This is a Test

queerability:

Among those asked to describe the most important problem facing their lives right now:
LGBT youth identified
1. Non-accepting families (26%)
2. School/bullying problems (21%)
3. Fear of being out or open (18%)
Non-LGBT youth identified
1. Classes/exams/grades (25%)
2. College/career (14%)
3. Financial pressures related to college or job (11%)
From the Human Rights Campaign

Among those asked to describe the most important problem facing their lives right now:

LGBT youth identified

1. Non-accepting families (26%)

2. School/bullying problems (21%)

3. Fear of being out or open (18%)

Non-LGBT youth identified

1. Classes/exams/grades (25%)

2. College/career (14%)

3. Financial pressures related to college or job (11%)

From the Human Rights Campaign

ilovecharts:

On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”

meetapossum:

musetensil:

menophiliac:

girljanitor:

innocent-bystanders-inc:

nudiemuse:

princelesscomic:

girljanitor:

Self Evident Truths

S. Ross Browne

Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!

But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.

Also holy shit I love these.

How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?

Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:

um yes

I think someone cleverly said that, oh, apparently you can put dragons and wizards in medieval settings, but people of any other race than white, WHOA HOLD THE PHONE THAT’S WAY TOO OUTLANDISH AND UNREALISTIC

One of my housemates in Oxford tried to tell me there were no black people in England before 1960.

I was like,
are

you

high

Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness … If he gave an interview to a reporter, or performed any unusual exploit, he would find it recorded in such terms as these: “Professor Bract, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has, in fact, a wife and seven children. Tall and burly, the hands with which he handles his delicate specimens are as gnarled and powerful as those of a Canadian lumberjack, and when I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong, gruff voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache.” […]

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—	From seanan_mcguire’s posting on Sexism, the current SFWA kerfuffle, and “lady authors:” in the comments, via jenk, a long lovely passage from Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1947 essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”. Read the whole thing. The perception of this problem is nothing new… (via dduane)

fer1972:

Recession Books by Standard Designs

Love this movie

Things That Happened Today…

notyourstereotypicallibrarian:

I got 2 big hugs from my story time kids

I ate a cricket that tasted like sour cream and onion… all in the name of programming

Fiction is dangerous, Gaiman explained, because “it lets you into others’ heads, it gives you empathy, and it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.” That imaginative leap into other minds and other worlds is surely the reason many of us read fiction.

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—	Why Neil Gaiman Thinks Fiction Is Dangerous, and Why I Think It’s Dangerous \| Library Journal (via libraryjournal)

sarahlcomics:

i dunno, feeling a little loopy today. also, what is the point of consommé?

Love what Ramen is thinking

If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on
Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth,
within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

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—	Jonas Salk Biologist (via pheirkas)