when channing tatum was 16 he dated a guy and he’s spoken about it in great length and referred to himself as not-straight so stop calling him part of straight culture lmao
CHANNING TATUM LOVES MEN and works really hard to remind everyone of that all the time and somehow it keeps getting rewritten and forgotten because queer erasure is WILD, support Channing Tatum, man, he’s the genuinely kind inoffensive white normy looking guy we all dream of existing but think can’t be real, Channing unicorn Tatum
I honestly did not know this and I’m so glad I do now!
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@boromir-queries-seanI learned something new and horrifying today which is… that… no submarine is ever considered “lost” … there is apparently a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”
?????
There is a monument about this along a canal near here its… the worst thing I have ever seen. it says “STILL ON PATROL” in huge letters and then goes on to specify exactly how many WWII submarine ghosts are STILL OUT THERE, ON PATROL (it is almost 2000 WWII submarine ghosts, ftr). Here is the text from it:
“U.S. Navy Submarines paid heavily for their success in WWII. A total of 374 officers and 3131 men are still on board these 52 U.S. submarines still on patrol.”
THANKS A LOT, U.S. NAVY, FOR HAVING THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL HORRIFYING TRADITION, AND TELLING ALL OF US ABOUT IT. THANKS. THANK YOU
anyway now my mother and I cannot stop saying STILL ON PATROL to each other in ominous tones of voice
There’s definitely something ominous about that—the implication that, one day, they will return from patrol.
Actually, it’s rather sweet. I don’t know if this is common across the board, but my dad’s friend is a radio op for subs launched off the east coast, and he always is excited for Christmas, because they go through the list of SoP subs and hail them, wishing them a merry Christmas and telling them they’re remembered.
Imagine a country whose seamen never die, and whose submarines can’t be destroyed…because no ones sure if they exist or not.
No but imagine. It’s Christmas. A black, rotting corridor in a forgotten submarine. The sound of dripping water echoes coldly through the hull. You can’t see very far down the corridor but then, a man appears, he’s running, in a panic, but his footsteps make no noise. The spectral seaman dashes around the corner and slips through a rusty wall. He finds himself at the back of a crowd of his cadaverous crew-mates. They part to let him through. He feels the weight of their hollow gaze as he reaches the coms station. Even after all these years a sickly green light glistens in the dark. The captain’s skeleton lays a sharp hand on his shoulder and nods at him encouragingly, the light sliding over the bones of his skull. The ghost of the seaman steadies himself and slips his fingers into the dials of the radio, possessing it. It wails and screeches. A bombardment of static. And then silence. The deathly crew mates look at each other with worry, with sadness; could this be the year where there is no voice in the dark? No memory of home? The phantasm of the sailor pushes his hand deeper into the workings of the radio, the signal clears, and then a strong voice, distant with the static but warm and kind, echoes from the darkness; “Merry Christmas boys, we’re all thinking of you here at home, have a good one.”
A sepulchral tear wafts it’s way down the seaman’s face. The bony captain embraces him. The crew grin through rotten jaws, laughing silently in their joy. They haven’t forgotten us. They haven’t forgotten.I am completely on board with this. It’s not horrifying, it’s heartwarming.
Personal story time: whenever I go to Field Museum’s Egypt exhibit, I stop by the plaque at the entrance to the underground rooms. It has an English translation of a prayer to feed the dead, and a list of all the names they know of the mummies on display there. I always recite the prayer and read aloud the list of names. They wanted to live forever, to always have their souls fed and their names spoken. How would they feel about being behind glass, among strangers? Every little thing you can do to give respect for the dead is warranted.
I love the idea of lost subs still being on patrol. Though if you really want something ominous, let me say that the superstitious part of me wonders: why are they still on patrol? If they haven’t been found, do they not consider their mission completed? What is it out there that they are protecting us from?
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grantaire-put-that-bottle-down:
hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!
No no no! Jewish LGBTQ kinderlach! Go to Keshet!
hoperemains is completely from a Christian perspective, and not pluralistic or interfaith at all.
