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NK's Pride 2024 collection launches Monday!

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"lesbians for a free Palestine"

downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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"i won't do polyamory because i don't think it's for me and i'm personally uncomfortable with the idea" <- wonderful i love you live your life however you want youre amazing youre incredible

"i won't do polyamory because it's wrong/it's just cheating" incorrect i'm killing you then my boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then h

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Happy International Asexuality Day!

(Image Description: a gray square with black and gray text that says "International Asexuality Day", below that is a rainbow in the colors of the Asexual pride flag inside a light gray abstract shape with the date "April 6th".)

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Canon Ace Barbie!

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aro acceptance week. wanted to telegraph that I'm aro but not have it be obvious they're pride flags since I'm at a Catholic school, so I made these. They're artsy enough that they won't look like flags to anyone who doesn't know the colors, but clear to those in the know.

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(TW: mention of suicidal thoughts) 

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Exciting news that are entirely irrelevant for the majority of you (since you don’t speak German) but I want to share them anyway: the newly revised version of my first German novel is out now!

I first published “Diese Art von Glück“ in 2019 and it meant a lot to me. Obviously because it’s a big milestone to publish your debut novel, but also because it was a highly personal story. 

It is not directly an autobiographical novel, the story never happened exactly like that to me and I am not entirely like the main character either. But it definitely has many (fictionalized) elements of a specific time in my own life. In a nutshell, the plot follows a young man over the course of the few days in which his depression spirals into acute suicidal thoughts - and, well, I have lived through (and survived!) those days myself. 

If I’m being honest with you, I still was very much living in these days when I started writing that book. Writing about it helped me cope with and work through my own feelings. It was very therapeutic, and the thought that maybe me being so open and vulnerable about my own experiences with depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness and suicidal ideation will help some readers feel seen and less alone, it really gave me purpose and motivation at a time I desperately needed it. 

But it also made marketing the novel hard. How do you sell something so personal? Had it really been a good choice to have my debut novel be about the worst days of my life? When people who knew me read the book, their feedback was overwhelmingly “Matt is 100% a fictional version of you, it feels like I’m reading your diary and that finally helps me understand what you are going through!”. Ironically, this feedback made my relationship to the book bittersweet… and sometimes just bitter. 

My mental health got better over the years. I am no longer suicidal. If I no longer relate to Matt, is the book still good? What if it was really just a therapeutic writing exercise for me, but not an objectively good piece of writing? Should I even have published something like that for the whole world to see?

As time went on, I felt the desire to revisit it but I was scared of it. I knew my technical skills as a writer improved (as they naturally do if you write regularly! As they say, practice makes perfect) and there were a couple scenes in my debut novel that would probably benefit from a subtle rewrite by my older and more experienced self, but I dreaded even opening that book again. What if it sucks? 

Well, turns out the best way to combat that big “what if” was to take away the hypothetical: to simply face it and reread it - and doing so made me realize, yes, I do not relate to Matt anymore but that is a good thing. It gives me the freedom to read it as a piece of creative writing rather than a diary. 

I’m proud of myself for fighting the urge to cringe at my old art and visit it again instead. I’m proud of how the revised version turned out (I didn’t do a full re-write, I mostly edited single scenes, or even just single sentences, for clarity. Upon suggestion from some readers, I now also clearly state in the book description that the book intensely centers around suicide).

I’m proud of this book again, after I almost started to resent it. It will always hold a piece of myself, it’ll always reflect on that time of my life, and it is a creative piece of fiction.

I can allow it to be both. I can be proud of both. And I just wanted to share that happy realization with you! 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

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HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

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"Queer Jews say Free Palestine"

Poster spotted on Smith St, Melbourne in advance of the annual Pride street Party

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I AM GOING TO BE KICKED OUT IN 6 MONTHS AND I AM NOT MAKING MONEY FAST ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO AVOID HOMELESSNESS

hey girls its me again. ill.. try to keep this brief? as brief as i can atleast.

if you havent seen my previous posts, hi, my name is delilah, im an autistic transgirl system with ptsd thats living in an abusive household where im barely fed and am constantly miserable, and to top it all off, the second my birthday hits on JUNE 1 2024, i am going to be kicked out. i want to make around $2000 dollars before then, but i only have about $350 right now. at my current rate, i wont be able to reach my goal, and i dont know how im going to get housing if i dont. to repeat in big text so people pay attention:

if i do not get about $1700 more in donations before june 1 2024, i am going to be homeless.

im trying.. really hard to not give up but its looking bleak. because i live in a small town in texas where everyone knows that im an autistic trans loser, ive been unable to get a job, and ive been forced to do this. i dont enjoy being forced to rely on other people's kindness, but its the best and atp really the only option i have.

C*SH*PP - @delilahswagga

P*YP*L - @delilahkill

i make pixel art too! dm me if youre interested, i do most things including furries/anthros, humans, chibi/dolls, backgrounds and scenes, and small animations

a lot of scams claiming things like this have been going around, so ill talk about myself some. click the readmore if you want to read that.

i have a really big love for performing, i fell in love with theatre years ago and performed the addams family musical as fester about a month ago as my biggest role on stage yet, and right now im in the process of getting ready for antigone as teiresius. i love music, and its one of my life goals to learn as many instruments as possible, and currently i own quite a few, though my favorites are my two ukuleles and my super cool electric guitar. i have 8 partners at the moment, and i have a very big desire to one day live with as many of them as i can. i pride myself on being the best partner i can be, and its been my goal to make all my partner's lives better (and i think ive been doing a good job at it :3)

i love cats an extreme amount, ive never had a cat myself (because my dad is insane and hates cats and tries to hit cats with his truck) but being around cats makes me super happy and always makes my anxieties go away, even when im having an anxiety attack or a panic attack. i really hope i can get a few cats one day, and i want to give them all silly food names :) my fursona is kind of a reflection of that, her name is bagel. some cat names ive thought of are mochi, chili, Supreme Pizza, or maybe french fry :)

im not sure if ill be able to achieve any of my goals if i dont get the financial support i need. ive been.. really close to giving up recently, but i dont want to have to do that, so im going to fight like this for as long as i can.

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Flags for butch, futch, butch ocd bisexuals. Based on the ocd bi flag and the butchfemme bi flags I made.

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