welcome to hell

I must listen to the birds

and in order to listen to the birds

the war planes must be silent

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like I literally don’t care if you’re gay, are you QUEER?

I’m specifically part of the queer community and NOT the LGBT+ community. ive never felt like part of the LGBT+ community. I am QUEER. and my community is QUEER. and if you’re not queer then cool I’m sure you have your own communities n shit but I’m looking for my peers in mine

the key distinction for me is that the queer community is browner and Blacker, the LGBT community has always appeared painfully white and uncomfortable for me to personally be involved with. the queer community is also more radical, practicing radical unlearning of concepts like

family, love, gender, sex etc and reframing and rebuilding these things. the LGBT community has never, in my experience with it, been as driven about breaking down these systems and more often aim to be able to live safely within them

for me, the lgbt+ community is white, skinny, cis, abled etc. it’s the LGBT society at my uni; a room of sex segregated white people with very strict expectations of sexuality, expression, bodies etc. self professed queer spaces are the messier underbelly, the mixing

the fuzzy boundaries and the fuck the boundaries, the ugly and unattractive, the new and different, the too loud and too weird. that’s my family

muted the thread btw because people don’t know what “personally” or “in my experience” mean :^)

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do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:

McAfee Westbrook in The Politician Season 2