#let's get it together america

[unproduciblesmackdown]

orvphil: so real

for example used analysis on the following instances

orville's physical reluctance & difficulty kneeling to propose to jane vs. readily swinging right into such a kneel with phil during 'til we meet again

'til we meet again

(see above) noting the "both immediately becoming So happy to be doing this" and "staring at each other for an unbroken ten seconds after finishing the song which was evidently beyond simply a [hold for applause] thing"

having indeed an adorable little meet-cute, which may not be an integral part of every eventual writer/lyricist & composer partnership

when phil drops in at wingate manor and he an orville have a private little wave to each other like =)

sitting next to each other sharing a hay bale and orville gets drinks for them both and phil walks orville home

lucky day

the choreography where orville's at the piano and phil swings it out while rotating it and orville's "walking" while sitting to one side to help (my analysis: going ohhhhh ;w;)

both simultaneously answering "his" when asked whose song it is like the earnest effortless mutual admiration and appreciation huh fellas

margaret talking about protecting your heart from these theatricals; orville Is one of these theatricals, and he loves it; phil watching him / reacting in this moment including his little "hell yeah" move like he had for orville going off in lucky day

their general enthusiasm together / for each other / enjoyment of being around each other and increased ease of operating when around each other

phil wishing orville could hear his music and talking about how orville ruined his own night to save theirs, then remarking "...what a guy!" mmhm

🌈🌈🌈

#orvphil #summer stock #orville wingate #also everyone was so funny & my god they were dancing & it's so true this show was a delight. i laughed smiled applauded effused enjoyed #shoutout to orville's escaping ''don't do Anything but get married have children'' through theatre; being gay; a little luck #it's so true: william (orville) & veanne (margaret) & gilbert (phil) were all so funny & great individually & in any combo #anthony/tony (montgomery) too lmao his ''....how dare you.'' iconic #shoutout to having orville show up for 1 Sec (in pajamas i believe) for the purposes of villain i have done thy mother. he just lives here #phil is great. trying to hold it together....writer's trick from my momma Use Your Words #and then with orville helping out he can chill out & enjoy his wins & orville can have any wins & enjoy them & chill & Do Things too #and everyone is so cool to him right away. why wouldn't they be. hugging like everybody hey besties #obviously corbin bleu is being his national treasure america's sweetheart leading role & Dancing....all the praises warranted #everyone crushes their role & is a delight. including any little moments w/the ensemble / all Ensembling things. go t.j. #it was great of course & a delight & again the orvphil is extremely real. 100% the textual intention & execution. thanks cheri love you #let's get that summer 2024 show if they can / wanna for real (they want to; let's just see it shake out. summer 2024 is pure speculation) #Oh Nooo if i forgot anything & have to reblog & add to this / rewatch & re/discover any delights

[demenior]

i literally do not remember if i've already sent an ask but if i haven't i would love to hear about the critrole werewolf AU pretty please! and if i have. then i would like to hear about it again anyway 👐

Check my list of current wips here and send me a title and I’ll post a bit or share some details about it.

The CritRole Werewolf au is a mighty nein werewolf au. I set it in a vaguely modern world, but... in the 90s/early 00's. I wanted it to have some Buffy/Blair Witch/Lost Boys vibes. Like, grotesque and terrifying but with moments of absurd humor and a really bitchin' soundtrack. The Brjeau's are, loosely, the main characters.

Beau and Fjord were the intro duo. They're amateaur ghost hunters touring the country's most haunted locations. They're using Beau's absent fathers' credit card to fund them sleeping in Fjord's work van and get them access to dope shit like handheld video cameras and microphones that Beau uses to prove the supernatural is real. (Fjord films/runs tech. He a) doesn't believe in the supernatural and b) is terrified of it).

They pair up with Caleb- a mysterious dude in a long duster coat with a weird accent who may or may not be a monster hunter, and Veth- who's definitely just some normal housewife who just so happens to hate werewolves and definitely isn't one. They join the team after a scary event where Fjord is lost for a few days in some weird haunted place/sacred temple to some old forgotten wolf god. Caleb and Veth want to make sure Fjord isn't cursed, Beau is thrilled to be proven right that the supernatural exists, and Fjord thinks this is all ridiculous. So what that he's been having some weird dreams? That doesn't mean anything.

(You can see where this is going).

