it's one thing to have a mutual who's obsessed with blorbo from their show but it is quite another when a mutual is obsessed with their OC. to be clear, it's so much better. blorbo from their brain is awesome. oh you made a sim of them and are posting dozens of screencaps of the sim in different poses? you commissioned another five drawings of them because you just had to see them in those new outfits you thought of? you're self-shipping with them and one of your friend’s OCs? I love you so much. please never ever stop.

Piping hot take: I don't give a shit if straight actors play queer characters as long as they do so with empathy and authenticity. When you say shit like "only queer actors should play queer characters" what you're actually saying is only OUT queer actors should play queer characters. If you're assuming an actor (or anyone else, for that matter) who hasn't declared their sexuality is straight, you are participating in heteronormativity.

you're also saying that you, as an audience member, are entitled to private and intimate details of actors' personal lives, fwiw.

if you ever read any interview with Tim Curry, he's always very clear about finding this absurd. we all pretty much assume Tim Curry is queer, but we'll never know, because he has absolutely point-blank refused to discuss his dating life with the public or the media, because it's nobody's business but his (and anyone he's dating ofc).

it's also like--

some of you younger folk really need to go watch the documentary on Paul Reubens. "Peewee as Himself." Like, the context might help a little? for why so many of us who grew up before Obergefell et al really, really, really fucking hate this narrative where the public has a right to every single facet and detail of an actor's life? especially a queer actor?

actors, musicians, comedians, entertainers, etc., don't owe their audiences jack fucking shit about their personal lives. we can all get over that absurd entitlement any time.

I was just talking with my partner about this a few weeks ago.

Lee Pace is similarly an incredibly private man. For a long time we the public knew absolutely nothing about his dating life or anything about his family outside of little bits and pieces he shared, and even that was deliberately as vague as possible.

He played a trans woman in Soldier's Girl. It's based on a true story, and he actually met with the trans woman his character is based on. During the interview, he said something to the effect of having several stark realizations about himself after working with her and learning her story and her journey and her life.

I make the joke that anyone transgender heard the distinct sound of an egg cracking during that interview. And yet, Pace did not come out. Not until he was forced to, years later.

As, simply, "queer".

We now know he is married to a man. We know he identifies as queer, mostly because he was forced to by an interviewer who has a reputation for forcing very private celebrities to come out or risk losing status. We know he has dated men and women. By his own admission that playing Calpernia gave him very strong gender feelings and he saw a lot of himself both in the fictionalized character he played and in the real woman whose presence he was wow'd by.

Lee Pace might be a trans woman who has found it better to boymode for the sake of an acting career. Lee Pace might be a trans woman who avidly does not want to invite a spotlight into that part of his life- and who could blame him? Lee Pace might be an egg who has just barely started to crack, peeked out from beyond the shell and is not yet comfortable leaving the closet. Or Pace might be nonbinary, genderqueer, gay-as-gender, or... simply a cis gay man who feels it is nunya and enjoys being a little fruity and feminine in his spare time.

I don't claim to know the inner workings of Pace's mind, sexuality, or gender. But I do think that it would be wrong to force Pace to share what he clearly is not comfortable sharing for the entire world to see.

When it comes to celebrities who are respectful and also private, I don't think it is a bad thing if what we as fans know about them doesn't quite match up with the demographic they're playing. Sometimes, there's a reason they found a piece of themselves in the role. And especially when it has the blessing of the real life person that role is based on (such as in the case of Calpernia) or of the real life LGBT people working with that celeb every day - maybe the people directly involved with this know more about this person than we do watching from the other side of the screen.

I was just talking

with my partner about this

a few weeks ago.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

2026 time to be unabashedly real and engaged with your own ocs. we are DEFEATING self embaresment. we are KILLING fear of judgment. if anyone talks shit i will PERSONALLY BITE THEM

You see a medical-looking neat little spray bottle on the table. The label says "wound spray". I tell you not to touch that. For some reason you spray some on yourself anyway and scream as a horrible smell fills the room and the chemical reaction of some unknown substance burns your skin right off. You scream and ask what the hell was that.

It's a wound spray, obviously. You spray some on your skin on the desired area, to instantly create a wound.

please read this substack about pantone choosing cloud dancer for color of the year 2026

No really, you should read it.

