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sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

l2g-deactivated20240513

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

doomedvoyages

phantom-tail

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

levourdalak

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

tiktoksthataregood-ish

maskedraconteur

she said

rimurutempest-bounced

repost from twitter

cogpuppy

[ID: Cartoon of a light-skinned blind person with sunglasses, a white cane, and a yellow service dog standing next to a sign that says “IMPORTANT NOTICE” in bold red letters. Under this is a wall of black text on a white background, reading:

“I wanted to make people aware... guide dogs haven’t been trained in social distancing and queuing to get in a shop. If you see a guide dog heading straight for the shop door and not joining the queue, that is what they have been trained to do. They’re not being rude or intentionally queue jumping. Also, if you see them walking down the street, remember, they haven’t been trained to social distance, so it is up to us, the sighted people, to give them space. Hope that helps my many guide dog owner friends in these really difficult and challenging times.”

/end ID]

opinionatedtwihard

Friendly reminder that there are 750 Quileute. Seven Hundred and Fifty. Think. For reference- how big was your middle school? (around that, maybe?) I think we tend not to understand how personal their inclusion in Twilight was. Smeyer took advantage of them. She's rich off of them and their culture. She exploited and misrepresented them. Seven hundred and fifty people. She could look each one of them in the eye and apologize in one afternoon and instead, she sits on 125 million dollars as if her hands are tied.

wiseacrewhimsy

She could move their whole school out of the tsunami zone if she wanted to.

Donate to Move to Higher Ground

prokopetz

I ordered a couple of bookcases two weeks ago, and since then every single ad I see online has been nothing but trying to sell me more bookcases. Exactly how many bookcases do you think I need?

ceescedasticity

osailorboy

citrineghost

If you’re trans and live in PA,

specifically in the State College area, you should know that PSU’s LGBT center has free clothes for trans people. (This includes binders.)

No, I’m not kidding.

The Transit Clothing Exchange is a program created to make getting gender-affirming clothing easier for students (and friends of students). The LGBT center is in the hub. Just go there and ask to see the Transit closet.

Transit Clothing Exchange is generally intended to work as follows: trans people bring in their old clothes that they no longer want and leave with clothes that they feel affirms them without having to pay.

It’s incredibly hard to replace your wardrobe when you come out as trans. This is especially true if you’re young or poor. The clothing exchange makes it possible for people with no money to spare to get clothing that they’re comfortable wearing.

This incredible program is underrepresented in the area. They have a whole room full of clothing waiting to be taken and, because the program doesn’t get a lot of exposure, they actually have a hard time getting rid of it all.

I’m hoping to help the exchange get some more traffic! It’s such a great way for trans people to support each other and form community.

If you’re NOT trans and live in PA,

(or even if you are)

Please consider donating old clothing to Transit instead of Goodwill. Goodwill is affordable in comparison to Walmart, but $5 a shirt is still too expensive for some people. Put your clothing where it will help a trans person in need. Just fill up a box or bag with old clothing you don’t want and take it to the LGBT center in PSU’s student hub. They’ll appreciate it!

Please reblog this so that anyone in the area has more chance of seeing it. Share it with trans friends that you know live in the area.

katiemcgrath

idk man, maybe it’s just the british/indian in me jumping out but I’ve always just blindly assumed this lady was holding a teacup, this is the first time I’ve actually looked at her hands and now I’m mad,

katiemcgrath

derinthescarletpescatarian

Did somebody edit this? It is usually a teacup, right?

leg-stealing-bee

ITS A FUCKING CUPCAKE???

leg-stealing-bee

WHAT????

hopeful0reblogs

Oh my god this makes me angry is this a Mandela effect thing why did every-fucking-one, includi myself, think it was a tea cup and saucer

anexperimentallife

The Mandela Effect strikes again.

adamthegirl

starinyourhand

Do it for your foremothers that never got the chance.

atopcat

Translation: America can’t celebrate 100 years of female suffrage until 2065

testmeyouwillfail

Character Conversations: John Cho Never Wants to Feel This Way Again (X)

insomniac-arrest

“I have a mental illness”= generic, vulnerable, people judge you for it

“My bloodline is cursed to fight unseen demons”= heroic, fairy tale-esque, too weird to be open for further questioning

fuckyeahasexual

Edit: There was a website and they have these cool cards, including an Ace Card!

