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[elysiansugar]

Blank frames for any flags I've missed or if you wanna add more than one! Go crazy

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE !!!

Free to use pride flag frames + blanks for all your LGBT+ needs <3

☆ credit if using or you're homophobic /hj

[short-wooloo]

It's pride month, so I think now is a good time to remind all my fellow Queers...

THE REPUBLICANS WANT US ALL DEAD!!

This is not a secret, they are very much open about it, our lives (along with so many others) are very much on the line this election, if trump and the republicans win the presidency-or worse, the presidency and one or both of the houses of congress, WE WILL BE IN DANGER!!

And that's (just one reason) why we need to be voting for not just Joe Biden, but every Democrat in every election, vote blue down the ballot, because if you aren't, if you vote third party, if you don't vote at all, that only helps trump!! We know this!! We already went through this 8 years ago!!

Trump and the republicans want us dead

Biden and the Democrats do not

It's a simple choice

(And anyone commenting/reblogging something to the effect of "Biden/ Democrats don't rEeEeAaAaLlLlYyYy care about us/aren't doing enough, you can fuck right the hell off)

[raffcomix]

For all my fellow AroAces out there ^^

[heretherebedork]

Almost a week and Fang's quiet 'I miss you' to Tan while he pushes Phum and Peem to meet their parents, the quiet way he stays by himself in the family meeting and smiles at the peaceful moments but never brings his boyfriend there, never introduces Tan, just goes home to him instead... it's so sweet. It's everything to me. Fang has his safe space. Fang has a home that lets him be himself. There's pain to see him there alone when he's been dating Tan longer than Phum has been dating Peem but there's also a joy in the comfort he gets from loving Tan, from knowing that he goes home to Tan, to choosing not to bring Tan when he has to wear a mask because Tan is where he goes to take that mask off.

[yvesdot]

SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT IS OUT!

“Comedic, witty and chilling by turns.” — A. R. Thompson, author of When Dealing with Wolves

The debut collection returns in a special fifth anniversary edition, repackaged with three new short stories, a new cover, and additional bonus content! A vampire is forced into a compromising situation; a father fears his child's growing plant collection; the undead go to high school; a butcher contemplates whether or not she can be loved. In a captivating debut, yves. opens the door to our world, slightly askew—where the crows work for witches and telephone booths serve as secret channels for prophecy; where a diverse cast of monsters and humans alike are forced to contend with what the world believes is right.

Thank you to everyone who made my weird uncategorizable "Lemony Snicket meets Carmen Maria Machado" speculative fiction an instant bestseller! If you’ve ever felt like a monster, this book is for you.

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Thank you so much for reading this post about my book. I hope you will share it, and this image of my beautiful black cat, Andy, widely. To queer weird fiction and indie pub! To you, Dear Reader, with love.

[raylazuko]

Two all 2 people who follow my tumblr

GUYS THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT

If you’re of voting age in the US and not registered, PLEASE REGISTER NOW!

I’m endorsing Kamala Harris for president.

The fact that’s it’s even close makes me sick to my stomach.

You can disagree with Harris or Biden or their administration on a lot of things, but not seeing that she is clearly the better option is scary.

Queer people’s lives depend on this.

If you care about us, PLEASE VOTE

If you are mad at Harris for not stopping the genoc1de, remember that Trump will absolutely not stop it either and that he’s a moron who no one respects. I’d rather have a g3nocide overseas and have queer people (and poor people, women, poc) in the US protected than have a g3nocide overseas and not have them protected.

And if you say “well Roe v Wade overturned and other conservative laws happened under Biden” Remember this was the CONSERVATIVE supreme court that did this. And another Trump term will make the court even worse for decades. The implications of this are huge.

People are on the fence, it’s simple. If you care about your queer, disabled, poc, poor, female loved ones VOTE HARRIS. If you’re centrist and won’t vote because you don’t care you’re a pushover and a coward. If you’re farther left and think she isn’t left enough, yes you have a point but this is all we have, PLEASE use your brain and stop being chronically online and self impressed.

