Happy Pride!

if its 1:00am when you're reading this you know what to do!

Honestly though, something that makes Power Rangers a win for me (besides the amazing representation of course) is that they actually cut a heterosexual romance because it didn’t fit the story

Unnecessary het romance was called out as unnecessary, and film makers actually listened and cut it. And they cut it for the female character’s benefit, not the male’s

Like, it’s sad how rare that is.

It never ends

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

*cackling*

If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.

YOU!

For everyone that can’t access Twitter right now here’s a nice break down of musk’s reasons to rebrand as x

I just got a thought so! we all know that Wednesday wears alot of layers right

So one day, during school when Wednesday wants to convince Enid to do something like check out this abandoned place somewhere, do you what she does?

She takes off the blazer and carries it on her arm

It's innocent, it shouldn't do a thing except Enid has the same constitution as someone from the Victorian era around Wednesday for some reason

It shouldn't do a thing, it's literally her girlfriend wearing the rest of the uniform minus the blazer, it should not at all affect the werewolf.

Except, it does, much to Enid's own mortification

Safe to say she was too busy processing what she was seeing to fully realize where they were walking too

Wednesday knows what she's doing btw, theres smth flattering about doing something so tiny yet gaining such a loud reaction

It escalated to her folding her sleeves up one day and it's enough to have Enid blushing and quickly averting her eyes away when Wednesday raises a brow

“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”

Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.