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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:58:54 -0700

Your Completely Queer Guide To Horoscope Hookups

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"This pulls at my heart so much! Royal Heart You will never be let down by anyone more than you..."

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:20:34 -0800

“This pulls at my heart so much!

Royal Heart

You will never be let down by anyone
more than you will be let down
by the one you love most in the world
it’s how gravity works
it’s why they call it “falling”
it’s why the truth is harder to tell
every year
you have more to lose
but you can choose to bury your past
in the garden
beside the tulips
water it
until it’s so alive
it lets go
and you belong to yourself
again

When you belong to yourself again
Remember forgiveness
is not a tidy grave
It is a ready loyal knight kneeling before your royal heart

Call in your royal heart
Tell it bravery cannot be measured by a lack of fear
It takes guts to tremble
It takes so much tremble to love
Every first date is a fucking earth quake

Sweetheart, on our first date
I showed off all my therapy
I moved onto the couch
Where I finally sweat out my history
Pulled out the photo album from the last time I wore a lie to the school dance
I smiled and said “that was never my style
Look how fixed I am
Look how there’s no more drywall on my fist
Look at the slits I’ve carved for my short temper
Look how my wrist is not something I have to hide” I said
Well I was hiding it

The telephone pole still down from the storm
By our third date I had fixed the line
I said listen,
I have a hard time
I mean I cry as often as most people pee and I don’t shut the door behind me
I’ll be up in your face screaming “SEATTLE IS TOO RAINY SEATTLE IS TOO RAINY
IM NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO LIVE HERE.”
I sobbed on our fourth date

I can’t live here
In my body, I mean
I can’t live in my body all the time it feels too much
So if I ever feel far away know I am not gone
I am just underneath my grief
Adjusting the dial on my radio face so I can take this life with all of it’s love and all of it’s loss

See I already know that you are the place where I am finally going to sing without any static meaning
I’m never gonna wait
that extra twenty minutes
to text you back,
and I’m never gonna play
hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already.
When we all know everyone’s life
has been hard enough already

it’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out
without a broken heart.

Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there’s gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my separate parts
And none of those parts are going to be wearing the romance from the overpriced vintage rack
That is to say I am not going to get a single speed bike if I can’t make it up the hill
I know exactly how many gears I’m going to need to love you well
And none of them look hip at the hop coffee shop
They all have God saying “good job you’re finally not full of bullshit”
You finally met someone who’s going to flatten your knee caps into skipping stones

Baby, throw me
Throw me as far as I can go
I don’t want to leave this life without ever having come home
And I want to come home to you
I can figure out the rain

”

- Andrea Gibson, “Royal Heart” (via ohandreagibson)

A summary of my week. Doodling at work.

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:31:00 -0800

A summary of my week. Doodling at work.

Put a garden in the front and it’s my future life....

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:10:19 -0800

Put a garden in the front and it’s my future life.

cabinporn:

Cliff-top fisherman’s shed on the Llyn Peninsula, Wales.

Submitted by Tony.

Adorable!!!!fyqueerlatinxs: FLAWLESS!

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:33:06 -0800

Adorable!!!!

fyqueerlatinxs:

FLAWLESS!

We’ve had this hanging in the house for over 2 years. It...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:31:56 -0800

We’ve had this hanging in the house for over 2 years. It made me smile to see widely circulating the Internet

kidbijou:

“We Shit Glitter” by Mary Mack Tremonte

Mary sez:

This print is inspired by & in support of Bash Back, a radical queer force that has started chapters in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere…”WE SHIT GLITTER” is a Bash Back chant, and their actions often involve glitter. The soft serve ice cream cone was the suggestion of a friend, flaming for extra-queerness & radical potential. All eight layers of ink have metallic shimmer in them!

yeah that’s right, 8 colors of glitter!

"…and even though I love this cat can I really commit to it and give it the love and attention it..."

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:26:46 -0800

“…and even though I love this cat can I really commit to it and give it the love and attention it deserves or as soon as it’s coming around regularly will I feel like wait a minute, I’m pretty screwed up and if this cat wants to hang around me, there must be something really wrong with it and I could probably do better, and is buying all this cat food and kitty litter just another example of me putting someone else’s needs above my own and how much sacrificing of time and energy and resources is necessary in a healthy relationship and does it even feel like a “sacrifice” if it’s meant to be and what if I get bored ‘cause I usually get bored and hey, that other kitten I’ve had my eye on is pretty cute and I’m more comfortable with instability anyway than a solid, predictable thing I can rely on and maybe I should see if I can entice that kitten to start crawling in my window because that would be a fun challenge and if I succeed in snagging that kitten I’m probably actually really a loveable human and how about the fact that I’m writing all of this on a borrowed laptop, because a few days ago the cat spilled a full mug of coffee on mine but I hardly even cared because within 20 minutes of the cat spilling coffee on my laptop, I was already Googling cat towers on my phone and am I in a codependent relationship with this cat or does actual love feel that way sometimes”

- Deanne Smith via Autostraddle — DeAnne Smith and Um, A Cat (via autostraddle)

This is a fig move kushedupcoutur3: FFFFOUND! |...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:23:31 -0800

This is a fig move

kushedupcoutur3:

FFFFOUND! | tumblr_m4ine3Vg3S1qzjg61o1_500.jpg (imagen JPEG, 500 × 640 píxeles) on @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/Tk5ofe

I wish I could get a cat shipment from...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:21:51 -0800

I wish I could get a cat shipment from California!

subjectivelyme:

LMAO! I can totally see my Gracie trying to ship off my Sophie.

