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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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I have an app to track my mental health. It has been rather helpful the past year but damn, do the notifications hit hard.

"This month was an average of 2.3 out of 5, having the lowest score in the entire year." "Congratulations! This is your 100th time you clicked 'anxious'!" "Wow, you just got the token 'mood swings'."

Come on, dude. You don't have to rub salt into the wound. I know I am unstable, that's why I got you.

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Cui bono (England 1922) by Marion Jones

Marion Jones

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Worst Case vs. Best Case Scenarios by Karina Farek.

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"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

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My sister moved to Stockholm and constantly reminded me that it is the most queer friendly city of them all. The rainbow flags, her drag queen college etc. But then I came out to her as ace aro her first reaction was "It's ok. You can become normal if you try hard enough." For my cishet sister queerness was inherently intertwined with suppression from being intimate (romantic and sexual) with the person you love. She loves the extra glitter and smut the queer community has given her. Once those are no longer there, she sees it not as being queer but as being broken.

It's awfully easy to build compassion on the ground of "but we all love someone."

No, actually not.

When it comes to asexual allyship a lot of people wanna have their cake and eat it too (pun unintended). People like a lil 'aces are valid' moment but don't actually unpack compulsory sexuality. People see sexless queer representation and always clock puritanism before they ever clock asexuality. No one's actually reading the ace theory and texts coming out. Everyone keeps doing surprised Pikachu faces whenever a conservative or TERF says they're against asexuality despite the fact ace activists have been saying since day conservatives are not anti sex but anti sexual autonomy. 'Aces are queer' until we actually are. Even ace support posts keep ending with some expectation or condition that asexuality is #valid as long as asexuals still perform a small quota of sex/sexual activity. I'm so over 'Aces still have sex!' 'Aces are hot' Aces are sexy' 'Aces aren't virgin vanilla prude sexless puritans!' disguised as support.

Like no. Sorry. Until you accept that some asexual people's no is permanent, that some asexual's singleness is permanent, that some asexual's childless-ness is permanent, that some asexuals are the 'no' in little to no sexual attraction and i'd say most importantly, that queer sexlessness isn't a biological, social or moral failing, I don't believe you'll ever genuinely support asexuality. (In reverse, I also feel similar about aromanticism and romance).

Like a lot of u haven't gone beyond 'the a isn't for ally' and it shows. I don't want people to support asexuals just because we're soooo hot or because we write the best smut apparently or because we could have hypothetical sex or because we could do hypothetical kink or because our minds are soooo dirty actually or because we'd do romance reallllyyyy well or because we can still have kids or because asexuals hand out water bottles at the orgy or some shit. I want people to support asexuality because no sexuality is deviant and it's basic human decency.

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This is your permission to not think about the horrors for a bit. You can put it down now. They’ll be there tomorrow

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cry for the world / go on living this will end / it must be a fire / have hope

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You know what. Enough politics for today.

Get off your phone.

Drink some water.

Eat some snacks and pad yourself on the shoulder for the courage to exist in such times.

You deserve a break.

And have some cows staring into your soul through the fog.

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God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world

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The headless Horseman and the tree he comes from. Sleepy Hollow inspired carved pumpkins.

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They also have a Bananasnail Banana!

Source: https://douglascuddletoy.com/product-category/collections/macaroons/

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“The Abyssal Woods”

Day 15 - Haunted Forest

Don’t let it see you.