To keep things reigned in, I tried to limit all the supernatural entities to just werewolves (save for Fjord's eventual eldritch horror wolf thing he has going on).

Yasha, Caduceus, Fjord, Veth and Jester are all werewolves. Some of them were born werewolves, some of them were turned. Some were turned willingly, some not(t). Caleb and Beau remain Team Human (though Scourgers are now werewolf hunters, and through grueling training are a weird almost "half" werewolf, so they can't be turned).

#If I included Molly he would be killed during Fjord's first transformation #to keep things loosely in line with canon events. #caleb would be a reformed hunter who got kicked out of hunting society #bc he started to go hey what if werewolves AREN'T just mindless killing machines? #and astrid n eadwulf blocked him #i have it loosely set in north america #to really keep the buffy slash scooby doo slash lost boys vibes #but then LMAOOO god i started talking about an ukotoa temple #aka some sort of evil wolf spirit temple thing #where fjord gets cursed #and like???? where would you find THAT in north america??? what am i on??? #anyways that will need some finessing #but otherwise this is purely an au of no thoughts just vibes #caddy has a fun genetic condition in that he is a werewolf born to werewolf parents #but he actually cannot shift! he's in his lil human form only #yasha is a naturally born werewolf as well and has mostly lived away from humans #veth was of course forcefully turned when her family was attacked #jester met artagan (a werewolf. more like a coyote lmao) and thought he was so neat #she let him bite her so they could play together more #jester acts more like a dog and doesn't get why everyone is so obsessed with violence #(until she gets it) #and fjord is of course cursed and has no control of his cursed form #all the other werewolves are just like... people that also turn into wolves #fjords curse is where the mindless beast myths come from and hes just a big ol killing machine #anyways.... yeah! thats the crittyrole werewolf au #if you (or anyone) wants more #i have about 800 words written that i can share #wip #werewolves #critical role

[astxrwar]

having so many poly stevetony x reader thoughts,,, idk idk it’s just something about being the counterbalance to their deeply homoerotic rivalry,,,,

#‘i want to punch you in your perfect teeth’ or whatever he says in cacw #i want to write tony pov bisexual midlife crisis #like maybe it was weird of u to be obsessed w cap since childhood #let’s unpack that huh??? why r u so mad he’s nice and polite and pretty? #steve being absolutely unfazed by the pretty obvious fact that stark has a crush on him #whether he denies it or not. in my hc steve has known he was bi since 16 #steve Knows the signs. he was a traveling performer at 6’4 240lb w a sweet face. #im sure he got very used to men being like ‘ah. i’m having a crisis rn’ at the sight of him. #thinking abt tony denying it even when he lets steve suck his dick. skfnfkfk #the internal monologue of ‘no this is normal. he’s so fucking attractive nobody would find this unappealing it’s captain america #i have ideas for how each part of the triangle sort of like. gets together but idk how i want the poly thing to occur. #like ik probably one person A walks in on pair BC. but who’s A and who are B and C. if you know what i mean #anyway this got long and kinda rambly #steve rogers #tony stark #steve rogers x reader #tony stark x reader #stony x reader #yes im using tags. the dopamine is simply necessary for getting me back into writing again #im in my ‘acknowledging and accepting my hedonistic tendencies for motivation’ era

[ethan-nestor-owns-my-heart]

ghostface seeing you say 'give the carpenter sisters a break': oh, bones? break bones? can do!

Break bones, break hearts and break nerve endings because there is no damn way that Tara’s going to have full feeling and control of her left arm after all the shit it’s been through.

#and break banks with the sheer number of therapists Sam has had to pay for #and the cost of Tara’s therapy #Jesus Christ #I don’t even wanna imagine Tara’s hospital bill #are ghostface attacks converted under insurance #is there a bring two traumatised sisters in together and get half price off deal? #I don’t know how healthcare works in America #let’s just hope Gale covers those medical expenses #she can afford it #Tara literally says ‘I can’t feel anything below my shoulder’ so those nerve endings are TOAST

[axellis-archv-2]

hey *takes what was supposed to be just a visualization in case i ever wanted to draw overhallidays place in the future and then spends 4 hours on it

