Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT+ community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness.
Me: It’s important to remember to be inclusive of gay people from rural backgrounds.
Parts of Tumblr.com: I have literally never heard of classism and thus have no frame of reference for the idea that I should be nice to people with stereotypically low class interests and so I will make fun of those interests now.
Me: Ah so I see I have overshot where y’all are at
Everyone in the notes: Yas! I love farms! Love them chickens, farm core is my life!
Bitch we all know you like farm asthetique. What we want is support for the Actual rural southern queer community. The trailer park/pre-used prefab queers. The ones who are never going to get more than a 10th grade education and work dirty blue collar jobs with hard labor. And remember that this whole ass time we often have to lie about who we are so we can keep the shitty hard labor jobs that fuck up our bodies. And remember that these communities are also black and Hispanic communities?? I see y'all in the notes “this is so white, this is so white” like the entire South isn’t full of poc and queer poc who struggle even harder because of all this??
Broke: everyone in the rural south is white homophobic racists
Woke: the rural south has large populations of queer poc who get no support and no acknowledgement within broader queer culture past the “gay cowboy” asthetic
cottagecore is unnervingly white… call that shit confederatecore
I feel like people are purposely missining the point of this post. It is white. The entire concept of white people en masse moving into the woods to escape an issue that they are responsible for, be it directly or indirectly, reeks of historical colonilization.
Not only that, indigenous bloggers have spoken about the anti-indigenous mindset that comes with claiming lands that aren’t your own due to what you’ve caused, especially since this land may be Indigenous land.
Black bloggers have discussed how this mindset is very reminiscent or racism that forced black people out of the deep South, and how cottagecore’s whiteness has made it hard for people of color to exist.
let’s not pretend there’s not a connection between cottagecore and the witch community, which is notoriously racist.
Maybe instead of running away from problems you all benefit from, fix the problems in the present society.
The wonderful thing about Tumblr is that, even though it has the
default state of a series of semi-public conversations to which anybody
can add anything, encouraging people making fun digressions or
interesting counterpoints to things you have posted, or conversations
you’re already engaged in, it also lets you curate your dashboard
so that you don’t have to interact with people you don’t want to,
especially if they make your experience of Tumblr worse. And Tumblr is
entirely a free-time activity! It’s recreation. Why would you want to
interact with internet strangers who make your free time worse??
No one should feel the need to make their experience of Tumblr or any other website worse out of some
misplaced sense of fair-mindedness. It’s not a formal debate club. It’s not even like meatspace social interactions where the cost of entering those spaces in time and physical effort and the persistence of relationships means that you can’t be quite so selective in who you spend time with. (Though I don’t think even in face-to-face interactions people have an unlimited obligation to put up with rudeness, or boredom; there is an obligation to not be callous or deliberately hurtful when trying to establish boundaries, though if polite hinting doesn’t work, I think it’s OK to be increasingly frank.)
I think a lot of people would
be a lot happier if they treated online spaces as the low-stakes
disposable social interactions that they are, which they have an
absolute right to curate to be as pleasant as possible. This extends, I think, to moderators and admins, who get to decide what kinds of communities they want to support, and what kind of content they want to permit (though users get justly annoyed if mods are dishonest or fickle about these things). I don’t think anybody has a right to an audience, and certainly not a particular audience–nobody owes me reading anything I post, and if anyone’s life in general or time on the internet in particular will be made better by pretending I don’t exist, I mean it with utmost sincerity when I say, do what you need to do to ensure your time goofing around on the interwebs is fun for you.
Hi, I’m Wynter, I’m Deaf and fluent in ASL (American Sign Language). I get a lot of people telling me they want to learn to sign, but not knowing exactly where to start. So, I am here to provide that!
Let’s start off with some basics, though. ASL does NOT follow English grammar (Signed Exact English/SEE does, but it is not ASL), it only uses English words and a lot of the communication with singing is done via facial expression and body language. Basically, it goes in the order of time > topic > comment. For example, “ I am going to pet dogs next week” would be “next week dogs me pet”, but there are quite a few variants and every person who signs will have a different way of doing this. Sort of how people who speak English in different parts of America have an accent and different ways to sign things. The most important thing to note about ASL is that *American* Sign Language is not universal. Most languages have their own form of SL and a lot of the word signs/alphabets are not at all the same. Another note, learning SEE may seem easier at first, but it can actually make the transition to ASL grammar that much more difficult. An example of differing signs is BSL (British Sign Language) vs ASL.
This is the BSL finger alphabet:
And this is the American one:
So while there is a small bit of crossover, it is very, very different! Don’t get me wrong, a lot of times signers will understand each other at least a little bit, but it does need to be noted that signs can differ by language, country, region, and sometimes person.
If you want a safe place to learn sign language (including ASL), I have created a Discord called Sign Language Learners! Come join and learn with other learners, Deaf/HoH people, and those curious kids who just want to know how the Deaf communicate.
These bizarre “5 minute crafts“ cooking/making/arts and crafts/household tips videos are just Elsagate for adult women. But unlike in Elsagate, there are actual humans in the loop, creating bizarre videos like “Greek yoghurt+cake clour, mix, bake 20 min, yummy bread!“. These people have to take these bizarre premises, and make videos with minimal instructions that somehow look like they work.
Now if you tried the yoghurt bread, you’d find that there’s no salt, yeast, or baking soda in it. It can’t work. Somebody at the production company must have mixed cake flour and yoghurt, and then put actual bread dough in the oven to film how it rises.
There is a human in the loop.
Short videos with surprising recipes or life hacks crowd out videos about things that actually work, because you already know many actual life hacks, but if some video tell you to get red wine stains out of a carpet with toothpaste, then that’s new/novel information. If you see two videos, one with a recipe that works, and one that doesn’t, either you will know which is which and you don’t need to watch either, or you’ll share/remember the one that looks prettier.
These life hack videos are viral because they don’t work, or rather, they are more viral than anything that does work, and they are viral because things that don’t work can be more surprising, counter-intuitive and thus more memorable/notable than any true information.
honestly real fucking gross how quickly commercials shifted to “in this scary & trying times you want to keep your family safe, that’s why you should get some new windows installed today”
like we really do only exist under capitalism to buy products huh!!
Okay so upon watching Bernie’s statement I want to put a couple facts out there:
Bernie states he will no longer beactively campaigning
he states he will remain on the ballot and encourages you to continue to vote for him and gather delegates to make our voices and sway known
he will not be campaigning on another ballot (independent or Green Party ballot)
The media is continuing is campaign of misinformation to damage Bernies viability. Do not let them fool you. He is not going anywhere. He is merely shifting his focus to continue to help Americans through this pandemic.
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