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OMG

my (younger) brother is considering getting engaged and married to his gf (whom he wasn’t officially dating when we went to our dad’s wedding in August) who doesn’t believe in birth control and then moving to Michigan (where she is from and where we also have some family). this would include having him drop out of his religious college and just getting an associate’s degree (instead of whatever kind of degree he’d get for staying there for four years? I honestly don’t know how his college works). mom and I are like “uhhhhh what are you going to do for like money or job???” and apparently he said he was interested in real estate. where the hell did he get that idea? THE DUGGARS (aka from a tv show about a specific family that also doesn’t believe in birth control, as far as I know).

update: apparently he also said that he wanted to take on her student loans to be a nice person because her parents aren’t going to help her out with them

Tagged: just wow, family, .

1 ♥ 12.09.12

I’m going to write a massive google doc for my mom to see my thoughts, thought processes, critiques, criticisms, and intentions for trying to reach out to her since we don’t get along very well.

Tagged: personal, mother, family, .

3 ♥ 05.20.12

The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me

so many family memories with this song. my brother, mom, and dad used to dance around in the living room in Illinois to this song during our dance parties

Tagged: music, the gap band, you dropped a bomb on me, memories, family, .

4 ♥ 05.17.12

Family photos with my babies

Tagged: me, personal, babies, courtesy of, mckeegles, dog, Macie, Rusty, family, .

3 ♥ 05.13.12

Neckdog

Tagged: dog, animal, macie, baby, me, family, neck dog, .

4 ♥ 05.12.12

putting this under a cut because talking about depression and family things. I talked to my mom and her sister (my aunt) last night and they brought up a lot of upsetting things and I’m not sure how I should feel about them.

Tagged: depression, family, life, school, education, personal, spoon theory, tangents, queer, queerness, gendequeer, gender woes, gender, sexuality, .

6 ♥ 05.10.12

mckeegles:

Thanks for not being a fuckass, Mum!

Damn it parents! >:C

I am the oldest sibling, the only FAAB child, and the most responsible and mature sibling. AND YET I was treated with the most sensitivityand I was trained to fear for my life and think that if something were to happen to me that it would be MY FAULT because I wasn’t careful enough (didn’t have someone accompany me to my 9pm astronomy lab, walked alone in the dark, dressed in a certain way, etc). I have a LOT more feelings about this but I just can’t right now.

I definitely plan on raising any kids I am responsible for raising in an egalitarian as possible way with the understanding that gender is real and has consequences.

(via mckeegles)

Tagged: someecards, socialization, socialization of gender, gender, parents, family, .

7075 ♥ 04.20.12

[Image: photo of three young light-skinned siblings sitting together outside in the mountains. queerio19, on the far left, is smiling, the middle sibling looks a little dazed, and the sibling on the far right is frowning hilariously]

bahahaha look at this picture of me and my brothers! I think this was around the time we went to Boone, NC for vacation. all of our expressions are great. I feel like my littlest bro’s expression (far right) is one that people make a lot nowadays to be funny in pictures

Tagged: ages maybe 12 - 10 - 7?, 10 - 8 - 5?, vacation, family, brothers, old photo, .

03.23.12

dreaming of my grandmother

I remember my main dream involved me hanging out with my maternal grandmother. She died seven years ago and I don’t think about her too often so I’m not sure why she was in my dream. I can’t remember anything we did specifically but when we were together, it was like before she had brain cancer. She was capable of moving around just fine and I wasn’t thinking about how she was going to die soon. I miss her. I won’t forget how she answered the phone, the way she said “hello”. This dream seemed to come out of the blue but I appreciated being able to see her again in some way.

[Image: photo of queerio19 (age 10ish) and her grandmother wearing glasses and touching a large grey orb. their hair is sticking up because of static electricity in the orb and are both smiling at the camera.]

[Image: photo of queerio19 and her grandmother squinting in the sun while standing in front of a black fence in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., USA]

[Image: photo of queerio19’s grandmother and queerio19 sitting in seats at a bowling alley. queer19’s grandmother is looking at queerio19 and one of their siblings goofing off]

Tagged: grandma, family, dreams, tumblr is my new dream diary, death, memories, photos, .

1 ♥ 03.23.12

dreaming of cruises and brothers and family

Some things:

kittatonic:

You do not have to love your family.

Just because you are related, does not mean you have to love someone.

If someone was shitty to you, you don’t have to love them. Period. Doesn’t matter if they’re you’re relative or your friend or a stranger.

It’s OK not to love your family. Really, it is.

It really irritates me that when I tell people I hate people in my family their reaction is “But you can’t! They’re your family!”

Fuck you. No, I don’t. If anyone else had treated me the way my family members have treated me, I wouldn’t have to hear that from anyone. That’s disturbing.

If you have a good family relationship, good for you. If your family is always there for you, no matter what, good for you. But remember that that’s not always the case with everyone, and don’t give them shit if they hate their family. They have every right to.

I don’t have any TERRIBLE experiences with most of my family but some of my history with family members isn’t that great. I am totally not in the boat of “you HAVE to love ALL OF YOUR FAMILY BECAUSE YOU ARE RELATED OMG” AT ALL. That obligation does not sit well with me. I’m sure this is much more applicable to people who have had really bad, traumatic, abusive experiences with family members but this post resonates with me as someone whose family members have not always been there for me.

(via disgustinghuman)

Tagged: family, love, obligation, thank you for this post, everyone please understand this, just because you get along with your family does not mean everyone else does or that everyone else has to, OR, please just understand that I don't know what it is like to have wonderful familial relations like yours, .

2543 ♥ 03.14.12

Adventures during spring break

Friday March 9