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Found a picture of myself (and my cat) from back in 2013! Honestly it feels a lot more 'me' than how I look now...
(CW indirect eye contact)

I can't believe I've started Pride Month off by seeing someone demand that LGBTQ+ people "be respectable" and adhere to "traditional social values".

Fuck that. Be outré. Be avant-garde. Be... some other French word that means "weird". Pride isn't about fitting in and going with the flow. Pride is about being yourself and doing it, well, proudly.

Happy Pride Month to everyone except corporations

happy pride month.

pride is not a "celebration of identity." it's a demonstration of the iron will of queers to resist state-sanctioned genocide across multiple generations and cultures.

this has not changed, except that some businesses think they can purchase us like a brand.

June 1st is Trans Day of Being Completely Fucking Done with Pride Month Less Than Ten Hours In.

No brands at pride! No cops at pride! No fake allies at pride! Fuck the lot of you.

It's the start of the pride month. This reminder is still needed because the transphobia within the queer community is blatant. The constant hate from the cisnormative world is already a huge burden - but let's face it: The queer community also has an issue they don't like to discuss about. (continued in comments)
#lgbtqia #trans

@luka (The "moment" thing is what many 'traditional' donation-based things get wrong; they frequently ask for donations *before* you've downloaded or watched or listened to something, at which point of course someone has no reason to want to donate yet)

@luka That matches my experiences, honestly; I've found that getting donations or not (which that essentially boils down to) mostly just has to do with asking someone in the right way at the right moment, *after* they've enjoyed the thing in question, and then lots of people are perfectly happy to just donate with nothing in return!

so 65% of about 250 said they don't care about exclusive perks when they are a subscriber or patron to an artist or project. many comments highlighted the desire to 'just support', help artist do their thing. some are even actively looking for ways to not receive extra exclusives in order to not make artist work more just for that.

i think that's quite interesting.

sonomu.club/@luka/108379312339

Charlie Brown: But with all this commercialism and decoration and money, can someone just tell me what Pride is really about?

Linus: *Hands Charlie Brown a brick, gestures at a cop*

*Jazzy piano music plays*

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