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A song title that is all in lower case

My Bloody Valentine - when you sleep



MBV sounds like a wall of amorphous noise until you find yourself listening to them on repeat and realise there's a finely crafted pop song in there.

remember that ''[song] playing in another room'' thing that was big on tumblr a few years ago? this band was doing that with sincerity in like 1991

a song that you know all the lyrics of


Hank Green - Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks



holy shit, he looks 12 years old in this video

a song that makes you smile

So there's a radio station in sydney called Triple M. and, at least when i was a child, it catered almost exclusively to working class boomer men. the kind of man who goes roo hunting on weekends, has a calendar on the wall at his mechanic job with pictures of big titted softcore porn models, and thinks any music that isn't led zeppelin or AC/DC is for faggots.

Somewhere around 1999-2000 Triple M had a 'the 1000 greatest rock songs of all time'' countdown that was voted on by the public. It was important to note this was the early days of the internet and the voting was online.

So we all sat through days and days of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, etc for the number one ROCK song out of 1000 songs. It was huge. millions of sydneysiders were locked in to this.

When it was time to reveal the number one song, the hosts went silent. they knew they were in trouble. because it was immediately clear some asshole had sat at their computer spamming the poll with one song just to piss everybody off. a proto-rickroll.

they were forced to play Kiss by Prince.



People were so, SO angry. they were expecting stairway to heaven or hotel california, REAL music for MEN, not this.

the hosts had to apologize and explain they weren't in on it and didn't know beforehand. To this day it still tickles me. that was my first experience of mass trolling, and me and the poll-spammer are probably the only two people who thought it was hilarious.

i guess making crowley and aziraphale more explicitly vulnerable to targeted homophobia kinda binds them to their community in a way that merely being fond of people in an abstract sort of way doesn't

"You wouldn't be interested in humans falling in love, would you? I know for some members of the police force it's a bit of a hobby.''

I'm sure this is a sly reference to Operation Spanner. in short: during the late 80s / early 90s the uk police were raiding gay clubs, publication houses, and private residences of gay men, seizing kink paraphernalia, video tapes, and personal diaries in order to prosecute them for gross indecency. this despite the fact homosexuality was decriminalized in the 60s.

so aziraphale checking no one is behind muriel when they arrive, muriel bursting in on him and crowley during a conversation, and then watching their breakup fight through the window is all quite... loaded imagery.

crowley not understanding why they cant have it as easily as beez and gabriel is such a queer mood actually.

its like they keep trying to define their relationship with romance novel tropes and it keeps breaking bc Those Stories Aren't For You.

but when they both stop being stupid they'll have the freedom to define it however they want

I can't imagine the name ''Bert Newton'' means anything to anyone who isn't Australian, so I wasn't going to wax poetic about his passing here. But the stories people are posting now have me in tears. This is why the man deserves the state funeral he is getting:

Bert Newton’s secret gift to a dying AIDS patient

He had gone around to every single patient, spending time by their bedside and making them laugh

... in the palliative care ward for AIDS patients in 1990. People whose own families wouldn't visit them and who doctors wouldn't touch. He treated every single one like a human being.

Another personal anecdote of Bert's generosity

Another one

The world is truly a little darker without you, Bert.

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the disease was considered a death sentence affecting communities, like the LGBT ones, whom many in power felt deserved it. This film tells the story of how militant activists like ACT-UP and TAG pushed for a meaningful response to this serious public health problem. As the activists struggled against political indifference, religious hostility, corporate greed and apparently skewed scientific research priorities with determination and sheer audacity, they produced a political wave that would lead to not only an effective treatment regime, but would advance LGBT rights beyond anyone's expectations.


it wouldn't be right to close out pride month without posting this one tho obviously you want to be mentally prepared for it

the older i get the hotter Li Shang gets btw