text post from 11 hours ago
Pride isn’t a “queer-friendly space”, pride IS queer space.
Kink doesn’t “belong” at pride, kink IS pride.
To say that these things are just-kind-of-also-included is such a diluted view of what these things actually are. These spaces have been mentally purified for so many people as things that are “also-okay-for-gays!”–
No!!
These spaces ARE OURS. Not just “friendly to us”. Not just “inclusive to us”. They ARE us. We don’t just “belong”… We’re the reason it exists in the first place!
![[Image ID: a Twitter screenshot redraw, featuring Misa and L from Death Note. On the bottom it shows a tweet from Misa, with the username missmisa and kuromi profile picture. It says "qrt with you + your flags!!! twitter.com/missmisa/sta..." and then a line down it says "show this thread" in blue text. Below the text is a photo of her, shown from a three fourths angle, looking up. She holds up a peace sign with her hand next to her face, and she smiles widely with large open sparkly eyes. She has several clips on her hair, as well as a safety pin acting as a clip, and she is wearing a black leather jacket, dark gray shirt, several necklaces, a black choker with a cross charm, and upside down cross earrings. The is lit with warm sunlight from above and behind her is a variety of bright greens, like leaves. In the next image there is a bisexual flag, which is a horizontal striped flag with a large hot pink stripe, small desaturated purple stripe, and a large dark blue stripe. In the fake tweet above this one, showing it as a reply, is a tweet from L, with the username L. His profile picture is, of course, the L logo. The tweet reads "no clue where you're from, but I'm British." and in the first image it shows a selfie of him from below, with him looking down slightly, holding up a thumbs up with his right hand. He is in a darkly lit room with just a vague warm light coming from below and in front of him, as if to show it's from a screen. The next image beside him is an image of the United Kingdom flag, which is a blue flag with a Red Cross over a white cross, with diagonal white and red lines intersecting over the center crosses. End ID]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/53c8ee1c127a621051a0550c88a01ac9/98a28af941f06bc3-16/s500x750/1f2186fef388a65f2b362550b9cabfe4f0e8e2b2.png)
![[Image ID: a doodle of L and Misa from Death Note, They are standing side by side, facing one another. L is to the left and Misa is to the right. L is hunched forward, wearing his usual white shirt and blue jeans, and he stares at Misa with large wide open eyes and a slightly open mouth to speak. Misa, next to him, stands with one hand on her hip and the other up to gesture as she speaks. She is wearing a large black t shirt with a stereotypical emo design, a large striped black and red long sleeved undershirt, tiny shorts with a skirt back, and thigh high leg warms that connect to the shorts with garters. She looks curiously at L with one eyebrow raised. She is speaking, and her speech bubble shows a rainbow flag emoji and a question mark emoji. in response to this L says "how did you say that out loud?" End ID]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3193f6f011b62264740e600ef42e2394/98a28af941f06bc3-81/s500x750/0fa0d683c0c22577db7d4081024733c8fb05ba52.jpg)
![[Image ID: a doodle of L from Death Note. He is sitting on the ground, with his body turned to the right side of the image. He sits with his legs tucked up to his chest, and his hands resting between his knees, holding a gray mug in one hand. The mug is steaming and has a tea bag tag sticking out of it. He is turned to look over his shoulder at the point of view and he has a neutral expression. Behind him is the UK flag and text that says "no wonder you're depressed". End ID]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ec931274917ed0023962428eb9ec9121/98a28af941f06bc3-4d/s500x750/f5e0bbad383585487d3561420d503f728b6ff2d6.jpg)
