i love being friendly and i want to be alone all day believe it or not you cannot do both

at the end of the day i do think one good cry could fix me for at least the next month

"if you convince people that there's no difference between a blood thirsty dictator and a dedicated leader who is human and thus unable to solve every problem, the dictator wins."

This is going to actually be a thing, isn't it. A chatgpjesus is going to catch on and cause some fucking cult movement in our lifetimes.

the greatest legal mind of our time

Spieling about sexuality of sailors and like

when I say "these people did not consider themselves gay or homosexuals or attracted to men" that absolutely does not mean they weren't fucking. Yes it was super illegal but so was getting shitfaced and GUESS WHAT SAILORS LOVED DOING

That Historical Man Would Not Be Using Microlabels. He Would Not Even Be Using The Macrolabels

Hiii! Def agree but some interesting bits off the top of my head frantically typed:

Captain Edward Rigby was tried in 1698 for buggery (for the second time that year after a navy court martial acquitted him). A transcription of his trial is here, and you can see he quotes historical precedents for same-sex attraction, so we can say that he considered himself attracted to men AND the inheritor of a tradition of high class men who were attracted to men (he's even quoted to have said "is it not what great men do?)

A character similar to Edward Rigby is Captain Wipple from Roderick Random (1748), who is a homophobic caricature of a foppish gay man. The success of the caricature hinges on the audience being able to recognise it as such. Also in Roderick Random, Lord Strutwell defends same-sex practices, also quoting illustrious precedents.

William Benemann is a researcher who's spent a lot of time investigating queerness in the nineteenth century American navy, and in his book Unruly Desires he makes an argument that we should look at some of these men as, broadly speaking, gay men. One of the aspects he analyses are tattoos, and how they were used to signal same sex attraction.

So while largely yeah, queerness was mostly a thing you DID rather than BE (ie you do a buggery you're not a homosexual), sometimes I'm a bit conscious of overcorrecting and overlooking the cases where someone might have thought it was a thing you also WERE, perhaps not an identity but certainly a tradition, in which case they had language at the ready to explain themselves, which, even though it isn't the same as saying they were gay, it overlaps well enough. At least I like to think so! Also people looking AT queers (with disdain) definitely had words to call them. And this is just for gay people but a similar argument can def be made (I would make it!) for trans people.

Like it's that old chestnut that you want to do your best to be faithful to how people might have seen sexuality in the past, but at the same time a ton of the language and discourses with which people understood themselves is lost to us through neglect or persecution, and only by looking through the cracks we may see glimpses of it. I know the glimpses I mentioned are a bit upper class but that's just how documented history tends to skew for sources isn't it. I'm sure a ton of working class people also thought deeply about these things it's just that I don't know about it.... YET.

It feels almost unbelievable that there's an Olympics this year. Not just this year but next month. Like can you please come back another time thanks

At least they're in Italy though

(tags by @unashamedly-enthusiastic)

there cannot be this much to say about heated rivalry

I can't speak for the OP, but I'm happy you all are having fun! But having not watched the show, there's a heck of a lot of HR posts to scroll past these days!😆

Ah yes, very fair, I know the feeling when people on my timeline have a new obsession that I am unfamiliar with or uninterested in 😂

but don't worry, it will die down once we're further away from the release date and the hype will die down 😊

damn this sucks I need to—*remembers suicide jokes are harmful to my mental health and make others around me uncomfortable* *remembers that censorship is on the rise and questions whether it’s actually praxis to make the joke despite the discomfort it may cause* *remembers this meme has already been beaten to death anyway* —come up with a better joke

holding your hand while i say this: heated rivalry has reached the point in it's lifespan where people are going to start picking it apart in bad faith. this is historically what happens when something is overexposed and also when it's beloved by a largely female/queer audience.

don't engage with people who were never going to give it a chance to begin with. understand that it does not need to prove it's quality to anyone, and regardless, it will likely remain a cherished romance for many millions of people from here on out.

"Block and delete". It's like "bend and snap" but preserves your sanity.

This is true of everything you love that gets big bte

[said with increasing amount of distress] i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this

i'm aware that the introvert website might but the wrong audience BUT please tell me your default karaoke song in the tags (for bonus points also tell me the song you WISH you could sing at karaoke but it's too obscure for the karaoke booths to have)