The Signs At The Fair:

normal-horoscopes:

Aries: Has their arm stuck in the ski-ball machine up to the elbow. Several workers are attempting to help. They cannot. The ski-ball machine has them.

Taurus: Scaling the tilt-a-whirl with a socket wrench in their teeth.

Gemini: Springing from the shadows and stealing funnel cake from fair-goers. They have a horde in the hall of mirrors.

Cancer: In a fistfight.  

Leo: Waiting in line for something. A cloud of dust circles them continuously. Its hard to get a good look at them.

Virgo: Comforting a crying child by telling them about the fair catacombs.

Libra: Mesmerized by the glass blower. They’ve been there for days. 

Scorpio: Makes sure the haunted house is properly haunted. None of that store bought shit.

Ophiuchus: Stole a horse.

Sagittarius: Has a hotdog. Overjoyed. 

Capricorn: Constantly lost in a crowd. They are effectively invisible. They move among the fair unseen, yet seeing all.

Aquarius: Sitting atop the pancake stand and people watching. Several people have told them to come down. They do not. They are lost in thought.

Pisces: Still in the parking lot. They think that’s the fair.

New Bechdel-like test for gay/lesbian romance films:

feministbatman:

strongorcbutch:

therebewhaleshere:

Your gay characters cannot:

  1. Have an illegal or otherwise creepy age gap.
  2. Cheat on each other or anyone else (especially not if the cheating is portrayed as romantic).
  3. Die tragically, violently or AT ALL. 

To all the people in the notes going “but but tragedy is a valid form of…” Yeah, sorry, straights broke it with decades of nothing but tragedy for LGBT characters. This is a moratorium on all such tragedy films with tragic endings for at least the next 50-75 years at which point there will be a review to determine if mainstream media has EARNED it. 

From 1922 to 1968 the Motion Picture Production Code (commonly known as the Hays Code) enforced rules regarding the treatment of gay characters in tv and film. Homosexuality and gender nonconformity could be acknowledged, but it had to be punished to show that consequences would come from such “immorality.” Showing these characters as creepy, predatory, unfaithful, etc etc was common, and for decades pretty much every queer or queer coded character was brutally murdered. The homophobic tropes born from the Hays code are pervasive in media today. The sheer amount of tragedy and violence written into queer media in the last century has in the long term damaged people’s perceptions of what queer stories are “supposed” look like. 

New Bechdel-like test for gay/lesbian romance films: If your queer piece of media complies with the Hays code, start over.

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“You can walk in a straight line from Madrid to Shanghai without hitting a major body of water using Earth’s curvature.
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Egg hatching route.
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For everyone who says “that’s not a...

novisitesestetumblr:

rad-dummy:

smis-happens:

mapsontheweb:

You can walk in a straight line from Madrid to Shanghai without hitting a major body of water using Earth’s curvature.

Egg hatching route.

For everyone who says “that’s not a straight line it’s a curved line” please remember that the Earth is round, not flat. Here’s the line, as rendered with Google Earth:

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As you can see, the line is straight!

I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more, but I wouldn’t swim a single mile