[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]
begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.
but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.
diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).
she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.
and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?
diana ignored her and kept fighting.
and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason
shifting?
Moving your consciousness into a different reality, there are lots of great resources on amino to learn about it! I’m shifting to a reality where I’m dating Charlie Gillespie and I’m an actress living in LA 😂✌️
Yes yes yes this is the best. This energy is unmatched.
Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”
I wish I had hair (and talent) like Jem
New Show is released. New Show is loved by many viewers. New Show is not yet renewed. social media campaigns for renewal of New Show. PSAs to play episodes of New Show on loop in the background to get viewership up for New Show. urgency to binge New Show so they see good views for New Show. pleading and begging and tagging special media accounts to get another season of New Show. New Show is cancelled. social media outcry and petitions to save New Show trend for a week. New Show is not picked up. New Show says cancelled. they start making a New New Show and it all starts the fuck over again. I gotta be honest I'm really fucking tired of this shit
watching the walking dead, I need rick grimes so bad wtffff
chosen heroes!
Yes- I agree completely you got the words perfect I wouldn’t put it any other way
another wonderful thing i’ve noticed about jatp is that the tropes that would usually be given to the m/f couple is given to the m/m pairing.
it’s willie and alex who have the meet cute and elements of insta love; they have the sweet museum date and the jealousy trope and the big, angsty declaration of feelings (read: “because i care about you, alex!”)… and because these tropes are given to an m/m relationship, they are somehow transformed into something much more impactful.
willie and alex are the classic teen love story, but they aren’t straight, and that’s what makes it wonderful.
on the other hand, julie and luke have a different relationship arc. usually, m/f love isn’t seen as impossible. it can be forbidden and tragic and all, but it’s never impossible. it’s often same sex relationships that are framed in that way. here, it’s julie and luke because they quite literally exist in two separate spheres of life. because of this, it’s the m/f pairing that is forced to agonize over the things that keep them apart; it’s julie and luke who feel the need to put a damper on their feelings.
alex and willie are kept apart by something else entirely: caleb and his forces of evil; not the very nature of their relationship.
in jatp, the tables are turned on the traditional ways of framing m/m and m/f relationships. lgbt+ love isn’t represented as impossible or morally questionable. on the other hand, it’s the m/f pairing that has to “overcome” those ideas.
(i’ve reffered to luke and julie as m/f because i refuse to straightwash either of them, okay? none of my babies are straight and that’s that on that.)
my kink is seeing money go into my bank account
"It's okay, it's perfect. I'm in the arms of my first love. The first person I've ever loved. The person I'll always love." - Allison Argent | She/Her, They/Them | Requests/Asks are OPEN | 20 y/o | Masterlist | Taglist
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