Murdered Soul of a Planet

★ Val ★ she/they ★

[bodyintheriver]

First post (wip)

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[warmhappycat]

May we never become so obsessed with representation that we forget the sanctity of privacy.

[saltyyboy]

I hate to be this person (i really dont), but go read Project Hail Mary. Its on another level that the movie sadly couldn't reach for me.

[variegated-fairywren]

wlw tumblr post notes simulator

[solitaryhome]

[saltyyboy]

If grad school is not doing it, I fear I'm never getting back the high of academic validation I got in undergrad

[pjharvey]

why do so many ppl my age want to reinvent gender roles so bad. this is what happens when you weren’t an annoying 13 year old feminist in the early 2010s who had people explaining to u that you should be an egalitarian instead bc feminists are man haters i guess.

[saltyyboy]

Probably my favorite part about Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is that Joan never once feels shame or like she's broken for being a lesbian. Joan spent her whole life thinking that love just wasn't for her, and she was FINE with that; it was a non-issue. But once she realizes she is a lesbian (even if the word is never used), she's ecstatic. She is scared because she knows society and NASA won't accept and embrace her, but that's their problem; they're in the wrong for that, it has nothing to do with her.

The book does have period typical homophobia, it is the 80s after all. But there is no guilt, no shame, and no apologizing for being queer. We do still get the mourning of a life that the world won't let you have, the longing for the casual affection afforded to everyone else; however, this lack is framed as a great injustice the world has done to us, one that has absolutely nothing to do with us, and everything to do with them.

[saltyyboy]

The new moon expedition driving more notes to my thoughts on space lesbians was not on my bingo card

[krillby-fan1]

She's got the off putting vibe that the ladies can't resist

[whitager]

do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

[bramcrackerswrites]

I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it

[saltyyboy]

I thought i left the days of frantically trying to write a research paper in a day or two behind me, but here we are again.

[saltyyboy]

turns out I was actually sprinting at top speed towards the building and i'm not getting out for a while

[saltyyboy]

Chinese zodiac signs are about to make me a believer bc tell me why this is already the craziest yesr of my life

[saltyyboy]

there are so many billionaires in the world, why can't i ask one of them to give me 40k to pay for my university studies?

[geekysteven]

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

[kosmogrl]

[mephistopheles]

some of yall need to go back to like preschool level 'girls can do anything boys can do' feminism bc we are regressing into feminine = frivolous = weak = nurturing and masculine = power = force = competence at the speed of fucking light

[ceruleanheaven]

being on the internet for more than three minutes