italians invented pizza but the citizens of the US of A perfected it. ruined it. emboldened it. it’s iconic now. i cant tell you how many european tourists beg me to point them to a restaurant that doesn’t serve pizza. they’ve been on the road 10 days and had pizza 12 times. it’s nigh inescapable. a radical specter haunting the wallets and stomachs of the united states. a cheesemaggedon. a saucepocalypse. surrender to the tides of stuffed crust and you may yet survive
i didnot know what prose was until i read this post
most tumblr jokes are utterly embarassing to say in public but today i said to someone “bold of you to assume i have dignity” and i won’t lie it was the most powerful I’ve felt in years
I was in the car with my family and my mom was talking about how much time she thinks “our generation wastes on the internet” or whatever. And I was explaining how I use the internet to read and curate more interests and hobbies and expand my social horizons etc. and she was just like “Well fine if that’s how you want to live. You can waste all your time on the internet if that’s what you want but I beg to differ” and without thinking I just said “then beg.” and the entire car went silent until we got home. it was the biggest power move i have ever made to date
“queer” is such a useless term. if i tell someone im bisexual, they know i am attracted to men and women. if a man tells me he is gay, i know he is a man exclusively attracted to other men. if someone tells me they are queer, it tells me nothing about them. it doesnt tell me who they attracted to. it tells me nothing about that person.
It tells me they’re trying to be a extra lil bitch and that I shouldn’t be friends with them
No, you probably shouldn’t, for their sake.
yall realise thats exactly the point, right
queer covers everyone who is noncis or nonstraight
it covers the identities you want to erase or disallow from the community
it doesn’t immediately tell you private information about someone’s sexuality or gender that you aren’t entitled to
and the person in question may not even know themselves, but queer is what they know they can always use if they’re not sure except they know theyre definitely not cis/straight
you hate it because it’s too inclusive and too broad. It’s supposed to be inclusive and broad. If someone tells you they’re queer then all you need to know is that they are in some way not cis or straight and other than that it aint your business. If being told someone’s identity is none of your business pisses you off, thats a you problem
This is why queer isn’t a slur, and if you think it is, you don’t know your history.
If you want to know if I have a vested interest in equal rights and won’t make judgements, knowing I am queer is enough.
If you want to know what my genitals look like and who I like you fuck, you’ll need to get to know me better. Gifts of chocolate and oysters would help.
You could also prefer queer because you are more than one thing that comes under the umbrella. Like you could be transgender and gay, or a genderfluid asexual for example.
Although I do acknowledge that queer was a slur, so older members of the LGBT+ community probably do not like the word. I will respect their wishes and not use it to refer to them in asked. However I am glad we kind of reclaimed it to be an inclusive term for people who are noncis and/or nonstraight. Since I do like saying queer community so I don’t miss anyone out.
Since I also acknowledge their could be a group in the community I am currently unaware of, but that doesn’t make them any less valid. I am happy to be educated on it though, because I am aware that the queer community is growing and evolving.
It was reclaimed in the 70s! I’m 43 and it has been a word that stands for pride and unity my entire life. The people older than I are the ones that fought and literally bled to reclaim it (as it was ours originally). That people are upset about it now is very new and deeply concerning. A nod back to @21goblins-in-a-trenchcoat
pointing out that it has only come under fire from people that don’t want a broad umbrella. Those people want to know “what you are” so they know if they want to accept you or not. We are still vulnerable, we should not be gatekeeping and infighting. We still have so far to go.
The chocolate and oyster part of my original comment remains true.
‘so older members of the LGBT+ community probably do not like the word’
See you would think that, yet pretty much everyone I see shouting ‘queer is a slur’ are like, under 20.
“oh, a delicious recipe”, says me, who’s having cup noodles for dinner
honestly same
I wanna know how many tasty staff members cook up delicious shit at work and go home and have ramen for dinner
more than we should probably admit.
doesn’t that sound like a problem? Like shouldn’t your employees be making enough to not have to eat instant ramen?
ramen tastes good and sometimes you don’t feel like cooking more after a long day of cooking!
Can’t y’all grab some Tupperware and just bring it home for dinner? Or is it considered Buzzfeed’s food so it has to stay in the office/be shared with employees? Answer @buzzfeed your eating habits haunt me
the @buzzfeedtasty finished foods get devoured. there’s usually an @’here call-out in Slack when there are leftovers to be had after the Tasty staff are done with their recipes (and done claiming the leftovers, which is totally fair cause they’re the ones making the food.)
also the people who run these blogs agree that sometimes instant ramen really hits the spot.
How does anyone hate kids they are so funny I sold tickets to incredibles to this little girl and her mom and she’s like mom are we sitting next to each other and the moms like ya and the kid screamed YES so loud it broke my ears
The other day I was bringing an older gentleman up the hill in a golf cart and we drove past this huge YMCA group of kids like 100 kids
and driving past the first chunk like 10 of them yelled out “let me on” in unison and then since I’m driving so slowly to be safe, halfway in some kid leaned up and said “do you play fortnite” and I told him I played a little and he just pointed and shouted “THIS GUY PLAYS FORTNITE” and then like 20 kids started talking to me all at once about fortnite
A kid asked me if I lived in the ambulance. I said yes.
The hero we deserve
When I was on register at Kohl’s a little girl came through with her grandma and she was so very excited to tell me the meaning of her name (I think it was like warrior of god) and she begged her grandma for her phone so she could google to find out what my name means too
i wear two spinner rings on one finger and one time at my last job a young girl (probably 6-8) said “your ring is very pretty” and when i showed her it was two rings she GASPED and said “does that mean you’re marrying two people?!”
I have this necklace with a mermaid on it that I wear to work a lot and I got asked by a kid if it gave me magic powers. I leaned in real close and told her in a low voice it gave me magical girl powers but it was a secret. She got this real serious look on her face and said to her mom “that lady has superpowers, don’t tell anyone or the government will take her away”.
The other day i had to give a speech at my school despite my horrific fear of public speaking and afterwards i had kid come up to me and say well done to me. It was so cute.
god I love tiny kids
there was a kid in one of our science camps and he spent the whole week in a lab coat and goggles screaming “CHEMICALS” at the top of his lungs. he wouldn’t even tell us his name for the first two days just screamed CHEMICALS instead.
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