It’s Pride Month Eve, So Leave Out Some Milk For Freddie Mercury And His Cats.

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

so often when I see people say, "I hate my writing" it's less about the writing itself and more about the fact that its theirs.

that's not bad writing, babe. it's self-hatred. ❤️

intelligence is knowing lots and lots of words.

wisdom is knowing that sometimes, regardless of all the words floating around your head, 'fuck' is absolutely the right word for a given situation, and no, using it does not make you sound like an idiot.

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

This is my unethical polycule. The nonmonogamy is consensual and negotiated we're just evil in other ways.

When you’re a chronic people pleaser forced to juggle the wants & needs of a bunch of weirdos with brain worms

I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”

He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.

But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.

SO THE STORY LEAD OF LUCA AND THE DIRECTOR OF CIAO ALBERTO POSTED THESE

Repeat after me:

It is OKAY to have content preferences and to be uncomfortable with certain ships or topics, controversial or not. It is OKAY to distance yourself from such content and block certain tags or creators.

It is NOT OKAY to actively hate and harass real people for creating content of fictional characters that features things that make you uncomfortable.