“Family-friendly” has been a dogwhistle for all kinds of evil horseshit since at LEASE my childhood, 40+ years ago.
Don’t fall for it. And don’t let pro-LGBT+ people use that language without challenging it, it’s a direct fucking quote from our oppressors.
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[ID: A tweet from @DJ_theoretical. It reads:
Every time I see the phrase “family-friendly” in the Discourse, I remember how I was evicted for being trans and the landlord’s exact words were “I want a family-friendly household, and you [trans people] aren’t that”
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[ID: A tweet from @hayxsmith. It reads:
The purpose of Pride is to find safety in numbers and put pressure on social/political barriers with visibility and protest. The reason it isn’t “family-friendly” is because you believed we did not belong in your families.
“Family-friendly” has become an anti-gay dog whistle.
I’m a week late, but I wanted to stop by and say thank you for 5 years of Heartstopper. Five years, four books, and a TV show in the works… I can’t believe what a journey Heartstopper has been on. And none of it would have been possible without the support of Heartstopper’s online readers! So thank you everyone.
I know this hiatus is long, but it is necessary (otherwise my mental health, and the comic itself, will suffer!) and I thank you all so much for your patience! The comic will be coming back - I honestly don’t know exactly when yet, but Heartstopper is deeply important to me and there are still two more chapters of the story. I hope you’re excited!
He’d been chasing Batman for much longer than anyone knew. Pattinson
had heard that Reeves was working on a script that reimagines Bruce
Wayne in the younger years of his life. “I’d had Batman in my mind for a
while,” Pattinson says. “It’s such an absurd thing to say. I sort of
had an idea to do it, and I’d been prodding Matt. He didn’t accept any
prods. I kept asking to meet him.” When Reeves finally finished a script, he relented and agreed to a
meeting in Los Angeles. “And then I had to kind of try to imagine what
he’d written, and I hadn’t even read the script,” Pattinson says. “I’d
come with this pad full of notes.”
Today in Amusing Middle English, I came across an adjective meaning “noble” or “lovely” or “beautiful”. It can also mean, in various contexts, “graceful,” “lush,” “splendid,” “mirthful,” or “majestic”.
