makes this house a home

[image description: art of a vampire who is crouching with one foot close to the camera. She is wearing sneakers, a crop top, and ripped black jeans. She has a large Afro and is smiling widely, showing off her fangs. She is wearing large hoop earrings and black nail polish. The background is orange. End description.]

[image description: a realistic oil painting of flowers in a simple glass vase sitting on a green window sill. the flowers are aster-like, yellow and red and pink. the view outside the window is of trees dappled with gold light. end ID.]

[ID: a photograph of a lush, green forest with sunlight filtering through the trees. A lot of white dandelions grow on the forest floor. End ID]

[ID: photo of a book stand, the books written in Arabic and French, with a green-eyed calico cat sitting atop one of the stacks. end ID]

[Image description: an animated drawing done in black and white cross-hatching, depicting a person shakily holding up a candle. The candle lights the space around them as it flickers, and a hulking shadow passes through the light unseen. End image description]

[ID: A Peanuts comic. Peppermint Patty says to Snoopy, "Snoopy, this has been a bad week for me..." She spreads out her hands with an upset expression. "What can you do when everything seems hopeless?" Snoopy leans in and kisses her cheek with a "smak!!", sending a heart flying. Patty looks shocked, then looks in the direction Snoopy left with a wobbly grin and says, "That's good advice!" End ID]

[ID: Ilustration of a dandelion with the roots showing on a black background. It has 4 flowers, each on a different phase of blooming. /End ID]

[ID: a hyper realistic painting of a strawberry cut vertically. the slices are slightly overlapping, so that the inside of the strawberry is visible on one slice. they are on a white background. end ID]

[ID: a container of shower gel that is shaped like a bag of blood. the top reads “Blood bath shower gel,” its labeled as being 0 Rh positive. the gel inside is red. end ID]

[Image description: text that says, “What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?” End ID.]

I don’t have the book anymore because I slipped it into the locker of my depressed mormon lesbian coworker on the last day of my retail job but it was that kate bornstein book about 101 reasons not to kill yourself and she had a whole section on how every gay and lesbian in history was betraying their assigned gender so utterly that they automatically became trans people and it’s one of those brilliant batshit things trans women say so often that drives the right people bugfuck nuts and I wish I had the full quote