My brother is a librarian, and his library is one of the ones that hosts Drag Queen Story Time.

He is also 6'3", 300 lbs of Heavy Weapons Librarian.

This week, some karen showed up to take video of said storytime. She was unmoved by the director of the library telling her their policy against taking video in the children's room.

My brother was also unmoved. Specifically, he was unmoved from his position directly in the line of karen's cellphone. She got video of an acre of blue broadcloth shirt, and that's it.

Other people who showed up to scowl at the drag queen decided they had other things to do that day when my brother scowled at them. He inherited our Mama's scowl, and it's a good one.

Sometimes, an ally looks like a big fat bald white guy. Sometimes, an ally looks like a wall.

Imagine a world where homosexuality was still in the DSM but society had moved gradually toward some moderate acceptance of queer people, but only with the understanding that we are sick and that leading out our queer lives is medically necessary for us, and so a person would have to get diagnosed with being gay by a psychiatrist in order to be allowed to have gay sex

this is basically the reality that trans people are living in right now. and that’s for those of us that are lucky enough to live in a place where we *are* allowed to lead out trans lives once we get gender dysphoria written down in our medical charts

anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma's boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are "like that" because they haven't seen their grandma's tits

good job tumblr 👍

The thing with the writers strike and actors strike is that. You ALL have to start realizing that the cool creative jobs they paint as "glamorous" in the media are actually ALL struggling in a big way, and basically everyone below "Huge Household Name" is actually often having to spend THEIR OWN DAY JOB MONEY to keep trying and trying to "break into" that household name status.

Like, im a cartoonist. Just starting out, but already fairly successful! My comics are sold in a handful of states, i sell out of my works, and i even have been featured as a finalist in a couple awards shows AND have pieces bought by a cartooning museum. I still barely make a couple hundred per month off it IF IM LUCKY, and spend almost as much trying to print more. Oh yes, i have to print my own comics! And working for a big comic company, they generally require you to bring some level of your own equipment. Heck, even if you make it "big" as a cartoonist...you wanna know how much you get paid if your comic that you spent months of back-breaking labor on is adapted into a marvel movie? A one-time check for $5000. Out of the BILLIONS those movies make, in perpetuity for eternity, you are given $5k. Pre-tax. Pre-agent. Pre-lawyer. (Yes we have agents and lawyers too, quite often). There's hardly any cartoonists who can afford to quit their day jobs, and even those who do are never living above the lower middle class range.

Now obviously cartooning is not the same as acting or writing, but my point is that we NEED yall to stop thinking just because you see our work as cool that we are living some dream life!!! Basically the only people who are living these dream lives you think of are CEOs of major companies and the occasional celebrity. The rest of us are just out here, struggling to survive just like you, we just happen to have a side hustle which is Kinda Cool.

All the arts. Writing, music, movies, dance, theater, design, all of them are important. We assume people with “real talent” will be able to make a living at them but even the super talented people can’t, and a lot of people who might be super talented never get to try because they have to do something else to keep a roof over their heads. 

this is completely true. when i went to school to learn animation, the teachers there (who all worked at the now-shuttered fox animation studios) basically said don't expect to get paid a lot. you'll be the cool parent with the cool job, but you'll never be Really Rich, and that sure is the gd case, ain't it.

there’s a reason the mantra of the arts is “don’t quit your day job.”

Jonathan: "Sir, as much fun as these months of Vampire Hell Staycation have been, I'd really appreciate not getting undeaded and bound for all eternity as another bloodthirsty addition to the castle. The love of my life is waiting for me and I would literally rather be dead than be part of your Polycule (Evil Edition (tm)). Can you please not drink me?"

Dracula, fangs already out: 👀💦

Lucy: "Any chance you could quit abusing my medical condition and siphoning my blood so I can stop waking in tears and maybe not be conscripted as your first conquest on English soil like a cadaverous trophy bride? I'm about to get married to the man I love and begin my life in earnest. So, like. Stop? Please?"

Dracula, bat-flapping to her window: 👀💦

Renfield: "Hello! Hi! I'm right here, ready and willing to get exsanguinated into life-chugging immortality! You won't find a more willing set of arteries in the country! Throat's right here! Drink up!"

Dracula:

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