Odds and ends and occasional pretense.

its been 12 years

13 years

14 years

15 years

16 years

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

18. it’s now legally allowed to vote, drive and buy hard liquors in a lot of countries

i support women's wrongs

happy pride month to this post specifically

@sepiamestus is this how it's supposed to be done

could you imagine if it happened this pride month

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

If you get a compliment from a random American on the street, know that they tried their best to keep from saying a peep to you but they literally could not hold it in. They HAD to say something.

The other day a tiny gay man in a hurry bumped me on the Metro escalator and said "Sorry, great dress by the way" and then he stopped at the top of the escalator and turned around and said "AND a great hat. THAT is how we do summer!" and SPRINTED for his bus and I coasted on that for the rest of the day.

One of my professors in grad school was an American married to a German, and ran into this constantly - he'd compliment his in laws on something and they just. Could not compute. His wife eventually published a paper on it.

Life is hard and the world is cold and that dress is stunning, and it deserves saying

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!