“I think lesbians are smarter in a sense that we know what we want and we go for it, that’s why we’re gay”
“so if you’re at a party and you see the hottest girl there who turns out to be bisexual, whats your reaction?” “that’s really unfortunate”
“if she can make me laugh then I might be able to get past the fact that she had a dick in her mouth last week”
“if you’re with a lesbian then you know that they’re going to be going for you, for a woman, but if you’re with a bisexual…”
and a special mention for personal experience:
“I’ll have to keep a meter away from you tonight, otherwise you might make out with me haha”
“I wanted to tell you that you looked good last night but someone told me not to because you might make out with me”
we constantly get told not to attend pride unless we’re in a same sex relationship, get degrading comments from both the gay community and straight people, are told we aren’t ‘queer enough’ and that because we can pass as straight we don’t deserve a place in LGBTQ+ spaces.
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
— Lemony Snicket (via lazypacific)
On Friday, the Supreme Court made history by ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry,
bringing marriage equality to the entire United States. Now, gay and
lesbian couples can legally wed in every state in the country.
I love this generation so much we went through shit like drug scares and eating disorders and being punks and emos and self harmers and depressed and suicidal and now now now you start to see all these flower crowns and pastels and it’s like we’re all slowly slowly healing and growing up and it’s s obeautiful we’re all taking selfies and coming into our own and we’re all scared but we’re all here for each other and we’re unlearning inter-community hate and we’re all just such nice girls and boys and everything else we’re stars and flowers and fae and sunshine and we care about the world and we are just s obeautiful and powerful and new
Marriage licenses came about in the late 19th century to prevent mixed-race marriages. That should be appalling to anyone, and is in my opinion the strongest argument to privatize marriage.
The American colonies officially required marriages to be registered, but until the mid-19th century, state supreme courts routinely ruled that public cohabitation was sufficient evidence of a valid marriage. By the later part of that century, however, the United States began to nullify common-law marriages and exert more control over who was allowed to marry.
By the 1920s, 38 states prohibited whites from marrying blacks, “mulattos,” Japanese, Chinese, Indians, “Mongolians,” “Malays” or Filipinos.
At the heart of it all, predictably, is the urge to control the lives of others. White people might marry black people! Horror of horrors. Therefore, the state must get involved. No doubt these arguments in favor of more government meddling were made with an overlying patina of “freedom.” Just as the modern anti-immigration crowd today argues that we must destroy freedom in order to save it, the old racist proponents of government marriage likely argued that we must abolish freedom in marriage or the “Negro agitatuhs” and their dusky-skinned allies will destroy freedom. Conservative “logic” at its best.
I don’t hate all of the changes that the movies made, but one that always makes me cringe is when Professor McGonagall says “I’ve always wanted to use that spell.” People around are dying and literally an army of Death Eaters are at the door… I don’t think she’s in the mood for joking and I don’t think she’s trying to be “cute”
(tech’s note: ugh so much agree, it made me so mad. Especially because she’s using it to defend hogwarts. HAHAHA LOL IVE ALWAYS WANTED HOGWARTS TO GET ATTACKED SO I COULD USE THIS SPELL?? No. Also pretty sure it’s the same spell used to animate the chess pieces from the first book.)
This is so weird to me, because like…. it’s the middle of a war? Things are dark as fuck already? George Weasley was lying on the ground with a hole in his head and he was still able to crack ‘holy’ jokes. It’s a legit thing that happens–called, I think, morbid humor: things are fucking awful all around and for some people the only way to deal with it is to make jokes, find something to laugh about. Think about boggarts! They manifest as your biggest fear, and the only real way to beat them is to laugh. It’s a coping mechanism, and it’s a goddamn skill tbh. If you think Minerva’s thought process right then was ‘oh yay, hogwarts is being attacked so I can activate this ancient defense, let’s laugh about it!’ then… well, I’ll question your viewing comprehension at the very least.
I mean there are lots of things in the movies I’ll poke at and nitpick till the end of time. But I could understand where Minerva was coming from. Hope can be found in the darkest of places if one only remembers to turn on the light. Well, sometimes we have to make our own light even if the world feels like it’s about to end.
