Lucky for you, I got all these daddy issues: Queer Summer, 2021 (LGBTQQIAAP+++)

No manscaping ever!!!!!

OH HI

2 weeks pass and i'm no less gay. alright who's broken out the sweaters be honest

Hardcore makeout last Friday evening with a 20-y-o arrested Monday night for protesting the Biden administration's Haiti policy. I'm proud!

o snap son! a 20-yo he says. what color hair?

Dark hair. Covered in tats. Wants to be a designer.

I have broken out my winter clothes, tho it's warm today in Philly.

spent the last few days in big bear where it was reeeeeeal cold, but the hot tub was very nice!

oh cool!! do u ski?

Dark hair. Covered in tats. Wants to be a designer.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 20, 2021 6:54 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)

well damn! sounds perfection

tabes wish i could cuddle up wit ya and have you read me a poem

lol i def do not ski, and there’s no snow in BB now anyway. there’s a month-long oktoberfest thing happening there now but we did not partake. curious to check out what they do for pride there some year tho

Hardcore makeout last Friday evening with a 20-y-o arrested Monday night for protesting the Biden administration's Haiti policy. I'm proud!

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

awesome.

Haven't worn a pair of socks or long pants since April, and not gonna til the temperature drops below 50 during the day. Maybe even 45.

I've worn a light jacket a couple of times tho.

I've worn a sweater for just about every dog walk I've been on (twice a day) for the past week or so.

Feeling great and productive these days after what was a shit month or so: my grandfather/last remaining grandparent died at the end of September, and I was hit by what, to my intense relief, turned out to be a particularly rough sinus infection (and not COVID). Nothing specifically queer to report, but I have a couple of gay-themed books (Garth Greenwell, Cleanness; Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World) that are up next on my to-read pile.

i love fall getaways. we went to grand junction colorado two weekends ago. mainly to get weed, but there are some nice trails there. it's at the very northeastern corner of the colorado plateau, so uplifted red rock starts to happen along the colorado river west of town. that side of the valley feels very much like the sticks, though we had good indian food at a newish place there.

weed can't be sold in grand junction itself, you have to drive east to the mouth of the canyon where the colorado exits the mountains in a town called palisade. wood frame houses, looks like early 20th century iowa, and sure enough, the town's settlers were largely from iowa. it was a mining town at first but some time along the way someone discovered that it was a good place to grow fruit trees, so that became a second, gentler industry. there are also vineyards there. and now, of course, two weed stores/farms, and some brewpubs and that kind of thing. cute vegan-friendly coffee shop. we had an excellent dinner at an au courant restaurant. one table over was this family of asshole conservatives who did the thing where they tested the waitress to see how servile she would be. they rudely called attention to her speech impediment. real pieces of shit (incredible waitress though). outside were what looked like a family of hoi polloi liberal types from further upslope who had come down for the warmer weather. colorado, man. the burger was very good, the peach pie was incredible.

not 'hoi polloi,' the opposite, lol

Ugh I miss the mountain west so much sometimes.

it really is incredibly beautiful sometimes. but it's hard to shake the feeling that everything is all wrong, culturally speaking, because we aren't supposed to be there.

tabes if you ever pass through utah, you have a place to stay

colorado is something i've only glimpsed in coors light and mountain dew commercials. lovely post, apart from the waitress abuse (ugh). how's the weed?

and anyone else itt for that matter! xp

thanks deflatormouse! the weed is good, i got some very nice microdosable 1:1 cbd/thc gummies and a decent vape cartridge.

Thanks map. Tbh don't know when I'll ever be there, but I do appreciate the offer. Likewise to you, if you're ever in Philly.

(And all of you, duh. Just need a heads-up, and you have to be okay with dogs and two sloppy gay men being crazy around you)

never tried that! i started smoking again in very small quantities during the pandemic after quitting several years ago. it affects me very differently now and i only seem to enjoy it when also drinking. otherwise, the smallest amount gives me the fear :(

xxp

you have to be okay with dogs and two sloppy gay men being crazy around you

^^that sounds great! who wouldn't want that??

