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    explain: lyrica-in-nerdvana:
daysofstorm:

pilgrim-soulinyou:

jeremyyyallan:

fagraklett:

Chinese emperor Ai of Han, fell in love with a minor official, a man named Dong Xian, and bestowed upon him great political power and a magnificent palace. Legend has it that one day while the two men were sleeping in the same bed, the emperor was roused from his sleep by pressing business. Dong Xian had fallen asleep across the emperorโ€™s robe, but rather than awaken his peaceful lover, the Emperor cut his robe free at the sleeve. Thus โ€œthe passion of the cut sleeveโ€ became a euphemism for same-sex love in China. โ€” R.G.L.


get you a dude who will fuck up his own clothing for you

NO OKAY THIS IS REALLY COOL SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN KIDS. Ancient China was super chill about homosexuality okay. Like we have gay emperors and feudal lords, lesbian princesses who were girlfriends with their serving maids, gay ass poets who wrote lots of poems about that one courtesan who played the guzheng so well.In fact homosexuality was so okay that in Shiji, which is basically the Bible of Ancient Chinese history, there is an entire section dedicated to the gay lovers of emperors. Whatโ€™s the best part? All the laws and criticism about homosexuality in Ancient China were all about shit like prostitution and rape. These laws wereย  outlawing homosexual stuff were all very specific. For example, there were laws banning male prostitution, but no laws against homosexuality. These laws were passed to stop the spread of prostitution and laws targeting prostitution in general were pretty common in Chinese history. There were also really strict laws about male rape. Rape was punishable by death, regardless of the gender of the victim. Rape a girl, you die. Rape a guy, you die. Have sex with a minor, you die regardless of whether it was consensual. The lightest sentence you could get was slavery where you were bound to the army.Also scholars wrote essays criticising the boyfriends of emperors, saying that they distracted the emperor from work blah blah blah but THEY ALSO DID THE SAME FOR THE CONCUBINES. Thatโ€™s right - the issue wasnโ€™t homosexuality but rather the hormones of the emperor. They didnโ€™t care about the gender of the emperorโ€™s favourite lover but rather the fact that the emperor was too horny to get shit done.โ€œBut WAIT, Modern China is a hardass about homosexuality!!!! How do you explain that!โ€Yes. That. Thatโ€™s because of the late Qing years where Western influences entered the country and brought their gross ass homophobic attitudes with them. And the Qing government was so anxious to seem modern and be seen as equals to their Western counterparts. So they adopted Western ways and discarded their previous attitudes about homosexuality. Hence you have Modern China.So the next time someone tries to tell you that being LGBT is wrong because it goes against traditional Chinese values, tell them to go fuck themselves with 3000 years of Chinese queerness.ย 

Here are all the illustrations of historical gay couples by Ryan Grant https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/artist-spotlight/2012/08/11/ryan-grant-longs-history-gay-love#slide-0


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                explain: lyrica-in-nerdvana:
daysofstorm:

pilgrim-soulinyou:

jeremyyyallan:

fagraklett:

Chinese emperor Ai of Han, fell in love with a minor official, a man named Dong Xian, and bestowed upon him great political power and a magnificent palace. Legend has it that one day while the two men were sleeping in the same bed, the emperor was roused from his sleep by pressing business. Dong Xian had fallen asleep across the emperorโ€™s robe, but rather than awaken his peaceful lover, the Emperor cut his robe free at the sleeve. Thus โ€œthe passion of the cut sleeveโ€ became a euphemism for same-sex love in China. โ€” R.G.L.


