some things i’ve learned about adulthood that no one warns you about

I’m pretty sure I had a favorite burner before I was even a teenager.

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When you live with a blind person and are used to her Screen Reader, this takes no time at all to figure out.  Colon Capital D.

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Are you here to give me 15% off my car insurance sir gecko XD

For LGBTQ+ folks heading to college in Pennsylvania

Our teenager is an officer in the Gay-Straight Alliance at their cyber-charter, which includes students from all over PA.   I spent Winter Break tackling a little project to help them out.  The response was very positive, so I am sharing it widely.

I went through Wikipedia’s list of Colleges and Universities in Pennsylvania and combed through the websites of all the undergraduate institutions looking for LGBTQ+ resources, clubs, anything.  

I stuck to the positive.  If a school isn’t in there, it is more likely that I couldn’t find anything.  Only a very few were openly hostile.  Some of them *really* need to rework their websites to be more easily navigated and searched, though!  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AeUBNrVXjs_Q83v6WEy1TEVykt-y-Re4/view?usp=sharing

Consider this released into the public domain.  Download it, edit it, redistribute it, expand on it…to paraphrase Freddie Mercury: “Do whatever you like with my spreadsheet, just don’t make it boring.”  I am not going to maintain it, and you use it at your own risk.  Do your own research.  

For schools or clubs with a religious affiliation, I only listed “religious”.  I didn’t want to take a risk of misidentifying a denomination or sect, and some of these I have never heard of.  So, again, do your own research.  

If you look at what I have done and say, “I could have done that better,” this tired old CisHet Dad really hopes you do. :) And I am not being sarcastic when I say that: I hope you do.  I hope you get involved, seek responsibility for making your community better-served and better-informed, and if what I did can help you along the way a little with that, great: I am not even asking for credit.

Good luck with your future plans, and remember:

It’s dangerous to Gay alone: take this!

The fact that so many queer spaces are devoted to drinking is, like, a huge problem

And the last time this topic got brought up in any sort of major way, somehow it got turned into “ace people are being bigoted about gay bars.”

The fact that our traditional community spaces are all alcohol-oriented, further enabling alcohol companies to prey on us, is a massive fucking problem.

Queer bars are important, but they shouldn’t be the only spaces available to us.

I can’t fucking drink bc medication and I always feel tired and out of place in bars.

I know I just reblogged this but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there are SO many queer people who are alienated by bars being the main queer community spaces including:

There are SO many reasons that bars, while important to queer history, just do not cut it as the only available queer spaces anymore. I know y'all love to laugh at those of us who talk about queer cafes and queer bookstores cuz lol cringe but most of my queer friends and myself are seriously lacking ANY community because we fit into one or more of the above categories. I mean hell Tucson Pride this year was hardly accessible at ALL to me because I needed my walker and it was hosted outside on a fucking grassy hill with no sidewalks and I ended up having to leave early cuz pushing my walker around was hurting more than helping. We need more accessible queer spaces badly and I will not shut up about it. 

I want to open a queer coffee shop called Iris & Heimdall’s with this art on either side of the door and the rainbow arching over the doorway.

So I’m in an officer position at my cyber charter’s GSA, and I actually did a segment relatively recently talking about queer bookstores and their role in the community with links to more info. Since my cyber charter covers all of Pennsylvania I mostly tried to focus on stuff talking about queer bookstores generally, and then a bit about Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia. I wasn’t able to attach the powerpoint to this Tumblr post but I screenshotted the slides and added them in. I’ll try to do an image description later that has the actual text, but for now  I’ll just copy and paste the links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_bookstores

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_bookstores

https://bookriot.com/queer-bookstores/

https://epgn.com/2019/10/10/authors-and-activism-a-history-of-lgbt-bookstores/

https://www.Queerbooks.com

Hopefully this can be of use to someone.

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EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS WILL GET THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR INBOX.

AND YES I MEAN EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS.

if i don’t get one, I will cry.

Your church-going, God-worshipping sister adopted a small child and you’re excited to see them. But when you do, the child is a menace. They’re throwing things everywhere, setting furniture on fire with seemingly nothing, chanting in Latin to summon demons, but the weirdest thing is that your sister doesn’t seem to mind.

“You literally adopted the antichrist, Anne. What the fuck.”

“Yeah, I knew when I saw him at the orphanage. I figured if the kid had some decent fucking parenting that we could avoid the whole ‘Revelations’ shite. Nasty business, that.”

George, who’s name has been kindly changed from Damien, approaches his new mother with a huge spider in his hands. It promptly bursts into flames.

“Good job, love. Now go find the rest.” George’s face makes no expression, but his eyes shine when he recieves a pat on the head for his efforts.

As the months go by, George seems to settle down. He adjusts to school, friends, and the positive reinforcement Anne gives him. She encourages the good he does, even though the powers he uses aren’t “good”. When she gets calls from the school, it’s about a rambunctious boy that won’t sit still. Not a destroyer of the world and innocence.

It’s at Christmas dinner, that you let slip your amazement to your mother. How good Anne is for him and how he’s improved a lot. Still summoning hellhounds for games of fetch, though.

“Oh, he’ll forget how to do that when he falls in love the first time,” Your mother laughs, smiling wide.

“How do you know that,” you ask bewildered.

“Because, you did.”

okay so someone please write the story of the family of super-low-key holy warriors who have made it their mission to locate the antichrist in every generation (because when one gets spoiled they try AGAIN) and adopt them and love them into not being the antichrist anymore, thus perpetually delaying the apocalypse

delaying the apocalypse via good parenting I love this

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Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?

Every time I like or reblog a post, I leave a little bit of man residue on it

Every time I reply or add commentary to a reblog, that’s five times as much man residue

Me following your blog means your whole blog has man residue

I’m spreading it everywhere

@jaekaeyay here ya go

oh my fucking god. she’s unironically saying men have cooties

Now that this has blown up, I want everyone reblogging it to know their blog has man residue on it

Reblog to get man residue on your blog

MAN COOTIES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today’s Quote

It’s interesting to me that Mormonism has been a thing for like 200 years and currently has millions and millions of adherents but the Book of Mormon has had no cultural impact at all except for like 3 people making fun of it.

Like I’ve lived in the US my whole life and I’ve known plenty of Mormons but I don’t know what the fuck a Nephite is. Does anybody?

That’s a kind of jade, innit? Like you can carve it into pretty things ‘n shit.

That’s nephrite. A nephite is someone who really likes new things

That’s a neophile, a nephite is a particularly unimpressive difference between tides.

That’s a neap tide, a nephite is a newcomer to a particular subject, skill, or belief

That’s a novice, a nephite is a person who communes with / controls the dead .

That’s a necromancer, a nephite is the line that forms the edge of a garment around your neck.

No no, that’s a neckline, a nephite has to be the kid of one of your siblings then.

That’s a nephew. Isnt nephite that guy from the matrix?

That’s Neo. A nephite is what you have using plastic guns and foam projectiles.

Im quite sure that’s nerf guns. Perhaps a nephite is a set of short sticks attached by a chain and used as a weapon.

No no, that’s nunchucks, a nephite has gotta be that one part of an atom then

You’re thinking of a neutron. A nephite is a piece of jewelry you wear around your neck.

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