Growing and Learning

Ree | she//they | desi | 24 | gentle reminder to breathe

[solarpunkfool]

What if we win?

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

How would you win?

[catchymemes]

[infinitydivine]

I am not taking a risk

[darlingsstern]

Not rising it pals

[julyourwitch]

✨

[story-told]

Need this ✨️🌼

[itbelikethatsmetimes]

This morning I had 0 queer Bridgerton siblings and now I have 2, this is honestly more than I anticipated

[kaidanshepards]

Now that we got canon queer Francesca and Benedict, I love watching all the straight freaks whine and cry about their books being messed with.

I hope the show goes even further and makes Sophie a transwoman just to see them show even more of their true colors when they cry about how their HETERO SHIP got ruined :(((((

[coppertophomegurl]

Bridgerton season 3 was really a win for the fat girls, and the gingers, and the wallflowers, and the bisexuals.

[weebisexual]

The B in LGBTQ+ stands for Bridgerton

[ebdaydreamer]

HAPPY PRIDE TO BENEDICT AND FRANCESCA

[gayofthefae]

UMMM. A HAPPY PRIDE TO FRANCESCA AS WELL?????????

[story-told]

The way season 3 left me high and dry when I was promised some very dramatic ass pining and jealousy 😮‍💨💀

[pinkinthenightdean]

the dev patel girlies have KNOWN how hot he is for years and years but the little giggle I heard from a grown man seated next to me when he took his shirt off in monkey man tells me it's truly over for everyone else. god bless

[somesecretpie]

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

[story-told]

i am a wound come alive

i bleed into my words and the parts of me that I give unto the ones i love

them i shall love like a haemorrhage - a tidal wave of coppery heat

clinging on like a stain for how else do i profess devotion

i do not know

i douse my affection in living proof of my wretched heart

she beats relentless the poor fool

and there's really no scabbing over

no healing for her

she seeps and roils and bleeds to fill the cracks in whoever comes too close

[saywhat-politics]

[story-told]

The truth of you and I is something cosmic. A binary star system bound together by forces so completely beyond our comprehension that an all consuming, gravity-heavy fall into an us was inevitable.

But your core is controlled, a self-contained plasma content with glowing softly orange. I, my love, am total pandemonium- entropy just barely squeezed into a white hot sphere hungrily gnawing at the space around so it can grow. And yes opposites attract, but I'm burning you up sweetheart- and yes, opposites attract but you're freezing me out and up.

I can't leave this elipse, see- but let this universe push us apart just enough that we can breathe. I need you there in this scary darkness, but I need to be able to light it up myself. You need me there to see the vibrancy that more can have, but you need a quiet plane where existing is planned, rhythmic.

The truth of us is cosmically complicated- so painfully close but light years apart.

[yeetlegay]

I just think if Bollywood really fastened on the gay agenda they could make a fuckin bananas adaptation of Kinnporsche

[story-told]

The fucking Tamancha jokes, the Don refs (Amitabh Bachchan Don ftw), Porchay and Porsche at rakshabandhan, Tankhun in a sherwani, Kinn chilling in a Pathani (guh 🥵), The Mermaid Scene but make it Porsche dressed as basanti- I dkskxkwjw 🤌🤌🤌💖💖💖💖💯💯💯🌈🌈🌈

@yeetlegay all the fucking hugs and forehead kisses for the most brilliant hc of the year!! 🤗🤗🤗♥️♥️

[stormyoceans]

a vegaspete fic i would write if i could write is an AU where, after getting shot in episode 14, vegas gets yeeted back in time to when porsche first became a bodyguard and has to do everything over and over again until he gets it right, which mostly means 1) avoiding the conflict between the main and minor families while still exposing korn’s manipulation, 2) still getting pete, 3) not die

except finding the right choices isn’t easy at all: if he doesn’t drug porsche during the auction, for example, he learns that it triggers a series of consequences which leads to kinn getting kidnapped by himself and dying in the woods; if he doesn’t send tawan to kinn, he’s horrified to find out that tawan ends up killing pete because of jealousy; if he saves his father, korn dies and the minor family wins but he does not get pete, and that’s not an option

and he has to deal with all of this while also trying to get close to pete and feeling like he’s being torn apart every time pete looks at him like he doesn’t KNOW him or feel anything for him except mild discomfort

[story-told]

Kinnporsche, but make it Triage

[cornyonmains]

There's a very real possibility that KinnPorsche could have just obliterated audience interest in BL at its current standard. From what I've been reading, things like metadata and analytics are showing plummeting interest in BL at its current standard, with almost no eyes coming across posts that don't have a KP hashtag on it. And it seems sponsors are seeing pretty big returns as well. That Royal Farmhouse bread from episode 8 sold out lmao.

What I'm saying is BOC walked in the door with almost no experience and made a BL that slapped so hard, it's looking like it's going to reset the entire industry. KP is making audiences laugh at other BL's. And you know what? Good.

I'm tired of bad acting, I'm tired of waiting an entire season to watch two tragically heterosexual actors have a dead fish kiss, I'm tired of the industry's refusal to hire queer talent, when it could be a real boon in a country like Thailand, where men are flat out too homophobic to portray these roles convincingly, I'm tired of college campuses, of the same story told a thousand times with new characters, and studios hiring actors so bad they have to change the cast in the second season. I'm tired of this industry turning queer people into a joke. It's why I only rolled my eyes at Build's stupid-ass Tweets. Because I know why I think he didn't delete them, and I think there's a lot of savvy audience members who have reason to know as well. That's all I'll say on that.

I think it's important that audiences show their financial support in any way they can, even if it's just the act of enabling ads on BOC's Youtube channel. The thing about me is that I don't like BL. I've maybe sat through six in their entirety, despite the vast catalog of these things that exist, because as a queer viewer, I just can't stomach the straight girl bullshit they're on with these yaoi tropes, if I can be blunt. I don't mind sexy in these shows. The queer community is infinitely more sexual than the straight one, because we don't have all those heteronormative hang-ups regarding sex. If straight girls wanna sex that shit up, I say let your freak flags fly. We stan sex positivity in this house.

That being said, I'm pushing 40. I grew up during the time when LGBTQ+ content wasn't simply getting made. Xena gave lesbians a few drops of Sapphic subtext 20 years ago and they're still driving Subarus. That's how thirsty people were for queer content in my day. That's my primary motivation. I just want good art merged with queer content and BL is the first genre I've ever encountered where there's a chance I can have that in meaningful amounts. We don't even have that here in America. Just look at the CW, an ostensibly queer friendly network, and what it did with Destiel. Malex, the most popular ship on the train wreck that is Roswell, New Mexico, got a literally 3 second sex scene, while straight girls got to ride their men like rodeo bulls. I want BL to do better.

I'm damn near willing to empty my bank account tomorrow and just give it all to BOC for what they've done. No matter how you feel about this show, it's going to change the face of BL, and I can't fucking wait.

[story-told]

I would like to add to this otherwise sublime post Manner of Death,Secret Crush On You and Triage as honorary mentions of dramas that gave me all the dopamine as a queer Asian kid who's hungry for culturally sensitive queer rep.