#just love each other!!

[craecm]

here to remind my lovelies

it’s been on my mind as of late so i wanted to voice it to all baby gays and older queers alike, that sometimes we forget the nature of our community and how we see each other.

there’s nothing wrong with looking up to older queer figures, or wanting to teach new queers important messages and information as they integrate themselves more into the community. it is undeniable that older queers (that is, people who have identified as queer and been part of the community for a longer time) have experience and time behind them that aid with problem solving. it’s important that we respect and help each other. but i also don’t want people to see queerness as something that requires achievements. sometimes we uphold certain older queer figures because they have attained more things, engaged in more relationships, transitioned further. we begin to see queerness on a scale, where people are higher up if they have had higher engagement in a range of acts. or even, if they can describe themselves in a more understandable, definite way.

so let me say it now, you are not any less gay if you have never been in a long-term same-gender relationship. you are not any less trans if you have not socially or medically transitioned. you are not any less queer if you can not define yourself in a short sentence. there is nothing that could make you any less ‘queer’, because being queer is not a scale. it is something you inherently are, something that simply is, something that can not be measured. just as we should not look at other aspects of people’s identity and begin to measure it, saying whether it makes them less or better than another of that identity, we should not with queerness.

criticism is good, learning is good, changing is good, but do not put yourself down or think that you must do any of these things to become ‘more’ queer. you are as valid now as you ever have been and will be, accept that, love that, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise :)

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Dick (Nightwing) and Jason (Robin) stare at Bruce. One sports pleading eyes, the other a shit eating grin. There’s a child between them with black hair and blue eyes.

Bruce, he doesn’t know what’s happening but he doesn’t like it: No.

Dick, grinning: He’s our younger brother now.

Jason, nodding seriously: You’re not gonna take him from us.

Tim, got kidnapped while taking photos of patrol, just happy to be there: Where’s the Batcave?

Bruce: what.

Dick, grinning wider: He’s ours now.

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[momoiro-hime]

putting my ocs in every AU i want part. 34791

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[official-english-major]

Telemachus's life post-Odyssey has the potential to be so funny bc bro is suddenly going from the son of, essentially, a single mom to the son of two VERY in-love middle aged sweethearts who never had to learn boundaries about what is/isn't appropriate to say around their kid.

Penelope: I knew that "beggar" was you the whole time, you know.

Odysseus, laughing: Oh, really?

Penelope: You can disguise a lot of things, but I'd know that ass anywhere.

Telemachus: I am begging you guys to keep it in your pants for ONE family dinner.

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[chloesimaginationthings]

How William Afton got his wife in FNAF

[paintedcrows]

Biting you. Biting you. Biting-

[nouverx]

*proceeds to drink the whole bottle*

Yeah Alastor you're gonna be loved and appreciated wether you want it or not :)

[sunflowerius]

my favorite thing about andreil is that they spent the first two books observing each other like strange bugs in a lab going "mmm how peculiar" at each others every move only to come to the conclusion "wow this dudes 100% not all there. i should be gay about it" and then they are and its the healthiest thing you've ever seen

[korralone]

Vi taking a moment to just hug Caitlyn in the middle of this scene makes my heart clench painfully in my chest

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[autismjester]

romantic shipping is OUT, entire episodes about the power of friendship are IN