rpgs and lesbians

One has to wonder how the other two astronauts in Project Hail Mary planned to handle what would have been the universe's least conveniently located awkward conversation

I actually really like the term genderqueer, because the only thing it specifies about your gender is that it's queer in some way. Does that mean you're nonbinary? Binary trans? Cis with some freaky cool gender presentation stuff going on? None of those or all of those? It doesn't matter and I think that's beautiful.

you will struggle to say the unsayable thing for five years straight. and then it will suddenly become easy on a Wednesday morning

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

Thinking about Sparrow telling Henry and Mercedes that he plans on proposing to Rebecca when he's like...17 or 18, and they're trying to dissuade him from acting impulsively and Sparrow just looks at Mercedes, points at Henry and goes, "YOU FOUND HIM NAKED IN THE WOODS!"

and then their grandteen polyamorously marries all his friends in space as a loophole in order to cast a teleportation spell

what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us

Finding the intricate balance between allowing myself to experience things but also safeguarding my heart and preventing unnecessary hurt

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

Controversial take some of u will get defensive at, but there IS a right way to give advice (in my opinion). I recently discovered this when I made friends with my former bar manager, a guy in his 50s whom I’m literally in love with (platonically lol). I frequently ask him for advice, and he doles it out to me freely, but he’s also always like “you have it in you to figure this out.” He’s always like “you don’t need me for this; you have it in you.” He’s always reminding me that I have the capacity and experience and emotional intelligence to work through even the toughest weeds. That’s the way to give advice. If you’re not bolstering your friend’s confidence, if you’re not inquiring about their own thought process, if you’re just caustically cutting them off with advice every single time, I’m sorry but to me that’s doing it wrong.

a lot of your suffering comes from treating your nature like a problem to manage instead of a design to understand

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??