ask me how I am and I'll scream

I *am* in love with a woman, now. (Two of them, actually.) But I was a lesbian when I was 14 years old and felt like there was something wrong with me. I was a lesbian before I felt safe enough to understand it.

"Love is love" makes it sound like, "Oh, it's okay everyone, the gays are just spicy heteros! Queers, they're just like us!" No. No I'm really not.

"Love is love" feels like it was made for cis white gays, but pride is for all of us. Those of us who aren't palatable to the masses, and don't fucking want to be. I tried that. I hated it.

Queer love isn't just love, it's revolutionary. And it goes beyond romantic love. It's love for our friends, for our community, for our queer ancestors. And love for ourselves. Because goddamn society spent a long ass time making me feel like it wasn't okay to love myself.

happy pride to them

Collection on ao3 will open the 9th: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SummerOfTeam69

Can't wait to see and share all the team 69 things! If you share a post on Tumblr you can tag #summer of (team) 69 or #sot69 or tag the blog.

Your event hosts are both planning on sharing some of their existing team 69 works throughout, so please don't be shy to do that. Self promote, baby. You are awesome and your creations are awesome.

i had a vision (w/refs ⏬)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

to this day no other post gets sent to me so often by friends who have encountered it as a repost on some other site. the idea that more than one hundred thousand people have read these words, and know this story now, and maybe feel as i did, is tremendously humbling and unbearably beautiful to me. even by accident, even just passing on a story that is not my own, i often think that it is the best thing i have ever done.

Hello to all team 69 enthusiasts! This summer, prepare for a celebration of the beautiful reality that the Ninth is bosom with the Sixth, no matter what sorts of lies Harrow wants to tell herself.

Running from June 9th through September 6th -- 6/9-9/6 or 9/6-6/9, however you write your dates!

The idea is to write, draw, post, and share links to team 69 content. Get your Harrows and Pals, your Cams and Gideons, your "Masterful work, Reverend Daughter"s, your "Ask me how I am and I'll scream"s.

Get your Palamedes holding Gideon's hand, your Camilla telling Harrow how to hold a sword properly! Your "Do you know, I miss Harrow terribly."

Put them in canon, post canon, or canon divergence, put them in an au, share an ao3 link of your favorite team 69 work. The world is your oyster.

We will be sharing weekly prompts/categories to work with, but you should feel free to create whatever you want! The prompts are intended to inspire works of any rating, smut is welcome, wholesome works are welcome, there is room for one and all. Just please make sure everything is tagged appropriately!

Credit for the concept, the name, and a majority of the prompts goes to members of The Library discord server.