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The Green Creek gang!! 🐺 (also omg i’ve been pushing tumblr to the wayside lately 😩 my bad)

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I've seen a few posts float around with links to help the Ukrainian military forces and since I haven't seen any more yet, I'd like to share this tweet, with links to donate to organizations that are not military-related:

Proliska by bank transfer (humanitarian aid, relocation to affected people, food, clothing, health supplies, psychological help and more)

Ukrainian Red Cross by card or G pay ($5 = ~150₴)

Donbas SOS by card, G pay or bank transfer

Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (with the United Nations Office For the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) by card

[personal additions]

Voices of Children by card (psychological help to Ukrainian children affected by the trauma of war)

Jewish Community of Odessa by card or Paypal

[original tweet]

[TWEET ID: a tweet by user CarnationGreen, posted on the 23rd of February 2022. In Ukrainian, it reads: "ВАЖЛИВО! я хочу допомогти постраждалим від військових дій українцям, але не хочу надсилати кошти армії. що робити? список організацій які займаються гуманітарною підтримкою !!" followed by links to the organizations Proliska, Ukranian Red Cross, Donbas SOS, and Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund, as linked above in the tumblr post. Translated with the help of an automatic translator, it means: "IMPORTANT! I want to help Ukrainians suffering from military action, but I do not want to donate money to the army. What to do? The list of organizations engaged in humanitarian support!". END OF TWEET ID.]

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y’all really have to stop forcing love onto everyone you come across... not everyone wants love in their life and there is nothing wrong with that. you can believe you need love in your life and that love isn’t romantic for yourself, but trying to force your beliefs onto others is wrong.

[ image description: there are 4 photos. the first on is of spongebob holding a piece of paper that says “love doesn’t have to be romantic! everyone experiences love!”. the second photo is him looking at it confused and then the third one is him dropping it into the fire in front of him. the last one is spongebob smiling down at the burning piece of paper.]

[heyoitslysso]

I've seen a few posts float around with links to help the Ukrainian military forces and since I haven't seen any more yet, I'd like to share this tweet, with links to donate to organizations that are not military-related:

Proliska by bank transfer (humanitarian aid, relocation to affected people, food, clothing, health supplies, psychological help and more)

Ukrainian Red Cross by card or G pay ($5 = ~150₴)

Donbas SOS by card, G pay or bank transfer

Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (with the United Nations Office For the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) by card

[personal additions]

Voices of Children by card (psychological help to Ukrainian children affected by the trauma of war)

Jewish Community of Odessa by card or Paypal

[original tweet]

[TWEET ID: a tweet by user CarnationGreen, posted on the 23rd of February 2022. In Ukrainian, it reads: "ВАЖЛИВО! я хочу допомогти постраждалим від військових дій українцям, але не хочу надсилати кошти армії. що робити? список організацій які займаються гуманітарною підтримкою !!" followed by links to the organizations Proliska, Ukranian Red Cross, Donbas SOS, and Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund, as linked above in the tumblr post. Translated with the help of an automatic translator, it means: "IMPORTANT! I want to help Ukrainians suffering from military action, but I do not want to donate money to the army. What to do? The list of organizations engaged in humanitarian support!". END OF TWEET ID.]

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I have fallen down the Green Creek rabbit whole and I am very happy to be here. Have some Ox/Joe artwork. 

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If I'd Known--

Draco gestures for Harry to continue.

“No, that’s it.”

Draco’s expression turns incredulous. “Wait, are you… did you just, like, come out to me? Shit, was that supposed to be a moment?”

And now Harry’s too confused to be nervous. “...Yes?”

“Oh, Merlin,” Draco says. “Fuck, Harry, I didn’t realise you were still in the closet.”

“I… Oh. What?”

Draco sighs, uncharacteristically patient. “I’ve known you were gay since the first time we saw each other after the trials.”

Harry feels so stupid now. God. Has everyone just… known?

Draco’s voice turns even kinder. “Harry, baby—” Harry’s heart twists at that, it does every time, doesn’t Draco know what that does to him? “—the closet door was made of glass. No straight man has ever checked out my arse the way you did that day.”

“Oh my god.” Harry covers his face with his hands, absolutely mortified. “So you’ve known this whole time—you’ve known for years—that I’m into you.”

“Wait, what?”

Harry looks up. “What do you mean, what?”

“You like me?”

“You just said—”

“You checking out my arse doesn’t mean you like me. If I’d known—fuck, Harry, I would have made a move on you ages ago.”

Harry blinks. “Made a move on me?”

“Yes.” Draco grabs the front of Harry’s shirt, pulling him closer. “Like this.”

Harry leans in—

written for the drarry discord drabble challenge, Jan 2022. prompt: glass. wc: 222.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Radical inclusionism should be much more of a common position than it is. I've been the victim of some pretty awful rhetoric lately, especially regarding m-spec lesbianism. I've been questioning my sexuality again lately, and being told I'm "not allowed" to use various labels certainly doesn't help.

