Something I really love about Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is the point he makes about overcorrecting from the original trope. Sanitizing queer art to the point that nothing bad happens to queer characters ever is not only unrealistic, not only shitty to tell queer people what part of their stories they are or are not allowed to tell, it's also just putting us in another box. The beauty of queer art is when we just get to create what we want to and tell our stories authentically. There's a place for fluffy feel-good queer romance and horrifically fucked up queer horror. As long as queer people and those who love us get to tell our stories in a way that is meaningful, that resonates with the people who interact with it, that is all that should matter.

If you've got some extra money to spare these days, consider donating to some Minneapolis food banks or local businesses doing the right thing. The city is getting absolutely besieged by ICE right now, a lot of folks are not leaving their homes, and school is out due to the danger the raids pose to kids.

India and China are two of the biggest coal-consuming countries. This is big news.

Your Monthly Dose of Good News | January

This is a follow-up to a story that started about a year ago, and a classic case of something getting fixed/funded/reversed while no one was watching. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is vital, and they will receive their full funding for now. And hopefully after for now, too. Keep fighting, these things take time.

I've had too many situations happen like this when I was younger and it just cracked me up the way they did this scene.

"$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023."

cd in a microwave

it looks like an ancient rune activating its magic

rune of burn your house down

that whole "lol my boyfriend was looking at the wikipedia page for wind!" "my boyfriend was eating sausage reading about sausage!" post bothers me so much why are we once again pretending that something like. BEING CURIOUS ABOUT THE WORLD. is a guy thing. this is "how often do you think about the roman empire" again. this is "boys will be boys! (something silly and cool)" it's girl dinner. only guys read wikipedia or have random thoughts or think about history lol!!! lol!!!!!! what does that imply that girls are interested in

My favorite good news from 2025

I'm so proud of you, Black intersex people. I know you may be thinking you didn't do anything to be proud of, but you have. Your mere existence is something that I am proud of in an inherently internoirist society- especially in the west and US. I am so proud that you continue to exist in spite of those who want to bring us down. It's okay to be scared, to mourn what could've been for different reasons, to wish you were in a different world. But you continuing to have a presence and taking up space takes courage.

I'm proud of you, okay?

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

An underdiscussed element of Lou Reed's complex legacy was naming a snake "Edgar Allen Snake"

What the fuck man