tranz kafka: spooky mode 🎃👻 @gentlerdarknesses@queer.garden

“Every day
I see or I hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for—
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world—”

--- Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris: Mindful"

the parts of you they've tried to reprogram were really important. the parts of you they've tried to make you feel ashamed of were parts of you that are so good. there is nothing wrong with you. disrupting straight white allistic norms are so much more important than respectability politics, and i hope you find people who celebrate those parts of you instead of punishing them, because you deserve that.

me, sitting upside-down in my desk chair using my hands to spin it around: do you think stars have feelings

satan, head buried in his hands: shut the fuck up jude ,

and I gave a beer to a bum that was drinking
and I gave some sauce to my bestest friend for cooking
and I gave water to all I thought were thirsty

and that's how I learned how to survive 🌱

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bones mchurty

momma and baby skunks hurrying up the road to say hello

https://everythingfox.tumblr.com/post/187780157300/have-you-ever-asked-yourself-what-does-the-skunk

would do anything for carrie brownstein

can someone tell netflix that having one gay character the show constantly mocks doesn't make a show a "gay lgbt tv"

i guess it'd be more clear if i just said i don't think it can be appropriated by individual people. it can definitely be appropriated by corporations and businesses.

i don't really think queer culture can be appropriated. gender and sexuality is such a big spectrum; so many people who thought they were straight or cis realize when they have access to their communities/the language to describe their experience that they aren't. i don't think anyone should be keeping folks out and potentially denying them that.

if you’re reading this, it’s a sign that the thing you’re anxious about will go well. take a deep breath and trust yourself

tall girls and enbies are so powerful

minimum wage jobs is just people w power using that power to punish or reward personal differences or similarities

i had a boyfriend who was actively involved in magic the gathering who condescendingly explained everything to me when i tried to learn about his interests FORTUNATELY i was on a high dose of anti-psychotics at the time and didn't retain any of it

someday all the queer little girls who watched the wreck it ralph sequel are going to realize shank was their gay awakening

you don't owe your partners sex. you don't have to have a "good" reason. any feeling you're having that indicates sex is a thing you don't want to do is good enough for them to respect. you don't have to know why.

like a turtle but instead of a shell i have a teapot with legholes and the lid balances on my head

my favorite thing about the face thing was that it called kafka a sheep, probably because he's very white and puffy

🎃 🕸️ 🦇 👻

if i could go back in time i would simply be the bear lord byron hoped to see in the world

"imagining myself as a sketch of a person
messy strokes around a vague outline
the details fill out when you kiss the space
between my neck and collarbone

they fade when the woman at the grocery store asks if
“that will be all today sir"

I’m tired of feeling broken by language
when it is the only safe place i’ve ever known"

— Allison Gallagher, "vague”

while mentally-ill folks do get blamed for mass shootings, please don't forget that it's also blamed on autistic folks or widely speculated that mass shooters were autistic

oh god if you break your nose with a septum ring in does it go up into the soft bits? has anyone ever broken their nose with their septum in?