Allo! I'm 32 and I enjoy reading a great deal. You can always talk to me though I often have analysis paralysis so I might take a spell to get back to you.
As special effects budgets continue to grow, the architectural wonders that TV, film and video game producers create seem to get more and more impressive.
From the castles of Westeros to the imaginative, colorful designs of Studio Ghibli, they compiled some of the most iconic and interesting architectural feats that they feel best represent six of their favorite fictional universes. In order to capture the finer details and the feel of each building, they’ve illustrated each one with a pen and paper – and they are pretty happy with the results!
GIFs from original film and television sources.
I would love to point a link to where one can order prints of this but as far as I can tell the original source of this is Angie’s List, with no single artist credited or a link to a store.
Relationships get so bananas when you start deciphering the other person’s love language.
Like I thought I was just acquaintances with this person because they never told me details about themselves and we just talked movies and writing . But then they made time to have coffee with me and they showed up out of breath because they ran. Like. RAN to be on time for coffee with me?
And I was like “i don’t mind waiting” cause I never want to run
But they said they wanted every minute they could get because I’m so busy usually
Which is when it clicked that I didn’t get how much they considered me a friend because I just straight away didn’t see MY signs of affection in them and went “cool! Casual buds it is.” But now that I’m seeing their signs of affection, I feel a little silly for dismissing them like that even though I felt like we could be best bros.
Anyway, some people show affection through time or intensity or commitment and not vocally. I really have to remember that!
So for my AP United States History class we have to write a research paper; my topic is the gay rights movement in America. Today I began reading one of the books that I chose as a source
And I opened it up to the dedication page and found this
And if you don’t think that’s one of the sweetest and most romantic things ever then get out of my face
Ok, for the record, the author of this book, Jonathan Rauch, is a friend of my family, I’ve known him since I was a little kid, and I am here to tell you all that he and Michael have been together for 20-odd years now, got married in 2010, and remain to this day obviously, excessively, and adorably in love.
Anyway, they’re cute. Thought y'all would want to know.
You know, in retrospect, having gay marriage as a debate topic when I was the only openly gay kid in class was SUPER WEIRD. Imagine if you walked into AP Gov and your teacher pointed at you like, “I don’t think Brian should have health insurance because he sucks. Discuss?”
I can’t even fathom what I would do if I had to write an essay about how I should be able to take a piss in peace.
Invisibility means every person you come out to requires a vocabulary lesson.
Invisibility means the very nature of your identity is up for debate.
Invisibility means years feeling alone, broken, and unnatural.
Invisibility means you might not even consider the possibility that you’re anything but what society says you can be.
Invisibility means you have to find out about your own identity from strangers in small, distant corners of the internet.
Invisibility means being taught in school that your orientation makes you inhuman.
Invisibility means being told by educated professionals that your orientation is pathological, a mental illness, and Must Be Fixed.
Invisibility means taking an extra year to convince yourself that your orientation could even exist before you even beginning to accept yourself as what you are.
Invisibility means coming up with an arsenal of excuses for your lack of Normality, an army of justifications for living a life that makes you just a little more comfortable.
Invisibility means “acceptance” comes at the price of breaking up and stuffing away the things that make you you, and struggling to force yourself into a hole that doesn’t fit.
Invisibility means forcing yourself into relationships and acts that you don’t want because the alternative is taboo.
Invisibility means you can never really tell them who you are.
Invisibility means you can’t even feel pride in your community half the time, because the world is intent on destroying what little of a community there is.
Invisibility means facing a world of people who would have you bow your head and let them rewrite your identity for you; who demand your complacence while they redefine the things that make you who you are.
Invisibility means your suffering doesn’t even matter to those supposedly fighting to End All Suffering.
Invisibility means shame.
Invisibility means denial.
Invisibility means loneliness.
Invisibility is not a privilege.
Invisibility adds another layer of shit-frosting to the crapcake that is ALL OTHER oppression that you face. You can’t get help or support or resources to deal with the REST of your oppression because you’re invisible to the world.
That is why a lot of groups who suffer so much from invisibility are focused on visibility: because if they’re visible, maybe there’s a chance they can get help.
It’s why it’s truly horrible when people make derisive jokes about how the worst oppression some groups know is invisibility or erasure. It’s not the only oppression they’re dealing with, but you don’t know that because THEIR SUFFERING IS INVISIBLE.
