Pointed Star. Strangely, on more than one occasion, the queen was witnessed sitting next to the plot of a woman widely known as her enemy: Rhaenyra the Pretender. While sitting before this particular plot, the former Lady Hightower would read from tomes other than the holy text. Detailed histories of the Continent, business documents from the Free Cities, dashing romances of knights and ladies - the readings of learning girls rather than a woman grown.”
i.e., i have a headcanon that once rhaenyra dies alicent goes back to her grave and reads from the books they did when they were younger because she misses her :,) also i could not find what the hell targaryens do with their ashes so i just said they would be put beneath what would become the great sept ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thinking about dr james barry and other historical trans men who were outed against their will and like
not all the trans men could have gotten outed, right?
like im willing to bet that there are quite a few men out there who were buried as men
im glad not to know them
the archive, when it comes to trans people, records violence.
Oh, absolutely! The funeral industry is sooo new relative to the history all of mankind, and previously funerals were performed by family, including handling of the body. A spouse or family member generally wouldn’t go around outing their loved one after their death, so of course most of the people who we would call transgender today went unknown. That’s not even going into cultures where gender was more complicated than just man or woman. Transgender people have always existed and have always been loved and when a person isn’t remarkable in some way they go just like the rest of us. Into the ground and lost to history.
This goes along very well with the original intent of the “well-behaved women rarely make history” quote. That goes for queer people as well. Trans people lived their lives, gay people often went unmarried or married out of necessity. Sometimes their families even accepted them for who they were. These people didn’t stand out, didn’t make the historical record. That doesn’t negate the fact that they were people and they were here.
how many ancestors went up in smoke with their letters and diaries after their deaths- and how many, much as we cry out to know them now, were happier in life for their anonymity?
just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd
Greece allows gay men to donate blood (for the first time in 45 years!)
Israel legalizes surrogacy for gay couples
People in Switzerland are now able to legally change their gender without having to undergo surgery first
February:
New Zealand bans conversion therapy
Nonbinary people in Columbia are now entitled to a birth certificate with a “nonbinary” sex marker
Nayarit (Mexico) allows same-sex couples to adopt
Kuwait overrules a law that has been used to criminalize transgender people
Jowelle de Souza makes history as the first openly transgender parliamentarian in the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago)
March:
Chile legalizes same-sex marriage
France removes the deferral period for gay men donating blood
The United States announces an overhaul of TSA protocols to implement gender-neutral screening at checkpoints
Wales (United Kingdom) bans conversion therapy
Kristin Crowley makes history as the first openly gay (and the first female) chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department (United States)
Diana Zurco makes history as Argentina’s first openly transgender newscaster
April:
Santa Catarina (Brazil) now allows nonbinary people to change their gender marker without having to file a lawsuit
Jalisco (Mexico) bans conversion therapy
The United States issues the first passport with a nonbinary gender ‘X’ option
May:
Greece bans conversion therapy
Lithuania allows gay men to donate blood
Croatia allows same-sex couples to adopt
Austria removes the deferral period for gay men donating blood
June:
Hidalgo (Mexico) now punishes people offering conversion therapy with up to 3 years in prison
Quebec (Canada) allows people to be classified as a parent (rather than a mother or father) on their child’s birth certificate
North Carolina (United States) no longer demands proof of surgery from people who wish to change their gender marker
Spain prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status
Kamala Harris made history by hosting the first Pride Month reception by a sitting vice president at their residence (United States)
July:
Switzerland legalizes same-sex marriage
Antigua and Barbuda legalize "same-sex behavior"
Andorra decides to legalize same-sex marriage (the law will come into effect in 2023)
Slovenia legalizes both same-sex marriage and adoption
Ariana DeBose makes history as the first queer woman of color (and the first Afro-Latina) to win an Oscar for acting (United States)
August:
India expands the definition of family to include “queer relationships”
Chile equalizes the age of consent
In Saint Kitts and Nevis, same-sex activity is no longer illegal.
Vietnam declares that homosexuality is not a disease and bans conversion therapy
Ellia Green makes history as the first Olympian to come out as a trans man (Australia)
September:
In India, the State Medical Councils can now take disciplinary action against doctors who provide conversion therapy
Cuba legalizes both same-sex marriage and adoption
Durango (Mexico) legalize same-sex marriage
Canada removes the deferral period for gay men donating blood
Kim Petras and Sam Smith make history as the first openly transgender woman and the first openly nonbinary person to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (United States)
October:
Latvia allows civil unions for same-sex couples
Paraguay bans conversion therapy
Byron Perkins makes history as the first out football player at HBCU (United States)
Duda Salabert and Erika Hilton make history as the first two openly transgender people elected to the National Congress of Brazil
November:
Singapore decriminalizes gay sex
Singapore also lifts censorship of lgbt+ media
Hidalgo becomes the first state in Mexico to recognize nonbinary people
Ireland removes the deferral period for gay men donating blood
December:
Barbados legalizes “same-sex acts”
Here is to more good news in 2023!
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Dad
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, my [tumblr] family!
terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.
went into black adam expecting a fun dc film (which is a miracle in its own right tbqh) left the film like hey. this is a deeply anti-colonist anti-imperialist film from start to finish. i was legitimately awed by how much passion went into that message, specifically. just me leaving the theater like damn that film that made a strong point for resisting colonization and monarchism by any means necessary sure had a lot of superheroes in it
since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this
after lots of frantic googling of “were samurais gay” “were cowboys gay” “how did gay samurais work” “did gay cowboys love each other” ad nauseam i have decided that it’s actually funnier if both the cowboy AND the samurai are gay but not for each other and also they both have their very culturally specific understandings of gay social politics so both of them still are equally like “dude why are you like this” to each other
samurai, trying to comfort the cowboy who just got dumped over pony express: when my lover left me for another man, i killed both him and his new lover, and proved to all in shudo that it is what happens when you leave me for another, and i felt much lighter. would doing that also help you?
cowboy, absolutely reeking of the flask, who stopped howling purely out of confusion to try and figure out if the samurai was being serious: dude what the fuck is wrong with you
the depictions of homosexual identity at the time are painstakingly accurate and very clearly heavily researched, and this is purposefully in direct contrast to how absolutely absurd and crazy the entire rest of the premise of the comic is