#📗 my post #🧯 overhalliday (s/i) #yeah ummm yeahn . hey . theres a lot in here let me divulge in the tags #hes supposed to live in like a town thats pretty Scrunched In with buildings kind of surrounding the place so the debug building behind #is supposed to mimic the back alley area that he uses for all his scraps && parts. really id imagine at some point he put a tarp over it #so metal doesnt rust && whatnot . but theres not really a way to do that i think in the sims #the bathroom being right where the stairs are is both a) bc i wrote that in a fic b) sometimes houses are dumb okay we cant all win #there isnt an operating table apparently?? so im using a lounge chair as a stand in and honestly it works well #really if i wanted to i wouldve added like soo much more clutter because he is. not the most organized #ftr i think like every sims bed has a headboard and he DOES NOT have that hes got a bed frame and a mattress that is IT!!! #^ not every sims one . the ones that dont talks abt...bed bugs. which . ew #and for the record also i think his place is only unique in the sense that you walk in and theres a workshop . exterior wise theres #probably like a bunchhh that look the same as youre walking down . all scrunched together #i actually donthave a set place in mind that he lives i just know its like. a Town #a town that doesnt have a hardware store . so he takes a train if he ever needs supplies & it takes abt 10 minutes to get to the city #so hes not like. Cut Off per se but the locals definitely know his deal enough #idk looking at it and imagining a bunch side by side makes me think of likee. like. norway? <- my biases it was like the 2nd thing i google #it would be nice to live by a bunch of water #but also im . i dont know anything abt architecture this very easily could read as somewhere in america or something like that #idk but in my head it snows a lot there thats like all i have thought out

[alfredosauce50]

I’m writing chapter 7 of OMN rn and I had another intrusive thought… Imagine Viking Mathias taking you to North America and his warband encounters native Americans for the first time

And boom there’s Allen

#omg and Amy is there too? #dude we’re getting the band back together! #WE CAN’T LET THE INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS WIN #I’m NOT writing ANOTHER CHAPTER #even if it’s tempting…. jk jk… unless? #i doubt it’s historically accurate but that’s too fucking bad lol #like yeah the Vikings went to America but definitely not in the same lifespan they went to England #update #alfredosauce50 #hetalia fanfiction #Denmark x reader

[elegyofthemoon]

its been like 2-3 years since this happened but i will never not get over this former friend telling me that the f/f/x characters are not asian when a lot of the inspiration for their designs are v. asian coded.

also said to me. an asian lol

#snow speaks #im still like blinking at that like What. Sure. Okay. #ANYWAYS yes!!! it has been years since mentioned conversation a #BUT idk i got really silly and excited about hearing the insp and seeing it and #idk it was so silly and incredibly stupid lmaoo #LIKE ig this is just me craving in general but gotdamn its really nice when people draw their faves in like their cultural clothes!!! #yes!!! i want to learn!!! show me!!! lets celebrate together!!!! #that one time someone said ti/dus is viet blew my mind and i went >:OOOO YES !!!!! YEEESSSSSS #ONE OF THESE DAYS... i wanna do the same w my faves !! #i am not confident in my abilities to do so though... #but thats mostly because im /so/ disconnected w the culture since i live in america but :( #listen... someones gonna get in an ao dai at some point... #someones gonna dress in a sarong #also i just would 10/10 love to see faves go through thai new year #which is! next month i think !! #i missed that when i was younger TT #siiiiiiighs #i think i told this to another friend but alksjdfh whatever. #its just been hitting me more today ig. im just like (shakes in a little anger) mmm wish i couldve said something about that cuz ahahah #tw vent #vent #may or may not delete later #anyways! back to happy brain and wailing 1000 words and real emotion :) <3 peace and love

[undyinglantern]

quetz shows up in lb7 part 2 but it’s her Christmas version since that’s the one that took up samba

#Oooooooo I keep getting angry every time I think abt how fgo scrambled up all of Latin America together in a huge mess #I gotta like. Deep inhale. Let it go man

[foxcassius]

yesterday i was telling kobira sensei about how ireland hates the uk and scotland doesnt want to be in the uk and etc and i mentioned how england forced english on everyone, to the point where there are no more native mannx speakers and gaelic and gaelig are struggling and how they went around the world forcing english onto countries in africa and south asia and pacifica and everywhere and she was like "wow!!! thats awful! to invade another country and take away their language and make them speak your language :(" and i was like yeah very much like. like its kind of like what. what japan. nay, i shan't say

