#open letters

[sigmastolen]

i'm actually insulted by this, simon & schuster. this is a brand new book, published this year. why are the illustrations so dingy, and why are they full of fucking digital artifacts?

[angpagsulatnihoney]

An Open Letter to my Past

Dear Past, You are joy, you are brave, you are loved. However, along the way you became broken because of you had cross path along the way. Some of them made you feel worthless, useless, and unimportant. Then you have broken down into pieces. You make mistakes, you disappointment and have not reached your dreams. Despite of it all, you are about to whole again as you pick up the pieces what's left of you. It made you strong, dependable and trustworthy once again. Your past will pass through but you are still here in the present as you prepare for your future. Prepare yourself as the table will start to turn, this will be your time to shine, valuable and beautiful.

[feminism-lesbianart]

東京レインボープライドにアマゾンとマクドナルドとの協働中止を要請します～イスラエルのアパルトヘイト・ジェノサイドに加担する企業とは決別を～

NPO法人東京レインボープライド御中

LGBTQ+とアライのみなさま

東京レインボープライド（TRP）は3/15に「パレスチナ・イスラエルをめぐる現状に関するお問い合わせについて」という声明を発表しました(＊1)。これは、現在5か月を超えて激化しているガザ・ジェノサイドを非難し、これに加担しない意思を表明するために、イスラエル大使館やアパルトヘイト支援企業からの協賛は受けないことを明らかにしたものだと思います。

しかし、現状では、これは事実に反する虚偽となってしまっています。

わたしたちフツーのLGBTをクィアする等からの公開質問状や多くの問い合わせに言及した上で「特定の企業や大使館からの協賛はございません」と述べられていますが、問い合わせの第一義的なポイントはBDS対象企業(＊2)であったにもかかわらず、まさにそれに含まれているアマゾン(＊3)とマクドナルド(＊4)からの協賛がホームページに掲載されているからです。ゆえに上記の記述は明らかに間違っており、現実に実行されていないものとなっています。

TRPは公開質問状に「回答拒否」をしましたが(＊5)、これまで、わたしたちや多くの人がTRPに対して問い合わせ・要請をおこなったのは下記のことです。

2013年以来11年間にわたって続けてきたイスラエルのアパルトヘイトや戦争犯罪への共犯と決別すること。

ピンクウォッシングを終わらせること、つまりプライド・パレードを虐殺のノーマライゼーション／プロモーションの場として利用させないこと。

そのために同国大使館やアパルトヘイト支援企業（BDS対象企業）から協賛を受けるのをやめること（とりわけ近年協働が続いてきたアクサとヒューレット・パッカードを蓋然性の高い主要なターゲットとして）。

ところが、TRPはそうした問い合わせ・要請の趣旨を捉え損ねたのか、あるいは評判への配慮のみにしかもあまりに限定的な留意しか払わなかったためか、きたるTRP2024でも共犯を続けて重大な人権侵害から利益を得ることを「次世代につなげていく」道を取ろうとしています。それは「すべての人たちの人権が守られる社会を実現するために」と言うTRPにとって、まったく不本意なのではありませんか。

■■■ TRPへの要請 ■■■

(1). 「すべての戦争、虐殺、暴力や弾圧に反対しています。また、多くの命が失われている現状に対して強い憤りを感じています」との言葉が本当の思い、真実であるならば、ジェノサイドを支援しているマクドナルドとアマゾンからの協賛をTRPが受けることはできようはずもありません。すぐに、これらの協賛を取りやめることを決定し、その手続きに入ってください。

(2). 以上述べたように、「お問い合わせを頂いている特定の企業…からの協賛はございません」との記述は事実に反するものとなっており、「すべての戦争、虐殺、暴力や弾圧に反対」「強い憤り」という記述も虐殺加担企業が協賛に含まれている現状と矛盾したものとなっています。そのため、（1）の協賛取りやめが実現するまでのあいだ、TRP法人サイトの虚偽を含む声明文を削除するよう求めます。

