Thinking about history and family and queerness. How they were real and they were people, with lives like ours. How being queer has always existed for as long as humanity has, and long before that too.
A little viking girl and her mother and her father sat around the fire whilst they tell her the stories of the gods and their children, and her mother shuffles over to her, pulling the new blanket she made over the little girl's shoulder, and her dad let's the little girl touch his sword and tilt it to see the flashes of the fire light on the metal, all whilst telling her to be careful of the sharp edges.
An Ancient Egyptian teenage boy running around, catching lizards to show his toddler sister as his mother warns him about not letting the lizards bite him or the girl.
A victorian father holding his newborn twins in his arms as he can't stop smiling, the midwife passing his wife some tea as she congratulates both of them.
A babylonian girl kissing her best friend behind the local bookshop, and she kisses her back.
A tudor girl putting on her brother's trousers and tucking her hair under a hat and realising maybe she prefers looking like him.
An Aztec father combing the hair of his wife and children whilst they sleep, leaving a little braid in each, even the fuzzy wisps of his newest daughter.
An American Indigenous community teaching the newest generation how to weave, dance, hunt, clean hide, and make jewellery.
An Ancient Chinese girl having her older sister do her makeup and then running off to show her friends.
A little medieval boy tugging on his mother's skirt because he wants to help his dad plough the soil, or at least help pick the vegetables because he just wants to help make the work a little less on his dad.
A Britonic Celt mother teaching her son how to braid hair by demonstrating on his dad.
A Samoan teenager telling their parents they don't feel like one gender alone and their parents celebrating because they love their child no matter what.
Just thinking about how all of humanity repeats the same things over and over again, how no matter how long ago or where they were, we have done the same things all the time, exist all the time, forever.
