1) Keep your display of affection (kissing, handholding, embracing) to a minimum. Your sexuality is unwanted and offensive to many here.
2) If you must slow dance, be as inconspicuous as possible.
3) Do not gawk or stare at lesbians or gay men, especially bull dykes or drag queens. We are not your entertainment.
4) If you cannot comfortably deal with someone of the same sex making a pass at you, get out.
5) Do not flaunt your heterosexuality. Be Discreet. Risk being mistaken for a lezzie or a homo.
6) If you feel these rules are unfair, go fight homophobia in straight clubs, or:
7) Go Fuck Yourself.
Excerpt from “QUEERS READ THIS,” a leaflet anonymously published in June, 1990, and distributed at the New York City pride march during the AIDS crisis. ACT UP New York has a PDF available online here.
when i posted this i was entirely unaware of how many people have such poor reading comprehension they will completely overlook GIANT text that explains when and why this was written (in the 90s! largely in response to the AIDS crisis!) to assume something is meaningless tumblr drivel.
to my own credit and none of yours i linked the original full text. i beg all of you in the HUYA (heads up your ass) community to actually read it.
i learned that every Dec 25th, a town in Peru celebrates “Takanakuy” where men, women and children settle grudges from the past year by calling each other out and having a fist fight. Then everybody goes drinking to numb the pain and move on to a new year. (x)
Lemme square up with the kid upstairs who doesn’t know the concept of indoor footsteps yet
Your 12 recent emojis are how each month of the next year will be for you
😂💀🙌🏻😭👌🏻😛😟👍🏻👏🏻😱😁🤷🏼♂️
🤤😭😂🙈👀😔♥️👏🏻🙄😏🙃🤷🏻♂️
😍😝😜🤣😘😈🙈💙😁👅😬🐒
😂™️😘✖️😎👀👍🏻🇪🇸😜😱®️🍿
What does this even mean?? Am I fucked in April???! Amd what’s up with February and November?? January’s my birthday so it was expected, but March is hell at my job?? I NEED A READ ON THIS.
the reason they don’t want you to use photoshopping as a verb is because if were to become so widely used that it were oficially known as a verb, they would lose all brand name copyright, essentially costing them millions in name copyright. i, personally, would love to see this happen so please use photoshop as a verb as much as you can
The technical term is “genericization” and there is more in-depth info over on Wikipedia. There are a lot of interesting examples of brand names that have become generic due to common use (combined with the company not protecting their trademark).
When I asked Ms. Dyer if she could tell me which industry served as Glitterex’s biggest market, her answer was instant: “No, I absolutely know that I can’t.”
I was taken aback. “But you know what it is?”
“Oh, God, yes,” she said, and laughed. “And you would never guess it. Let’s just leave it at that.” I asked if she could tell me why she couldn’t tell me. “Because they don’t want anyone to know that it’s glitter.”
“If I looked at it, I wouldn’t know it was glitter?”
“No, not really.”
“Would I be able to see the glitter?”
“Oh, you’d be able to see something. But it’s — yeah, I can’t.”
I asked if she would tell me off the record. She would not. I asked if she would tell me off the record after this piece was published. She would not. I told her I couldn’t die without knowing. She guided me to the automotive grade pigments.
He also did not want me to visit his glitter factory. The jovial Mr.
Shetty told me over the phone that people have no idea of the scientific
knowledge required to produce glitter, that Glitterex’s glitter-making
technology is some of the most advanced in the world, that people don’t
believe how complicated it is, that he would not allow me to see glitter
being made, that he would not allow me to hear glitter being made, that
I could not even be in the same wing of the building as the room in
which glitter was being made under any circumstance, that even
Glitterex’s clients are not permitted to see their glitter being made,
that he would not reveal the identities of Glitterex’s clients (which
include some of the largest multinational corporations in the world;
eventually, one did consent to be named: thank you, Revlon, Inc.), and
that, fine, I was welcome to come down to Glitterex headquarters to
learn more about what I could not learn about in person.
tHIS IS THE SINGLE MOST BRILLIANT THING I HAVE EVER HEARD I WAS IN HYSTERICS AT 2 CUIL
i find this hilarious considering The Cuil Theory was a popular meme back in 2012, with a similar format as a popular Welcome To Nightvale meme. “weird” posts would usually have an additional reblog with “and now, the weather” in reference to WTNV but for a few months, “weird’ posts would be ended with “i give you a hamburger”. the peak of the meme was around late october of 2012, the actual video itself being published february of 2012.