A Tribute to Judith/Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:12:00 -0800

A Tribute to Judith/Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure.

Photo 1- The Last Supper

Photo 2- The Lovers

Photo 3- A Tribute to Marx

By me. (I feel like I should say by me because I saw one of my photos on the internet the other day and someone else took credit for it? Weird. I’m a little afraid of tumblr.)

I want candlelit dinners with these

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:32:40 -0800

I want candlelit dinners with these

I wrote a poem, be easy on me, it was the first in a long time There was one time I remember you...

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:15:00 -0800

I wrote a poem, be easy on me, it was the first in a long time

There was one time

I remember you tucking me in

to my bed, my fort

I protected with a sword

a wand,

a cheap,

gold painted,

plated alloy

letter opener with a pineapple handle

in it’s pillowcase holster

No one told me that dragons had two faces

one that breathed a fiery roar

that shook the safety from my body,

and one that tried to protect her hungry babies

from a world that wanted her body slayed

or imprisoned,

maybe both, when you have an accent.

That night you came back to the world

a mother, letting your past sleep-

a stone cold survivor,

somewhere deep in your body,

in a lair that released it’s demons

with the simplest trigger-

You were back,

that’s all that mattered

You told me in Tacajo,-

the Cuban town where you were born,

near a peanut patch-

when a tornado was coming

women would assemble in a circle on the town square,

bearing their sharpest scissors and strongest wills,

thrusting their arms into the grey skies

to snip the tail off of the coming tornado,

to protect their families, their farms.

You left because of the revolution.

Drinking PBR at the Petaluma railroad tracks

My hair a mess of blue dye and

straightening chemicals, teasing out

my culture, my queerness

with other teens, half-witches,

half-dragons,

deviants,

with spikes along their black jean jackets,

extinguished flames in their hearts,

the loudest roars were sirens

flashing red and blue,

making me disengage from yr lips,

yr warmth,

we run, Queer ladiys, witches hidden from

plain sight, pretending to like boys

that I was promised to as a fuck,

for some beer

on a friday night

The town smelled like chicken shit.

It could burn quick if we were found out.

Those nights were interrupted

by artists,

knights,

white,

straight

men

that promised to save me from dragons,

from natural disasters.

Men who bridged a connection

between me and my family

and ensured those bridges were built

over the outspoken, Queer Cuban@ inside me.

Witches were hip, an accessory.

Their armor was cold and their stories

mediocre,

they didn’t care for stories.

Witches survive because they share stories.

Those men controlled my body

and the weather.

I never knew the tornado had to be cut

before it even reached town-

Now I see them coming from a mile away,

scissors in hand

fingers poised

surrounded by wild dragons,

magical healers,

survivors, queers

reworking their gifts, their pasts

so they only breathe flames into

campfires and songs,

and candle lit talks

with their scaly reflections

and bright, deep eyes

rekindling the fire in my heart.

shelbydoo: Civil War Quilt —- SURPRISE!: Civil War ValentineAs...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:22:02 -0700

shelbydoo:

Civil War Quilt —- SURPRISE!: Civil War Valentine

As you can see on the website I’ve previously linked you to, this block is not actually given as a pattern… there is a photo shown of a block similar to it on one page. My grandma and I recently realized that it would be impossible to make a well sized quilt out of 52 blocks… that we needed to bump it up to 56 in order to get 7x8 for our dimensions. So, for 4 weeks, we will make 2 blocks a week. Some of these will be repeats of our 52 blocks (I’m getting one that my aunt made but then decided she didn’t want) and others will be blocks of our choosing. We digitized this block based off of the picture using embird with heart appliques that we already had. This will be one of the last blocks in my quilt and will be appearing at the end. :)

This makes me happy and calm

Be You: Transgender woman told to leave women’s locker room

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:18:03 -0700

Be You: Transgender woman told to leave women’s locker room:

nextyearsgirl:

radicalfeministquotes:

transqueery:

OLYMPIA, Wash. —

A transgender woman said she was discriminated against after using the women’s locker room at Evergreen State College.

Colleen Francis was using the sauna in a women’s locker room inside the recreation center at the school late in September.

The same facility is used…

Some parts you failed to inform people about:

Colleen Francis is a 45 year old man who retired from the US Army after 20 years as a supply sergeant. Married three times, he has three adult children and two daughters aged 7 and 5. His cross-sex hormones are provided by VA Medical, as well as a cocktail of psychiatric meds, lithium and antabuse prescribed for a troubling history that he details at length on a blog at the “Transgender Lesbian Space”of the puddygirl dating site for women. He says he is known as “Fae Raven” (not to be confused with the UK fetish model of the same name) in the “BDSM Community” and describes himself as:

“I am polyamorous, bisexual (I very much favor women though, and my therapist calls me a lesbian…makes me smile) and kinky.”

