You Are My Son, My Moon, And All My Stars, E.e. Cummings // The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller //

Queer liberation not rainbow capitalism.

Digital illustration of a person wearing a matching rainbow outfit with a red cape that reads, ‘queer liberation not rainbow capitalism.’ There are protestors behind them with signs that read, ‘fight poverty, not the poor,’ ‘we deserve access to gender affirming care,’ ‘stop funding anti-LGBTQ politicians’ and ‘housing for all.’

Divided Reflection, linocut, 2020 Rissa Groves

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anyway. cherish your queer self. admire your beautiful queer face. gloat about your ever-growing queer vocabulary. find similarity in your differences with your peers and think of them in awe. make a queer smile today, and let them make you smile too. bask in your queerness. let queer joy unapologetically wash over you. even if just for a moment. heal.

Odysseus: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate or malewife our way out of it this time.

Achilles: [cracking his knuckles]

Achilles: Manslaughter it is.

“when you choose a partner in life and you, y’know, choose to spend your life with them, inevitably one of you is gonna have the worst time of your life when the other one dies. i know it sounds really sad but to me it’s beautiful.”

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Richard Siken, Crush

late night aro blues - you are the priority in my life, and I'm not the priority in yours.

I'm not mad at them of course... just needed to express this feeling somehow, it's been tearing me up

my only addition to the proliferation of pride flags is that honestly someone should just start making pride flags that are for the most part inoffensive but then like give the meanings of the stripes like absurdly controversial microcommunity discourse. like "here's my pride flag - the stripes represent all the different types of attraction in the split attraction model, the maroon represents that bisexuality represents being attracted to the two binary genders, the green stands for lesbian bed death, and the stars represent the amount of hypervisibility that trans women use to take up all the space and oppress afab trans people via invisibility and the labrys represents lesbians who are into men (cis men only, obviously). nothing it in represents gay men because they are not oppressed" creating perhaps the most hated object in the queer community and uniting us all

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