My guys. the fact that so many of you are reblogging my post about Justice Thomas's desire to overturn Lawrence with exclamations of "how???" and with such lack of knowledge of our past is really disconcerting.
Gay sex was illegal federally in the United States until 2003 (when Lawrence was ruled on). Before Lawrence many MANY states had "Sodomy Laws" that prohibited gay sex within the state itself and criminalized homosexuality, often using targeting words like "pervert" to describe gay men much the way conservatives talk of "grooming" today. In fact prior to 1962 homosexual sex, as well as certain types of consensual sex acts between differently gendered couples, was a felony with the cost being lengthy jail time and/or hard labor. As of April 2022 14 states have STILL not repealed their sodomy laws. Keep that in mind.
In this last week of Pride month i am BEGGING you. LEARN SOME LGBTQ+ History. The history of your rights, your lack of rights, how recent it all is, how unstable your rights are RIGHT NOW. So many of what should now be our elders were killed during the AIDS Crisis. It is now up to you to learn these things yourself.
Wikipedia Article on LGBT History in the United States
LGBTQ Rights Timeline in America
You're right I have read coffeshib work BUT I hadn't in a while and that deliciously soft 50k one shot did the trick. I've also seen one rec in the notes I haven't read yet so that one is next! Thank you so much for answering this ask.
alright so, i actually managed to think about some more soft stuff ive read so here have a follow up fic rec i guess???
Please Clarify by @gveret-fic
it's easy (when i'm with you) by falsealarm
Something Borrowed by janewithawhy
how do crows know when an earthquake is about to happen? by @c--and--b
Point of Maximal Impulse by @zofiecfield
and a lot of @spaceman-earthgirl
I don't think we talk enough about Amari's live the night Lebron broke the record. Azzi was very demanding and Paige gave in everytime. The looks between Ice, Ines and Amari something was definitely going down and then Amari moving to block the side of the bed completely.
I know we love the other live đ but this live is my Roman Empire.
She told them to shut up and they listened, she told Paige she wanted to play a game and she did. Our girl really is a princess, whatever she wants she gets!
The Crain Kids + smiles
Please explain warrior nun to me. I wasnât interested at first but you make it seem so cool I want to learn :)
I WILL explain it to you. Saddle up because I'm prepared to ramble. There will be spoilers. If you'd like another summary w/o spoilers, let me know!
First: our main character, Ava Silva. At the start of the show, she's a paraplegic and orphaned 19 year-old girl who is, quite literally, dead in the first scene. She is snarky, a little clueless but not innocent, and most importantly, she wants more than anything to live.
This is Sister Beatrice!!! She's the love interest, technically, but she's not the only one (just more of an important character than the other), and she's also so much more than that. She is a prodigious warrior who fights for the OCS; The Order of the Cruciform Sword, which is a sect of Catholic nuns that fight demons for the good of the people. She is good at everything with the exception of Not Being Gay, which is, incidentally, the reason she was sent to a Catholic boarding school in the first place. Suffice to say, her parents suck.
There's also a wide cast of incredible characters; we have (from right to left) Mary, who is The Coolest and also, somehow, more of an older sister figure than the actual sisters; Lilith, who's a bit of a bitch but we still love her, Father Vincent, who's also a bit of a bitch but we tolerate him, and then on the far left, there's Camila, who is simultaneously the Cutest and also the Smartest. (also not pictured here is Mother Superion, whom we also love.)
This show has so many good women characters. You will become obsessed with at least one of them. At least.
Essentially, Warrior Nun's plot depends on the use of the Halo, which is a literal Angel's Halo (or is it?) that fuses itself to the spine of one special nun, the Warrior Nun, who is then given the ability to see demons and also other various superpowers. However, because of its immense power, demons and other forces are constantly trying to seize the Halo for themselves, and due to a tragic series of events, a panicked nun has to give Ava the Halo.
Ava, who is dead at the time.
And it brings her back to life. Not only that, but it gives her the ability to walk for the first time since she was, like, four years old. Also, it gives her superpowers, too, but whatever.
