#accepting

[dk-thrive]

"In my best moments I think 'Life has passed me by' and I am content. Walking seems to cover time and space but in reality we are always just where we started."

— Agnes Martin, Agnes Martin: Writings (Hatje Cantz, 2005) ( (via Alive on All Channels)

[abs0luteb4stard]

I'm a little late...

I try to say it every year or so, but it's more and more important now than ever. And it's a longer reminder this time. It's necessary.

✨️🏳️‍⚧️ YOU ARE SAFE WITH ME! 🏳️‍🌈✨️

It's not about a religious or political opinion, it's about the fact that OUR GOVERNMENT and our elected officials want to deny the existence and rights of people in our own country.

EVEN THE RIGHTS OF MILITARY VETERANS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS TRANS! OUR BRAVE WARRIORS, DENIED AND MISTREATED.

It doesn't matter if you think people can be transgender or gay or not, the fact is there are people out in the world that are. And they have rights to live their lives as authentically as anyone else in the United States of America (maybe recently not so much "united" as we were). It's not just America either these issues are happening the world over.

And those rights are being diminished and taken away, medical care is being denied to them, they're being discriminated against. And these government policies are making people entitled to not just do that, but it's also giving them permission to harass, bully, attack and harm these people.

We are Americans. Our country's 250th birthday should be a reminder that we were founded on INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, Equality, and Rule of Law. A collective idea that we call "Freedom".

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY is the fundamental moral principle that every person possesses inherent autonomy to act, think, and make choices according to their own will, free from undue interference, censorship, or overreach by the government or other authorities.

It ensures we have Autonomy over our Personal Lives, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Conscience and Religion and our Right to Privacy.

We cannot deny these rights to people who feel they're transgender or gay or any of the LGBTQ people. That is not what "free country" does. That's not what THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA does!

That is what AUTHORITARIAN regimes do. That's what Hitler did. That's what Stalin did. My family lived under both those fucking regimes. My father lived under those regimes. I heard 10 thousand horror stories straight from his lips.

If we're really still America, we have to stand up for LGBTQ people. We have to have PRIDE MONTH.

Maybe you can't change things, but you can help one person. If you see someone who's LGBTQ be a friend. Be kind bystander and offer them a hand. Tell them they're okay. Reassure them you accept them. JUST SHAKE THEIR HAND. Even the minimum kindness will collectively make a difference. Then do another nice thing. It adds up.

If you're homophobic or transphobic, there's probably nothing I can say to convince you otherwise, but you're wrong. That's all anyone with a conscience can say.

And to my friends and acquaintances who are in the LGBTQ here on Tumblr, you know who you are. You're lives worth more than some false president's executive order, or some asinine bigot on the streets, or assholes that won't call you by your preferred name or pronoun. Or don't want acknowledge you as you are. Just know every last one of them are wrong about you. Even if it's your family, your parents or anyone.

THEY ARE WRONG.

You're worthy and will be seen by good hearted people. You're valid even if there's fear everywhere, don't be afraid, stick close to your cis allies, stick close to your community elders, we've got you.

YOU ARE SAFE WITH US.

It's not over. Don't fall to despair. You have long lives to live.

We're in this together. 🫂✨️💐

[spiketheforsakensoul]

"spill the beans!"

“Listen, you have been digging and snooping, so whut it is it you really wanna know?” Spike took another drink from the bottle of Jack Daniel’s that he was drinking from. “I know you’ve been trying to dig something up me. Well, fine. You want a juicy story?”

He pointed to himself, “Vampire. Right, never once tried to bite you, tempting as that may be. Protected you from demons and vampires… Ever wonder why that is?”

”Chip in my head. Couldn’t hurt you without a load of pain in my skull,” He sighed. “Bloody neutered by some government instillation.”

[innerduckgladiator]

[thegoodmorningman]

The Morning accepts you. You must accept The Entire Morning.

[alunah-lalunah]

Reason Aligns with Nature, Not Against It

Spinoza nailed it: real wisdom doesn’t demand you fight your own nature. Instead of resisting who you are, work with yourself, not against yourself. That’s the real path to strength and peace.

[traveledlight]

The Cost of Rain

You were the bright spot on the moon that I named,

something I learned to love from a distance

without understanding what distance takes.

“This is for the best,” they said.

I stayed anyway,

waiting for it to become true.

You told me not to lose my spark,

but you were the flame that taught me how to burn.

And now everything feels like rain—

steady, unchanging.

I keep waiting for your absence to stop looking like you,

but it doesn’t.

It just repeats me back to myself

until I start to feel like something already gone.

“They said it was for the best again,”

as if time was supposed to turn it into truth.

But all I know now

is the cost of rain:

not the falling,

but what used to exist before it started.

And I don’t know what’s worse—

that I’m still waiting for it to get better,

or that I can’t find a version where it does.