"It is the color of bad news delivered with bureaucratic indifference"

And;

"The color of a person's thoughts while ignoring war"

And;

"The color of the humming sound that an overhead flourescent light makes in a disillusioning job"

And;

"It is, however, the color of the discussions on the subject, as well as the color of the awareness of the context from which those discussions inevitably spring"

And;

"It is the color of a corporate apology"

And;

"When the decision was revealed, I knew I would never own a house."

“When the decision

was revealed, I knew I would

never own a house.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

If anyone is more interested in the work behind the Gävle goat there is apparently a documentary here, mostly in swedish, but what I found most charming is that you can climb into the goat through a door in it's behind.

And if you ever wondered: yes, according to rumors a couple have fucked in the Gävle goat. In 1966 in fact, the first year it was up and before any kind of arson. I don't know why they threw that into the documentary but this goat has layers is all I'm saying.

Uppdate: The link seems dead, here is a drive link with the documentary, now with both swedish and english subtitles :)

Like for the goat to burn. Reblog for people to fuck inside the goat.

Hopefully not at the same time.

I like to imagine the hyrule royal family breathes a sigh of relief every time a child is born that has no resemblance to ancient legends or goddesses, and then when they get one a little too uncanny they just go "fucking dammit we got another Zelda. Pack it up lads we're fucked."

King talking to an attendant like "yeah nah legit blonde hair and all. hanging out with that green kid. started playing music at like 2 years old we're so fucked. anyway this big gerudo bloke is here to meet with me. sure this will be just fuckin grand. NOT NOW IMPA I'M BUSY"

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

On my hands and knees, begging please

So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.

So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.

She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.

He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...

"Oh you have a dick?"

"... yeah."

He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says

"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.

My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"

I do feel the need to add that later he excitedly tell the group that as a straight guy, he never thought that skill would be useful outside hotdog eating contests.

"Man its too bad that im straight since I've got like no gag reflex and all."

"Honey, I must tell you, i am in fact trans and I have not had bottom surgery."

"My god... everything's coming up Jason."

Pure of heart dumb of ass hetero of sexual

I love

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

Fiction is fiction and people have gotten far too comfortable with censorship.

I hate non-con, proship, etc. but it is fine to write those things because it’s FICTION.

As ling as everyone properly tags their work it isn’t a problem.

If you see something you don’t like, block the tag or the post out. If you follow someone who posts about that you can just unfollow them.

As long as people keep understanding the line between fiction and reality it isn’t a problem.

A person reading noncon doesn’t mens they want that in real life.

Fiction is fiction.

If you don’t like something, don’t interact.

And don’t shame people for what they read or interact with. If something triggers you, stay away from it.

Censorship is what facists do. I don’t like to see that stuff, but at the end of the day, I can look away. When you start to censor other people, saying they shouldn’t be able to consume a or create a certain type of content because you don’t like it, wouldn’t that mean everyone can? If you can censor people, people can censor you. What happens when someone says they don’t support gay people and content about us shouldn’t be produced?

That has already happened and is happening in many places, and you have to understand what a slippery slope it is to push your own morals on the world.

You have to understand the difference between fiction and reality. If you read about murder it doesn’t mean you want to murder or be murdered, so why would it be different for other things?

Before dying on a hill, understand what hill it is you’re dying on.

Before trying to censor something you need to understand what censoring really is and how it can hurt everyone.

The same way that you despise noncon content, people despise queer content.

Read this and read it again to really absorb it. Censorship does nothing but bring harm to people.

Made me think of @teaboot 's post about his intense need to hug bats during work hours

Filed in "photos which are terrifying if you know what they are, nonthreatening otherwise."

I had to send this to my partner who knows computers and the first thing he said was: "What. What in the world. What the fuck."

Needless to say, this is a crime against computers.

"This. This is a heracy. The machine gods didn't die for this."

I love being clueless about things sometimes.

Sometimes I can still hear their voice

Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity

The lack of video content is what kept us here... I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.

Tumblr's not asking for my phone number. It's not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don't have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.

I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it's a blogging platform with social features.

I like the use of Metroman here because if there's one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it's that we want everyone to think we're dead

😔

wish we were still on Tumblr instead of the void

Standard social media is so bad for my mental health I deleted everything, but Tumblr got to stay BECAUSE it functions so differently from every other platform. *I* curate my experience. Not the all seeing eyes of an algorithm.

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

My first ever WRITTEN fanfiction turned 10 in 2025 (I was roleplaying warrior cats on the playground long before I thought to put pencil to paper). Not once has an AI touched my work. Nor will it EVER touch my work. Death to the AI bubble.