UNORTHODOX: quietly queer

I've been following you for months and am only just now realizing that your pfp is lego Moroni 😭

Why am I always the first to line up to eat anything at a relief society event. Is this a mormon lady thing, or some other social norm im not understanding? They all wait, holding back, not daring to go for the refreshments. Meanwhile, Im chowing down.

do you have a quad? if so, what does it look like!

Pocket altar made with an empty prismacolor case, my endless scrapbook supplies and pictures either cut out from the back of a calendar or from the little cards and booklets they give out at church.

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

There’s a really compassionate and well-written paper/book/thing called Suicide: The Forever Decision that’s written specifically for people who are currently suicidal. The letter to the reader at the beginning is wonderful and deeply understands how to talk to someone who’s suicidal without preaching or talking down to them.

An important skill to have when you grew up mormon, whether you're still mormon or not, is being able to think about the things you were taught and figure out if it was a, actual canon doctrine, b, common belief/cultural thing but not doctrine, c, a general american/conservative/Christian thing, or d, some random shit someone made up.

hey king ❤️ i’m going to BYU soon and i’m worried that i won’t be able to meet anyone that’s not dying from Stick In Ass Disease. did you go to mormon college and meet anyone chill?

shh don’t worry catholics aren’t real