Did You Ever Doubt Your Dream Will Ever Come True?

One thing I love about being gay is that very specific emotion you get when you witness another queer person coming out or Realizing^tm or simply existing in the world for the first time as a queer person. And I’m not talking about friends or even people you know - it’s something I feel for complete strangers too: a youtuber I vaguely follow who just came out as a trans woman, two teenage girls I saw holding hands and furtively kissing behind shelves at the bookstore, this story of a 90yo gay man who finally decided to come out to his family… It’s a mix of pride and joy and, idk, tenderness? protectiveness? kinship? It’s like even though I’m never going to meet or talk to them, in my heart I’m holding a big sign that says “Welcome! Sorry if the journey’s been difficult, but you’re home now.”

Dnp's story truly is a wattpad fic huh

yeah one that someone forgot to update

“I don’t think that I accepted that I wasn’t gonna die young until I was 26 or 27. I really don’t think I fully…when I was 14, 15, 16, 17–I mean I knew as sure as I know that I am wearing green shoes that I was going to die before much happened. It was a certainty for me. And I had shaken off the directly suicidal urge by the time I was 21 or 22, but I still was pretty sure I was going to die pretty young, it really felt like an inevitability. It takes a long time to realize no, you’ve changed…if you shared those feelings with people at some point you go, ‘well, I guess we’re going to stick around.’ And it’s a funky thing to admit because there’s a part of your inner younger self that kind of judges you for that.”

John Darnielle fucking me up with the single most relatable thing he’s ever said

i know we all make jokes like ha dnp don’t even know what they are to each other but on a dead serious note i think they literally never actually defined it and now they’re both too scared to ask so dan keeps publically throwing out labels to hopefully trick phil into biting the bullet that is that conversation lmao

here’s an actual list from dans diary of him trying to work out what he and phil are:

I’m sick, but I’m not?This disorder is real, but its not? I’m faking it, but I’m not? It’s killing me, but I won’t let it stop.

nah mom I went to bed 4 hours ago I just woke up to go to the bathroom

wrote some ShaunaNat fanfiction. check it out if you like them. personally aaaah such opposite characters and love them both, always routing for both my brain goes brrr

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64235725/chapters/164867035

ppl who have sound on for phone notifications…..how do you live like that?? my phone hasnt made a sound since i got it. i will see my notifications when i see them.