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Small Town Grocery Store Stories: LGBTQ+ friendly edition
Me: minding my own damn business in the grocery store
One of my students and a few of his teammates enter the dairy aisle.
My student is holding hands with one of his teammates.
My student: Oh hey, Professor X!
Me, who has both my student and his girlfriend in my class: …Hello
My student, looking at his hand-holding partner: Oh! Don’t worry. My girlfriend knows. Not that I’m cheating! I’m not cheating. I’m not gay.
Hand Holding boy: Not that being gay is a bad thing! It’s a good thing!
My student: Right! But no, listen. We aren’t together, we just hold hands in public sometimes.
Hand Holding Boy: Especially on Friday nights. And weekends. And at away games.
My student: Because sometimes people will say shit and then we can punch them! And if the fight started because someone was being homophobic, coach won’t get mad at us.
Hand Holding Boy: Always nice to punch a homophobe. And [gesturing to another boy in the group] maybe they’ll think twice about saying something to [other boy’s name] if he ever gets a boyfriend and wants to hold his hand for real. The Gay One, resigned but smiling: I’ve decided it’s sweet and not really fucking weird.
shout out to all the people who identify with gifted kid burnout syndrome who are probably just neurodivergent but werent diagnosed as a child, who used to devour books like it was nothing and never really understood why the protagonist would leave their cool fantasy world behind to go back home at the end of the story, and who are now extremely disappointed in reality and use escapism as their primary coping mechanism. how’s that bisexuality and deep-rooted anger at the school system going for you?
Twitter Thread
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[ID: Screenshots of a Twitter thread by Charlie Knight [they/them], @CKnightWrites, posted around 4:18pm, July 3rd, 2021:
Since it’s Disability Pride Month, I’d love to address something I see many issues with out in the wild:
Wheelchair etiquette
There are appropriate and inappropriate ways to interact with someone who is in a wheelchair. Knowing them benefits all involved.
A non exhaustive 🧵 [thread]
1. Outside of emergencies, there is no reason for you to touch someone’s wheelchair unless asked. If we’re in the way, treat us like you would anyone else and say “excuse me.” If it looks like we’re stuck, treat us like you would anyone else and ask if we need help. Don’t touch.
1. (Cont) [continued] l can’t emphasize how important this is.
A wheelchair is an extension of our bodies. If you wouldn’t lift and move an abled person without asking, don’t push a wheelchair.
Grabbing my chair = grabbing me. It’s assault.
3. Don’t speak over or about us. Meaning, don’t look at my husband and ask “do they need help getting in?” when l’m right there. This is another infantilizing move and it’s horribly disrespectful.
4. Do not assume that someone in a wheelchair isn’t ambulatory (mobile). Sometimes, a person using a wheelchair can walk and will. This should not be a shock and is not an opportunity for questions about our disability.
5. Unless we’re in a setting where it would be appropriate (you’re our doctor and we’re in the office/hospital, or you’re paying us at an event to speak about it) there is no opportunity for you to ask questions about our disability. That’s just rude.
6. The above goes for your children, too. Disabled people are not a learning opportunity - do not turn us into one by telling kids that staring/pointing is bad but they can ask us questions. No, they cant. It’s still rude, and it’s not our responsibility to educate your kids.
7. Don’t move our wheelchairs after we’ve transferred out either, not until we say it’s okay and know where it’s going. If I transfer out of my chair at a restaurant and the waitstaff whisks my chair away, they’ve effectively taken my legs and hidden them. No, thank you.
8. Don’t go out of your way to avoid saying things like “talk [take] a walk.” We’re pretty likely to express things that way too, and “take a roll” as a cutesy alternative is not as funny as you think.
9. Use the word “disabled.” It’s not a dirty word. Alternatives like “differently abled” are infantalizing and gross, and terms like “handicapped” and “crippled” are both outdated and (often) offensive.
Disabled. Get comfy with it.
10. Don’t say things like “wheelchair bound” or “confined to a wheelchair.” Mobility aids like wheelchairs give us our freedom; they’re a good thing, not a trap.
All of these are general rules of thumb, esp w/ strangers or ppl you don’t know well. You may know someone in a wheelchair who is fine answering a kid’s questions, you may hear a disabled person using “cripple” for themself. Obviously, that’s okay. This is a starting point.
The big takeaway from this should be to treat us like you would anyone else - not as a broken, not as a freak show, not as a child. All it really takes is basic respect and acknowledging that we’re people too.
Thanks for trying to do better and Happy Disability Pride Month! 💜
Sidenote: I personally am open to questions about this, about disability etiquette here. My DMs are open, comments welcome.
Please do not assume that every disabled person wants to be an advocate or an educator. Someone RTing this thread is not an invitation to ask to them ?s [questions].
