Anyone Want To Have A Deeply Homoerotic Sparring Match?

☆ wlw appreciation for pride month ☆

↳ Hayley Kiyoko // “I’m grateful to the LGBT community for giving me the courage to write about who I am, not just my sexual orientation.”

Watch: Fox News sent a reporter to Princeton to make fun of “sensitive” college students

Because it has come to my attention that apparently a lot of people weren’t taught proper tipping etiquette so here’s what I was taught.

Always tip at least 20%.

If you got something in a special or had a coupon, you tip on the price you would have payed, not the price you did pay.

At breakfast always tip 25%. Breakfast is never as expensive as dinner and your waitress shouldn’t be shortchanged because you got $5 eggs instead of a $10 sandwich.

If you keep a table for longer than an hour, add 10% for every hour you keep the table. It’s great that you’re catching up with a friend you haven’t seen in ten years, but you’re fucking over the waitress by staying for four hours. Every hour you’re there you’re costing her money. Make it worth her time.

We all know to tip 20%, but as someone who works as a cook and often talks to the waiters, no one seems to know about the rest. This is what my dad taught me and this is what I’ll teach my children. Be respectful to your waiters. Don’t undertip. They need to eat too.

On the topic that I just noticed blown up...

So apparently this hatemonger is an actual person, but I choose to still hope she is not real.

Why?

Because we, as a human race, have much to fear if we can produce someone so inherently hateful, they feel as though it is their solemn duty to destroy people and they have nothing to lose in this pursuit.

Against someone like this, how can we fight? How far can we go in our own defence before we are the villains? Is institutionalisation an option, and if so, is it a fair one?

I know there are some of you scoffing at the idea of fairness when dealing with such a person, but in dealing with villains, demons, any of the world’s evils, we need to police ourselves lest we join their ranks.

They have tried to silence her internet presence, but in doing so, have blown it up. They are rallying to shut her down, but tagging her name on this post, I am putting my own self at risk of exposure. ( I will do so, but only because I am stubborn and wreckless) Put her under house arrest, take away her internet? She will get through, somehow. Whatever solution we put out there, she will find a way to circumvent it.

It is the people who scream the loudest who get the most attention, and she’s getting you, me, all of us, to scream for her, and that terrifies me, because this person has such disregard for humanity, not much unlike another German who has plagued our world’s history.

So yes, I will sit here, wishing, hoping, praying to the universe that this person is just a troll, because unlike the things under our beds and in our closets when we were children, this is one monster that can hurt us.

Michala Norup

In my photographic work, I seek to create new visual experiences through a poetic investigative approach to the surroundings. This, in combination with the timeless and dreamy atmosphere of analog photography and especially the historical photography from the beginning of the history of photography as well as light, space, time, and memory are inspirations and fascinations to me in my photographic work. My approach is associative and intuitive. I often write or draw as part of my work process. I think that, in a way, I draw or write my way into what the work is about. When I pick up the camera, it is not always clear to me what I am doing, conceptual wise, or how it might be connected to the “warming up” with the writing or drawing. But as the process progress things emerge to me along the way (both like synchronicities, like meaningful findings or as epiphanies), and often as realizations in the end of the process. Recently, in my work, I have turned back to photographs that I have taken many years ago and to making new darkroom prints of them incorporating mistakes in the development process, giving them too much light and too little time in the chemistry. The work is about light and memory, and how photographs can work as a sensory memory generator.

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J.J. Bittenbinder watching John Mulaney’s bit on his Street Smarts course

i love gay people i wish they were real

When did Justin Bieber become the dude from the Princess Bride?

How iconic and beautiful! Both of my favorite musicals meshing together with their most emotional ballads was so heartwarming to watch! Also, it’s great that they’re coming together in order to support a real movement that is happening now within our history!