Welp….The patent (that expired) for operating on a cloven-hoofed animal to turn them into a unicorn is shockingly easy to find on the internet.
Please do not try to manufacture your own unicorn. I do not trust the world with that.
The difference between PTSD and
CPTSD is not severity. It is duration and source. PTSD is lightning. CPTSD is living inside the storm for so long that you forgot there was ever such a thing as dry ground. Both will drench you. Only one of them also makes you forget what it felt like to be dry.
I'm Agnostic, but my parents are Catholic.
They once saw someone on FB go "The rainbow isn't for the gays!" It irritated mom especially, she then turned to me and said.
"God made the rainbow for everyone, there's no issue if the LGBTQ uses it, especially when using it for love"
Because people who lack confidence think negatively about themselves all the time, they assume having confidence means thinking positively about yourself. The reality is that real confidence means not thinking about yourself at all.
I forgot how much of a misogynistic prick Mycroft Holmes is about the finishing school in Enola Holmes.
Like I get that proper etiquette was socially important at the time but Mycroft shows up and is abusive in the first 3 seconds of seeing Enola.
Laurie Hernandez—a gold medal winning gymnast from the 2016 Rio Olympics, tv host/commentator, Broadway dancer, and forever queen 👑of my heart—mentioned Heated Rivalry in her instagram post celebrating Pride:
“In 2016, at 16 years old, I was on an Olympic stage for gymnastics. I was quickly thrown into the public eye, so the world had a specific idea of who I was before I had the time or chance to find out.
As a teenager, I used to look at those pride posts on instagram and cry at the ones that said, "Happy Pride! For those who aren't out yet, we see you! We're still celebrating you!"
I believe they may have saved my little mind, because at some point, I was the only one in the world who knew such a secret about myself: that I was queer. I am queer.
I was homeschooled for most of my life, so queer stories in books and media are the reason I was eventually able to understand myself, and eventually be brave enough to tell others about it. To say it was perfect would be dismissive of the lived experience, but right now, everything is more than okay. I am loved.
I owe my life to these characters, worlds, and authors that were the center of a journey I never realized that, until much later in my teen years, I would be a part of.
They are the reason I graduated in drama and creative writing. They are the reason my own stories exist, with the hopes that someone out there sees themselves reflected, and realizes they are already home.
I look at Joan & Vanessa in the book Atmosphere and suddenly I too, am an astronaut with a love of the sky, and a knowing that maybe all answers to any existential questions lie here, on earth, next to someone who loves you.
I look at Priory of the Orange Tree and Bloom Town and am reminded of what it's like to fight, against all odds, for what you believe in. And if there is no other road seen for your love to exist, then one must be carved.
And of course ... Shane and Ilya in Heated Rivalry. Two Olympic lovers that are hyper-aware of the pressure the world places upon them. It's not until they meet each other that everything slows. Expectations of perfection and power are removed.
With one another, 'they do not have to be good ... they only have to let the soft animals of their bodies love what they love' (Mary Oliver).
How can queer love be wrong if it looks like this, if it is so kind and beautiful? Is love not what we all deserve? How freeing, to decide I deserved it anyways.
So in honor of every cryptic pride post I've made over the past few years, here is a very real one. One that begs you to remember love is a universal language we dare to be well-versed in.
And to those who aren't out yet, there is no rush. No pressure. You are always included in the celebration.”
via lauriehernandez | instagram
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