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Keanu Reeves for Esquire (2021, ph. Nathaniel Goldberg)
Lady Gaga for Paper Magazine, this is one of her best photoshoot EVER
cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces
Y’all have GOT to start putting your fucking x reader porn headcanons under a readmore or something instead of shitting it out into main tags
So I tried to draw my music teacher during the lesson (and by the way, he sat in this pose for almost the entire lesson)
I thought I was the only one who shipping real people togther was really CREEPY and STALKERISH on top of being DEHUMANISING. And the “coping” defense is just as creepy, like, what does it help you cope with? Your fetishisation problem? Your creepy stalker behaviour? The fact that you see people as toys for you to play with instead seeing them as human beings? Freaking weirdos I tell you...
Some pro-shippers on here are like "umm, don't judge people on what they ship!!" And I'm like... if they're fictional characters, sure, but your ship isn't valid if it's real people.
"BUT-" Your ship isn't valid if it has people in it.
"HOW COULD YOU-" Your ship isn't valid if it has real people in it.
"But these celebrities don't-" Your ship isn't valid if it has real people in it.
"It's harmless fun, though!!" YOUR SHIP IS NOT VALID IF IT HAS REAL PEOPLE IN IT. WHY SHIP REAL PEOPLE WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OUT THERE TO FUCKING CHOOSE FROM. KEEP TO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN VALID. STAY MAD ABOUT IT, I DON'T CARE.
I'm not gonna appease people who do this shit. Real people are off limits, especially kids. If you do this shit, take a hike.
I've made it explicitly clear on numerous occasions that I will NEVER support RPF. If you do support this or even are a part of it, I won't treat you any differently than I have been, but I won't support it nor be okay with it. I draw the line when it come to shipping real people.
{NOT UP FOR DISCUSSION. IF YOU TRY IT, YOU'RE IMMEDIATELY BLOCKED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.}
gurgles from a litre of noodle soup and a can of Coke. hearing and feeling all of this slosh around inside me is making my hog brain go fucking feral
Another way to look at it is how would YOU feel knowing that there are people out there writing dirty fiction about you and someone you work with and it’s out there for anyone to read?
Would you want someone you love to accidentally stumble on a dirty work of fiction of you and a one time coworker banging and you’re not with your Significant Other because you’re not in love with them and any children you have either don’t exist or are just props for publicity?
What about your sexuality being changed or called into question? Let’s just say for the sake of the argument you’re Gay and just the idea of kissing a member of the opposite sex in an intimate manner makes you uncomfortable but here’s a dirty piece of fiction with you banging a member of the opposite sex because they “turn you on” and the writer claims that there’s no way someone hot like you isn’t in to the opposite sex and you’re never seen in public with someone of the same sex that you’re obviously dating and you’ve never talked about dating so you must be Straight.
Or on the other hand you’re Straight and just because you’re never seen out in public with someone of the opposite sex and only seen with friends of the same sex you must be Gay and might be in a relationship with one of them, why else after your weekly lunch would you and the same friend linger longer than anyone else talking and you touched hands? In reality you’re just comforting your friend who needs comforting because of things happening in their life and you know what it’s like because you had a similar experience and this weekly lunch and conversation is the only break they get from whatever is happening.
Now, I think about it the restaurant setting could work if you’re Gay and eating with a platonic friend of the opposite sex that just needs a friend during a trying time and like a good friend you’re there for them.
Celebrities already have to deal with a lot of crap with paparazzi chasing them for photos to sell to the highest bidder/people offering tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for pictures of their weddings, the first pictures of their children, heck ANY pictures of their children will do and nosy people interrupting their outings for pictures and autographs. The least you can do for them is not speculate about their love lives and demean them for choosing the spouse they chose or question their Sexual Orientation.
If the idea of ANYONE questioning you’re Sexual Orientation and you’re feelings for your Significant Other upsets you in any way than it no doubt upsets them.
As @benperorsolo said: fictional characters are one thing because at the end of the day they’re not real and won’t be disturbed by any situations they might be put into.
In fact the ONLY person that might be upset by things done to fictional characters will be their creators. Which is why some authors have asked that no fan fiction be written on their works and some creators, in the days before the Internet, wrote cease and desist letters to Fanzines where certain character pairings were concerned.
I think real person shipping is fine as long as the shippers acknowledge that it is a hypothetical AU with no basis in reality. Trouble starts when people start acting like the two celebrities in question are really dating or should date, and their actual partners are obstacles in the way of their true love. I'm somewhat fine with, say, someone writing an AU about an actor dating his co-actress. But problems arise when people want him to dump his wife for said co-actress in real life.
Ehh, I still don’t really like RPFs because you are by nature writing romantic/sexual fic about real people who did not consent to be depicted in that manner. It’s different when you’re talking about a person’s character they play, because a character can’t/doesn’t have to consent. But I think it’s at best hazy to assume that just because a person is famous to some capacity that you don’t have to ask consent to write them in romantic, especially explicit, situations.
I just think they’re neat
this image is beautiful to me it is holy, this should be in a gallery
“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this