Well, let's just we're not the cleanest people.

i haven't cleaned the toilets in weeks though i pour a little bleach in every once in a while to cut the smell.

i never fold laundry. i take it from the dirty pile on the floor, wash it, put it in the clean pile on the floor.

omg

lol

i just spent a $135 on dry cleaning. but differences realllllly do make the world go around. i would hate me if i were another person. 100% on the place to stay in Brooklyn btw.

that waitress story though. so, funny thing - "incredible waitress". it's just a great thing to say, and think. it happened to me the other night when i was out with a girlfriend. i was like - that waitress is incredible. my friend was like she literally just smiled at you and took your order. i was like yea and i guess you were probably pretty used to that growing up as a gorgeous straight white lady. i cannot hold my tongue in situations like that. wd prolly get beat up quick in CO

i plan on being baked all wknd btw hope yall can join in on the fun. movie recs pls. i v been wanting to watch dazed and confused lol.

have 2 films I'm currently in the middle of - Only Lovers Left Alive and The Holiday

it's Practical Magic time of year as well weeeee how's everyone's weekend?

I hope you mean the Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn Holiday!

spent the last few days in big bear

o my gosh no i'll add it to the list! xp

ugh i was having the best morning, y'all, and then i was about to go for my favorite bike ride and i had a flat— a pinprick puncture, very difficult to keep track of, and by the time I'd done everything I need to do, I didn't have time for the ride anymore.. :-(

nooooooo. that's so annoying! what are you going to do to make yourself feel better with your day?

Get baked and listen to nice music while I work, seems like!

lol

listening to this one in anticipation of the LOW poll. am i the only queer who adores LOW?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYhIcT1nFsw

me!! had been an on-and-off fan starting with ‘secret name’, then ‘double negative’ made me reevaluate their whole back catalog and am now a permanently-on fan

i used to be but i'm just not feeling em these days.

i've posted about this before but i have baggage re: mormonism and this band that makes it hard for me to respond to their music at this stage in my life with anything other than an eye roll. it makes me happy that other people get a lot out of their music though, we all need that.

i do still love "sunflowers" though

i used to be but i'm just not feeling em these days.

Same, although I always like two-step and a few others.

I'd loved them long before I knew they were Mormons, and tbh, I just don't care. But I wasn't raised in the church, so it's easy for me to say such a thing.

your day sounds great T
I'm trying to make edibles my regular jam as opposed to flower
it's a work in progress

(can't beat flower for making music though)

I use a vape pen of a light sativa hybrid during the day and switch to straight hi-thc indica in the evening.

did i tell you guys about my crazy THC overdose situation early in the pandemic? last may i was having several nights straight of bad/no sleep and my husband suggested i try this THC oil that he had gotten from a dispensary. we both ended up taking some that night, the same dosage each, sublingually, except i'm a lightweight and i woke up in the middle of the night giggling my head off because i was SUPER stoned. like, higher than i'd ever been in my entire life probably. it was fun for about five minutes and then it swiftly became extremely not-fun. i kept having to get up to go to the bathroom (steadying myself along the wall as i went because i felt so woozy/disoriented) in order to drink water to counteract the dry mouth - like four or five glasses at a time, and then i'd feel parched again fifteen minutes later. i then somehow managed to convince myself that i'd choke on my own tongue if i fell asleep (???) and i started panicking. woke my husband up (he had none of these issues and fell asleep promptly) and i made him hold me and calm me down and then maybe after an hour or so i eventually fell asleep. good stuff!

anyway, w33d remains a once-in-a-while thing for me. been doing a lot of reading about vitamins/micronutrients lately. i've started taking magnesium glycinate pills before bed and i think they've helped with sleeping, plus i feel a lot less groggy in the morning when i take them.