Shark

🏳️‍⚧️ they / he. mid-20s. panace 🏳️‍⚧️

[queertations]

Shark. they / he.

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Updated: April 30, 2025.

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[antigonick]

"Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

—Martha Wells, Network Effect, in The Murderbot Diaries

[luces-mortecinas-archive]

"I wanna look like what I am, but I don’t know what someone like me looks like. When people look at me, I want them to think there’s one of those people who has their own interpretation of happiness."

- Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed In Pleasure

[reasonsforhope]

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

[standwithdaanes]

There have been feminist movements that consisted of women and focused only on women. But these movements live themselves in a social context that needs to be changed. The social reality must be changed. It is necessary to change men, to liberate all areas, starting with children. It can’t just be about women. Let’s liberate only women, for example. But what about the male reality? They will probably not be physically eradicated. Men also exist in this life. While we are trying to liberate women, we also need to change men, society and traditions. Feminism is often equated with women’s struggle. We also rely on women, but we see the struggle for social change as a strategy. Feminism leaves society out of the equation.

— Autonomous organisation as a principle of women’s liberation by Çiğdem Doğu

[arttwink]

“In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.”

Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

[sexhaver]

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

[funkylilpunk]

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

[makingqueerhistory]

“What would it do to someone, to survive the Holocaust only to realize that the other side wasn't going to save you? To understand that you were as subhuman under the stars and tripes, or the hammer and sickle, as you had been under the swastika? That everyone else was going to the biggest celebration in the history of the world while you died of hunger because people found you uncomfortable to think about?” ― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Black Flame

[funeral]

Rosario Castellanos, “Lamentación de Dido”

[queertations]

[ ID: "To die would be the better course. But I know that for me there will be no death. Because grief (and what other name is left for me?) has made me eternal." End ID. ]

Or in Spanish from poemas-del-Alma, "Ah, sería preferible morir. Pero yo sé que para mí no hay muerte. Porque el dolor -¿y qué otra cosa soy más que dolor?- me ha hecho eterna."

[mournfulroses]

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

[queertations]

[ ID: "You've been carrying more than you think, longer than you realize - and you haven't broken yet." End ID. ]

[readingbibooks]

“I’ve seen radical feminists blame bisexual women for the rape of lesbians, neglecting the fact that bisexual women are raped and sexually assaulted at alarmingly high rates. An incredibly common phrase is "making themselves sexually available to men", or arguing that all man-woman sex is rape. This denies bisexual women their agency in two ways: one, that no woman can ever possibly consent to sex with a man; two, that somehow by dating men, whatever violence happens to us is our fault. And not only are we blamed for men's violence towards us, but we also are forced to bear responsibility for the rape of lesbians too?”

- Ania, Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain

[philosophybits]

“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”

— Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

[creatingblackcharacters]

"There is not even a common language when the term "equality" is used. Negro and white have a fundamentally different definition.

Negroes have proceeded from a premise that equality means what it says, and they have taken white Americans at their word when they talked of it as an objective.

But most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of goodwill, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap-- essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals arise from this fact."

Where Do We Go From Here, p8- Martin Luther King Jr

(You could have said this to me in 2025 and I'd agree)

[artandchocolate]

Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

[queertations]

[ ID: A line from Song of the Highest Tower that reads "By being too sensitive I have wasted my life." End ID. ]

[ub-sessed]

White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

[trans-academia]

"I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity."

Audre Lorde

[makingqueerhistory]

“I remember when I first realized I never had to have children. It was like walking out of a narrow alley into a wide open field. I never have to get married. I never have to date anyone. I don’t even have to care about sex. These realizations were like gifts that I gave myself.” ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir (Affiliate link)