The little things I like

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

First image is a cultivated park with the top caption “Imagine” and the bottom caption “Being Planted”. On the right hand side of the image is a small picture of a sunflower and the surrounding text “This post was made by feral sunflower gang.”

The commented image is a field of sunflowers behind a fence on the left side with dry soil on the right side. The dry soil is empty except for a single fully-grown sunflower. The bottom caption reads, “Fuck the police.”

Just a quick note for Pride month, since it invariably always wakes up the „But what about…“ crowd: 

Awareness months for other things already exist. 

„Why do gays and transgenders get a whole month and US veterans don’t get anything?“ They actually get two months. National Military Appreciation Month is May, while National Veterans and Military Families Month is November.

„I have nothing against the lgbt+ community but if they get a whole month, it’d only be fair if we’d have a month for disabled people too“. Good news, Disability Pride Month already exists: July! 

„Cis women are oppressed too and they don’t get a whole month“. What about Women’s Health Month in May or Women’s History Month in March, for example? 

„People are already aware that gay men exist. What about some awareness for smaller minorities?“ Good idea, what are you doing for Asexual Awareness Week (October), Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (February), Nonbinary People’s Day (July 14), Intersex Awareness Day (October 26) or Bisexual Awareness Week (September)? (Plus, Pride has never been about gay men only. Saying this shows quite a lack in historical knowledge, actually.) 

There are a lot of causes to support and there’s only twelve months. Our community doesn’t even have a monopoly on June - we share our month with Men’s Health Awareness, Infertility Awareness , PTSD Awareness and Caribbean‑American Heritage Month, for example. 

Let’s be honest here: this isn’t actually about other groups or causes not having their own months. If they genuinely cared about those causes so much, they’d be involved enough in them to be aware of their respective months and dates. Ideally, they’d even be involved enough to do something for those months. 

Because the truth is, Pride Month doesn’t just magically happen, either. It’s not like June rolls around and, boom, there’s Pride. People make it happen. People are involved in the cause. People organize and plan and pay for and promote Pride events. People show up. 

So, when they ask „But what about…“, the real question is: Are they actually doing something for that other cause - or do they only bring it up when it’s a convenient way to disparage Pride? 

With all my love, 

it may seem sad to some people because it kinda implies that humans don't have a purpose to exist and weren't created by a divine being but i actually like that point of view

i like the fact that our creation was completely random and we just exist because of chemistry and evolution i like the fact that humans don't NEED to do anything; don't NEED to fulfil their purpose because that means that by pure chance we evolved to have complex minds, and when we became the dominant species of our planet we ourselves decided to explore the universe, understand the fundamental particles that made us, create beautiful works of fiction, music and art, and decided that even through tough times we should stick together in a community

Stuff like "Being aromantic is okay - it means your life doesn't revolve around finding a partner, so you can have tons of friends! Having a whole friend group to love is so much purer and better than only having one partner to love" is well-meant... but there are multiple reasons why I don't think this should be the main point to use when you want to share aromantic positivity:

Aromantic people exist, not feeling romantic attraction is one of the many possible human experiences out there. So, being aromantic is okay! Full stop. No (spoken or silent) "if" or "but" or "as long as".

The focus on friendship implies that not feeling romantic attraction is only okay because they make up for it by having many friends. Making up for it isn't necessary because it's not a flaw or personal weakness.

There are people who struggle to make friends. There are people who don't feel the need to make friends. If those people happen to also be aromantic, they deserve to have a space in the community and not feel like a "bad example".

There are plenty of ways to interpret the world around you and your feelings about people. Not everyone feels comfortable with the idea that they "love" their friends (or the implication that you need to at least love your friends if you can't love a partner)

It's kinda weird to imply that people who feel romantic attraction are unable to have any interests but romance or do not have any deep connections to people other than their partner.

It's not impure or bad to want a partner. Again, really weird implications here! You can uplift aromantic people without bad-mouthing people who want romantic relationships.

Some aromantic people also have or want a special relationship with one specific person. They are still aromantic.

Can we just generally retire the idea that one way of living your life is "purer" than other ways?

With all my love,

Happy Pride Month! Once again doing my series of drawing pride flags as Foxes!