Cozy Cryptids

today is international nonbinary people’s day and i have yet to see a single post about it on my dashboard so i have decided to be a bit annoying about it and reblog a bunch of stuff because, frankly, i am so sick of nonbinary people being an afterthought, ignored, and erased in the queer community. i hope that today and during this week (nonbinary awareness week, the 13th-20th) you, the person reading this, will take some time to engage in some meaningful allyship of the nonbinary community beyond phrases like “nonbinary people are valid,” especially if you are not nonbinary yourself. tell your nonbinary friends they matter, support nonbinary creators (especially nonbinary creators of colour!), learn how to use a set of neopronouns, read up on nonbinary-specific issues and exorsexism and how they intersect with intersex issues and oppression, learn about nonbinary gender experiences in cultures other than your own, learn about some lesser known terms and labels used by the community, stop misusing our language (transfem and transmasc) to push bioessentialist discourse within the trans community and push back against binary gender/sex division when you see it — there is so much you can do and all of it makes a difference!

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.