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The Kierki

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Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:

More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))

Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?

i was out with my ex once when three *very* young queer kids, like thirteen years old, came up to us and asked us “are you guys, you know…” and did the limp wrist thing at us. one of them loudly exclaimed that it was so cool to meet other queer people in real life. this was in public in an unbelievably conservative area - we didn’t even feel safe holding hands because we were surrounded by Mormons. we got lucky that day, but I’m begging y’all to remember that the world doesn’t work like the internet. other queers are real fuckin people. don’t do this shit. OP is right; tell me you like my jacket, or my patches, or the rainbow spokes on my wheelchair, but don’t out either of us!

This used to be standard operating procedure not even ten years ago: NEVER OUT OTHER QUEERS, even if they’re supposedly already out. Never assume that it’s okay to let third parties know that so-and-so is queer. Ever. You never know when you’ve found the one uncle with the heart condition that they can’t bear to risk telling, or the one neighbor who’s just threatening enough that they don’t mention it around, or even the grandma that they haven’t gotten around to mentioning it to yet. You might have just ruined a very important milestone for someone, or you could have put them at actual risk of harm.

Also… stop freaking assuming. If you don’t see a pride flag on them, please don’t just assume. You can’t tell ANYTHING about a person’s gender or partner preferences by what they’re wearing on any given day, what their hair looks like, or whether or not they’re using makeup. You legit cannot, and you look like a jerk when you try.

this is even more important now that Trump is in power.

some people will be choosing to live in the closet and it is not your job to pressure them one way or the other.

protect your lgbtq siblings - honor their choices - and never talk to cops, collaborators, and snitches.

Younger queer people have grown up in a better world, but we’re in a time of backsliding right now. Do NOT out other queer people. Also, I’m not gonna tell you how to present yourselves in public………..but please, I am begging you to re-evaluate HOW safe you are in the current climate.

Reblogging bc this is important

I’m not on the queer radar (aro ace but brown) but as someone w conservative parents PLEASE be careful

Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine

Nobody has mentioned this but I am so glad you did! I’ve never heard of spine poetry and I love the concept. I found these titles at a used bookstore that stacks books pretty freely so I will most definitely be scanning the spines for poetry every time I go

Spine poetry is so genius wtf

Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

Conches can also produce pearls.

Paua (also called abalone) can make pearls as well- though they are only half-pearls (called mabel pearls)

Things animals love to make:

  • mucus
  • calcified secretions from mucus

The fact that this made me indescribably happy is so silly

us: yeah we on the aroace spectum we we don't really know where....

also us: *jokes about sex, fantasizes about sex, can be very sexual, likes and wants to wear lingerie, sometimes likes to be seen as sexy to the peeps we like, likes drawing sexual things, likes drawing characters wearing seuxal things, causually brings up busting a nut over things we like that we didnt actually bust a nut too, talks very explicitly*

them: so???? you DO wanna have sex then???

us: oh hell no we have 0 desire to actually have sex lol we'd do it with our partner.. or we'd try... but yeah... we good... sorry mate... i aint fucking anyone atm we hope to get neutralization surguery so we just pee and thats it lol

Help…is this…me?

WHAT LABEL IS THIS 😭

aegosexual!

Thank you! I thought I was alloswxual for a while before realizing I only use my opposite sex perosona to rp sexual situations 😭

us: yeah we on the aroace spectum we we don't really know where....

also us: *jokes about sex, fantasizes about sex, can be very sexual, likes and wants to wear lingerie, sometimes likes to be seen as sexy to the peeps we like, likes drawing sexual things, likes drawing characters wearing seuxal things, causually brings up busting a nut over things we like that we didnt actually bust a nut too, talks very explicitly*

them: so???? you DO wanna have sex then???

us: oh hell no we have 0 desire to actually have sex lol we'd do it with our partner.. or we'd try... but yeah... we good... sorry mate... i aint fucking anyone atm we hope to get neutralization surguery so we just pee and thats it lol

Help…is this…me?

WHAT LABEL IS THIS 😭

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