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has this been done yet

“heart eyes *insert character*” um excuse me my culture is not your costume !

"who are your favorite youtubers?"

me:

well yes!

happy serious breach of the laws of biology to dan and phil & all who celebrate.

*jolts awake in bed in a cold sweat* april phools phil phregancy reveal

I’m afraid Phil is so frail He won’t make it through child birth. Then that leaves Dan with the Phaby all alone and I think we know how that’ll end up judging by the video He did with Louise! 😅

phil can’t get pregnant but by god dan will die trying

Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag.

On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on.

I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'"

That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag.

Never.

These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it.

And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much.

Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do.

You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups.

But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag.

That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died.

It was 1985, 4 years after the CDC first released papers on what would eventually become known as HIV/AIDS and 7 years after the first known death from an infection from HIV-2. Reagan hadn't even said the word AIDS by the time Hudson died.

Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is.

Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean.

Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device.

They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful.

But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit.

I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes."

(Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005.

Fucker.)

But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up.

I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time.

But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept.

The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.

That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don't agree with it but we'll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.

The brunch gays can come, too, I guess.

anyone else feeling really normal emotions about that guy amazingphil on youtube?

seasons change but dannyfire do not

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store

home alone, you know what that means…chicken fried rice w/ egg and @amazingphil on the big tv 😎

Reblog if you got the Dan and Phil autism instead of the maths one

new fic!!!! rlly good so far :)

I Never Planned On You / Don't Come A-Knocking - A Phan AU

Dan Howell has been on the streets of Lower Manhattan since he was twelve, and he believes that will never change. Wake up, wait at the gate, see the headline, sell papers, take care of his community, repeat. Until one day a northern boy appears in Newsies Square and sends his once stable and safe life into something unfamiliar to him.

I got no use for moonlight, or sappy poetry.

Love at first sights for suckers, at least it used to be.

No, I never planned on someone like you.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64079329/chapters/164406055

i rewatch “college dropout” whenever i’m feeling particularly Overwhelmed™️ about What I’m Doing With My Life, so a lot lately, and literally nothing else helps me except seeing that yes this happens! and we move on! and things DO GET BETTER!!!!! ❤️‍🩹

just rewatched "College Dropout" and i am now filled with an overwhelming amount of love and affection for daniel howell on this wednesday evening

Date Night with Dan and Phil is literally the best dnpgames video ever

it's soooo fucking real and basically uncensored, even with the "best buds" bs

(also Dan calling out phil for no homo-ing a dating game 😭)

THEM CALLING EO PARTNERS GIVES ME SO MUCH SEROTONIN.

the casual mention of their long ass history together, the ridiculously long list of stupid names they call each other, phil being unable to name even a single moment where Dan has given him the ick 😭

(bro is whippedd)

And, The Pièce de Résistance:

this was literally the peak of comedy, nothing else will ever be as funny as this

I will NEVER shut up about this video

i love it so so so much

This is quite literally the hardest Hard Launch™ ever, i can't believe people are still waiting for something else...

cursed collection of dans tweets but they're brat

me and my husband - mitski

this has definitely been done before but god i'm so emotional about them lately

nevertheless, we ball

am i gay quiz (2025)

1. do you recognize this image?

yes: you're gay. good luck

Thank you, Phil Lester.

this is soooooooo 🧡💙😭😭😭

two little boys from reading and rawtenstall

Tumblr Tuesday: Terrible Influence Phanart

After taking their Terrible Influence Tour to Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, Dan and Phil brought it home with the official online premiere on Sunday. To mark the occasion, many of you dusted off your exquisite artistic talents and made some TIT-inspired phanart. Please enjoy this selection of said TIT-inspired phanart.

(slight spoilers ahead for those of you who haven't yet caught the show)

@mousenoise:

@littlestormofmess:

@dnpstars:

@doodleswithangie:

@hannahbluish:

@phrumbs:

@zomboysneeze:

@spacearcheratready:

@rukitu:

@rambeu:

@zomboysneeze:

@greycr3scent:

@mushybeast:

@livalincreations:

@reidisdoodling:

the holy grail types of fanfic

"you've already left kudos here. :)" ok and I'll leave some more. You got a problem? Because in my opinion, this work is so good and the author totally deserves it