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The Amazing Thoughts Of Gareth. You're Welcome.

@princesidonfan / princesidonfan.tumblr.com

Name: Gareth. Pronouns: he/him. Vegetarian. Goth. Platoniromantic, non-libidoist, repulsed asexual. I post things I find beautiful, and my strong opinions about trivial and not-trivial things. I'm not here to discuss, I'm here to rant. Also I yell incoherently about Prince Sidon, because he's amazing (though I'm not a gamer and have not played The Legend Of Zelda). My avatar is from a super cool picture by dyradoodles (dyradoodles.tumblr.com). Salut!

The phrase "never say never" needs to go die in a hole

I've always hated that phrase, even aside from the fact that it is self-contradictory. Some of us mean it when we say we will never do something.

Hey.

If you are a queer person who came out to your family, or other people you care about, and their response wasn't super negative but it certainly wasn't positive either, it was just mediocre, disappointing, anticlimactic, dismissive, unaccepting, unsupportive, insensitive, or tedious, and afterwards you felt miserable and grieving even though you feel like you should be grateful that their response wasn't worse, and maybe you expected things to feel different afterwards but somehow almost everything is the same and you don't know how to react to an anticlimax when you had prepared for something better or worse, please know this:

You still did a good thing. You still stood up for yourself and declared your truth. You demonstrated to yourself and others that you and your identity or orientations are important and worth taking a risk for. In the midst of all the heartache, confusion, grief, and disappointment, remember this. You were brave, regardless of their response. I am proud of you.

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kazikat-deactivated20150405

SO MAD >:[

Hello, people who are reblogging this. I understand your frustration, but please see this clarification and rebuttal from 2020, including a Snopes article on the misinformation given above.

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