Unbelievable

[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]

begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.

but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.

diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).

she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.

and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?

diana ignored her and kept fighting.

and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason

Read on Twitter today that some of the songs on the show were actually released AFTER the date the show is supposed to be happening and my first thought was:

A fanfic writer would never make that kind of mistake.

this is the most aggressive i've ever seen him get and i for one am positively LIVING for this kind of cold wrath

(Slytherclaw stimboard for an anon! Slytherclaw is a combination of Ravenclaw and Slytherin House! Credit in captions, middle square by me, requests are open!)

Hey, don’t cry. Nipple piercings visible through shirts. Okay?

wow

anyway why is archery so fucking sexy

being closeted, when it is a choice and not explicitly forced, is a personal choice in response to systemic violence and the only obligation closeted people have is to not harm the causes of LGBT rights and liberation. support is great, in whatever form it comes.

Haider Ackermann SS17