#i didnt mention korea because she gets evasive and slippery about korea but i DID bring up the ainu language and she was like #'yeah we should preserve it!!' okay queen. then maybe you could try learning it. lets learn it together. #AND THEN she was like 'im glad america didnt force japan to speak english when they came and knocked out our government and invalidated #our religion :)' and i was like yeah like. like how. japan did to. nay i shant say... #t

[arklay]

i didn't really talk about it cause i think most mutuals know. but the reason that fic causes me so much pain is because they've been together for over ten years at that point and have never had a fight where they need a break from each other... they've never even had a fight where they yell

#leah.txt #pair: ewskers #tw: body image #they've bickered a lot like that's just how it goes. especially when you have two big defiant and domineering personalities. but they would #always laugh it off or just leave the room to clear their head then come back and apologise over getting shitty with each other but they #always talk things out and have these big just discussions to clear up any misunderstandings or you know just to air it out. they don't #like to let things fester. but the problem with this is like diana didn't want to bother him because of how busy and obsessed he was with #the project and his work so she just kept it all to herself and ofc you combine that with her love languages not really happening (physical #touch and quality time) because he rarely came to bed so they weren't having their moments of just cuddling and talking for ages. and #quality time ofc wasn't happening then too but when they were together it was always about just work work work. there were no breaks #and like he didn't really confide in her much anymore with what happened with spencer. like he did at first and they worked through that #and diana thought like he was Okay. like he was dealing with it. but he really just shut it out. he didn't want to confront it. he didn't #let himself *feel* the pain (which is why post volcano momence its A Lot for him to deal with... but they actually work through it better #then) but yeah like there's a lot going on behind all that fic. and with diana too. okay. so her childhood is one i don't really talk about #much but really high expectations were put on her from really young and even though she excelled in all areas like it was never good enough #and plus a few other things like it led to her constantly seeking for praise and admiration and recognition and like she was actually a #people pleaser until she was in uni for her bachelor's and before she moved to america. like. there was a lot going on there. so like she #had a lot of feelings of inferiority growing up and like not feeling worthy ever sooooooo it hurts + the humiliation her ex-husband put her #through kinda warps al just being busy and preoccupied and not thinking about anyone else to singling her out and doing the same thing her #ex did to her. so yeah. plus her body changing with the virus over the last few months has made her very like just. lies on the floor. like #because he always found her so beautiful and loved her eyes and made her feel beautiful when she had a bit of insecurity so now she's like #oh no but i look different now... maybe he doesn't think that anymore. lies on the floor

[tvxcue]

no one gets peggy and steve like i do and no one should be able to talk abt them outside of tfa and tws, especially not marvel writers, fuck marvel writers you don’t understand them.

#speaking #like just thinking abt what they did to them in endgame...........i hate them so bad it's unreal. #LIKE IT'S ABT TIME. he was never supposed to go back! they were supposed to be lost to each other! #he is a man out of time! he is lost and he is trying to find himself and find his life in a future he was never supposed to see! #and like. she literally forgets that he came back. she is the only left the only one who knew him and understood him. #she saw him and she loved him and she remembered him. HIM steve not captain america the idol and the symbol. #the little guy from brooklyn she knew him and she loved him. and she lost him. #and she is the only one who knows him and their moments together still feel fleeting bc she forgets and the grief comes back. #he is alive and she mourned him and she moved forwards with time and hes lost in it and his one tether gets lost in it too. #they piss me off for real like they have such a STORY with them like it's POIGNANT and then they go 'lets throw that all away' IM GOING TO #ATTACK YOU. they literally had steve rewrite her life. hes come to terms with what he lost and where he is and he has a family now #he has people he loves in his current time and he decides to go back voluntarily to rewrite her life and to take himself out of time. #voluntarily this time. im going to rip their throats out with my teeth.

