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kama is:

• my boyfriend

• a god

• the breeze in my hair on the weekend

• a relaxing thought

• a cat

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at first i was like “i have no friends” as a joke but bro.. i don’t think it’s a joke anymore

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people are bad and all but when a stranger holds open a door for you and when a stranger picks up something you dropped and when a stranger smiles at you from across the street and when a stranger on a hike wishes you good morning and when a stranger hands you a rose and when a stranger lets you have their seat and when a stranger stops you to compliment your outfit and when a stranger gives you the 5 cents you’re missing and when a stranger jams their foot in the tram door so you can make it and when a stranger says bless you when you sneeze and when a stranger helps you with directions and when a stranger gets you something from the top shelf and when a stranger offers you a piece of watermelon in the park and when a stranger wishes you happy birthday because you’re holding a balloon.. maybe we are worth saving

#humanity #hope

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Marie Kondo really isnt fucking around

#marie kondo

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Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add

The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦

Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧

Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪

The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺

Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽

Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵

Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰

The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺

Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱

Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬

The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷

The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱

Gay rights protests in India 🇮🇳

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do y’all remember that short story where a scientist like, raises his daughter with no contact from the outside world and teaches her english wrong, like he teaches her that ‘yes’ and ‘no’ have the opposite meaning than they actually do and that ‘up’ means ‘down’ and vice versa, and then this guy meets her and starts to teach her what the words actually mean and she kinda sorta starts to get it and like, realize that it’s fucked up

and then one day she’s not home and the house is on fire and her dad’s inside and the firefighters are like ‘is there anyone inside’ and she says ‘no’ and we don’t know whether she understands what she’s saying or not

wild

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you don’t have to be perfect at anything to live a good life; if you’re intent on perfection you will never live a life that’s good enough in your eyes

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les misérables // achilles come down // illiad // the song of achilles

#tsoa

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Achilles: *clutching Patroclus’s dead body, sobbing*

Odysseus: Alexa this is so sad play despacito

#tsoa

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achilles: okay so the plan is that you’re going to dress and act like me, but make sure you don’t actually try to fight anyone bc that could give you away and get you killed

patroclus:

#tsoa

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queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.

#book recs

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Margaret Atwood, from “There Are Better Ways of Doing This”

#poetry #margaret atwood

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part of me was always somewhere else

#art journal #dissociation

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just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets

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how can i sleep when theres IMAGES to look at.. weird sounds to listen to..... gay thoughts to think...!