Friendly reminder that Hozier’s first music video, in 2013, involved him literally taking his life savings and using it to make a protest video about anti-gay actions in Chechnya. This was not a popular position at the time, to the point that damn near every interviewer asked “so, are you gay?” because they literally could not figure out why he cared so much.
Incidentally, after the first few times of saying “no, I’m straight but it’s important,” he started saying “you can think that if you want.” ALSO not a popular position at the time. Adam Lambert’s entire career had been derailed only four years before because he dared to be openly gay and sexual about it.
He literally came out swinging like Muhammad Ali and hasnot stopped. And he finds it odd that people find it odd! Like he was asked if he was aware of his “lesbian cult following” and seemed genuinely puzzled why he has a lesbian cult following (and, later, just a massive queer following in general) and it’s like. Honey. You loved us first. You loved us more and harder than most people were willing to. When it was unpopular to even whisper about how maybe queer people shouldn’t be seen as inhuman actually, you grabbed a megaphone and screamed. You risked not just losing a career, but never having one at all, to stand by us. You loved us. We’re just loving you back.
Friend on FB: I’m gonna watch Babylon 5 from the beginning! I’m so excited!
Me, holding back from grabbing their shirt and yelling “WE CAN SCREAM ABOUT DELENN AND MARCUS AND SUSAN HOORAAY”:
So I think you’ll really enjoy learning about Minbari philosophy yes indeed also Neil Gaiman wrote an episode featuring Penn And Teller also there’s ZATHRAS. And Lennier likes motorcycles and
But don’t listen to Zathras. Listen to Zathras. Even though Zathras never listens to Zathras.
Okay , was anyone going to tell me that NEIL GAIMAN WROTE AN EPISODE OF BABYLON 5 FEATURING PENN AND TELLER or was I supposed to stumble on that in reblogs myself
I stayed my hand from posting this one on Twitter, but I’ve been “Embroiled In Some Controversy” for the last 2 days gamers and it’s driving me fucking bozonkers.
I got to the last panel but I couldn’t get the text to fit nicely and then I realized it works better on its own with the subtext I think.
This was the vent doodle that has them so damned heated lol.
Art isn’t art until someone, somewhere, has their sensibilities shocked and offended. Straight up.