So basically, Warrior Nun is about Ava trying to balance her will to live her life now alongside with the new duties that the OCS are trying to put on her. They can't take the Halo out, because it may kill her. Something something jesus parallels, something something taking the time to have the characters work things out for themselves, and you get this show. I cannot emphasize enough the character writing.
(Also it has one of the best sapphic slowburns I've seen in a show ever. They hit so many good tropes in such a well-paced manner. I can't even describe how well they're written. What the fuck.)
So. Watch Warrior Nun. We need a season 3!!
Supercorp: The Proposal AU đ
LENA LUTHOR 5.06 - Confidence Women
The most uninspired, boring, unorganized USWNT game I have seen in the last five years Iâve watched the team. These last three games have been a disaster, and I think it mostly falls on Vlatko. A disorganized defense, a weak and cautious offense. There is no confidence in this team and they are being told to play things too safe, creating holes in every position and taking away opportunities for great plays because of potential risk. This was never the attitude of the USWNT until Vlatko became the coach. He is afraid of losing and thatâs proven by how willing he was to draw. His attitude is affecting our players in a massive way.
All of these summaries of what the hell goes through their brains gives me life đđ
WHAT A YEAR THIS GAME WAS
okay, itâs minute 76 of utah royals vs portland thorns and in what is probably the most chaotic three minutes in all of 2019 soccer, this happens:
emily sonnett, in an accidental attempt to kick things into overdrive, proceeds to tap amy rodriguez like one of those rodents you whack at the carnival sending her headlong into the turf and lindsey michelle horan HAS. HAD. IT. i know what youâre thinking: isnât sonny the star or this capital C chaos? no, itâs lindsey.
first of all, iâm in love with her. second, the great horan has spent this entire game pushing and screaming and shoving, so that fucks! but letâs get back to a-rod, who in the midst of falling face first onto the field, hears: RECORD SCRATCH-FREEZE FRAME-YEP, THATâS ME and instead of clutching an ankle and wondering how she got into this situation until a foul is called, she springs from the grass like a cat on itâs 8th life and proceeds to yell, not regular, but BLOODY murder to the entirety of rio tinto stadium:
she is PISSED. she wants a foul, a red card, and probably the keys to a mansion in beverly hills at the rate the ref has pranced over to her defenseâ like okay law and order, we get it, you literally hold the cards afaksksk. if that werenât nuts and granola crazy enough, a-rod decides soccer isnât any fun without a chaotic outburst and iâd be out of a job (lol i wish someone would pay me to do this) and realizes: why accept this utterly plebeian form of justice when you can⌠start a brawl in the middle of the pitch!
she marches over to sonnett like sheâs invading a small country or kicking off a protest in the street, sending her ponytail sashaying with the sort of supermodel swagger tyra banks would be proud of. if this were a made-for-tv musical, someoneâs honor would be defended by a dance-off. but this isnât hollywood and no one is pirouette-battling to a synth-pop beat. instead this is a friday night in sandy, utah and apparently thatâs all it takes for 22 people to go from earnestly playing sports to completely fucking losing it. because letâs be realistic, this is a chaotic choice. screaming and pointing at a confused frat daddy junior is chaotic. defending your ten sheets to the wind teammate while also stopping her from starting a revolution is pure, thatâs right, chaos. dagnĂ˝ brynjarsdĂłttir, appearing utterly unfazed by this whole thing but still managing to scream âHEYâ really loudly from two feet away is one thousand percent chaotic. and still more chaos ensues when lindsey and tobin arrive:
