#weird headspace today

[oldfangirl81]

Nov '08

California had just passed Prop 8, which only allowed marriage between a man and a woman. Fighting against Prop 8 was the first protesting I did.

I live in a liberal area of California. I still got slurs yelled at me.

"Dyke go home" always made me want know where exactly since that is usually connected to racism. The guess we came up with was maybe the island of Lesbos. I made some fun brief friendships.

I remember the family in the minivan likely coming or going to church on a Sunday that all flipped us off and yelled "Fags".

I remember the guy who seriously told me he had to vote in favor of Prop 8 because "otherwise the definition of marriage would change in the dictionary and the English language would collapse."

I remember the woman who told me that she actually supports the gays and that's why she has to be in favor of the marriage restrictions because "if they are allowed to marry it will be impossible for lesbians to adopt from China or Russia."

I remember the anger at how much money the Mormon church was pouring in from out of state to get it passed. The fear mongering off the charts too.

I remember the pain when the ballots were finished being counted and Prop 8 passed. It was the election Obama was elected for the first time. All around me were celebrations. It was bittersweet for so many in California.

I hate that there is a constant threat to same sex marriage in this country. I have no desire to ever get married but that shouldn't affect anyone else.

I fought because I remember seeing devastating pain during the AIDs epidemic. Of loved ones being kept from hospitals. Banned from bury their lovers. Just outright have years of love ignored because they couldn't get the paper that would have given them the rights.

Dunno was just thinking about recent queer history today.

[fireladybuckley]

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[shantechni]

Bro really said, "Get over it"💀

[tvguts]

One of my deep, dark fantasies is being out and about, dressed my best, hair freshly dyed and looking cool, looking alluring, listening to my headphones in a public place when an equally cool-looking and attractive guy or girl approaches me and says I look like I have good taste in music, and asks what I'm listening to. And I say I'm listening to the Mr. Patch boss theme from Banjo Tooie on loop. And they think they can salvage the conversation by asking if that game is any good, and I say I don't know because I've never played it. Which is true

[absolutefilthimsosorry]

Theory that dan was like ‘Alexa are there any fics Daniel Howell x Chappell Roan’ and Alexa was like ‘posted on Daniel Howell’s X: Chappell Roan’

[smalltimidbean]

I forgot to post my new icon for today - I'll probably have it for the rest of the month, or I'll edit it to not have the little hat, idk yet!!!

[marbearmarigold]

*typing Dan and Phil and Dogs into the youtube search bar* this will fix me

[blarrghe]

second guessing every other fucking word in this epilogue but it will be up in an hour or two

[relentlessgrief]

[opera-ghost]

me laughing at the same jokes i’ve heard 1000 times every time i listen to/watch a recording of phantom

[direful]

ok in honor of they’re taking the hobbits to isengard day i’m gonna get my gandalf on & rewatch two towers & liveblog it

[ladye-zelda]

Welp I was almost done rewriting it but then I looked at instagram and got distracted XD

[sallytwo]

 yeah i guess, the end is here.

[baiika]

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[astro-b-o-y-d]

I often think back to this exchange I once had in high school. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes I just get really sad.

[idnull]

happy birthday to morty!