A Place for Things

the things i like

[parandehcafe]

So many memes about how great the Scholastic Book Fair was, so few about what it was like when you were poor and you watched all your friends get to buy posters and books and you had to pretend like you just didn’t really like any of the stuff there but everyone knew what was really going on.

[parandehcafe]

the absolute cruelty of not letting your friends help you through your hard times.

[parandehcafe]

how are we supposed to be happy in a world that doesn’t cherish the idea of falling to your knees and begging your love to stay?

[parandehcafe]

Being able to pick up after weeks of not talking to a friend and have it be like no time passed only works if your friends know just how important they are to you and how they fit into your life.

[enchantedbook]

‘Out of the Earth you came’ by Cardwell Higgins, 1930

[parandehcafe]

if you have not told your friends that they are not only appreciated but valuable to your life and things would be a little worse if they weren’t there then you should because that’s all people really ever want to know

[parandehcafe]

I really thought being a parent and autistic would be so much harder but it turns out me and this baby have a lot in common and solving our needs is pretty much the same (am I hungry am I tired am I overwhelmed?).

[enchantedbook]

‘Wild Woman riding a Unicorn’ from am unknown German artist from 15th century known as the “Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet”, (1475)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Mary Magdalene in the Cave by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1876)

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[parandehcafe]

All my suffering is just the Greek gods trifling with my life out of boredom.

[parandehcafe]

[parandehcafe]

sometimes I just want to hang out with shallow garbage people so I don’t have to think about anyone’s feelings for a little while

[parandehcafe]

[gagfadget]

I really don’t know how to feel about some lgbtq+ people my age and older being like “these teeny boppy tik tok gays don’t know their queer history!” when the topic of community infighting comes up and I’m like…that has always been a thing in this community?? Yes..even in the 70s, 80s and 90s era that a lot of queer people online love to romanticize. Infighting and community division has been a thing and pretending like it’s this new trend amongst gen z when younger millennials literally just got over bi, pan, ace and non-binary discourse is silly.

[parandehcafe]

We should always hope our children get to live in peacetime.

[16woodsequ]

I want to read a fic but I want to read MY fic that I haven't finished yet

[parandehcafe]

when you’ve written the outline so you think you’ve written the chapter but you go back and realize you have not…

[largishcat]

my take on the whole “is therapy speak making us selfish” thing is no, it’s not. it’s just giving people who were already selfish some extremely annoying new vocabulary

[gepm251-blog]

I've been sending my friends to therapy since forever. I find out about their needs, search for an affordable option if I don't find a free one and go with them to their first appointment.

That doesn't mean that I'm not there when they need to vent, search for counsel or get distracted. Because that is the definition of friendship

[gay-fae]

hey shout out of recognition and validation to all the queer people who didn’t exhibit many queer behaviors or have queer many experiences when they were young!! shout out to trans women and trans men who didn’t feel bad about or uncomfortable with their AGAB when they were younger and didn’t gravitate toward the “opposite side of things”. shout out to nonbinary and genderfluid ppl who felt content with their AGAB all of their childhood or even teen and adults years. shout out to lesbians who didn’t have any crushes on girls growing up and liked traditionally feminine things and shout out to gay men who didn’t have any crushes on boys growing up and liked traditionally masculine things. shout out to bi and pan and omni people who only had hetero attractions growing up. shout out to aros and aces who thought they experienced crushes or attraction or whatever while growing up and didn’t feel excluded by being surrounded by allo people. shout out to literally any queer people who didn’t “show the signs” growing up because that can make you feel invalidated or worried that you’re faking it and you shouldn’t feel worried about that! When we say that everyone’s journey and experience is different, that includes you!! Happy pride month <3