[heavyweightheart]

the line between not going out as an act of self-care and not going out as a symptom of depression is but a gossamer thread

[thoodleoo]

this is a conversation, or a poem of sorts, i suppose, that i imagined between sappho and a girl realizing that she loves another girl. it’s a bit of a personal project, i guess; all of sappho’s part in the conversation is taken from the fragments of her poetry, and it’s supposed to symbolize how girls who love girls can find someone like them in sappho.

the lines are, in order, from fragments 138, 118, 57, 156, 104b, 15, 36, 31, 96, 47, and 126. all of those are the lobel-page numberings, with the exception of 15, which is bergk’s numbering and which the lobel-page collection omits.

[tagamemnon]

@thoodleoo I have actual tears in my eyes from reading this right now, the ones - bitter like the barren salt sea but sweet, too, like violets and honey - that sprang to my eyes when I first picked up a book of Sappho’s poetry years ago. Thank you, so much, for creating this… “ δαύοις (´) απάλας εταίρας έν στήθεςιν ”

[matsisse]

by Joshua Ross

[matsisse]

photos by Joshua Ross of me dancing onset for the music video of Betty and Oswald’s latest release, ‘Figure it Out’

https://youtu.be/ZQYCOqa9FoI

[chillysprinkle]

berlin a week ago

[matsisse]

the leggiest little ladybug 🐞

[wordsnquotes]

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling (via wordsnquotes)

[fredersen]

all english teachers are either chaotic good or lawful evil

[chillysprinkle]

i am so sad i am sick with it. i feel that the blood in my veins has turned to honey, the tears in my eyes to ash. my warmth is fading

[anancientheart]

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

[anancientheart]

whenever i post this it works  reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet 

[louises-belcher]

I get jealous really easily but not like an angry vengeful jealous more like a really sad lonely jealous because everybody likes everybody more than they like me and I really really don’t blame them. 

[chillysprinkle]

i want a gf

goodnight

[preservable]

if you both agree to take a nap instead of going out, it’s a date

[yamborghiini-deactivated2018092]

Achieving goals in silence 2017

[bpdamiright]

me? shaking uncontrollably bc I’m terrified???? it’s more likely than you think

[upthefolks]

so like okay, 

I don’t know why I’ve been obsessively thinking about the concept of “gaydar” 

but I have. 

Actually no it’s because a straight family member used the term like 

“oh I have really great gaydar” 

and it made me feel really gross 

and it took me like a full hour to realize why. 

When heterosexual people say that, 

it feels like they’re bragging about their ability to clock us, you know? 

like a straight person is telling me that they can spot us queers at 50 paces 

and i’m immediately going to be uncomfortable with that, 

whereas when other queer folks talk about being able to spot each other 

it’s a tool for survival. 

Like here’s the thing right? 

being able to tell is important sometimes.  

Here’s an example: 

A couple summers ago I was in a very very small town in Nova Scotia, Canada 

(like 6 buildings small) 

and I met a woman in the library who was probably a little older than my actual mother. 

She was there most days using the wifi 

because she lived across the street in an apartment without internet. 

We sat at the same table a few times and spoke briefly about life in passing 

and after a few of these not-talking-about-gay-stuff convos I was pretty sure she was a part of the lgbtq community 

and I slipped in a casual pronoun re: an ex 

and she just looked at me, 

stopped completely 

and said “oh thank fuck, I thought so.” 

and instantly started talking about her girlfriend, 

it was like this huge wave of relief washed over both of us 

because we were in a small rural town and both hovering in this really queer space and unable to talk about it. 

Anyway she was really rad and took me to the closest big town to buy me a tim hortons coffee 

because she found it reprehensible that I had been in canada for more than 3 weeks already and hadn’t ever had it. 

Almost instantly it was like 

“oh okay we have this thing in common that other people may not be cool with 

but we can actually exist and not hide shit without the fear of violence or anger”

but when it’s a straight person

they’re pretty much just letting you know that they can spot the fact that you seem “abnormal” to them 

like great 

thanks for letting me know. 

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[pilgrimkitty]

We’re identifying brethren while they’re identifying outsiders. It’s that simple.

[bigspender]

can ppl like……… stop having a concept of me in their head ……… no object permanence here…..i only exist when im right in front of you….. no memories allowed. thx for understanding.