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a Traveling Dragon/on Chosen Family/on Queerness

thirty-seven celsius: is it hot outside or are you a medically accurate body temperature

Maybe when we move to Ireland, into the same general latitude as the one back in Michigan, I will feel the overlap of cold weather and twinkling colored lights ...

a light in my darkness
on Chosen Family/on Happiness/on Love/on Queerness

a light in my darkness

I've never written anything like this for you before. I've never shared anything this intimate without using as many metaphors as possible, and I wanted to writ...

an overgrown paddock near sunset
a Traveling Dragon/on Chosen Family/on Generational Trauma/on Hope

three months later

My family and I have done an extraordinary thing on our way to do more extraordinary things and the real trick here is that we all get to live.

Ash cat sitting in the catio in the sunshine
a Traveling Dragon/Letters/on Chosen Family/on Dramas I've Watched/the Cycle of the Seasons

letters to my family: I

I hope you know that every experience I have is immediately filtered into a list of things I want to tell you about.

with an everlasting love
on Chosen Family/on Grief/on Hope/on Love/Poems/the Work

with an everlasting love {poem}

Sometimes there is pain layered into love but that does not make it any less true.

a dark sky with clouds and a rainbow arching down from left to right. there are some tree tops at the bottom of the image.
on Chosen Family/on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Grief/on Hope/on Mental Health

because our choices led us here

I don't know what to say, really, except that this is so incredibly hard and none of us know how to get through it, not really.

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hi, I'm Nix

The sidebar got too big so I moved all my words about me to a page: who is Nix?



CURRENTLY READING:

I am on StoryGraph tracking my reading and the reading challenges I've joined. You can go to my StoryGraph profile if you want to see what kind of reading I'm doing right now.

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

I am using MyDramaList now! Here's my MDL profile and my MDL watchlists. I recommend looking at my 2025 watchlist to see what I've watched already and what's on my massive personal wishlist for the year.

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

-- excerpt from The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. LeGuin

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