My brother (who is part of the Queer/LGBT community, tho I’m not gonna out him here) and so I wnt to get him one of these cards for his birthday! My mom loved the idea and then I told her that I want to get the Ace Card for myslef and she said okay and then I told her what I wanted on it (the cards are customizable - see the screenshot above for my example) and she ordered it for me! That’s basically how I came out to my mom as on the asexual spectrum!

unpretty

did cinderella ever talk to her man about his faceblindness

bisexuhowl

#'i met the perfect woman but it was a special occasion'#'so now wherever she is her makeup and hair are probably different'#'this is my nightmare'

unpretty

rip prince charming, who had to let the whole kingdom make jokes about his foot fetish for the rest of his life because every blonde with an updo looks basically the same as far as he can tell

unpretty

they call him prince charming because he’s always really polite to strangers to cover for the fact that he doesn’t know if he’s supposed to recognize them from somewhere and when you’re a prince that shit starts wars

noraivy

Okay but... this really inspired me, because wouldn’t it solve like 90% of the problems of Cinderella if the prince was just blind? Like imagine this handsome, charming prince, who his entire life has relied on his senses of sound and touch to get around and has learnt to recognise people by the feel of their hands and the sound of their voice? As in the fairytale the king holds a ball to find him his wife, and the prince insists every maiden in the land to attend. The crueler guards joke that this is because he is desperate enough to marry even the poorest, “ugliest” girl in the land, but in reality the prince has never cared what others think of him, and extends that principal to his wife. And so as usual Cinderella shows up and he falls for her wonderful voice and the way she can conjure pictures with words, he loves her because she cares about him and ensures he can navigate the newly arranged ball room ( he usually has a guide dog but his father thinks that isn’t proper for parties ). But when the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella flees he feels despondent, he does not know her name, could not describe her face, and he is sure he will never see her again. Cinderella is heartbroken too, she had found a man so kind and good, who would not care about her looks or that she was a simple scullery maid. And so that is why he uses the shoe, it is all he had to go on, others laugh behind his back but he refuses to give up. When he visits Cinderella’s house he passes through quickly knowing immediately neither sister is right. But as he leaves he hears her voice, singing from the tallest tower and knows it is her. He races back and demands she try on the shoe and you know how the story goes. And so they wed and together they live happily because it was never her pretty face or her shoes that made him love her, but the way she spoke to him.

galahadwilder

This is so pretty

storytellerofuntoldlegends

Reblogging this again bc I love this addition

#somebody needs to write this

otahkoapisiakii

!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!

I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered

PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org

elyseeeeew-deactivated20250306

Know your status

mistressvioleta

Does your last name sound anything like Lopez, Martinez, or Rodriguez? Mine does. When I saw this post I checked my voter registration status online with my state. Despite registering just three months ago, I was no longer registered to vote, and I did not receive my ballot. If you live in a mail-in voting state and you didn’t get your ballot, contact your county election official/county clerk for a replacement.

symphonyofmars

Make sure you check with your state’s voting site as well. I just had the shit scared out of me because that website said I was registered, but when I checked my state’s site (and made sure I had the right county selected) it said I was registered.

It’s worth checking your state’s site every few months anyway (especially when any election is coming up).

explorerrowan

Texas is definitely purging voters. They’re also making it harder to re-register if they purged you. I hate that this is true, but POC will need to check and check frequently to stay registered in Texas.

College students, too. In the 2014 election, I had to vote in San Marcos, and I can’t tell you how many Texas State students were turned away because they didn’t cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s on getting their registration transferred and current.

theabyssmeowsback

hey trans friends

if you need binders/breast forms/makeup/etc but don’t want your parents to know, now is the best time to get it.

you can order whatever it is online and when the package comes in if the ask what it is you can say something like “it’s a secret!” or even just sssh them. they’ll assume it’s a present for whatever holiday you celebrate and probably won’t press the issue.

lunarecord

oh my god this is amazing

mypoorfaves

I normally don’t reblog stuff like this but this is a very important life hack!

inexplicably-gaining-followers

make sure you actually buy a present though or else this is all going to fall apart. it doesn’t have to be expensive, e.g. a “best dad” mug, socks, a bath bomb, multi-tool variations of everyday objects, soap, tea, a candle, et cetera.

trans-advice

November/December, Happy Holidays

sexhaver

what if magic was real but it was treated the way music is now with different genres and like “oh youre still into conjuring? thats cool I guess. recently ive been getting into third-wave post-necromancy, it’s some pretty heavy stuff”

chorusofravenousangels

“what do you mean you’ve never learned FIREBALL, it’s a CLASSIC” “idk I’m not really into evocations.” “how can you not be into ANY evocations?” “well, it’s kind of dad magic, isn’t it?”