I don’t care if I lose followers for this at this point, I’m just out here doing everything I can, not to panic and want to hide who I am. A lot of people don’t have the options to move to another state let alone country and we just want to live.

I’m lucky to live in a very safe state but I’m still terrified.

Please care about us. Please vote.

[spiderliliez]

If gay and you’ve fought with a straight friend like this. AM I OK? (2022)

[+] LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 [+] DAKOTA JOHNSON [GIF Collection] 🌼 [+] ..more on “Am I OK?” 🎬

[anarcho-commeownism]

the avoidance of discussing the gender we as trans people were raised as really glosses over the fact that no matter what gender we really are, most of us did in fact spend most of our childhoods living the role of our assigned gender, and experienced and internalized the lessons everyone assigned that gender is taught.

the "trans men are not exempt from misogyny" posts are so exhausting to me because do y'all not realize that we lived through that for all our lives pre-transition and usually post-transition as well? even after transitioning people are quick to speak over us, brush away our experiences, and treat us like we're hysterical women—even other queer people.

like, we don't suddenly transformers morph into cis men. trans women also don't suddenly transformers morph into cis women. transitioning does not shed us of the baggage we carried pre-transition, nor the lessons and biases we internalized. trans women can be misogynistic against trans men just as much as trans men can be misogynistic against trans women, if none of us unpack and reckon with our previous place in society.

[uncanny-tranny]

I know this is a very unoriginal observation (much like any other), but I'm finally reading The Great Gatsby, and even I wouldn't describe men the way Nick does.

[hyacinthsanddew]

your eyes are some sort of

sacred, and when they meet mine, ashen locked

to cobalt, flames tear into my

body. i’d never met someone

who makes me

burn like you do. but to hold it for a 

moment more, to be soothed

into quiet love, I would ask

nothing more of life

[winterandwords]

💀 Spin Cylinder (story summary)

Bound by desire and destruction. Contract killer Noah and white-collar criminal Brett retire from successful but stressful careers to build a home together on a foundation of obsession, shared secrets, and murder. But when they start to feel restless and the downward spiral beckons them deeper, how far will they go to find their way back to themselves?

🗓️ POSTING SCHEDULE Spin Cylinder chapters are posting on winterandwords.com twice-weekly on Sundays and Thursdays from 1st September - 19th December 2024.

📝 BASICS Spin Cylinder is the sequel to November Breaks, which is short novel length at around 52k words. If you haven’t read November Breaks yet and would like to catch up, it can be read in full here. See tag #spin cylinder for writeblr games, WIP snippets etc.

✅ GENRE Transgressive, literary

📖 AUDIENCE Adult

👀 VIBE Slice of life, but life is drugs and crime. They deserve each other (derogatory). Violence as a substitute for therapy. Very elegantly wasted. My favourite mistake, my weapon of choice, and the parts of ourselves that we can’t leave behind.

⭐ MAIN CHARACTERS

Brett Archer is hedonistic, devious and charismatic. An expert at filling empty spaces with temptation, his early morning runs and questionable life choices are fuelled by the vodka he promised not to drink anymore. Boredom is the enemy, but novelty is just another drug among many. He knows exactly how to get what he wants, especially when it’s the last thing he should have.

Noah Thurston is refined, charming and not quite as in control as he appears. Still waters run dangerously deep and there are more bodies down there than even he can count anymore. Conscience will always be a stranger, but at least he sleeps better than he used to…sometimes. He can’t stop noticing the details and he’s in it for the moment your heart stops beating.

📸 IMAGE CREDIT Original photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash, edited under license

🏷️ TAG LIST Please comment here or send me a message to be added to or removed from the tag list. The list will be tagged when new chapters are posted. I don't use it for writeblr games.

