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Hi, i'm designing a tattoo, the concept is change/evolution and the idea is of a body under the ground and from it a flower blooms above the terrain. Now, I thought of placing this image in the death tarot card but I want to make sure it fits by its meaning. I'm hoping someone can give me a little help.

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A quick round-up of queer nonfiction recommendations that I wanted to share!

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir 

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender 

Sacrament of Bodies

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality

Hi Honey, I’m Homo!

I want to encourage you to request these from local libraries especially right now. If at all possible, it is a great way to support your local queer community and library at the same time!

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i don't know what younger person needs to hear this, but it is so valid to not want to drink alcohol at all, or to only want to drink very rarely. don't let others pressure you into joining in with those societal rituals. it is an outrage how normalized drinking alcohol is, to the point that those who choose to abstain are constantly forced to justify their private choices, be publicly questioned about what led to these choices or excluded from activities altogether. you do not ever need to justify your reasons for this. there are absolutely valid and important reasons to not drink, and nobody has a right to know your personal reasonings.

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Give yourself a big hug for making it through this year.

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You don’t have to be the same size as your partner.

[Digital illustration of a couple. On the left is a cis white man wearing a plaid shirt, orange beanie and purple jeans. On the right is a Black fem wearing a purple and orange stripe dress and cowgirl boots. Text reads, ‘you don’t have to be the same size as your partner.’]

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i need all fat people who want top surgery to know you are not too fat for top surgery. a competent surgeon and anesthesiologist team will make things work for you regardless of your size. if one doctor gives you shit about your weight or bmi or outright refuses to operate on you, get a second opinion. go to a second doctor. go to a third doctor. go to a million doctors until you get what you want. the dual combo of fatphobia and transphobia in medicine cannot keep us down. you do not need to be skinny to change your body how you want to change it. you do not need to be skinny for top surgery.

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Shoutout to those of you in recovery who cannot leave toxic homes, families, or towns. It takes a lot of courage and dedicated strength to choose healing every day in the environment that made you sick. I see you, and I hope that someday you are well and free.

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if you had to quit doing things you love because of your physical disability(ies) you’re allowed to be upset you’re allowed to be angry you’re allowed to grieve. it’s not fair, and it’s distressing, and its ok to admit that.

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I’d like to present to you a list of experiences (that society claims can only ever be romantic) which I’ve had with my friends, because platonic relationships are just as important as romantic relationships if not more so.

dancing in the kitchen at night in the light from the fridge (we listened to Rewrite the Stars and slow-danced in our pyjamas)

surprise visits (my friend drove over to my house after their shift at work to give me a hug after my exam didn’t go well)

looking after each other when sick (I used to keep extra painkillers in my bag for when my friend got headaches, my other friend always used to bring a spare hoodie because I feel the cold a lot, whenever we had colds we could bring each other our favourite snacks to share between classes)

baking together (I have a friend who is an absolute wizard at baking cookies. We made cookies at 1am and shared secrets while sitting against the oven door to keep warm)

forehead kisses (physical touch is one of my love languages to be fair but when I say goodbye to my friends who like hugs I always give them a forehead kiss too)

making each other playlists (i have a friend at uni so we don’t talk as much anymore but we always text each other a song each week that we think the other will enjoy)

watching the stars (when I first passed my driving test I drove into the middle of nowhere with my friend and we watched a meteor shower and saw the sunrise. we didn’t talk because sometimes silence is important too and there is comfort in just having someone there)

matching costumes (when we graduated high school my friends matched our costumes and went in animal onesies - we forgot a spare change of clothes and had to walk through town dressed as giraffes but it was funny)

going on a date (my friend and I didn’t have Valentine’s dates so we bought each other flowers and went to see a movie together)

holding hands (I have cold hands. my friend has warm hands. it’s simple science really)

picnic (we brought my dog too and my friend made fruit flapjacks and we watched the sunset)

surprise gifts (my friend brought me my favourite chocolate after my final exam)

New Year’s kiss (forehead kiss but it counts)

writing each other letters (we write each other letters on our birthdays including jokes, favourite memories, the future, the past, and everything in between)

I have many more examples but these are just a few. We’ve been taught to put so much emphasis on finding a romantic s/o that we sometimes forget we can experience love in so many other forms. And if you’ve never had any of these moments, don’t worry. You have plenty of time and someone out there is waiting for you to come into their life, be that romantically, platonically or some other way.

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You are not out of step. You are not falling behind. You are taking the time that you need and there is no deadline for personal development. People who have reached certain “milestones” before you are not “better” than you; they are on their journeys, you are on yours.

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PSA to New Tumblr Users

DON'T CENSOR YOUR TAGS. DON'T.

Write out 'Suicide' Write out 'Rape' Write out 'Abuse' & 'Assault' & 'Gore'

If you don't use the real words in your tags? People won't be able to filter those out and stay SAFE.

You need to tag properly to keep everyone safe.

Don't water down warnings just because social media has trained you to water them down.

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Try not to hate yourself for things you'd forgive your friends for doing

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hope this clears it up!

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Everyone gets older if they're lucky, including nonbinary people.

The media might make it seem as if most nonbinary people are teens (and social media only compounds the issue), but those examples are just as skewed as everything else in that medium.

There are wonderful things about getting older. Embrace them in your own, unique nonbinary way like you do in all things.

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Everyone gets older if they're lucky, including nonbinary people.

The media might make it seem as if most nonbinary people are teens (and social media only compounds the issue), but those examples are just as skewed as everything else in that medium.

There are wonderful things about getting older. Embrace them in your own, unique nonbinary way like you do in all things.

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Clothing has no gender. What you wear doesn’t define your gender or sexuality. 

Art by Liberal Jane