Huddled

hey, did yall know the quileute nation’s still (it is april 2021 as i write) trying to raise money to move out of that potential tsunami hazard zone and onto higher ground? i remember it was trending for a little while on tumblr when the twilight book came out but my corner of the web’s been quiet on it since.

okay good morning. so first of all it's about this article by michael hobbes from 2017 called the epidemic of gay loneliness (long but good read, cw for homophobia, drug abuse, addiction) tldr: gay men across the us experience significantly higher trauma/stress symptoms than straight people, even when they live in liberal cities with accepting parents and have never experienced direct homophobia, because the experience of growing up queer in a cisheteronormative society is inherently othering and isolating. this is then compounded by other factors specific to gay male communities but that's not so much what i'm thinking about here

anyway blue is the most well-adjusted out of the gangsey so i get why ppl don’t write long meta about her trauma (other than a preoccupation with manpain  boypain), but like. she lost her mom for weeks or months?? and ultimately had to find her by herself??? and had her best friend slowly break down and then attack her?? and then she killed her boyfriend and like,,, felt him die under her lips/in her arms. and if you go by maggie’s rules, she has to remain hypervigilant about not killing him for the rest of her life???

Khalsa Aid is fucking amazing. They're who you want to donate to, period.