#300th post

This is literally just me eating a single potato chip

I guess you can say

I started this tumblr in 2021, a little over 4 years ago, posting about diversity of LGBT People. The thing I’ve learned by researching the lives of others, is that we achieve greater happiness outside the closet. And our strength in numbers helps to oppose the homophobia in the world.

I thought Chris Bryant was a fitting person for my 300th post. He delivered a powerful speech the importance of Gay Pride to Parliament on Monday June 23, 2025.

“People ask me, “Why on earth do you need a Pride Month? Do you really need LGBT History Month? What’s the point of Pride marches and Pride flags? Hasn’t the world changed? Haven’t you already got same-sex marriage and adoption, gays in the police and the military, and laws that protect people from discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender reassignment? What more do you want?” That is what I hear all the time, even from really well-meaning, liberal souls.

But we have always needed Pride. We needed it when people lazily assumed that a short haircut meant that you were a lesbian or a lisp meant that you were gay. We needed it when people laughed at Larry Grayson and John Inman but forced them to hide their sexuality. We needed it when people said that we should be harassed, arrested and locked up for loving who we wanted. We needed it when the police wore rubber gloves to arrest us, just in case we gave them AIDS. We needed it when we were called queer, faggot and arse bandit at school. We needed it when we were sneered at, spat at, punched, kicked and beaten up.

And we need Pride now—when kids are still bullied because they are camp or butch; when families still throw their LGBT children out of the home; when many are so worn down by abuse that they take their own lives; when so many are so terrified of coming out that they live lives of terrible, crushing loneliness; when people are abused for wanting to transition; when our cousins in Hungary are denied the right to demonstrate; when the state police in many countries deliberately entrap homosexuals; when trans people are treated as less than human; and when homosexuality is still illegal in 63 countries, including 38 that apply those rules to women, and including more than half the Commonwealth. Yes, we still need Pride.”

Chris Bryant was knighted in the 2023 New Year Honours for political and public service.

Bryant entered into a civil partnership with Jared Cranney in 27 March 2010. The ceremony was the first civil partnership ever held in the Houses of Parliament. On their 10th anniversary they got married.

“The Daily Mail once referred to me as an “ex-gay vicar”. I am an ex-vicar, but the other stuff is coming along quite nicely. In fact, I am a practising homosexual—one day I will be quite good at it.”

Amy’s Fortune Cards!! I love their designs

The two shown here are the Master Emerald and Skyborne Aspirations.

Rambling below:

From the Fortiche Concept Art Collection. I bought this on taobao for 2 dollars and it has about 260 images of concept art of the characters and the environment

Vi Zaun

The pink-haired fighter has had a rocky childhood, and even though her attitude is a little reckless, her heart will always be on the straight and narrow. Arcane details Vi’s life in Zaun, and her journey on becoming Piltover’s peacekeeper. 

Caitlyn · Kiramman Piltover

One time at school a bunch of older kids even got together and chanted 'BOYGIRL' at me, pointing and laughing at my hair. I think I was maybe 7 years old at the time. I was MORTIFIED and spent the rest of my life hiding my hair under hoodies, tying it back, and straightening it every single day so it looked like hair a girl would have. It sucked and I never liked looking at myself in the mirror because I had to put on this costume to get everyone to leave me alone.

Since figuring out I'm trans, I realize that I've been gifted with naturally fluffy trans boy hair this whole time and my perception of myself changed overnight. I LOVE my hair right now. I have the most adorable bedhead. I don't have to do anything with it because yeah it looks like messy guy hair and that's awesome. I can't believe what I've been missing this whole time.

Man FUCK BULLIES. I can't believe how much of an impact they had on me. They made me think that looking like a boy was something horrible and bad and I should be embarrassed about it. I loved how I looked that day and their bullshit chanting hurt me so bad that I stopped loving myself. I stopped looking at myself in the mirror. I started so desperately trying to prove to everyone that I really was a girl that I lost my own identity. I didn't even realize I was trans until my 20s because I was so busy running away from myself.