#No he hasn't seen Nimona it's too scary for him

[zenaidamacrouras1]

My 6 year old son looking at this picture:

"I think those two boys are just very very very good friends who love each other like friends, because two boys can only fall in love and get married in real life, not in books or shows."

(while reading Prince and Knight and the sequel, Shadow King, which are wonderful childrens picture books where the two male main characters are definitely gay and get married. We have read these books before a hundred times, but apparently he doesn't remember because he went on a year long binge of only reading books about kids who have their own unicorn, which, fair.)

Please share me your queer kids books! We have a stack of books about boys who wear dresses (by request from my boy who wears dresses) but apparently not enough with queer romance!

#Everything needs to be more gay #Gay childrens books #Send me your queer childrens media #No he hasn't seen Nimona it's too scary for him #My kids are huge babies about scary stuff #I'm going to have to write them myself #Queer kids books #Prince and knight

[lillyontheborder]

Happiness

TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of depression and $uic!de. Read at your own risk.

// LILLY IS NOT DEAD. This is just art.

// Part three in my series of developing Lilly. I just watched Nimona and as beautiful as the movie was, it triggered me a little bit at a certain scene. If you have seen the movie, you'll know what I am talking about. However, I wanted to embrace those feelings and use it in Lilly's development. I really liked a line Nimona said: "I don't know what's scarier: The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart… or that sometimes… I … just wanna let ’em. I'm embracing my scary thoughts, and really running with how the borderlands treats people and how it treats humanity and life itself.

// Thank you for supporting me and my writing.

Writing 3/7

Happiness varies from person to person. It never has the same meaning for anyone. You could say that’s the same situation here. 

But… does happiness really exist… in a world like this?

Where is the joy and happiness in a world full of death? 

In a world where games decide our fate?

In which some cry and despair at the end of their lives… while others laugh?

I don’t know which part is scarier… the part where I don’t want to die, or the part… 

Where I do.

Feeling raw, real happiness is really hard for me to identify. Sure I laugh and goof around, and sure I'm overly optimistic. Of course one would say: She's so happy! She's too happy!

I don't know what I am supposed to do, or who I am supposed to be here. I don't think this is something one would think about too much. All anyone wants to do is survive.

But what's the point in surviving if I don't know who I am? Wouldn't that just make me the shell of a person? Something that looks human with no real... human-ness to it?

Chishiya: Doesn't have much emotion yet knows what he wants. He will use others to survive and will do what it takes to get back to the real world. But why does he need to get back? What's waiting for him?

Niragi: Laughing in the face of death and destroying others lives without any hesitation. Is he fighting in these games because he enjoys it? Or because he wants to survive? What is he fighting for? Is all his laughing and smiling true happiness? Or is it just a high from watching his gun take a life?

Kuina: A strong, independent girl who is fighting to get back to her family. Her true happiness must lie in her identity, being free from judgement and having people who accept her and love her for who she is. But... is that all she needs to be happy?

Arisu: Fighting not only to survive, but to save those around him. Is he truly happy, knowing he'll save others? Or is he just putting on a face because he doesn't know what he wants?

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What about me? What's my true happiness? Putting on a happy face and laughing and smiling at the beach can take the pain away for a while, but it doesn't last. I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I joke. That's my high.

But all high's come to an end. Happiness doesn't last. At least... it hasn't for me.

It's not fair. Everyone has a will to live. Everyone has a reason.

Where's mine?

You'll live for your family. You have so much to be grateful for. You have such a good life. You have so much privilege.

I have this and I have that. But I don't have my own reason.

Where is my reason to continue? Where is my happiness?

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I don’t know which part is scarier… the part where I don’t want to die, or the part… 

Where I do.

#lilly #every human needs #alice in borderland oc #alice in borderland