Aww, where's the chaos in that?

Very well, I accept your kind offer 🥰

These memories simultaneously seem like they happened a lifetime ago and like they happened just a minute ago. 🫂🏳️‍⚧️✊

It is an excellent event. Well done you all!!

I imagine it would. Changing ourselves does not immediately change the spaces and people around us, some of whom are more comfortable with our past issues than they are with our current progress. And yes, that can sting. 😕🫂

Lesson learned in my own life (and your mileage may vary): not all people do that. A good therapist helped me differentiate my own stuff from other people's unkind reactions. But I'm now in a place where the people around me want to hear how I feel 🫂

🎼 Send in the clones...! 🎵🎶

Notably, none of these are "transgender symbols"

Oops, you, did it again... 🎶🎵🤘

It is no surprise that you're the one brightening my day 🥰

Our Detroit Tigers did this today as well.

On a related note, there is no longer a Facebook app on my phone 😕

The transition goddess giveth, and the transition goddess taketh away

Oh noes! This is a marital crisis for sure. I do hope you're able to work through it together

"is that actually your hair color?"

yeah bish it's actually mine, I got a receipt 😆

That's a lovely avocadro 🥰

He was sandwiched between generations. Relying on the older "pray the gay away" olds to keep a roof over his head, with kids and cousins from every corner of the rainbow spectrum. And he chose the kind of fierce allyship that would take a felony charge to protect the queer kids. A true badass.

I'll be there. Maybe not this Saturday, but I'll be there

I love you, bro. I miss you. And I hope that somewhere along the way, you felt love and found some peace. Fuck you for making me ugly cry, again. We learned so much from you, and we will never be the same without you. 💔

I am desperately sad to lose you. I'm fucking furious at you for checking out so soon. And I wish I could show you the hole you have left in our worlds. You were loved so fiercely by so many. The place will never be the same because you were here, and it will never be the same without you.

The Klingons were right. The fight for mental health is the most epic battle a person can take on. Predatory capitalism, wealth disparity, class barriers, and clueless moralizers make the playing field even more uneven. You fought so hard for so long and I will always be proud of you

Addiction is a fearsome and deadly foe. I will always respect you for the fight you put up. But goddammit bro, you didn't have to take on so much of that battle alone alone. This fight doesn't care about respectability. We should have done whatever it took, because in this fight only winning matters

We worked so hard, and we went through so much, we deserved to grow up to be those people. Together. Oh believe me, we'll still do it one day, and now you'll be one of the legends we talk about. But we have been cheated. We didn't want to do this without you.

Speaking of being a man short. You, our sister, and me, we grew up with some weird, weird shit. We earned - we EARNED - the right to grow old together. To be the strange greyhairs at the dining room table, scaring the grandkids with tales of how much weirder the older olds were

Dude. Your daughter and your niblings were counting on you. Oh we'll step in and finish raising them, of course. But now there'll be more with to do, and our team is a man short. We miss you and also we're gonna be a little mad at you now and again.

Dude, you are not getting away with skipping your birthday party. Your big sister is having it anyway, and I don't care if you force us to miss the date. A late party for my late brother will be an even bigger deal than the one you thought you'd avoided.

Check on your people. Often. However often you're thinking right now? More than that. This journey is a hard one, and it's easy to forget how much we need each other.

If you don't know how to exercise caution and be safe when their are party drugs in your space and when your loved ones are using them, there are some life skills you should learn right now.

Alcohol is a party drug with a killer PR team. Treat it with the caution you would for any party drug - maybe even a but moreso than other drugs, to balance out the slick marketing. And think about the people around you who drink in the same way you'd think of ppl using any other party drug

My younger brother died this week, at an age that was much too young.

48 hours later, I have a few thoughts.

Sandwich is art