Queer Who Loves Stories

~ martin ~ they/them ~ adult ~ queer, disabled, jewish ~ ecology and storytelling ~ here be dragons and spiders ~

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[hopefulqueer]

grumbles quietly. i know better than to say this in the author note on the actual chapter, which i'm formatting now, but i feel like this might be the least strong chapter of terra's grace i've written so far. possibly bc i rushed to add a whole scene to it so that it would have more than 5k words + would have a flashback/biography section. and i'm generally pleased w how that second scene turned out, but it just doesn't feel as strongly connected to the present plot as the flashbacks/biography in other chapters have

[starlightomatic]

eight thousand species of frogs on the wall, eight thousand species of frogs

[quietwingsinthesky]

love when ocs grab you by the shoulders and tell you something essential to their lore without you getting a say in it

[hopefulqueer]

new pfp incoming

[hopefulqueer]

voice of someone who can't conceive of possible relationship dynamics outside of "nuclear family of a romantic partner and their kids/pets" looking at two best friends, one of whom is happily also romantically partnered but whose relationship with the best friend is given absolute equal weight and importance and meaning as the romantic relationship: so the best friend is their dog, right?

[hopefulqueer]

like, I know most ppl think of ppl who aren't in traditional romantic relationships as being less mature and in extreme cases less human. but did they have to say the quiet part out loud?

[hopefulqueer]

voice of someone who can't conceive of possible relationship dynamics outside of "nuclear family of a romantic partner and their kids/pets" looking at two best friends, one of whom is happily also romantically partnered but whose relationship with the best friend is given absolute equal weight and importance and meaning as the romantic relationship: so the best friend is their dog, right?

[dychelicerae]

good thing she didn't overreact

[orionthebirdguy]

this came to me in a dream

[cleaverqueer]

petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

[cleaverqueer]

AMENDED

[cleaverqueer]

happy pride everyone

[stupidestasshole]

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

[cholvoq]

weight of the world.

[hopefulqueer]

I actually think it's kinda fucked up that I can't listen to an audiobook and read a print book at the same time

[astriiformes]

To be quite honest with you all I do think that aro/ace-spectrum fans in fandoms where people are desperately inventing crossover ships and humanizing non-human characters in order to have a conventionally attractive guy to ship the main character with, instead of possibly having to enjoy a story with no romance in it, have the right to refer to everyone else as cowards.

[astriiformes]

Sorry you almost had to entertain the idea that people like me exist, I'm sure that was very painful for you.

[jaubaius]

No way out

[bogleech]

idiot jail for ignorant beasts

[lochnutmonster]

Sisyphus

[chortlebot]

one must imagine sisyphus ouppy

[selenesedits]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

[blackbearmagic]

one time I saw a photo of a skinned whale/dolphin flipper on reddit or something and I've just never recovered

there's just. A paw in there.

[gallusrostromegalus]

One of the most spiritually profound moments of my life was when I was sixish and at a natural history museum with my parents that had a whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.

I remember my dad picking me up to sit on his shoulders (possibly one of the last times he did that because I was getting too big to hold there for long) so I could be close to it's flipper because he wanted to show me something. He had me hold up my arm parallel to the whale's, and explained that we had the same bones, pointing to it's scapula and humerus and radius and ulna and so on while poking the same bones in my skinny little arm, all they way down to the tips of my fingers and it's own.

And in that moment, I could suddenly see how the whale and I were the same animal, just stretched and shrunk into different proportions by nature. There was an entire exhibit with skeletons of different animals and we went through all of them, picking out the hands and faces of all of them on myself.

I had never felt such a profound connection to the world around me before as I realized on a visceral level that not only was I related to all these creatures, they were very literally my distant cousins, and that in a way, they were me from back then and I was them from now, and we all were others still from the future.

Every living thing on earth is your cousin. The most distantly related humans are your 50th cousins. Chimps are your several thousandth cousins. An octopus is your 25 millionth cousin. Trees are your billionth cousins. You and I are surrounded by family. And that makes me feel profoundly loved.

So thanks dad, for pulling your shoulder a bit to show me that I am part of the universe. I love you too.