If you reblogged the first post from me please reblog this amendment so the Jewish peeps can access this resource too!
Trans Jewish kids, you can go to TransTorah as well!
Muslim LGBTQ kids, you can go to iamnotharaam! It’s run by a mod squad of different genders and orientations, and they take submissions from everybody!
–BB
MAY ANYONE WHO REBLOGS THIS BE ELEVATED TO THE EQUIVALENT OF SAINTHOOD IN THEIR RELIGION BLESS ALL OF YOU OH MY GOD.
REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN BECAUSE IT’S SO FREAKING IMPORTANT TO ME AND ALL MY FOLLOWERS TO READ THAT DEAL WITH GRIEF AND GUILT WHILE BEING LGBTQ AND RELIGIOUS
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so ok about ghostbusters i really feel like holtzmann was the realest part of the movie to me? like a lot of straight people might watch the movie and go ‘holtzmann was so over the top, too much, unrealistic, cartoonish’ but:
i’ve known women like that (and fallen in love with them) and done my best to be a woman like that (and got my heart broken a lot) and you can watch holtzmann aggressively flirt with erin until the moment erin loses her shit over kevin and then you see holtzmann just kind of grin bitterly and stop. entirely stop. erin is insufficiently bi. erin wasn’t politely turning down holtzmann’s overtures, she was totally oblivious of them. erin prefers hotdogs to hamburgers. and holtzmann respects that completely even while her face is like aw, fuck. and i just nodded to myself. like yeah, yep, me too, same, yup.
jillian’s actress is gay. jillian’s actress knows this situation, has lived this situation, grew up in this situation, she knows: most of the women you like will like men, and that sucks, but it’s no one’s fault, you can’t get mad. suck it up; laugh it off. you’re surrounded by brilliant, beautiful women all your life and you flirt and you dance and you preen and you have fun, but you have your honor, too, you also know what it’s like to be hit on by that creep at your job, to dodge innuendo and unwanted touches from that ‘friend’ who’s too friendly. you’re better than the men who get bitter about it. us weird girls, us girls who like girls and are girls, we all know.
i didn’t really expect to see something that real in ghostbusters, but damn. damn. it felt good. it felt like representation. it felt like a pat on the back i’ve never gotten. we know you. you’re here too.
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“You were brave. You were strong. You were good.
You mattered.”
— Animorphs, The Beginning (via chromatographic)
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I still can’t believe that fanfiction is free
I sometimes have to pay for water, but with a phone and some wifi, I get to read whole novels about my favorite characters for exactly zero additional dollars
How goddamn rad is that
Thank you fic writers,The unsung heroes.
Thanks to all fanfiction writers out there
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Patron saint of laying in bed till noon on your day off.
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Ya'all
I am a 27 year old full grown ass adult.
My partner and I are reading Animorphs together (my first time he has had them since they came out)
We just finished 30 (it’s a Marco book- the reunion)
I can’t …
1. HOW ARE THESE BOOKS MENT FOR 7-12 YEAR OLDS?
2. I just ugly cried for the last half of the book, while reading outloud, nbd.
3. I have told my partner that I will no longer read Marco books… I have entirely too many mommy feels.
4. I am ruined ya’ll, I just can’t.
5. Animorphs fandom, someone comfort me? I have 27 books left to make it through and my poor feels are all going to break and make a mess all over arnt they?
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message 4 my followers
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Anonymous asked: bUT WHY IS YOUR BRUCE WAYNE SO GOOD
well if you start from a place of
- maybe women are always all over him because he seems charming and nice and not because women are vapid golddigging whores
- maybe a man who wears pointy ears and shapes things like bats to stay on-brand does not take himself 100% seriously all the time
- maybe ideally batman shouldn’t be a supervillain who just happens to punch the right people
then you generally end up with a cool dude imho
And this is how to avoid the Grim Yoghurt Batman in three well thought out steps