One Thing That Makes Me Giggle Especially Now That David And Angel Are Getting Married Is My Headcannon

I noticed my fics with fem y/n tend to meet more feedback than the more gender inclusive ones so I wonder if it's really the case or just a coincidence.

I appreciate reblogs for a bigger sample ❤

This is not a natural disaster. This was not inevitable. They didn't grow up like this. It was inflicted on them by the vilest sadists on earth.

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In light of all the Hogwarts Legacy Drama I have decided that instead of spending my valuable time and energy arguing with people still playing the game, I will instead educate myself on Jewish, Trans, and Scottish Independence Supportive charities. I may not be able to fight J.K. Rowling's hoards of loyal fans, but I can be kind. And I know there's nothing she would hate more than me being kind to communities she despises.

Forbes

20 Trans POC-Led, Grassroots Organizations To Support On Giving Tuesday

What’s more is that the trans community only receives of $.04 of every $100 awarded to LGBTQ causes. Those cents are reduced when systemic r

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Top 10 Jewish Charities - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Following are the top 10 Jewish philanthropies, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s listing of 400 largest charities: United Jewish

Please, be kind to one another. If you feel frustrated that you can't stop people from supporting her hate, then fight with kindness instead. Support one another, support your Jewish and Trans friends. And do what little you can, even if it's only spreading awareness.

It is very important to criticize the “Why does everything have to by gay? Can’t they just be friends?” attitude that homophobes have towards gay characters, but it’s possible to do that without saying things like “This character literally did xyz for the other. Friends wouldn’t do that!” or “But character A says character B is the most important person in their life! There’s no way that’s platonic!” or even things like “Actually, they should have sex with each other instead of being ‘just friends.’” Whatever it is you think that friends can’t do, they can. Friends can think of each other as the most important person in their lives. Friends can go through pain for each other, risk their safety for each other, be physically affectionate, rely on each other, and die for each other. Friends can share beds, kiss, or have sex.

Friendship is not a tier below romance.

people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”

the flour massacre

these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood

evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing

Happy woke up thinking it was Wednesday Sunday Friday Tuesday but all of you fuckers are wrong because it was actually Thursday

you heathens will reblog day specific posts any day of the week. i woke up thinking it was wednesday

give me barefaced changbin or give me death

I just found this but we STAN!

Hi Robyn: I have a question that concerns me a little bit. I worry that the LGBTQ+ community are beginning to become a bit over-represented in GH. Don’t get me wrong here, I very much do support the LGBTQ+ community, but from the knowledge that I do have, being that approx. 4% of Americans (for clarity’s sake, say GH takes in America, it’s still low world-wide) identify as LGBTQ+. Having read previous posts and context clues in-comic (1/2?)

I’d like to believe your message was sent in good faith, so I’ll address it in several parts:

I’m not well-informed enough to judge the accuracy of the numbers you’ve cited, so I can’t contest them, regardless of any suspicions I might hold.

I don’t believe that eight LGBTQ+ people being acquainted with each other is a “misleading” statistical anomaly, especially considering that one of the major locations in the story is an LGBTQ+ bookshop where the main character works.  Yes, 8 out of 54 recurring characters is more than 4%, but it’s still only a fraction of the cast, and queer people often befriend other queer people–eight queer people living near each other isn’t wildly unrealistic.

The only potential harm I can see is a queer person entering adulthood and finding there may be fewer queer folks in their social circles than there are in Lucy’s–but there are queer spaces IRL and online that can be sought out, and they have even higher percentages of queer folks than in GH.

Otherwise, I don’t understand what harm you foresee in “over-representing” the LGBTQ+ population, especially in a story like Gourmet Hound.  I take great care to ensure that all the LGBTQ+ characters do not perpetuate harmful stereotypes, and that they get equal character depth and discussion of their sexuality as the cis-het characters.  GH is not a story about sexuality, and I’ve never claimed that it was–but I believe that LGBTQ+ characters can and should exist in every type of story, including ones that do not focus on sexuality.

LGBTQ+ characters are incredibly underrepresented in media in general.  My eight characters–who should barely register, considering how little they discuss their sexuality in-canon–are a drop in the bucket in the scope of all media.  Unless you also intend to write to every creator with 25 cishet characters and zero LGBTQ+ characters to inform them that their stories are statistically inaccurate as well, “misleading readers” cannot be the reason for your concern.

If having slightly more queer characters than what is “statistically expected” means that 1) an LGBTQ+ person feels represented and/or less alone, or 2) a reader finds themselves empathizing with a queer character and becomes more tolerant – then I don’t mind being inaccurate.  Those are good results.  Those are my intentions.

Because of this, there will be more LGBTQ+ characters in Gourmet Hound the future.