Overqualified for Nothing

Tired old queer. Overgrown Horse Girl™️

[comedypony]

Big Red has had almost two months off due to a missing shoe and then me being busy and it being 95+ degrees most days, but somehow he has slimmed down a bit and looks fantastic and so shiny.

Des dog has bad arthritis that varies day to day. She is still as spicy as ever. We are doing laser (at vet and at home), icing, gabapentin, etc.

I have been absolutely busting my ass at work for the last five months and then triply so for all of July and then basically not sleeping this week. But, I have officially completed my apprenticeship. Certifiable journeymen. Come Monday I am going to be salaried for the first time since 2022. And I get to stay with my organization as a Project Lead.

So many feelings. Mostly good, but definitely mixed and complicated. Mostly a lot of repressed bitterness that it has taken me this long to get anywhere. There was a period of time where I thought my salary was going to be the same as it was for my customer service job in 2019. Thankfully, it is a little more than that. Not by much, but it will be the most I’ve ever made.

Anyway. I want to be proud and relieved and excited. And I probably am. But I am also just exhausted, burned out from getting here, and terrified about the fact that I’m leading a client project with my own apprentices starting literally next week.

[theundergroundwoman]

for the love of god please let the gays run away together at least once successfully

[iibislintu]

[benepla-deactivated20180521]

if i didnt know who these characters were i’d say its a french indie gay romantic drama that is playing a little too heavily with color symbolism

[wellwaterhysteria]

i think about this post like. once a week. and i mean that.

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[marisatomay]

Happy Pride

[ahorsenamedphoebe]

Unfriendly reminder that my blog is a queer friendly space.

Luna says gay and trans rights

[ahorsenamedphoebe]

Happy Birthday to all the trannies, fags, and dykes out there. I love you. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

[nattousan]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

[naamahdarling]

This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.

[narcissistcookbook]

an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

[narcissistcookbook]

"lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi--" silence nerd, the problem is that i don't want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me

[cam1lla]

What is ur Obama era froyo place order?

Mine is Cake Batter froyo + hot fudge + mini-m&ms + unicorn sprinkles (the place i go to has them they’re just jimmies but unicorn shapes)

I get the same thing every time but they also have a pineapple dole whip flavor I always sample from the free sample cups as I build my froyo.

[cam1lla]

I want 2 know

[passer-fringillidae]

Good news whump smut fans

[exuberantocean]

This just in: magic healing penis trope proven right. Science

[riddlerosehearts]

the article i just read about lou alcott (louisa may alcott, author of little women) was wild because it was literally like "he preferred being called lou and his whole family always called him that. he never identified with girlhood or liked feminine things and said he had a boy's spirit and longed to be a boy and believed he was a man's soul put into a woman's body. he loved dressing up as a man and passing for a man and being flirted with by people who thought he was a man. he called himself a gentleman and a father to his adopted children and his own father once lamented sending "his only son" to war when he enlisted in the army as a nurse.

...calling her a trans man is reductive and misses the point of her work though lol she was obviously a cis woman who was speaking figuratively because women in the 1800s weren't allowed to wear pants!"

[luvvema]

Peoples biggest defense is always ‘we don’t know how they would identify in this day’ which IS true but I find it interesting how they have little problem ‘justifying’ Lou’s feelings by calling him a cis lesbian or a nonbinary person or a tomboy.

There’s also so much terf rhetoric towards this subject of Lou’s identity that I’m almost certain it’s just discrimination…

“She was confused”

“She didn’t understand the world properly”

“She was trying to escape oppression”

I don’t know why people are so convinced trans men/mascs existing is anti-feminist but it’s not, people literally parrot misogynistic points just to take away their identity and that should say enough.

We don’t know how he would have identified today, however; we DO know how he preferred being referred to in his daily life and how he saw himself in the past. I think he is owed that much.

[therapatical]

I saw a tiktok the other day where somebody laid out all of the points the first half of this post, and proceeded to use she/her pronouns and then defend that usage with a disclaimer basically saying "I acknowledge [ridiculous amount of evidence to Lou being a trans man who just didn't have the language to articulate that identity], but she didn't directly say it in the exact words we'd use today, so I will not refer to her with any other pronouns. She used Lou with friends and family and I am neither, so I'm not going to use that name to refer to her, either"

someone in the comments remarked, "this is the trans equivalent of "they were just close friends" for lesbians", and I think that really succinctly explains how I feel about it all. like. I'm gonna wager a massive guess and say hey. maybe the reason Lou was only comfortable being referred to as Lou by friends and family, was because those were the only accepting people???? wild thought.

[comedypony]

So.

Starting next week. Yer boy is gonna be 100% full time employed 40 hours w2 benefits for the first time since 2022. And the first time without a known end date since 2020.

Feels insane.

This has been the primary source of anxiety and frustration and instability and depression and self loathing for YEARS.

Better not fuck it up.

My current company, where I have been a half-time apprentice for a year, is making me full time and training me to become a permanent project lead in July.

I have been absolutely busting my ass there, especially for the last two months when I’ve been doing an extra 50% hours while still holding my other job. So I do actually feel like I deserve it? Which is weird?

Anyway. It’s gonna be scary and hard cause I am not naturally a manager/leader type. But it is an organization I already know and love. They have a worthy mission. They are good people with good intentions. And I already know the job. That feels like a MASSIVE win when it comes to starting a new job.

I still have to finish and deploy this client project that has consumed my life for two months. But that will be all done (knock on wood) by next week.

In the meantime, I’m getting excited about decorating my office. We’re trying to be fairly classy and grownup with the vibe in the rest of the house, but I think I want my office to be fun and vibrant and fully of colors and stuff I like. It sounds dumb but I really have no design/decorating sense whatsoever, and am very jealous of people who have An Aesthetic. But I have been realizing that if I am truly honest about what brings me joy, it is all neutrals and pale colors and wicker baskets and shit and tasteful photo walks and floating shelves with plants. I wish I were that person, but I’m not.

So I’m probably about to by a ludicrously loud couch cover, and possibly a rainbow rug. And a little display shelf with LEDs for my small but growing collection of art toys.

[maxxie-or-smth]

it's very important that you're friends with furries and trannies and faggots and freaks and perverts it's good for your soul

[sirbutchlesbian]

reblorg if you're a furry, a tranny, a faggot, a freak and/or a pervert!

[adzolotl]

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves A stately pleasure-dome decreed. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

[patienz]

they fuck you up your mum and dad two vast and trunkless legs of stone i do not like it, sam i am as small as a world and as large as alone

[playwrongs]

God moves in a mysterious way:

He gives his harness bells a shake.

What will survive of him is love

If he should die before he wake.

[inthefallofasparrow]

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. See in her cell sad Eloisa spread, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

If I should die, think only this of me, Between what I see and what I say, In this short Life that only lasts an hour Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

[monsterpotion]

#i get knocked down but i get up again #o‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am i! #didnt make sense not to live for fun #do you love the color of the sky? #everybody wants to rule the world #everybody walk the dinosaur #and if i could‚ i’d make a deal with god: #to keep it real i fuck him on the floor

tags by @arcnoise

[peach-foxgloves]

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

[lavender-lily]

oh thank GOD

[andypantsx3]

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[baddywronglegs]

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

[madlori]

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

[insanityisthecure]

“But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.”

- Night watch: Sir Terry Pratchett

[comedypony]

I rode outside today. And when we tried to trot it became very clear that he was working soooo hard to be good and not explode even though he really needed to. So I hopped off and untacked and was rewarded with some excellent sillies.