[captnbxrnes]

it's true that people kill people

but having easy access to guns make it a whole lot easier

#i am devastated and so angry #sandy hook happened and america did nothing and now the exact same thing has happened #you all yell about abortion being murder and protecting children's lives then turn around and let innocent children get shot in the face #get your shit together america take a look at the rest of the western world where this doesn’t happen #gun control #uvalde

[kittlyns]

What's a girl to do when every fictional character in media is fated to be assigned a lover forever and ever with no exceptions

#*man and woman bond over conversation* aw I'm glad they have an unlikely friendship together! #'and that's how we became lovers' ah. right. of course. god forbid u just vibe w someone. always gotta be love or hate. #like it's not even a bad thing really but it never ends. it's like a curse #remember that dumb ass post that's like 'let men be friends!! they dont have to be gay!' like first of all stfu dumbass #second uh. let men and women just be friends!! please!!! I'm so tired of these whores kissing and fucking each other every chance they get #I likely only feel this way cuz this is the 5th book I've read this week (not a flex I prommy) and the 4th of them to force a pairing on me #theyre not even romances!! i haven't chosen a single book from the romance genres #if I really wanted to read abt incompatible couples I'd go for that! but nooo can't read a murder mystery w/o someone tryna fuck somebody #anyways. this couple will probably be cute but I'm tired of feeling like I'm being led to America's Next Top Ship #im tired so if this makes no sense so be it

[cookinguptales]

So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

#disney #ron desantis #gay rights #lgbt #queer #lgbt history #queer history #homophobia #florida #us politics #religious fundamentalism #christianity #long post #god that should cover all the pertinent tags and content warnings phew

[grasshoppergeography]

Hey All,

I've been away for some time, as we've been working really hard on something quite exciting:

let me present to you the world's first ever global ocean drainage basin map that shows all permanent and temporary water flows on the planet.

This is quite big news, as far as I know this has never been done before. There are hundreds of hours of work in it (with the data + manual work as well) and it's quite a relief that they are all finished now.

But what is an ocean drainage basin map, I hear most of you asking? A couple of years ago I tried to find a map that shows which ocean does each of the world's rivers end up in. I was a bit surprised to see there is no map like that, so I just decided I'll make it myself - as usual :) Well, after realizing all the technical difficulties, I wasn't so surprised any more that it didn't exist. So yeah, it was quite a challenge but I am very happy with the result.

In addition to the global map I've created a set of 43 maps for different countries, states and continents, four versions for each: maps with white and black background, and a version for both with coloured oceans (aka polygons). Here's the global map with polygons:

I know from experience that maps can be great conversation starters, and I aim to make maps that are visually striking and can effectively deliver a message. With these ocean drainage basin maps the most important part was to make them easily understandable, so after you have seen one, the others all become effortless to interpret as well. Let me know how I did, I really appreciate any and all kinds of feedback.

Here are a few more from the set, I hope you too learn something new from them. I certainly did, and I am a geographer.

The greatest surprise with Europe is that its biggest river is all grey, as the Volga flows into the Caspian sea, therefore its basin counts as endorheic.

An endorheic basin is one which never reaches the ocean, mostly because it dries out in desert areas or ends up in lakes with no outflow. The biggest endorheic basin is the Caspian’s, but the area of the Great Basin in the US is also a good example of endorheic basins.

I love how the green of the Atlantic Ocean tangles together in the middle.

No, the dividing line is not at Cape Town, unfortunately.

I know these two colours weren’t the best choice for colourblind people and I sincerely apologize for that. I’ve been planning to make colourblind-friendly versions of my maps for ages now – still not sure when I get there, but I want you to know that it’s just moved up on my todo-list. A lot further up.

Minnesota is quite crazy with all that blue, right? Some other US states that are equally mind-blowing: North Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming. You can check them all out here.

Yes, most of the Peruvian waters drain into the Atlantic Ocean. Here are the maps of Peru, if you want to take a closer look.

Asia is amazingly colourful with lots of endorheic basins in the middle areas: deserts, the Himalayas and the Caspian sea are to blame. Also note how the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra are divided.

I mentioned earlier that I also made white versions of all maps. Here’s Australia with its vast deserts. If you're wondering about the weird lines in the middle: that’s the Simpson desert with its famous parallel sand dunes.

North America with white background and colourful oceans looks pretty neat, I think.

Finally, I made the drainage basin maps of the individual oceans: The Atlantic, the Arctic, the Indian and the Pacific. The Arctic is my favourite one.

I really hope you like my new maps, and that they will become as popular as my river basin maps. Those have already helped dozens of environmental NGOs to illustrate their important messages all around the world. It would be nice if these maps too could find their purpose.

#maps reimagined #geography #cartography #maps #my art #rivers of the world #ocean drainage basins #ocean maps #river maps

[vaspider]

Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on.

I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do.

You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device.

They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time.

But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept.

The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.

That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don't agree with it but we'll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.

The brunch gays can come, too, I guess.

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