3/31(日) までにこれらの要請へのご回答をお願いします。（お尋ねなどありましたら、気軽にご連絡ください。）

■■■ みなさまへの呼びかけ ■■■

ガザそしてパレスチナでの虐殺・占領を一刻も早く止めるために、東京のプライドをその共犯から決別させるために、もう一度、みなさんの声をTRPに届けてください。

【TRP公式ウェブサイト (問い合わせ)】 https://tokyorainbowpride.com/contact/

【TRP公式Twitter／Xアカウント】 @Tokyo_R_Pride

#共犯と決別する回答を

#TRPはアマゾンとの協働中止を

#TRPはマクドナルドとの協働中止を

#ジェノサイドにプライドはない

2024年3月17日

フツーのLGBTをクィアする

フェミニズムとレズビアン・アートの会

(＊1) https://tokyorainbowpride.org/news/20240315/2042/

(＊2) https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide

このリンクはす��に昨年12/28公開質問状で示しており、当時からアマゾンもマクドナルドもBDS対象企業に含まれていました。そして、1月初めにはマクドナルドに対する世界的なボイコット・キャンペーンの促進が呼びかけられています。

(＊3) https://www.notechforapartheid.com/

アマゾンについては12/28公開質問状でも圧力をかける対象であることに注意喚起していました。

(＊4) https://bdsmovement.net/Boycott-McDonalds

(＊5) https://feminism-lesbianart.tumblr.com/post/740022720990953472/trp2024-noresponse

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PDF版はこちら。https://drive.google.com/file/d/11cV05SHD7_196Hv2kXPU0SzHkIPQaCAV/view

[inabigworld]

will you still love me in the winter, when my skin is dry, my lips are chapped, and my smile shines a little less bright? when i start sleeping in a little longer and start going out a little less and staying in more? when some days i can’t make you laugh, i can’t find reasons to smile, and all i do is cry? will you still love me when some days i don’t want to wake up at all, and i don’t get out of bed all day? will you still love me when on days when i can’t seem to carry on a conversation and my gaze keeps slipping away starring off, getting lost in the void?

[theredhairing40]

to whom it may concern:

The cat is out of the bag, I repeat it’s out of the bag for it is neither alive, nor is it deceased.

[sunflouwerhabit]

more musings:

hi, my loves! i’m a little late to the party (it’s been an insane year, an insane few months, an insane week), but a week ago, i published the last 3 chapters of bring me home and that unleashed a WHOLEEEEE bunch of complicated emotions. i penned this little love letter to my newest fic and to all of you 🤍

we are one day out from 2025, which is both a relief and also, in its own way, completely devastating. as i reflect on 2024, i am just so grateful that bring me home was a story i got to tell. it’s forever my pride and joy. i love it and i love all of you.

thank you, thank you, thank you.

now the letter:

and with that, 27 chapters have come and gone! we’ve made it! bring me home

is yours! down the line (harry’s version) is an actual, real thing and you can read her!

for me, today comes with an incredibly convoluted mix of emotions: elation that my readers get to meet her in her entirety and know her the way i do. exhaustion after crossing the finish line. relief knowing all 27 chapters are published. devastated that I won't be working on this story anymore. anger and sadness and grief, because these past months have been hell and i wish we had a lighter world to exist in. grateful to the bmh universe for being my haven over the past two months. grateful to all of you and this family we've created. grateful, all the time, for the boys and the joy they've brought into my most formative years.

bring me home has two lives. plotting this story took several years. before writing a single sentence, i was creating 50+ pages worth of planning docs and sending pey 20 minute long audio messages and annotating down the line. it was pure passion-fueled work. then, over the course of ten months, i got to write her. alongside an amazing guardians season and along with this year’s best memories. late nights writing and writing and laughing with pey and writing some more. there is so much joy attached to this story. it’s the staple of the writing process. maybe that’s why she’s over 400k- a part of me never wanted this to end.

the second life, of course, is more difficult to talk about. when bring me home was published on october 13th, no one could have predicted how our worlds would change only three days later. it was unthinkable then and it still is now. for several weeks, i hated myself for publishing this story at the worst possible time.

now, though, i think bring me home was published exactly when it was meant to.

i needed this story. i needed to be able to escape into this universe where the boys are professional baseball players and they live in my gorgeous little city and they’re safe and happy and together. editing bring me home healed something in me. it was fun, it was hard, it made me laugh and it made me cry and getting to see all of you react made every tear worth it. fiction is healing. community is healing.