get you a dude who will fuck up his own clothing for you

NO OKAY THIS IS REALLY COOL SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN KIDS. Ancient China was super chill about homosexuality okay. Like we have gay emperors and feudal lords, lesbian princesses who were girlfriends with their serving maids, gay ass poets who wrote lots of poems about that one courtesan who played the guzheng so well.In fact homosexuality was so okay that in Shiji, which is basically the Bible of Ancient Chinese history, there is an entire section dedicated to the gay lovers of emperors. Whatโ€™s the best part? All the laws and criticism about homosexuality in Ancient China were all about shit like prostitution and rape. These laws wereย  outlawing homosexual stuff were all very specific. For example, there were laws banning male prostitution, but no laws against homosexuality. These laws were passed to stop the spread of prostitution and laws targeting prostitution in general were pretty common in Chinese history. There were also really strict laws about male rape. Rape was punishable by death, regardless of the gender of the victim. Rape a girl, you die. Rape a guy, you die. Have sex with a minor, you die regardless of whether it was consensual. The lightest sentence you could get was slavery where you were bound to the army.Also scholars wrote essays criticising the boyfriends of emperors, saying that they distracted the emperor from work blah blah blah but THEY ALSO DID THE SAME FOR THE CONCUBINES. Thatโ€™s right - the issue wasnโ€™t homosexuality but rather the hormones of the emperor. They didnโ€™t care about the gender of the emperorโ€™s favourite lover but rather the fact that the emperor was too horny to get shit done.โ€œBut WAIT, Modern China is a hardass about homosexuality!!!! How do you explain that!โ€Yes. That. Thatโ€™s because of the late Qing years where Western influences entered the country and brought their gross ass homophobic attitudes with them. And the Qing government was so anxious to seem modern and be seen as equals to their Western counterparts. So they adopted Western ways and discarded their previous attitudes about homosexuality. Hence you have Modern China.So the next time someone tries to tell you that being LGBT is wrong because it goes against traditional Chinese values, tell them to go fuck themselves with 3000 years of Chinese queerness.ย 

Here are all the illustrations of historical gay couples by Ryan Grant https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/artist-spotlight/2012/08/11/ryan-grant-longs-history-gay-love#slide-0


This is one of the best things I have ever read.

                
            

            
            
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    explain: Untitled Goose Comic [OC] This would explain a lot about their behavior, honestly
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    explain: myrrhguy:

sandersstudies:


This is so 
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sandersstudies:


This is so 
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    explain: hipsterenglishteacher:

cyniquechic:
the fact that anyone has to fucking explain this blows my mind 
teach, child.ย 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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cyniquechic:
the fact that anyone has to fucking explain this blows my mind 
teach, child.ย 

                
                

                
            

            
            
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cyniquechic:
the fact that anyone has to fucking explain this blows my mind 
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    explain: c-bassmeow:
incogniito:


c-bassmeow:
Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


Would you stare directly at the sun? 



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Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


Would you stare directly at the sun? 



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Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


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    explain: just-a-little-anxious:

warriorsofficial:

asleepinawell:
operahousebookworm:

robynspreciousnest:

fandersunite:

its-eggo:


astral-ghoul:


ninapop45:


deceit-the-snakey-snake:

plaid-n-converse:

cherrysconeslut:


pawsofponies:


garecc:

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:


inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:

buggykin:

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:


inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:

biggest-goofiest-fish:

desertdaylight:


kait-the-kitty:

chiribomb:

politicalcompassmemes:

your-uncle-dave:

maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit:

japhers:

jewishzevran:

animatedamerican:

pagesofkenna:

mommacomms:

fidefortitude:

bl00dlikeice:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

plaid-n-converse:

memeception

WEโ€™VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

@caesarianconfection

Iโ€™ve saidย โ€œI hate thisโ€ so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, becauseย โ€œI hate thisโ€ is just shorthand forย โ€˜this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasnโ€™t expecting with intent to surpriseโ€™. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But thisโ€ฆ This is something else.
The rapidity of a memeโ€™s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, youโ€™ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. Itโ€™ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeareโ€™s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

โ€ฆ.I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - thatโ€™s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (โ€take the breadsticks and runโ€) is a reference to the tumblr meme โ€˜stuffing breadsticks into my purseโ€™. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. thatโ€™s meme two (2)
โ€œman door hand hook car doorโ€ is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the genericย โ€˜stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill usโ€™ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
โ€˜gunโ€™ isโ€ฆ yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to โ€œman door hand hook car doorโ€ for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomesย meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think iโ€™ve ever seen. the initialย โ€˜young manโ€™ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock memeย โ€˜gunโ€™ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasnโ€™t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkennaโ€˜s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpgโ€™s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000โ€™s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun


This works better than I thought it would. 


