a gay time for gay people

El-Waylly’s job at Bon Appétit wasn’t meant for someone with so much experience, but she took it anyway. In May, her $50,000-a-year salary was bumped to $60,000 when it became clear she was doing work above her pay grade. About five months into the job, she says, management wanted to create a more junior position underneath her to do the cross-testing she had originally been hired for. “They really wanted to hire someone Black, which I know you’re not allowed to say legally, out loud,” she says. “And Chris Morocco [the director of the Test Kitchen] directly told me he didn’t like how quickly I moved up, so he wanted to make sure this person would never be allowed to develop recipes.” As she puts it, management didn’t want another “Sohla problem.” (Through a Condé Nast spokesperson, Morocco stated that this conversation did not happen.)

tagged by angels @momsthetic and @pink-grapefruit-cafe to make my witchy self in this picrew!! thank you loves ♡

Since they’ve lived together Trixie has been in charge of their laundry, because mama, who else? Katya rotates through the same three shirts as a boy and seems perfectly content to let them stew until they glow green in the night and could be cracked right in half. She doesn’t wash her drag stuff either, so Trixie does it because he’s doing his own anyway and because he’s the one who has to sit next to her in the back of an Uber or have her stand so close to him on a stage it’s like she’s trying to fit inside his skin. He’s set aside an entire day to do more than his typical, perfunctory skim of their most-worn items from the top of the pile, and he finds it right at the bottom of the basket.

- A job

- Good relationship with father

- Neurotypical brain

- Ability to top

“Tracy,” Katya says again, very quietly. She’s holding both hands out in front of herself, and tiny pink petals are bursting forth from her palms like confetti and littering the ground at their feet. “Do you think people saw?”

“Um, yeah,” Trixie scoffs.

Today is @stutter8 ‘s birthday and I’m lucky enough to be friends with both her and her soulmate @katiehoughton. beanie approached me about wanting to make an EP for stutter’s birthday, and asked if I would help her write a song. Of course I said yes, I’m so honoured to be a part of this. 

The lyrics are made up of bits and pieces of comments people have left on stutter’s fics, and it’s a testament to how many lives her work touches and changes for the better. She is a deeply kind and wise person, and it’s not just reflected in her writing but in the people who love her writing. 

Happy birthday stutter! You are so loved, you deserve every bit of happiness that comes your way and so much more.

(beanie picked the snippets for the lyrics, I wrote the music and play the guitar, we’re both singing. The beautiful cover art is by caine_art on instagram. Lyrics under the cut.)