when i was post op after top surgery i had a good friend there with me to help recover. but the nurse didnt get the memo and when i woke up she was like “ok i’m gonna go get your girlfriend and bring her in to see you!” and i remember being so zonked on anesthesia and so disoriented i just laid there thinking wow…… all that an they’re bringing me a girlfriend too this place is amazing
hi everyone. does anybody else miss something they can never return to. anyone else being swallowed whole by grief. anyone else clinging to love as a life preserver
ITS PRIDE MONTH AND YOU GUYS ARE CONSISTENTLY WEIRD ABOUT LESBIANS, THE LESBIAN FLAG, THE LESBIAN EXPERIENCE — THEREBY YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO OFFER YOUR SUPPORT TO EMILY GWEN, THE CREATOR OF THE LESBIAN FLAG WHO IS CURRENTLY STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE WITH NO JOB AND NO CLOTHING FOR INTERVIEWS
I love you grandmother who helped me pin a trans flag to my battle vest, I love you leather daddies checking on us, I love you trans dykes driving the forklift loaded with water and ice, I love you queer kids in your renfair outfits, I love you faggot punks sizing up the cops, I love you drag queens laughing in the dressing room, I love you i love you I love you I love y
i love you kids in pup masks and fur suits in almost 100F weather, i love you people with packers and tits out and ambiguous genders, i love you old fags screaming the same rallying cries you screamed at pride parades in the 80s, i love you guy with pinwheels on your nipples, i love you girls with rainbow heart tape over your nipples, i love you middle aged gay in his fishing gear taking out his boyfriend’s lollipop to give him a kiss, i love you i love you i love you i lov
so it’s been about a week since i’ve moved from reddit to this god forsaken hell hole (tumblr) and like
i love it
i’m not going back to reddit
my RtT (redditor to tumblrina) transition is complete
i never thought i would say this but this social media (if you can call tumblr one) is actually doing wonders for my mental health
no more doom scrolling
actually interacting with humans that are just as weird as me (feel free to talk to me)
not being afraid of being myself
yeah…
i’m home.
Literally me, content doesn’t update fast enough on this app for me to doomscroll so I actually take breaks
I also feel like I’m interacting with actual people on here, and the posts I make are seen by actual people, vs submitting memes to a faceless void and being regurgitated an infinite stream of images
Also this entire platform being queer friendly makes me not feel attacked while browsing outside of my corner of the website
Also me and all my mutuals being a little friend group is fun, love y'all :3
I still don’t get this whole “interacting with actual people” thing. I still, just like with any other site I’ve used, still just feel like I’m shouting into a void. Nothing about this site feels any different.
i dunno, i think the fact the main way of interacting with a post is to reblog it with - most of the time - your own little take, while seeing other people you follow doing the same with their little takes on stuff they love just feels more social? like, on reddit, most of the time (at least for me) i would upvote something and move on. maybe comment. almost never dm/directly interact with anyone
maybe is just a change of perspective/fresh start for me that it feels like that?
Tumblr just feels a lot more personal, like I feel like that my posts are actually tied to me as a person. I could post anything on reddit and no matter what it was nobody would care about it in 15 minutes, but it’s different on Tumblr. My first post from over a week ago is still getting comments and reblogs, I’ve gotten DMS from people I’ve never met talking to me and it’s been so wonderful. It feels less like an endless void and more like a busy convention center. Yeah there’s a shit load of people here, but each one of them is their own unique person that has their own personality, interests, and quirks. It’s a lot easier to interact with real people than a silent wall of shitty pngs. Tumblr has honestly made it easier to interact with people irl too. There’s been a positive feedback loop, which is something reddit made me feel like was impossible. Tumblr is just so much nicer to me than reddit ever was or could be, and that’s something I think is wonderful. In the words of OP, I’m home
This is like watching stray cats sniffing noses and making friends after being rescued from the streets and put into a loving home.
