where all things come to die

"I wish I did not have to sugarcoat my sadness, but if you swallowed it raw, naked, and uncouth, it would curdle your insides and shrivel up your tongue."

oh nah, leshy had been living off the grid out in the woods for years lmao; i imagine his appearance and general demeanor got him something of a local cryptid status in the area around whatever forest he was living in

so as he got older he just started getting sloppier about not disturbing the peace, and after a point the trader was just like "grandpa look we gotta talk about this"

chapter 12 of OLD_FOLKS HOME is going up tonight, so i thought i’d squeeze in these shitposts based off some of my buddy @squid-hug​‘s top tier beta-reading comments on chapter 11 lmao

you can find the originals below the cut:

this has probably vibe-checked me harder than any ask i’ve ever gotten lmao, i had no idea p03 was called j03 in french

i’m inclined to say yes to your question though, i’m extremely tickled by the idea of this alternate version of poe who’s exactly the same except he’s french and named joe instead

OLD_FOLKS HOME chapter 22 came out a few days ago! in this one goobert goes to leshy to challenge him for one of magnificus's belongings that the old photographer, has, up until now, refused to relinquish...

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

This elderly gentleman lives alone in Porto, when he saw the march coming up his street all he knew was he wanted to participate, so he ran home to get the only flag he had to wave as they passed by, when they did he was overcome with emotion and called over one of the activists, they hugged and exchanged flags, he felt so overwhelmed that he could only hold it and cry.

This isn't a story about a closeted elderly man, António lives and has been living alone for many years now and that little moment made him feel included in something for the first time in many years.

Says the article:

"The act was "of support”, guarantees the man, especially because “each one is as they are and we are all the same”. “The joy I felt at this moment. I cried,” he recalled, still emotional when looking at the photograph offered to him during this report.

However, even though it reached thousands of people, the moment screams a feeling of belonging, of joy and also a portrait of loneliness as a consequence of aging.

Behind that door, whose image spread across the country, António is the portrait of a condition that affects many others like him.  He lives alone, but the walls of his home are full of memories of a life shared and full of love. “Memories I preserve,” he stresses.

He's not gay, nor does he need to be to support and respect the cause.

“We all have the same color blood. We are all the same.”

Still with an emotional look glued to the photograph that immortalized his gesture at the march, António remembers: “I felt embraced by all of them”. After a sigh, he says: “See this photo? I want to take it to my coffin.”

I mean, the blockade is just an established fact.

He really thinks that Cubans are dumb. He thinks that they have no idea how Cuba was before Fidel- that they know nothing about their own history, about why they had a revolution.

Cubans KNOW why there was a revolution, a lot of older Cubans even remember it, and that's why so many would do anything for the revolution.

her family’s gofundme!!