Roses and Moonbeams

This blog is about Beauty, Nature, and Encouragement, with a sprinkling of Roses and Moonbeams also. She/Her  ---   Terfs/Swerfs/Maps/Nazis DNI ***  Main Blog: DreamsinThyme http://dreamsinthyme.tumblr.com/

[jun-hug]

found a moment of peace amid academic stress to do some art :)

★ art print | carrd

[fullcravings]

Easy Hawaiian Butter Mochi (Coconut Mochi Cake)

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Petition to make this our new flag because this looks cool as fuck

[cottaqecore]

source

[cottaqecore]

cottagecore dream

[suonko]

by Anna Pugh

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Maartje van Dokkum

[cheshmenoor]

[fibro-memes]

[ed-recoverry]

Local library worker here begging you to take out any and all LGBTQ+ related content from your local library!

Public libraries purchase and display books based on popularity and demand. The more queer material taken out, the more inclined public libraries are to add more queer material.

This is also a reminder that libraries often carry DVDs and TV shows if you don’t want to physically read a book.

It can feel paralyzing for many queer folks this pride month. Little things like this give hope.

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[granosdegranada]

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[granosdegranada]

¡Feliz día del orgullo 🌈!

[horriblebutt]

“Let Every Pansy Bloom” banner at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day pride parade. June 25, 1978.

[writingdose]

genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

[delgrosso]

Those readers (who, in my observations, have always been readers and not other writers) have learned a tiny checklist of surface features and now feel deputized to “spot AI,” but they’re often reading for “gotcha” signals rather than reading for prose. That’s a very different skill, and they don’t have it. Noticing an em dash isn’t the same as understanding non-essential clauses. Noticing a sentence fragment isn’t the same thing as understanding why a fragment lands. A hammer can see nails all day long, but that doesn’t make it an architect.

tl;dr the AI Witchfinders need to read more books above the 6th grade level before they start pointing fingers at experienced writers.

[titsay]

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet

[sighinastorm]

This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

[skin-slave]

Never thought I'd have the opportunity to say this again: Reducing women and girls to their vaginas and then forcing them to show those vaginas to strangers is not a feminist ideal.