Hey y'all, N here
I hate doing this, but as an American with a partner who has cancer, I have to do what I can currently to make sure we don't end up unhoused.
We don't have enough for next month's rent. I am on disability, but they're holding up my payments because of an error on their part that makes them think C has been working, when he hasn't. I am fighting hard to make them fix it, but it still hasn't been, over a month later.
Because of that, I must once again humbly ask y'all for your help. This especially sucks with the holiday season coming to a close.
We love you all so much and are so thankful for every single one of you. Even if you don't interact with our posts, we still love you. We're all on this wild ride together and you deserve love as much as anyone else.
Our paypal is teamcibby@gmail.com
(If you would like us to pay you back when we get funds, we can absolutely arrange that. Just know that we aren't 100% how long that will be.)
The queer community is full of hurt people.
This can lead to a knee-jerk reaction when we hear someone else say "I am hurt". We look at them and say "shut up, you're not as hurt as me because you have X privilege".
This leads to femme afab queers being told "you can pass and hide as cishet, you're not as hurt as queer women who look queer, you're just complying with the patriarchy's ideals for beauty, you're hurting the queer community, you're anti feminist."
It leads to masc afab people, whether trans men or nonbinary or genderqueer etc, being told everything from "you're not as hurt, you can pass as a cis man" to "you have no desire to transition, you still look like a girl, shut up".
It leads to trans amab people who are nonbinary or genderqueer or agender etc, who still dress or look "masculine", being told that they are "unsafe" for queer spaces, that they don't belong at a "women and nonbinary meeting", that they are "basically just cis men trying to escape accountability".
It leads to asexuals being told "you don't even feel sexual attraction, the thing we're ostracized for! how could you possibly be oppressed? You're just straight and a prude" and aromantics being told "you're just straight and like casual sex, get over yourself" and both being told "you're just a cishet who wants to steal resources".
I have heard every single kind of queer person say "I have been harmed and ostracized by the queer community". Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and mspec people, trans people, aroace people - every single one of us has expressed feeling ostracized by our own community.
On the plus side, this means you're not alone. Your group isn't the only one facing this. You have allies!! Other queer people who have gone through what you've gone through!
We need queer unity. We need to stop attacking each other. If you feel the urge to say "shut up, my group has been hurt MORE", go take a walk. Remember that every single one of us has been hurt.
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âIâm tired, canât think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.â
â Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (via goodreadss)
Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?
Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.
Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.
Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?
so when straight people ask me why I say Iâm âqueerâ or âgayâ instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them âok look, when youâre talking to someone who isnât local and they ask you where youâre from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or âtown name, suburb of large nearby cityâ so they can get some geographical context of where youâre located right, bc theyâre probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.â
but if youâre talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.
ok well when Iâm talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they arenât as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.
if Iâm talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, theyâd probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?
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Made a thing and changed up Hunterâs outfit just a tiny bit! Now introducing⌠Hunterâs Wulfe Tierform! German (i hope) for Beast Form (at least according to google translate)
I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme
becoming socially invisible.
Biggest fantasy?
deleting my digital footprint and moving to iceland