so stare up at the clouds

and at least you know you're always looking up . brittany . 34 . ny. electrical engineer . . guiding-key's main account .

[illusionaryish]

Screaming, crying, praising, ascending

Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance massive expansion arriving 2027!

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[enki2]

[roach-works]

listen. aging into your thirties rocks. yes your joints get a little creaky. yes you can’t sleep in a pretzel on the floor anymore after a concert or a convention. and you lose some friends. but the thing is that you sort out who your real friends are and you sort out who you really are. and you get to see your friends settling into careers they like, and adopt new dogs and cats, and you find a job you can stand, and get really good at arts and crafts, and maybe that book you loved as a kid gets a movie deal and it doesn’t suck, and you learn to like new food and bake your own bread, and you realize that the great portfolio of self harm scars you all used to curate are going white with age and not updated, and half your friends are a different gender now and so much happier and maybe you are too, and you know who you are, and that it’s a journey and not a revelation. it’s a direction you’re headed, and you’re enjoying the trip.

reaching your 30′s rocks. and i’m hearing good things about what comes next, too.

[roach-works]

i am looking into your eyes, i am holding your hand. i absolutely promise.

if you can just live long enough, your soul will build your body into a home. you will live there and you will find a way to be at peace. it’s worth the time and it’s worth the work. i promise.

[depsidase]

[illusionaryish]

I started having seizures on Friday from a metastisized brain tumor 😅 thankfully my meds are holding off the seizures because that shit was scary. But now I'm going through it.

Do I start preparing to die? What can I afford to look forward to? The current plan is to get ten doses of radiation and that can get me back to normal. But for how long? Who knows!

I'm so restless. I took off some days from work so I can process all of this. But I don't know what to do next. I find fulfillment at my job but am I just using my work as a distraction? Should I start traveling? How do I stay alive for my pets and friends?

Thankfully my therapy is covered under my insurance now. So I'm going to start looking into cancer-specific therapies so I'll have a good idea what to expect. Ultimately I just want to get through the ten radiation doses so I can get a better idea at how long I can potentially have. Idk, I'm all over the place.

[winterheart]

[hellallamerican]

absolutely major news out of georgia: the legislative session ended last night at midnight and ALL anti-lgbtq+ bills were defeated

[leitharstjarna]

All anti-LGBTQ+ bills defeated as Georgia legislative session ends

Georgia Equality celebrates the defeat of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including restrictions on gender-affirming care. Advocacy and activism prevaile

[beabaseball]

The bills that were defeated included: SB 30: a bill to restrict access to medical care for trans youth SB 39: a bill to deny coverage of medical care for trans people covered by the State Employee Health Benefit Plan SB 74: a bill to criminalize librarians sharing LGBTQ+ content SB 497: a forced outing bill for LGBTQ+ students HB 104 and 267: bills further restricting trans youth from participating in sports HB 671: a drag ban HB 1210: a bill to create en exemption for non-affirming parents and caretakers to abuse trans youth

[illusionaryish]

I got my first post-cancer haircut and it looks so good 🥰 I can't wait until my hair gets longer but it is SO CUTE right now.

[sarazanmai]

[illusionaryish]

Hey guys,

I'm here to tell you that I officially beat cancer. I had a super strong, fast moving form of breast cancer (+++ for anyone familiar) and even after getting diagnosed at stage 3, I've won.

My nurses and doctors and everyone involved were so incredible. New York State letting me take disability time off (and continue to get paid) made it so I could take all of the time I needed in recovery. Which really came in clutch because I've been in and out of work for the last 24 months and I was able to take off for 9 of them while I dealt with the side effects from chemo.

I had so many friends drop off food and drinks for me. So many people showed their care and love for me. And that is what I think carried me across the finish line. We hit my aggressive ass cancer with an aggressive ass treatment and it wouldn't have been feasible without my youth, my inconsolable stubbornness, and every single person who gave me their love and support.

I was even able to go on a 3 mile hike so I could witness a friend's engagement in the middle of all of this. I wouldn't have missed that for the world, but I wasn't sure if my body would allow it. Thankfully it did. And my friends and I had such a great weekend celebrating ourselves, our group, and the newest engagement! (She said yes)

I am just.. so insatiably thankful. To all of my friends, to the oncology nurses and doctors, to the surgeons and staff, to the physical therapist, and to every single consulting physician who viewed my case and thought that I was strong enough to take all of it and be able to push through. They were right. Everyone was right to believe in me. I made it.

I'm sorry I didn't share this journey here on Tumblr, but I hope you'll join me in celebrating anyway ❤️ My biggest goal is to encourage early checking/tests because at 32 with zero family history of cancer, this should not have been on my radar. Please take your self checks and yearly physicals seriously. Keep feeling yourselves up in the shower (who doesn't love that??) And also know that sometimes this shit just happens. But trust me, we can handle it if it does. I love you guys.

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[naamahdarling]

"We took in a kitten that was starving, injured, and shot with a pellet gun."

"Oh my god, people are awful!"

"They're not. A person rescued her, other people who are trained in helping animals treated her injuries to make her healthy again, and so so so many people contributed to pay her medical costs, I don't even know how many. That she was hurt by...what, one person? Three? Certainly not many. Is honestly maybe the least important and least meaningful part of her story."

"...Oh."

I am holding a triumph of human kindness in my lap right now and her name is Fancy.

[naamahdarling]

[great-and-small]

I’ll never forget I once had to break the news to two women that their dog had cancer, and as they cried and hugged and asked me questions I said something about how I was grateful this pup had such a loving family to support her- only for these ladies to inform me one of them wasn’t actually an owner at all, she was just the other woman’s Uber driver…

So this driver tells me she’s literally never met the other lady in her life, but when this passenger started crying in the car with her dog because she was worried, this angel in the form of an Uber driver went off the clock, came inside the building, and waited over an hour in a busy emergency room with a complete stranger just so she would have someone there by her side in a scary situation. This woman even took notes about everything I said so the owner wouldn’t have to try and remember it all later.

I see plenty of stuff at my job that makes me tempted to lose my faith in humanity but all I do is remember that Uber driver and it comes roaring back to me just like that. Humans are so unbelievably good, man.

[followthebluebell]

#weirdly it ended up being a uterine tumor (not super common) and the dog was cured with an OVH#a rare feel good story from the ER 🥹#Uber driver came for the dog’s follow up appointment as well!!!

[6qubed]

"the world is a cold and uncaring place" then warm it up. care, dammit

[the-haiku-bot]

“the world is a cold

and uncaring place” then warm

it up. care, dammit

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[rylandsgrace]

Guillermo Del Toro on AI "art"

SDCC 2025: Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art

[rederiswrites]

History will remember you today, Minnesota. Well done.

[leebrontide]

IN NEGATIVE TWENTY DEGREES!!!!!

Please spread this around. Don't let ANYONE lie and say my community is anything but ASTONISHINGLY UNITED in rejection of ICE's behavior. This crosses generations, race lines, party lines, class lines. THAT is how bad ICE is. THAT is how bad we want them gone.

THAT is how loudly we are DEMANDING they leave!

Do you understand what a crowd like this means in a small city like Minneapolis??? In weather that hurts to breathe???

Can you imagine what that takes?

[ralfmaximus]

Bigger turnout than his inauguration!