yesbothways:

fuckyeskaramel:

whoops

Is there a direct correlation between tired and homophobic?  No.  

Is there a direct correlation between tired and not straight?  Yes.  

For my anons on this – read the above, please.  

They might be tired from one day of it – but we have to deal with it our entire lives.  

It’s exhausting to have one point – calling out the celeb who did the mocking – turn into the ‘shippers’ (wow) being the problem for calling it out in the first place. It starts with their bad manners – to being about ‘our’ bad manners (or, you know, the problem shippers).  I want to say ‘not all queers!’ but you know how that goes.  We all get tarred and feathered with the same brush.  Sound familiar?

It always circles back to us and how our feelings, issues, opinions – us – become invalid in the public eye.  We have to be the bigger people – not them.  

They’re exhausted?  Welcome aboard.  

It’s their table and we’re always reminded that we’re not really welcome – unless, you know, we behave how they like.  And not too many of us at one time.  Send the Designated Queer.  

Anyone up for it?  

lenarise:

a comprehensive list of how the CW’s supergirl dedicated their weekend to getting their PR team to beg for mercy

  • SDCC had an easy start until it was clear that mon-el (the most hated character) was at the forefront of many conversations and chris wood continued to speak over other cast members and draw attention back to himself 
  • melissa answered a question about her character where she completely ignored the existence of a season long relationship with a beloved black character, james olsen, in favor of saying that her white love interest, mon-el, was kara’s first boyfriend
  • then the supergirl cast sang a song recapping season 2 and jeremy jordan damn near derailed it as he started screaming that kara and lena are friends, they’re oNLY FRIENDS, THEYRE NOT GONNA GET TOGETHER, THEYRE ONLY FRIENDS!! melissa joined in the screaming as well while most of the cast laughed, mehcad brooks deadass started to dance on the spot
  • then melissa and jeremy patted themselves on the back for “debunking” that ship, saying it was “very brave” to do so
  • for no reason whatsoever, chris wood stated that sexuality is at its core, about how other people perceive you and not how you identify
  • then the cw dropped a trailer for a show called The Ray, in which the nazis won world war II and the jewish characters of kara zor-el and barry allen are, hey why not, they’re nazis
  • at the end of the first day, jeremy jordan wrote an apology for his actions so offensive that he had to follow up an hour later with an apology for his apology
  • this weekend it was also confirmed that the character of maggie sawyer is only signed for a handful of episodes before writing her off completely, eliminating the only gay relationship the show has (and apparently, the only one they intend to have)
  • when contacted regarding the homophobic incident at comic con, melissa benoist’s publicist claimed that her client couldn’t be homophobic (she was on glee) and then threatened to sue a black, non-straight fan for implying that she could be 

sidenote – katie, odette, david: you’re angels you deserve none of this

I’ve heard all except about the nazi one and about suing a fan.

This really went off the rails.   

I looked up the link about the fan who allegedly emailed MB’s publicist, but it seems a bit dodgy to me.  Most of it is typed up and the response is illegible, no visible signature – well. And the emailed ‘response’ seems rather inflammatory and condescending to me – and quick.  Would a publicist really engage like this? 

Looked up The Ray – io9 describes this show as a cartoon featuring the The CW’s first openly LGBTQ lead character (um, did they forget about Clarke Griffin on T100?). 

But its not just Nazis, unfortunately. Germany has its group of people with superpowers, the Reichsmen… and it turns out they’re evil, Hitler-loving versions of the CW’s Flash, Green Arrow, and Supergirl, and are even voiced by their actors from their respective TV shows. (Because turning beloved heroes into fascists is the hot trend of 2017.)

Is this something the world really needs right now?  Isn’t HBO in hot water for making something similar?  Zoinks.  What a weekend.  

immochiball:

facts-i-just-made-up:

gabriel-patches-titanfeather:

sixpenceee:

These swimming pools with black tiles are my aesthetic. 

Make the black tiles out of that black material that absorbs all light and swim over the void.