“Colleen Brenna” means “Raven Girl” in Irish Gaelic. A former rodeo rider, he is an avid hunter and competitive handgun shooter.

He started wearing a low-dose estrogen patch two years ago and has written that he has no intention of ever getting “sex reassignment” surgery, stating “Yes, I still have those parts too, although they aren’t disgusting for me. I’ve never hated then. I saw LONG ago, in childhood that those were what I was given, and beung the very, very sexual creature that I was/am, I used them. Enthusiastically. I decided not to be robbed of the blessing of sexuality simply because I came wrapped in the wrong package.” [sic]

The VA also funds his education at Olympia WA Evergreen State College. Francis performed in the university presentation of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues”, an experience he describes on his wordpress blog thusly:“ I suddenly find myself in a community of Cunts.”

He lists his life interests as: “drawing, cooking, transgender issues,polyamory, witchcraft, nature, fishing, art, poetry, ocean, women, sex, sexuality, emotions, magic, magick, goddess, reading, erotica, pornography, nudity, crafting, leatherwork, firearms, knives, swords, paganism, wicca, LGBT issues, beauty, gender issues, kink, spirituality, guns, makeup, shoes, boots, corsets, selkies” [sic]

and describes himself as “at once a teen girl and a woman wise beyond her years.”

That’s a picture of him from this year. Are you saying those high school girls had no grounds in being frightened? This is obviously a middle-aged, heterosexual white man who’s got a fetish for dressing up in women’s clothes and skeeving out young ladies. Don’t get it twisted.

”This is not 1959 Alabama. We don’t call police for drinking from the wrong water fountain,” said Francis.”

Thanks to GenderTrender for uncovering all of this.

But as I’ve been told repeatedly, her penis is female, so why should parents object to their teenage daughters having to share a shower with a middle-aged male’s penis? Who cares what makes the girls feel safe and comfortable, am I right? Identity!

These people can fuck themselves. Earlier I read a fox news article on how this woman “invaded” the women’s locker room, using incorrect pronouns and alluding to her as an exhibitionist sex offender.

Turns out, trans people come in all shapes and sizes and can be happy with body parts they were born with. Turns out, trans people are beautiful sexual beings. Turns out, if people are worried about their children being sexually assaulted its much more likely someone cisgender, handsome and charming who has private access to the child will be assaulting them.

My prayers go out to this woman, and I feel terrible that there is a national news spectacle throwing tons of personal information about her out into the internet world. I also really appreciate my college for standing up against this shit and understanding that she has every right to be using the women’s sauna.

queerfatfemme: The beauty of the moon has saved me more than...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:49:47 -0700

queerfatfemme:

The beauty of the moon has saved me more than once. #stayalive

dpmassacre: Elvira and Vincent Price on the Tonight Show,...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:10:58 -0700

dpmassacre:

Elvira and Vincent Price on the Tonight Show, 1986

camp like this doesn’t exist anymore

gravesandghouls: Elvira Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, my one...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:02:16 -0700

gravesandghouls:

Elvira

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, my one true love

"I promised myself that it was a one-time experiment, that it had something to do with that specific..."

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:56:07 -0700

“I promised myself that it was a one-time experiment, that it had something to do with that specific girl, that specific time. I told myself all the lies I needed to reconcile what had just happened with my life, which until that point had been certainly always open, but very much straight. It wasn’t until I kissed the second girl that even my therapist at the time laughed at me and told me maybe it was time to accept that my sexuality was not as cut-and-dry as I’d always imagined.”

- Happy National Coming Out Day!

Stef via Autostraddle — Coming Out As An Amorphous Weirdo (via autostraddle)

pandakeegan: Joeie and I have been seeing a lot of negative...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:16:54 -0700

pandakeegan:

Joeie and I have been seeing a lot of negative “weight” pictures with people writing words like worthless, stupid, ugly, fat, and horrible on them.

We decided to do the same but with a positive message.
People can’t tell what kind of person you are, who you care about, what you’re interested in, who you love. They don’t know what you’ve done or what you’ve been through.

Their opinions are so silly and blind that they don’t even deserve to be heard.

This is how someone who loves you sees you, and there are always people who love you.

“Sweet, Smart, Nice, Talented, Loving, Brave, Generous, Gorgeous, Kind, Perfect, Caring, Beautiful, Funny, Sensitive, Patient, Charitable, Fun, Amazing”

..and we gave him a heart on the outside to remind you he has a heart on the inside.
This goes for you too ladies.

Lastly, we wrote “human” because no matter what you think about anyone, they matter and they have the capabilities of anyone you’ve ever known,
so be kind.

I need to find folks to help me sharpie affirmations on myself

hakmeetstak: Prominent place maybe i’ll build a house...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:00:22 -0700

hakmeetstak:

Prominent place

maybe i’ll build a house next year