Grew Up Without Butch Role Models And All I Got Was This Psychosexual Obsession With Masculine Suffering

Lon Chaney and Edna Tichenor in the lost film, London After Midnight (1927)

Did you seriously just allow the seed of cruelty to sprout

I'm so glad I live in a world where there's Archive of Our Own

Dean Dean Dean

i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

NEEED to have a lifelong creative partnership.. and if it gets a little homoerotic.. well I guess that would be okay too !

they actually created me to become famous. but i was shy