Fun fact about Vantablack- Because it absorbs all light, it heats up very fast. If exposed to direct sunlight, it takes in all the UV and heat and contains them, and can reach heats well over 212°F, the boiling point of water. So if you did coat the pool in that material, the water would boil as soon as the sun touched it, killing everyone swimming in it.

But that’s not all. The flash boiling of an entire pool of chlorinated water would release the chlorine as gas, which would kill everyone within a 200ft radius of the pool. And it doesn’t end there.

The release of chlorine gas combined with the heat of the black tiles would be more than sufficient to fuse the boiled hydrogen ions with the chlorine, creating an explosive reaction with the nitrogen in the air. So shortly after everyone in the pool boils and everyone around the pool dies of chlorine gas poisoning, the region would explode with the force of a small atomic bomb (8kt for a pool like those pictured above), leveling about 50 city blocks.

You’d think that would be bad enough, but get this-

Such chemical explosions expel gamma rays. Gamma rays ionize hematite, which is the mineral from which the black material mentioned is made. This creates Scopohyoscpnol, a compound known as “The Zombie Drug” because it essentially erases the brain and induces cannibalistic tendencies in its victim. It can be transmitted through saliva, infecting all who are bitten within hours.

So basically, if you did have Vantablack tiles in your pool, you would boil your friends, poison your neighbors, nuke your city, and condemn the globe to a zombie plague. But to be fair, it would look pretty cool.

@bitofanoddball

jennawynn:

xenatheconqueeror:

supercanaries:

Katie McGrath answers on what she thinks makes fans like Supercorp so much.

this isn’t just a burn, she freaking obliterated them

It’s worth noting that in the video with the song, Katie tries to explain that people are allowed to see what they want in art and Chris interrupts her to say something stupid about how sexuality is about others perceptions of you, to which Jeremy says something along the lines of i know about perceptions as a theater kid (implying haha i can’t be homophobic bc people think i’m gay because theater’s so gay guys). This line about fuck perception, you are who you are feels like it’s a direct jab at that previous interview…. and thank you Katie for doing it.

Lexa: You’ve never seen me fight.
Clarke: No, but I watched Roan kill three men before the first one hit the ground.
Lexa: Clarke, I literally killed seven people just to get this job.

C’mon Clarke, you gotta think these things through.

hedawolf:

hedawolf:

Tag yourself I’m Colman

Bonus

I’m glad ADC can handle herself here – because the silence of the others is a great example of why old white men get away with their bullshit. 

And didn’t they leave his head in a bag somewhere? Why was he at SDCC? 

I’m not the greatest with expressions, but Colman looks like he’s considering his options.  

Brain teasers for egalitarians/equalists.

stfufauxminists:

alexandraerin:

Say I’m 32 years old and you’re 22 years old.

In how many years will we be the same age?

…

Silly question, right? If you define aging as a process that stops at death, the only way we’ll ever be the same age is if I die first. If you don’t, then we’ll never be the same age. Every time you age a year, I also age a year. Since our ages increase at the same rate, you will never catch up to my head start. We have achieved a total equality of aging, but that does not change the permanent inequality of our age.

Okay, say I have a million dollars and you’re completely broke. If we both get a dollar a day, how long will it take you to catch up with me?

Now, this one’s even sillier, because if you have no other resources, your dollar a day is going to be eaten up by basic living expenses that it doesn’t quite meet, and I have an excess of money that can be spent on money-making opportunities that pay off far better than an additional $365 a year. I could literally burn the dollar I’m getting as part of our Totally Equal Income and still make more money in a year than you do just by sticking my money in the bank. 

But still: both of us getting a dollar a day is totally equal, right? It means we’re being treated exactly the same.

And now, final problem:

If we have a world that contains structural inequalities, systemic imbalances, disproportionate danger faced by some, and unequal access to resources and opportunities, is “treating everyone the same” really going to result in equality?

Show your work.

I may have reblogged this already but I don’t care it’s important.