@indecentpause @pertinax--loculos @revenantlore @talesfromaurea @thegreatobsesso

(new line to appease the Tumblr link gods) @thespacelizard

[aro-but-not-ace]

Being in relationships as a romance neutral/favorable aro (for alloro readers with aro partners)

I’m romance neutral* and greyromantic*. I have been in romantic relationships. I don’t believe I was attracted to my partners as much as people thought I was. But I chose to be in those relationships and stayed with those people until other factors didn’t work out (ie unfixable communication issues or different long term goals).

I’ve had some of my partners ask “so you don’t love me?” when I opened up more about being arospec with a sad tone in their voice. Or I’ve had friends say “why would you be someone’s partner if you don’t love them?” with a hint of judgment and disdain as they say it.

Here is how I look at it, and keep in mind, this is most likely NOT a universal aro experience. BUT I know that some alloro people worry that since their aro partners don’t “love” them, they can’t be sure about their relationship at all.

Aromanticism is the lack of romantic attraction. In my personal experience, this generally means I have equal attraction to everybody in a romantic sense (side note, this is why I thought I was biromantic for a long time). So, imagine, baseline I just feel neutral about everyone. My relationships are largely based upon experiences and connections I have with people, not solely on attraction.

A lot of my partners thought that this means I feel less about them or that they were just like everyone else. But here’s the thing—I literally chose them out of everyone else to be partners with. In a broader sense, take how alloplatonic* people view friendships: you may be closer with some friends, you may trust some friends with certain things more, or you might have just become friends and are learning more about each other. These people are all friends, and the friendship dynamic isn’t always built on platonic attraction. It can be extremely circumstantial.

If you worry about your aro partner leaving you because they’re aro, I assure you that they will not just up and leave at random just because they’re aro. If they do, there is a very different reason for that. It’s a very personal and complex topic. It ties into factors such as commitment, communication, life goals, and relationship satisfaction and compatibility.

So if anyone is alloromantic and questioning if they can be in a relationship with an aro person, think about it this way: the question shouldn’t be “do they love me?”, and try thinking about it as “do they care for me?”

Glossary* and footnotes after the break

Just some disclaimers so I don’t have to explain later:

1. Yes, some aro people can feel love in other ways. Yes, some aros are loveless. We are all different. I mostly think that alloro people associate “do they love me?” directly with “do they love me romantically?”, which is understandable, but personally I think that in any relationship, CARE and ACTION are the most important aspects in any relationship. Even in an allo relationship, two people can love each other but not properly care for one another.

2. Also, love is not easily defined, so “do they care for me” presents a much more concrete and observable question that is much less stressful than “do they love me?” And I say this as someone who ended up in abusive situations because I told myself “well, they love me, so this must be fine.” I am mostly making this post to tell alloromantic people that being aro does not directly affect how someone may act in a relationship. Yes, it might be a factor, but saying aro = unloving partner is not true and extremely harmful.

3. I wrote this while sleep deprived and I talk a lot when sleep deprived so sorry if this all made no sense or was very rambley.

*GLOSSARY:

Romance neutral - feeling indifferent to romance, whether it be romantic coded actions (ie kissing, hugging, cuddling, etc), romantic situations (ie dates), or the general idea of a romantic relationship

Romance favorable - desiring to engage in romance despite being aromantic, generally the opposite of being romance repulsed

Greyromantic - feeling romantic attraction but less frequently or intensely as alloromantic people. Also an umbrella term for other microlabels in the aro community

Alloplatonic - people who feel platonic (friend) attraction, as opposed to being aplatonic (lacking platonic attraction)

[that-one-dark-smiley]

I'm starting to like, legitimately question my gender again. I thought I was over this, but I read this manga series called "The gender of mona lisa". Let me explain.

It's about a world in which everyone is born without a sex - and without a gender. At the age of 12, they start developing physical traits that correlate with their gender. Some actively choose to become male or female, some don't really know and someday the development just starts.