This was in my senior project 

Iโ€™m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO


FATALITY

We have officially created a new languageย 

I just had to do it to em


THIS FUCKING THREAD Iโ€™M GONNA CRY
I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDNโ€™T EXPECT MORE Iโ€™M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?




W o w


You know I had to 


I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it


THIRTEEN!?


SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING โ€œthis one does not spark joyโ€ TO THIS VERSION SAYING โ€œthis one sparks joyโ€




well i added my contribution : )
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IM SCREAMING


This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense. 

โ€œYouโ€™re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?โ€โ€œOh yeah, sure.โ€โ€œCan you explain it to me?โ€โ€œI absolutely fucking cannot.โ€


can you believe they couldnโ€™t even get $3 million for this website

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warriorsofficial:

asleepinawell:
operahousebookworm:

robynspreciousnest:

fandersunite:

its-eggo:


astral-ghoul:


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deceit-the-snakey-snake:

plaid-n-converse:

cherrysconeslut:


pawsofponies:


garecc:

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:


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buggykin:

inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:


inthishousewekinkshamefnaf:

biggest-goofiest-fish:

desertdaylight:


kait-the-kitty:

chiribomb:

politicalcompassmemes:

your-uncle-dave:

maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit:

japhers:

jewishzevran:

animatedamerican:

pagesofkenna:

mommacomms:

fidefortitude:

bl00dlikeice:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

plaid-n-converse:

memeception

WEโ€™VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

@caesarianconfection

Iโ€™ve saidย โ€œI hate thisโ€ so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, becauseย โ€œI hate thisโ€ is just shorthand forย โ€˜this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasnโ€™t expecting with intent to surpriseโ€™. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.
But thisโ€ฆ This is something else.
The rapidity of a memeโ€™s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, youโ€™ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. Itโ€™ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeareโ€™s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.
For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

โ€ฆ.I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - thatโ€™s one of the 6 memes being represented here
ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)
this first lyric replacement (โ€take the breadsticks and runโ€) is a reference to the tumblr meme โ€˜stuffing breadsticks into my purseโ€™. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. thatโ€™s meme two (2)
โ€œman door hand hook car doorโ€ is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the genericย โ€˜stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill usโ€™ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)
โ€˜gunโ€™ isโ€ฆ yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to โ€œman door hand hook car doorโ€ for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)
and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomesย meme five (5)
which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)
(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think iโ€™ve ever seen. the initialย โ€˜young manโ€™ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock memeย โ€˜gunโ€™ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasnโ€™t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkennaโ€˜s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpgโ€™s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000โ€™s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun


This works better than I thought it would. 


This was in my senior project 

Iโ€™m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO


FATALITY

We have officially created a new languageย 

I just had to do it to em


THIS FUCKING THREAD Iโ€™M GONNA CRY
I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDNโ€™T EXPECT MORE Iโ€™M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?




W o w


You know I had to 


I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it


THIRTEEN!?


SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING โ€œthis one does not spark joyโ€ TO THIS VERSION SAYING โ€œthis one sparks joyโ€




well i added my contribution : )
whyโ€”


IM SCREAMING


This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense. 

โ€œYouโ€™re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?โ€โ€œOh yeah, sure.โ€โ€œCan you explain it to me?โ€โ€œI absolutely fucking cannot.โ€


can you believe they couldnโ€™t even get $3 million for this website

yes.

Iโ€™m sorry, but I had to
                
            

            
            
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c-bassmeow:
Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


Would you stare directly at the sun? 


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Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


Would you stare directly at the sun? 


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Why isnโ€™t Bernie facing Mariah Carey? If he wants my vote for 2020 he better explain this.ย 


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