Last month this website hosted a camp event in the woods, attended by 275 queer women and otherwise-identified humans. There was a prom on the last night. The color scheme was metallics, white and black. There was a photobooth. Everybody there was a weirdo.
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* the more strategically arranged prom photos will meet your eyeholes in the fourth Recamp this week.
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I love how this is a documentation of Somer’s increasing confusion in regard to streamers.
I wanted so badly to fix them.
#14 made my day for a week.
yes i agree #14 is the clear winner
MAGDA!!! I love this picture.
yessss i love it too!!! :D
#14 is my kryptonite but in a good way. And all the other photos too. Funnyhotness ftw forever and ever.
This is my everything.
Prom feels
So excited for the last recamp like woah
I am okay with the large presence of Hannah Hart.
(Intern Grace looks super cute too! )
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyy goddddddddddddddddd
to be fair, that little clicker was REALLY CONFUSING
Yesss! I know they is atleast 20 photos of me looking confused and surprised reaching for the camera hahaha.
what even.
also carmen’s boobs.
omg Carmen’s boobs
i didn’t know i’d ever get a perfect camp encapsulation, but sometimes the best gifts are those you don’t expect, right?
“Photobombing” shall be henceforth known as “Hartobombing.”
non-specific deity bless hannah hart and whoever is in that last picture
That’s the magical Marni/Vocabulary Bear!
actually… it’s “double d” who works in the kitchen at alpine meadows! in marni’s bear suit. idk, it was a wild night.
Thank you for clarifying Riese! I had a bad feeling it was Todd Bear right after I commented haha
the bear suit really brings out the party in people you know
I like how in both pictures of me I’m either sailing through the air in Courtney’s arms or yelling at Becca to give me back my gin. Very indicative of my entire camp experience, really.
Are you sure that you weren’t telling her that it WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?!
Oh Hannah Hart… <3
bahahahaha omfg torre i love you
i think torre and somer are the clear winners of this situation
Impromptu Caption contest!
1) ~Torre remembers that there’s a camera in this corner of the room.
2) “who says I have lean over YOUR shoulder?”
3) Couples Counselling; DeAnnes SomerButt is Becoming a Problem
4) Nobody saw these Pom Poms coming!
5) Inconvenient Alien Abduction moment
6) “What!? You mean we were only supposed to bring one date??”
7) I…Just…need to tie my shoes!
8) “Honey, can you please stop checking your phone just for a sec– ooh!”
9) TEAMLIFT
10) Streamers can’t even handle us right now!
11) This isn’t the Weirdest Prom Picture you were looking for…
12) Stop breaking character, Hansen
13) There’s nothing weird about this. Shark has Class date. Picture over.
14) WHY AREN’T WE FUNDING THIS!?
15) Look at my bowtie, my bowtie’s AMAZING
16) Vanessa spotted the aftermath of the Alien Abduction Moment
17) DON’T TELL ME HOW LONG QUEER EYE CONTACT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
18) Hanna Hart Fills Her Photobomb Quota
19) Brittany just accepted the streamers resignation
20) Nervous about repairing the rift in our streamers
21) Bows before Bros
22) Each one of these Humans showed up for a different kind of photo
23) These things happen when you give 300 queers an unsupervised camera, It’s weird there’s just one
24) SomerButt Returns From The Dead in the form of… SomerHat
25) We came in like a wreeeeeecking baaaaaall (through these poor, poor streamers)
26) I heard you like photobombers, so we put a photobomber on your photbomber
27) The photo pose that three out of four prom goers recommend
28) Who moved the camera into the middle of our dance party!? RUDE
29) VOCABULARY BEAR WILL TAKE THEIR OWN PHOTO, PUNY HUMANS
now i just want to be back at camp.
These would make the best screen savers.
These DO, in fact, make the best backgrounds. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing these.
I love that you can gauge at what point in the party these pictures were taken by how trashed that sparkle curtain is.
This is perfect.
Cannot pick a favorite. Impossible.
OMG this made me so happy!
You gays the entirety of my legs and half of my boob are on Autostraddle dot com, am I a calendar girl now?
your thigh muscles are really impressive though for real
I would buy that calendar.
I’ll take 5. Haha
tracy i love you for the record
Aww shucks. I love you too Vanessa <3
#17.
Pure amazingness!
These are hilarious.
