Huge TW for the photo and text in the linked fundraiser, but…
A woman in my recovery community has been extremely ill with anorexia nervosa for decades, and several years ago was also severely burned in a kitchen fire. She is middle-aged, quite alone in the world, too sick to function, and in desperate need of the help that’s being offered to her (w a partial scholarship) by an excellent treatment center. But she needs the money to go.
If you can give or share, you really will be helping to pull her away from death’s door. Thank you!!! <3
[id: tweet from @pettyfilou “mysterious enema” dec 1, 2018 “do u ever think abt what queerness would look like if a whole generation of us weren’t wiped out? do u ever think abt the families that could exist right now? the stories that are gone?
followup tweet, same person: “i wish the queer experience wasn’t fraught with danger and sadness and just overwhelming fear. i wish i had billions of elders who were still alive today to tell me what i silly kid i am and that i have my whole life ahead of me. i wish i didn’t miss ppl i never got to meet”]
Every day. I think about this every day. I saw so many people die in the ’80s and ’90s.
Some were my elders, some were my peers.
It was horrifying. And little to no safe sex education other than how to not get pregnant.
World AIDS Day should be a national day of mourning.
I just want…..someone to be so utterly enamored by me in every way?? but I don’t want to be romanticized. I want to be fully understood on every level. to be seen as fundamentally whole. I want security and respect and I want the freedom to still be me. I don’t want sacrifice tbh….I think it’s overrated… I just want to coexist. not two halves that complete each other but two wholes that compliment one another….and I don’t think that is asking for too much
one of my favorite tropes is when a character is talking in the foreground and something happens in the background that directly contradicts what they’re saying
foreground: character is talking about how they pride themselves on being a good parent
background: character’s 3 year old son starts a car and speeds off
During the construction of London’s massive “super sewer,” archaeologists discovered something unusual in the mud: a 500-year-old skeleton of a man still wearing his thigh-high leather boots.
The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) announced this week that the skeleton was unearthed on the shores of the Thames, near a bend in the river downstream from the Tower of London.
“By studying the boots, we’ve been able to gain a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a man who lived as many as 500 years ago,” said Beth Richardson, a finds specialist who analyzes artifacts at MOLA Headland, a consortium of archaeologists. “They have helped us to better understand how he may have made his living in hazardous and difficult conditions, but also how he may have died. It has been a privilege to be able to study something so rare and so personal.” Read more.
some of you never played online dressup games while sitting in a huge beat up desk chair while being yelled at by your mom when you were kids and it shows. grow up
