Sometimes The Help You Need Isn’t The Help You Want. Call 1-800-273-8255 If You’re Thinking Of Suicide.

Life happens around you when you're in the closet

You learn the word gay and you see the flags and you know one of them is yours

And everyone else around you is living their life while you figure out which one is which

Who am I attracted to

What are my pronouns

Am I attracted to anyone

Who am I

And the friends you know who have a handle on how to express themselves well

They're having their first kiss

They're going on their first dates

First girlfriend first boyfriend

First anniversary, meeting the parents, learning what it's like to have a significant other

You're fighting all these terms inside your mind

And you don't even know which word fits you so how do you tell someone what's going on

How do you get help if the people you're supposed to be able to turn to aren't for certain safe

So life goes on outside the closet you're looking from

One day you'll join, I promise you

I promise you because I have joined life as a queer person and there's so much of life to live little one

One day you'll live in the sun as your full authentic self and you will be okay

It took years and years for me

Past middle school pubescence, past high school struggles

Past college for me

Past early adult years

And let me tell you

There's comfort in the closet but the truth in the light of day will feel like home, you'll see

We'll all be here when you're ready

Watch Tracy Chapman Start a Quiet Revolution

You guys may be too young to remember, but I remember tuning in on TV with 600 million other viewers to watch Stevie Wonder live at Wembley Stadium for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday celebration tribute in 1988. There were technical difficulties and Stevie Wonder couldn't go on yet. The crowd was antsy, milling around, singing their own songs. The TV cameras were rolling and the show had to go on, so TOTALLY UNKNOWN ARTIST TRACY CHAPMAN GOT UP ON STAGE AND PLAYED FAST CAR ARMED WITH ONLY HER GUITAR.

The crowd fell silent. Captivated by the absolute raw honesty and talent on display. Did we know we were witnessing history? A black queer artist who would rocket to fame and win a Grammy for this song the following year? I don't remember.

What I do remember is getting to the end of the song and not caring about Stevie Wonder any more. I wanted to know who this woman was!

Watch Tracy Chapman stun a rowdy crowd into silence:

Japanese Artist Depicts The Typical Life Of His Pet Hamster, And The Result Is Adorable

The future in space, illustrated by Davis Meltzer, Don Davis, Pamela Lee, and Vincent Di Fate.

1000 follower giveaway!

Hello everyone! As you may know, I just hit 1000 followers! To celebrate this frankly stunning achievement, I’m doing a giveaway of my first novella: Chlorophyll and Gasoline. 

A physical copy of it! Paperback and all that!

^ Novella cover! 

Chlorophyll and Gasoline is about Willow, a curious and inquisitive Gaian, a race of plant-human hybrids. She descends deep into the cave and ruins system known as the Undergrowth, and in it finds a robot named Suzy. The two of them form a friendship, despite protests and caution from Willow’s community. 

To enter the giveaway, you must:

Follow me AND reblog this post

Additional reblogs count as additional entries, but please don’t spam your followers! 

I will ship anywhere, and cover every cost and expense! 

The giveaway ends on September 23rd, 2018! That’s my birthday, so I sure as hell won’t forget it. The winner will be chosen through random number generators, and I will personally contact them over Direct Messaging, along with making a post announcing the winner. 

If you want to read a sample of Chlorophyll and Gasoline, it’s under the Read More!

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What's up with Pluto these days you know anything?

The planet, the dog, or the god? In any case the answer is “Between jobs.”

tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has steadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

remove flashing ads, including not accepting blaze campaigns for posts with flashing in them

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

[edit: a 'blackout' is when you don't log in, or interact with the site at all, for [x] amount of time.]

I suggest from the 30th of June.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

edit: tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

edit 2: plain text version of this post

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