bring me home, thank you for being the bright light in an otherwise horrific time. we got a trauma bond like no other, babe.

i was really adamant, in late october, that i wanted to wait to post bmh. i wanted this story to feel light & happy. i now know that it’s okay that it also feels heavy, dark, & grief stricken. if i waited until it stopped hurting to finish bring me home, it never would have been finished. & it needed to be.

i hope bring me home can offer you comfort in the way it has brought me comfort. thank you so much for being patient and understanding and giving me the grace to approach editing and posting this story in the way i needed to. she’s yours. finally. please be gentle with her.

many of my favorite memories from my stories have come after they've been published. watching them start to mean something to the readers, too, is so special. it gives the story a new life. It's magical.

maybe this can be bring me home’s THIRD life. good things, after all, come in threes. baseball has taught me as much :-)

thank you for everything x cheers to the last bring me home day. i’m filled with so much gratitude and also i am so ready to take the nap of ALL naps. i love you all so much.

bring me home, forever. x

-lexie x

[inkspill-nebula]

My dearest elders, mentors, fools, reversing the lie has made you no wiser.

Someone told you once that you could do anything you put your mind to. You discovered, through great trial, that only one can win. That there will always be luck and unfair advantages. That a lifetime of work will only guarantee you a lifetime of work. This all, of course, is true.

You told me that I will fail. Statistically speaking, that’s probably also true. But you also told me something else. No matter what I put my mind to do or who I asked, you all said, “Don’t do this. Do anything else.” As if the success was to be had elsewhere, but not here. As if you were unique in your failure.

As a child who went everywhere looking for something to do and heard only, “Go somewhere else. You will find only failure here,” I believed that failure was the only thing I could find. So I did the obvious thing, you see. I never tried. Tell me, honestly. When you were 17, if everyone had told you that you could do nothing but fail, would you live with yourself? Would you try? Do not mistake me. I understand what you meant, now that I’m 25. I understand now that it does not matter if you succeed so long as you’ve found something worth failing at. But could you have understood that back when your every breath was letter graded and you had not yet lost a loved one to death despite doing absolutely everything right? Could you have understood what failure meant? Could you have valued anything futile? Could you have valued anything because it was futile?

Tell me, what was your objective when you told me I could only fail? Was it to save me the years you wasted trying to go somewhere you could not get to? Do you see the years that I have wasted trying to go nowhere. Do you see the years I’ve done nothing but learn how to accept myself as a failure without having ever failed?

Do not try to save your children from your mistakes. Dare I say, do not try to save your children. Given the choice between your waste and mine, I’d’ve taken the hope.

[akanemnon]

They forgor

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Huntington featured in "Open Me Carefully,"

[glassrunner]

some (possibly) familiar faces in ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN (2025)

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Don't listen to me, a humble unpaid intern for the Awesome Coffee Club.

Listen to tumblr user dearqueerdeers, who is drinking it right now and can confirm that our coffee truly does fuck.

[pthaloo]

'Open When' Letters from Bakugo

Open Now

Oi, dumbass!

If you’re reading this, you’re probably lying in bed looking like a half-dead zombie. Typical. You’re so weak it’s annoying.

Anyway, I wrote this so you don’t do anything stupid while you’re sick. First off, don’t even think about getting up unless it’s for something important. And by important, I mean actually important, not your dumb ideas of 'important.'

Second, drink water. Not soda. Not coffee. Water. You better have a glass next to you already, or I’m gonna kick your ass when you’re better.

Third, rest. No overthinking. No stressing. Just sleep and get better. You’re no use to anyone if you don’t recover fast, especially not to me.

...And fine, I guess I don’t want you to feel like crap. But don’t get all sappy about it, okay? Just do what I said and get better.

-Katsuki

P.S. If you don’t follow these instructions, I’ll personally come over and yell at you until you do.

[sapphicstarrz]

mothers in literature i will think about you forever

[microwave-core]

what do you mean the green rain has arrived???

[theredhairing40]

to whom it may concern:

Whoever put me on these medications please do keep in mind that I need them ASAP... preferably before I get out of the Chicagoland area for five days...

Please be advised, I don't want another 2011.

-Steven

[atomikats]

the hair animation in the fan letter has been gagging me for days. anyways frame redraw (og under cut)