People who are genuinely just trying to find a label they like aren't hurting anyone. Predatory men are going to want to "fix" lesbians whether or not we're m-spec or gnc. Transphobes are going to invalidate nonbinary people whether or not they use neopronouns. Aphobes are going to invalidate ace/aro people whether or not they're considered queer. We shouldn't try to pander to people who are gonna have negative opinions about us no matter what words we use to describe ourselves.

Everyone deserves a safe space in our community. It doesn't matter what label anyone uses. "I support everyone, but-" shouldn't be an okay thing to say. Respect all of our queer siblings.

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i thought mspec lesbians removed the meaning from both labels? because it's hard to be a woman attracted to women AND someone who is attracted to two or more genders. if it's about including nonbinary people in lesbianism then that's not needed because they are (and always have been) included.

hi anon, thanks for the ask! as always, i’m going to take this in good-faith and answer as thoughtfully as i can. i don't personally identify as an mspec lesbian, so i can't give an explanation about what it means to use that specific label. what i can explain is that fringe* labels—like mspec lesbian—will always have a place in the queer community. i’ll explain why:

to me, being queer is about rejecting the dominant, rigid views of gender and sexuality.

i've seen a troubling exclusionary trend of folks arguing that some labels are ‘unnecessary’ or ‘cringey’ because they're supposedly redundant, contradictory, or already ‘covered’ by other labels; i've heard these arguments about pansexuality, asexuality, mspec identities, neo-pronouns, etc. and maybe those labels aren't necessary for you, but they are necessary for the people who use them.

words are powerful—being able to put a name to something makes it real. fringe labels can help queer people conceptualize complicated experiences of attraction and gender we’ve always felt but couldn’t articulate before. and this isn’t new! the queer community has forever been making up words and identities to describe our experiences because mainstream society refused to do it for us in a way that didn’t medicalize, condemn, or criminalize. as a community, we have picked up, put down, and reinvented our labels so many times you could spend an entire afternoon (or longer) just tracing the history of queer linguistics.

i understand the instinct to draw lines and build fences around words and identities—i've been there—but it is a mistake to renounce cishet, amatonormative society just to cling to a new set of rigid definitions. telling people to fit themselves into preexisting, popular boxes only reinforces dominant views of gender and sexuality.

so, yeah, especially if you have a controversial label, you will always be welcome in the queer spaces i occupy.

*identities outside of the widely recognized Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender in LGBT

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Specific pride flags aren't the issue. Microlabels aren't the issue. "Complicated" identities aren't the issue. MOGAI isn't the issue. Xenogenders aren't the issue. Male lesbians aren't the issue. And mspec lesbians aren't the issue.

Queerphobia however, is the issue. Queer people are diverse therefore our community is. Not everyone identifies with just one label. Not everyone's identity is static. Some queer people can't sum up their gender identity in just one word. Some need more. Some need niche labels while others don't. Not every queer person is white, neurotypical, not poor, able-bodied, perisex, thin, etc.

Queerness is broad and so are the labels of our community. To try to categorize every queer person you see into a neat, tidy little box, is queerphobic. We do not all fit neatly into boxes. Some of us have identities attached to cultures that have existed outside the gender binary and nonbinary spectrum for centuries. Some of us simply don't use labels. Some reject Western labels. Others can't find ones that truly fit them. We do not all think the same nor do we identify the same.

Even folks who share the same label, have different experiences, and might use it differently than one another. Forcing us to get rid of any genders, sexualities, and labels in general that are deemed "unacceptable" by cishet society, is going against years of queer activism. Most of which was done by queer people of color. Support your queer siblings. No one is "too far gone" to be helped or accepted. No amount of appealing to cisnormative and heteronormative society is going to get you viewed as a "good queer". This includes tearing down other queer folks around you.

We're all in this together. Whether it's breaking down the oppressive history of the gender binary or connecting to one another over queer culture. Never forget that and how much work still needs to be done globally in order to aid ALL queer people, no matter our differences.

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hot take but not all relationship dynamics in fanfic have to end with “to lovers” actually

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a guy walks in with two puncture wounds on his neck like “u should see the other guy” and then a vampire walks in covered in those cartoony lipstick kiss marks

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This was a ride ⚰️⚰️

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Ever since my best friend got a boyfriend, she rarely talks to me or spends time with me anymore. When they broke up for a brief period of time, things went back to normal and I was so relieved. Now that they’re back together, it’s like I’m invisible again.

She keeps telling me how he’s the most important person in her life. It just baffles me how someone can value a person they’ve known for a few months over a best friend of 9 years? She was so excited when they got back together and I felt bad that I had to mask my disappointment and feign happiness. Sometimes it sucks being aroace when all of your friends value romantic relationships above platonic ones.

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there’s nothing funnier than twitter and tumblr official accounts gloating at facebook-insta-whatsapp collapse i swear-

this is going to be historical i promise

they’re having the time of their lives

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eighth year drarry commission set for @typyxis 💕