Never gonna forget that time I said that I wished there were more sober queer community spaces b/c I’m an alcoholic (1268 days yo) and I feel left out b/c everything in my town happens at bars, and Everybody On Tumblr got real mad at me b/c they assumed I was attacking gay bars as a concept
You are Like 12 and have never been to or seen a gay bar. I am Old and have a habit of enjoying them a bit too much. I have forgotten more about the importance of the bar and club scenes than you’ll ever know. Just let a queen drink her ginger ale in peace.
People have gotten real mad at me for wanting queer spaces other than clubs/bars because bars and clubs are innately inaccessible for disabled people, too. I dont just mean how alcohol mixes with most medications or flashing lights either, I mean the unnecessary amount of stairs and lack of genuine handicap stalls or even wide enough door frames for larger mobility aids to fit through. Just to start.
The queer community has an ableism problem, treatment of people in recovery included.
Fan art for a lovely post-canon Cardassia fic by Nebulouscoffee over on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38283229/chapters/95657452 , which starts out angsty and upsetting but then progresses to cute relationship stuff, lizard arguments, a Kukalaka makeover and Kira and Garak pretending to be a couple specifically to scandalise the elderly.
(ID - the first image is of a traditional painting showing a gridded tile floor done in greys and blues and browns. A small toy or stuffed animal of Quark, from star trek: deep space nine, sits on one of the tiles in the distance. The second image is a closeup of the quark toy, showing individual brushstrokes of blue, orange, and navy. End ID)
so is thing from the addams family the ghost of someone whose hand got cut off, or a hand-shaped monster?
oh i know the actual explanation to this! so if you look through the original charles addams cartoons, pretty soon you’ll find a random guy in the background, just watching the family
so originally that was thing, he was just like a guy that nobody interacted with or acknowledged.
but when the 60s show was trying to adapt things, they figured since you already don’t see much of the thing, why not see even less of him, and have him just be a hand that can pop out of boxes, now they don’t need to have another regular cast member, they can just get ted cassidy to do it. but the implication was supposed to be that there was more of the thing you just weren’t seeing.
anyways then the whole disembodied hand thing became very recognizable, so by the time the 90s movies rolled around thing was known not for being a guy we see only the hands of, but a guy who is only a hand
so technically there was originally more of the thing that he was connected to and later removed from, but i think in later media they just go with the idea that he was always a hand
Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.