The protagonist is still genderless at 17/18 years old and the series follows their journey to discovering themselves and finding out what living as male or female is about. The manga does such a good job of showing that nothing is strictly masculine or feminine, that no matter what you look like, you are still the same person. You don't just change because your body changes.

The manga has multiple alternative endings, showing what paths the protagonist may choose while living as male or female. I don't want to spoil too much, but there's a reason they have to choose. I truly believe that no matter what they chose, they are still genderless - just in a different body.

And let me tell you: this manga fucked me up hardcore.

I relate to the protagonist almost 100%. The struggles they have with "choosing a side", their experiments with gender expression to find out who they are, the way they feel pressured to conform while just wanting to be themselves. I found myself thinking "wow, I wish I would be like, completely androgynous when it comes to my body", and feeling so connected to this experience that when I was done, I felt so much that I basically felt nothing.

This messed me up so hard. I was already suspecting that maybe I'm not as male as I thought I was. For a while, actually. Because my connection to gender is mostly, if not fully, through external things instead if what I feel on the inside. I basically feel like nothing when it comes to my gender. But I express myself typically masculine and I associate androgyny a lot with masc bodies.

So to conclude, I feel fucked up because I'm thinking "wow, I sure wish I was completely genderless" and not sure how to deal with that right now. I have never once felt so seen than I did when reading this manga, but it also punched me in the face. Sort of.

[goddess-of-lies-and-goodbyes]

I'm queer. Pansexual, if we're getting specific. A pansexual woman struggling with a passing identity crisis. I'm married, and my husband, well, he loves me for all of me and accepts my queerness - hell, even loves me more for it. Yes, he's straight, and I remind myself, yes, I am still queer.

I wish I didn't feel the need to justify my sexuality. To remind myself that I was coming out in middle school, openly affectionate with the girls around me and called Leslie and Lezzy by my classmates. I remind myself my 8th grade yearbook was signed to Lezzy B. Ann. (My name is Kate.)

I remind myself I crushed on my middle school best friend. I remind myself I wanted to kiss her as we shared a bed during a sleepover, my heartbeat burning in my throat. I remind myself I forced those feeling away, scared it would ruin our friendship. I remind myself it was ruined over a boy in high school, wanting her to be happy more than anything. I remember how she threw the phone at my face as I was kicked out of her house.

And still, I remind myself of night spent with a friend in high school. Giving in to our feelings and fueled by teenage hormones, she and I kissed until the sun rose the next morning. I remind myself of the few awkward dates we shared.

I remind myself how I'd keep my eyes down in the locker room to avoid glances at the exposed skin around me. I remind myself how I tried to explain bisexuality to my mother.

I replay the memories in my head because I find myself whispering "not queer enough" in the back of my head. "Not queer enough" as my gay brother wishes my gay nephew happy Pride, but not to me. "Not queer enough" as I post my pictures from Pride on my feed. "Not queer enough" as I proudly share my sexuality on social media.

And then I remind myself, I am pansexual and married. My husband loves me and supports me. And still, I remind myself, I am queer enough.

[save-the-villainous-cat]

hi!! not an ask, just wanted to say i love your ace villain writing <333 waters my crops, feeds my family, restores life on this barren land,,

also hope you’re doing alright! have a nice day!

OH- ahh

AAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaah-

Thank you omg you are way too sweet-

[the-trash-eating-llama]

what are you /lh

Assuming ðat "/Ih" means honest, we are a plural, trans, autorose & autosexual, nonbinary and nonlinear lifeform.

We do not experience time like you, not in ðe slightest.

We are void a void maiden & void priestess, and we only use ðe feminine version of titles!

If we are to assume ðat "/Ih" doesn't mean honest, I am ðe Llama you know and love, keeping general knowledge and consuming ðe trash I find along my way.

But you can just call me Llama.

But I assume you knew at least most of ðat, right, parent?