It's quiet uptown.

[flaming_muse]

I've been quiet recently, for a variety of reasons. RL is quite busy with the end of the school year, the end of some projects I've been a part of, and the end of the repair work on our house. I'm reading a lot, catching up on fandom and commenting where I can, and mostly just trying to grab some peace for myself when a moment appears

Comments

[theromanticnerd]

I love your words of wisdom, Mama Muse 💜 Thank you for this post.

[flaming_muse]

I'm not sure there's any wisdom in them, but I thank you. <3

[alianne]

Sending hugs from the other side of the planet.

We *have* come so far. And we have so, so much further to go. I remember a day, it must have been around '97, when I was 15-ish, and our teacher invited a "gay man" to talk to our class and tell us how his friends had talked him into being gay and that if we would choose to listen to friends like that we'd all get sick and die.

Today we have gay characters on TV, we have role models, we have better ways of getting information and find community. Some countries have gay marriage. Not my country :( But yes, some things are so, so, SO much better.

And a lot of things really, really aren't. I wish the world had changed more, and I'm heartbroken. But I'm also glad to see people talking and finding each other and not being alone *at least* on the internet. <3

[flaming_muse]

Yes. I think about how much a show like Glee would have meant to all of us in high school if we'd had anything like it. I think about how much the internet would have helped, too. My high school was way more progressive than the norm here - I helped found the gay/straight alliance-type group - and I still remember people murmuring about whether it was okay for gay staff to live in the dorms. I just... I don't even know how to process what I'm feeling. I'm SO GLAD for all that's changed. I just hate that it's more than twenty years later, and while my friend is able to be married and have kids and be out in his job he STILL isn't safe walking down the street.

[alianne]

Yes! What I can't stop thinking about this week is how much of this change is thanks to people who just wouldn't stop talking about it. And how important it is that we KEEP talking, and that we keep up a demand for representation and education. We all just want to live our lives. And, I mean, what can you do but keep talking. Sometimes people listen. I just . . . yeah, I know what you mean. Words are difficult this week. For everyone, I guess. But yeah, we still have to keep talking anyway.

[ext_3636481]

My heart broke as I read your words and I couldn't help the tears that came, because your words are my heart. I wish so much every single day that there was something I could do to make the intolerance in the world go away. Love is love is love is love...

[flaming_muse]

Love to you. Belated but real love. I had to step away from the topic for a while, but I thank you for your comment. <3

[sheafrotherdon]

I have no wise words about Orlando. I think I'm still trying to come to terms with it, to process what it actually means on too many levels to name. But yes, you're right, there's the fact that so much about the world in which we now live is not the world it once was, and I am deeply grateful for it. But it is still a world people from our past would recognize for its ugliness.

I hope you do write your post about the Tonys at some point ♥

[flaming_muse]

Love to you. Belated but real love. I had to step away from the topic for a while, but I thank you for your comment. <3

And I still have the Tonys on my TiVo and watch various parts to boost my mood. Works every time. :D

[maggie_conagher]

So well said and makes the most sense of any commentary that I've read so far re the tragedy. Thank you!

[flaming_muse]

Love to you. Belated but real love. I had to step away from the topic for a while, but I thank you for your comment. <3