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Recently cleaned up Hades sketches from my backlog.

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A little drawing of them. For me. As a treat

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while it's very important to understand who you are, i wanted to point something out that i see queers stressing over, especially young queers, which is that you do not have to label every part of your identity, or any part of it at all. if you've tried every label and nothing fits you, if you feel like you have an experience that sits outside of what others defined, if you feel like you relate to an experience but don't have it exactly, if you feel like you fall between the cracks of identities, if you feel like you could never possibly be defined by labels... that's fine. that's more than okay. if you just don't understand a part of you, but it's there and not causing you harm, you don't have to label it if you can't or don't want to. you can experience something without having a word for it.

i see young queers stressing over trying to figure out whether or not they're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, aro, ace, genderfluid... it's okay to identify as these things if you know that they're you. but you also don't have to identify with anything if you don't want to. you don't have to figure out how to label every aspect of your identity. you don't "have" to figure any of this out if you don't want to or if it stresses you out too bad. it's important to know yourself- knowing yourself also includes acknowledging that labels like this may not be for you if you find you just can't make them fit no matter what. that's an okay experience, too. it's okay to live outside of those boundaries altogether and just be yourself, without words to define what makes you you.

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obligatory post today

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(Chapter 38 still)

Smarter people than I have gone into Roy's alchemy, but look, here it is: Roy transmuting hydrogen from water, using the alchemical circle on his gloves.

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Richard Goldstein & James Baldwin | The Last Interview

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After many springs by Langston Hughes

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Since I'm therapist-posting recently:

Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to believe that you're a person who deserves the things all people deserve.

You can't get from "I'm the Worst" to "I'm a worthy and lovable person" without passing through "I'm just a regular fuckup like everybody else."

Try it on. If you're really addicted to being mean to yourself, you can start by framing it as I'm Not Special. Embrace being a regular fuckup like everybody else.

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Behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite (Placenticeras intercalare)! A relative of today’s squids, this ammonite lived some 80 million years ago near what is now Alberta, Canada. This fossil’s spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures and pressures. As these forces acted on nacre in this ammonite’s shell, it was transformed into a gemstone known as an ammolite. Along with amber and pearl, ammolite is one of only a handful of gems made by living organisms.

You can spot this rare specimen in the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH 

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i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

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LGBT (labrador, greyhound, beagle, terrier)

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.....I am reblogging this again bc I was forced to admit to @faintingcouchguy that there is no way I would not take the essential billy joel.

Idk what id swap out for it. But there is no way I would not.

Thanks for the tag @samabigailalan!

You just got a kind of shitty old car and it doesn’t have Bluetooth. You can only buy 7 CDs and you can’t repeat an artist. What are you getting?

Oh crap oh crap oh crap I am so bad at music and even worse at albums uhhh...

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful -- Florence + the Machine

Wicked Original Broadway Cast Recording

Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac

The Little Mermaid (1989) Original Soundtrack

Empires on Fire -- BANNERS

Hozier -- Hozier

My Head is an Animal -- Of Monsters and Men

This is so tortuous actually! I tend to like one song by an artist a ton and not know any others.

Passing on the torment to @hollygl125 @emmi-kat @drjohndisco @vaticanomenon @regardstosoulandromance @frogofthewilde @colderthancoldest and anyone else who wants to play!

Sorry if you're already been tagged!

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Gotta add @tranxio's perfect tags:

Like... it's okay we're making shit up. We can combine and mix whatever we want. Why the fuck not?

I love that psychic powers are still "allowed" in science fiction. They're an acceptable part of the aesthetic. Like you can't have magic, but you can have brain magic, because it's more Science.

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On our street, we accept all, we love all, and we respect all. Happy #PrideMonth!