lindsey could maybe buy a little zen garden and rake some sand around but instead she settles for one tiny tap of aggression and low-key look at this restraint, sheâll be saving that energy for later. tobin however literally shoves two people, and maybe the earthâs center of gravity, into next week the way you would shove someone into on-coming traffic in the middle of rush hour. never mind the fact that her girlfriend (wife?) is wearing the same jersey as the enemy. never mind SPORTS BEING PLAYED. tobin, who historically cannot be bothered to spare one simple fuck for shenanigans, has stolen the flag of chaos and is now waving it wildly across the field. honorable mention goes to christine âget off my lawnâ sinclair for the arm swinging/head nod combo that seems to say, âyeah, and donât come back to utah, either!â but take a look at one emily sonnett crossing the middle of the screen as sheâŚ
SLINKS QUIETLY AWAY??? WTEF. sonnett took one look at this family-dividing mess of a murder and said, âNO MAâAM, NO HOW.â she is in and out of this crime scene like a thief in the night. she just, and i cannot stress this enough, strikes the match for this dumpster fire then floats over that river of chaos like a baby in a basket. AND LITERALLY NO ONE NOTICES because theyâre too busy grasping at the last desperate straws of sanity. PHEW. even becky sauerbrunn is like âlinds, chillâ and lindsey gives her a look like, âteam usa, MY ASS.â
so for the first time in her freshman frat boy life, emily âwell what happened wasâ sonnett decides to act like the only adult on the field and casually goes to check in with the ref. with the mass hysteria going on, itâs clear red refy has completely forgotten sonnettâs previous offenses and the gentle, some may even call it soft, elbow touch alerts him to the fact that her playing time is over but not forgotten. sonnett takes one long walk back to the bench and just when we think things have taken a turn for the mundane, lindsey love of my life horan decides, ITâS TIME TO RUN THIS MF TRAIN AGROUND:
lindsey takes one look at a-rod standing over the ball and charges over like some little christmas elf about to pilfer frosted cookies, yeets her a foot off the ground, and then casually scampers away because LINDSEY SAID NO ONE TREATS FRAT DADDY JUNIOR THAT WAY. LINDSEY SAID GAY RIGHTS. LINDSEY SAID WORLD PEACE AND DIVINE UNIVERSAL ORDER. she just launches her with the velocity of a ten-ton truck, backwards, WITH A FLIP. (another special s/o to dagnĂ˝ brynjarsdĂłttir because wtef do they pipe into the water in iceland that no amount of first-hand murder witnessing will ever phase her?? SHE LITERALLY LOOKS UP THEN LOOKS AWAY HOLY FUCK)
idk what lindsey is saying here but sheâs screaming. and if you listen closely, you can hear laura harvey screaming. everyone is screaming. in fact, everyone is losing it. FFS WHERE ARE THE LOCUSTS?? but also, if ever you were going to order more soup for say, twenty-five people at an italian fast-casual restaurant and then encourage the waiter to throw in free breadsticks, it might look something like this?? maybe a teammate of club and country can help calm things downâŚ
with an ass pat??? ad franch, my guy, it is too late for ass pats of tranquility. you tried. but that card the ref is hunched over is yellow and it has lindseyâs name on it. does she care? no. but for the rest of the game, lindsey will roam from box to box, leaving no square of grass un-crunched, daring any utah player, even the injured ones somewhere hundreds of miles away on a stationary bike slowly pedaling through rehab training, to challenge her. she is both lonesome cowboy and trusty hunting dog, tracking signs of royals blood through the vast plains of utah and that distant sound you hear? lindsey. howling in the name of emily ann sonnett at the crescent moon.
Seeing CP finally get what she deserves after being constantly fucked over by the NWSL and USSF treating her like trash. Now sheâs one of the highest paid bitches đŻ ready to thrive on her home pitch đ
Iâm just over it. I fucking hate the toxicity in the uswnt. I never believed in Vlatko. I know good Coaches when i see one. He isnât. He couldnât handle the Olympics. He thinks his little friendlies with teams that barely leave their countries and have 0 money to invest are great to measure his team. He is delusional. He lacks a core team. Most of them are out. I wonât talk smack about any player in that roster but I donât think itâll end up being good for the US.
I just wish CP peace of mind and a full recovery. She doesnât deserve this treatment.
But alas, all futbol federations are little mafiasâŚiykwim. Sheâs better off.