there's a tree, cowering in the wind

i have to feel weird and unsure of everything forever #thecurse

maybe it's me being a brown woman but i can't comprehend how & why people treat having a racist phase as a teenager as smth okay or a norm

it's def not good but treating people who got better like they're still shitty people is a good way to make them turn back into shitty people

the "rip ___ you would have loved ___" meme is inherently more fun with ancient characters. rip clytemnestra you would have loved morse code. rip theseus you would have loved the airtag. rip callisto you would have loved wearing shorts.

rip Icarus you would have loved parachutes

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

I think perhaps the only way in which queer people have achieved true parity with straight people is that queer romantasy is just as bad.