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Doodle of 📻🖤

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I shine only with the light you gave me.

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baby boys baby

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Chaggie 🌹

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sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you've figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like "ah...had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?" and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis

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another Lilo and Stitch screenshot redraw bc dialogue was spot on and it would be a crime NOT to use it 🥹

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they’re so Lilo and Stitch coded 😭

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The concepts of NSFW is being cleared of the Internet under the false pretense of children’s safety when it’s really about the people in power sanitising for advertisers and pushing evangelical narratives AND that not enough is done to keep legitimately harmful content off of spaces that minors have access to are ideas that can coexist

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Alastor in the last episode be like:

and then.... "this place reeks of death, there's a chill in the air-"

btw I used this as reference

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“kill them with kindness” WRONG! nether dimension

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He just likes to help 💜......

🟢Commissions Open!!

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i'm begging tumblr users who couldn't name an evil woman to read the locked tomb because in just a short list of the insane amount of characters in these books there is (out of context spoilers ahead)

butch who's never experienced any affection so she becomes willing to do anything to be needed including becoming a fascist regime's specialest little boy

200 dead babies, trying to justify killing 200 babies to make her by brutally suppressing any weakness or vulnerability in herself

the incest twins from every problematic 2000s anime played entirely straight as to how fucked up both of them would be

woman who has a baby for the purpose of bashing its head against a rock and using its blood to kill 9 planets occupied with people

girl who lied to her boybestfriend, who shares her body, about his existence kind of eating her soul so they won't have to be apart

weapon with which to kill 9 planets filled with people, representative of 10 billion dead people and unceasing rage. Who looks like Barbie.

woman who stole g-d's sperm

woman who used her boybestfriend's body to fuck genocidal baby mama without said boybestfriend's knowledge (he was also fucking her)

cancer patient using her make a wish to kill g-d

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I will never not be upset at Alastor shippers. Why do you insist on taking this character, one of a small handful that share being aroace? Do I as an aromantic asexual not deserve representation? Do we as a community not get excluded enough when it comes to queer topics? You get upset when Vaggie is shipped with a man, you guys get upset seeing Angel Dust shipped with anyone else other than Husk, so why aren’t you when you completely erase another characters sexuality?

If someone were to draw a Latina character as white you would claim that it’s erasing a marginalized group, because it is, but when it comes to my sexuality it’s fine. So please, explain to me why you insist on shipping him in a none queer platonic way

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The Importance of Studying Queerness in Context.

when studying queer history, one always has to keep in mind two seemingly contradictory things: firstly, that queerness and queer people have always existed, but at the same time, that queerness and queer identities have not always existed the way they exist today.

Modern queer terms and identities did not exist to queer people in the past. They would not have thought of themselves as "gay" or "trans" or even "queer." While these modern terms may seem to fit certain historic individuals, these individuals would not have thought of themselves as such, and it would not be a part of their lived experience. To apply the modern identities of queerness to history is to erase the lives and experiences of queer people in history, and care must always be taken to understand queer history within the context of its time.

When looking at queer history online, there is a *lot* of misinformation and misidentification out there simply because people are eager to apply modern queerness to history, often in places where it doesn't belong.

A lot of old photos get misidentified as gay because they show two people of the same sex showing some level of physical affection towards each other. Okay, I'll admit that the open-mouth kissing photobooth pictures are probably actually gay, but an old picture of two men or two women holding hands or with their arms around each other, or even kissing on the cheek, were common shows of platonic affection.

I hate to break everyone's gay little hearts, but without explicit documentation saying so, assuming that these couples are all gay is putting modern queer identity in places where it simply didn't exist. The women in the final picture are sisters. The "not married" boys are bachelors interested in marrying women.

In the silent film Wings, the emotional climax of the film comes in the form of a kiss exchanged between the characters played by Jack Powell and David Armstrong. It often gets attributed as the first gay kiss in cinema history. In fact it is almost always called the first gay kiss in cinema history, even on the fucking YouTube clip I found:

Except it isn't gay. The two men spend the whole film fighting over who gets to be Clara Bow's boyfriend. When Richard Arlen's character is fatally wounded, his dear friend rushes to his side and kisses him goodbye, because in the 1920s, that was considered the ultimate show of friendship. The movie ends with Jack Powell falling in love with Clara Bow.

Similarly, a kiss shared between Lillian and Dorothy Gish in the 1921 movie Orphans of the Storm often gets attributed as being queer, but it wasn't.

They were sisters playing sisters. None of this was considered unusual.

Pooh-poohing on all of these images that so many people on the internet breathlessly and joyously laud as proud gay history isn't fun. It makes me feel like I'm fucking Ben Shapiro. But if misinformation is allowed to flourish, it allows people like Ben Shapiro to come in and make the argument that queerness is a modern invention and queer people didn't exist in the past.

Everyone loves to see queerness represented in history, but the fact is that none of the stuff in this post would have been seen as explicitly gay and thus shouldn't be called gay today. If we are to understand queer history in its fullness and richness, it is absolutely crucial that we get it right. We owe it to our queer ancestors to recognize, honor, and not embellish the actual lives they lived.