The Hannah photobomb (18) is fantastic
omg every picture with the blackhearts/runaways
but also every picture
also did everyone have multiple outfits??? or was this the camp of doppelgangers
I have outfit changes… anyone else? ;p
I also had an outfit change…I was sober-ish it oufit #1 and definitely not sober in #2. Guess which is which (hint photo #9)
PS This post made my day I LOVE IT.
HOW ARE NONE OF THESE THE 700 PICTURES OF SOPHIA AND I?!?
Also, wow those streamers made for some excellent photo-bombing opportunies
Awww graceface in a bow tie <3W
Yay! I love the Photo Booth!
SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
12. was supposed to be a Colorado photo but Riese joined us (which was perfect) and was kind of choking me.
I think it was a love choke though.
it was a LOVE CHOKEHOLD
All of these made me so, so happy. Jen with that shark, hahaha.
Also, 8 and 29
win
aaaalll those lost memories hahaha. What a bunch of stunners.
So 15 I have idea who you are but that’s a seriously adorable pic.
Actually I meant no idea but I was so busy focusing on all the cuteness on this page.
Her name is Lisa and she’s pretty great :)
Haha why thank you :) This just made me laugh so hard. I really need to know who is holding the clicker!
#11 is killing me. I think I’m in love with both of you.
<3
29 FOREVER
Awesome! Adorable queers, especially Harto, plus Raven Von Kaos (I may have a derby problem…)
Next time I go to camp and have to explain it to the border police, I’ll just pull out these gems…
KIP’S PANTS EVERYBODY GO HOME
I know! How did I miss those on prom night?!
truth
before prom, he was like, “should i go put on my SPARKLEPANTS?”
the hell kind of question is that
#12: One time Riese put me in a chokehold…it was awesome.
it was awesome.
OMG! I can’t! This post just made my night! I cannot wait to see the rest of them! Also, #13 Almost made me pee my pants laughing so hard! And I love how Somer is so confused about the streamers in almost every photo. Hahaha
Commenting again because I don’t want Vanessa to cry!
BUT WAIT, is that last pic Marni the Bear, or Todd the Bear?!
DOUBLE D…I CAN’T. THE STAFF WAS SO GREAT.
lanie in #22
followed by lanie in #19
ahaha
also lanie in #11.
Lanie is 22 is my favorite Lanie haha
These photos really confirm the weird in the best way :)
I wasn’t having the best Tuesday, not at all. Actually it was sort of the worst day ever as Tiny Pineapple says. But this almost makes it the best day ever again.
May I suggest a New Year’s Eve party for next camp? We can count down to midnight, drop some sort of ball and pop the champagne…
Yes, I am thinking of May Camp already.
I started trying to remember every picture I love but there are too many! What an amazing night! All of the feels.
everything about this is beautiful
It just made my whole week to remember one of the best nights ever
I’m so happy about the community you’ve created. this is awesome. #11 means I can die happy.
AWESOME!!! You all are lovely queermos in the best way!
This is the only thing I’m going to show straight people who ask what A-Camp is.
be still my heart
oh, magda
And in #13 you will see the reason why I felt the need to keep watch in our bunk at night…damn shark. I felt so disappointed in myself when I’d promptly fall asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I’m so good at pranks, obviously. COLOR WARS!
P.S.
My roommate is very thankful for that vegan apple cider. +whiskey
Sleeping with the shark on the last night was pretty amazing. Just sayin…
yo we owneddddd rainbow wars!!!!! that shark was OURS
OMG!! Just so much hotness and awesomeness! This is how I’ll remember one of the very best nights of my life! You’re all amazing!!!
THIS WAS THE PERFECT NIGHT.
–MAGDA AND GRACE!!!!–MY BLUE CRUSHERS!!! that photo is lovely and perfect and warms my heart. As well as all these other wacky ridiculous ones. ITS ACTUALLY AMAZING.
So I keep refreshing this to read new and exciting comments, but does the second picture keep changing?!
14. 14 & 29 are the winners.
PS I love it when the shark comes back.
And now I suddenly remember why that night was so fuzzy…
Being included in 2 of the weirdest queer prom pictures is probably the greatest achievement of my life thus far.
So I don’t actually have anything much to say, because these pictures are filling me with too many emotions. What an awesome experience. Everyone is so great.
I love you all. You strange humans.
that first photo, i just can’t
so perfect
This kind of reminds me of the Tegan and Sara music video for ‘Closer’!