having a personal sense of style is gay culture and the reason why gay men are seen as fashionable and lesbians as tacky is because the standards are so low for men and so high for women send post
and FURTHERMORE the standards set for women are centered around how appealing they are to men and not actually about style at all a lot of the time. Lesbian style doesn’t care what men find attractive and is therefore considered “wrong”
boop
honestly every time i go to a queer event i am amazed at how amazing everyone looks because everyone is embracing their individual style without heed to societal norms and that confidence is what makes the look tbh. This is especially the case for trans/nb events because there’s a cohesive ‘fuck the binary’ aesthetic that’s just so beautiful and vibrant
The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
Checkmate, nihilism.
This is how I feel about cooking sometimes.
Maybe I can’t fix everything – hell, maybe I can’t fix anything – but look, I made soup; look, I made bread; look, now there’s dinner.
new friend: gosh you are so intelligent and well-spoken
me: 🙂
me internally: you fool, that is because you are on level 2 friendship, by level 5 I will be mumbling nonsense and finishing every half-baked sentence with ‘ya know?’
You kiddos have no idea how groundbreaking this was. Like there’s a reason THE lesbian website for a billion years was called After Ellen. She changed everything.
oh man you know that feeling that’s like kind of an ache right between your heart and your stomach? like nostalgic knowing of pain? that’s how the scared look in Ellen’s eyes makes me feel.
Look at her hand too and how nervous she is. Every gay and lesbian person knows this feeling, because we know there are assumptions and consequences and there’s no telling how someone will react.
And let no one forget that she suffered consequences for this. It wasn’t just a moment of cathartic unburdening and then business as usual.
Right, she lost her first TV show. She worked hard to get up to where she is today.
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