24 days into 2024

Blank pages are a real bummer to look at, right? So just start writing, and then suddenly, you don’t have a blank page any more. There we go. I’ve started the blog.

I feel like I’ve not been documenting the queer experience as much as maybe I could be, but similarly, I’m not having loads of queer stuff happen right now. I’m so tired, and I have such low bandwidth for most things I’m essentially hermitting my way through January. So, that’s fun ✨

Alright brain vomit time:

• Kirstifer business time

• My eyes! My eyyeeesss!

• Mini queer stuff

That’ll do I reckon.

Kirstifer Business Time

QueerStory has kinda taken a backseat for me right now as I’m really trying to get FunStabs up and running. I have updated the resources page here with a new link to Drugwatch (?) and reached out to share their information. Generally, it's got some good stuff and some really well-defined things but as I said to them, they do use some real definitive language. Personally, I like to think that most of us are out here, educating ourselves and others and demystifying things for other queers. I know that as people of a marginalised group, there are higher rates of mental health illnesses and crises, but it’s almost as if a lot of that is put on us by other people refusing to accept us as we are. I’m losing my train of thought here, and I’ll talk more about this later. Business things! FunStabs has made a “soft launch” in that I’ve got the website running and hopefully working for everyone! Yay! I’m running a workshop at my old school on Friday, teaching the kiddos how to fix their clothes and that, and hopefully, it’ll all go well 😬 I am starting to think ahead, though and wondering how I make it a sustainable business because I know I can make and fix things but… That takes so much time, and I don’t want to be a dick and charge people through the nose. I’d love to be able to make it affordable fixes and maybe the custom shit is spenny. Je ne sais pas!!!! Oh, but in exciting news, my brother is moving out and in the house, he’ll be renting I can have a room for a studio which is grand! I’m excited to A) have my own bedroom and B) have a separate workspace! I think I’ll leave my PC at home so that I can still play games and discord with pals, but I can take a laptop with me and make that work, I think. But yes! There be moves! We doing it!

My Eyes

In the two-ish months I’ve been working for myself, I’ve completely fucked my eyes. I noticed over the last month or so that things have been harder to read and generally that I’m more sleepy in the face. Turns out one of my eyes has dropped two steps and the other one has dropped one step. This has been a most unwelcome and expensive discovery. Luckily I’ve got some help with starting up business stuff, and it wasn’t too painful. However, the opticians said that because I’m short-sighted I need to think about where my eyes look through the glasses and essentially, they helped to knock off some cash, but it meant I was forced to pick from the frames in store sooo have a look at the ones I tried on below and see if you can guess which ones I’ve gone for.

Queer Stuff

I’m thinking of making some posts/posters which have some good quotes for us here queer-dos. I think that’d be nice. Also it means I’ll have something to post on my Instagram because that bad boy is floundering with very little attention. Bless it. Sweet baby account. Hopefully, I can work with some pals to build this shizz up! That’d be sweet <3 

In more personal queer news, I got to hang with some trans pals last week and that was soooooooooooo lovely. They’re all so lovely and I wish I could spend more time with my queer pals - admittedly one of these lovely humans travels and lives between three of her partners but at least one of them is nearby! Also, in exciting news, I’m hopefully going to go climbing with some of these people and it should be lovely and exciting :D

Right. I need to rest my eyes from looking at this screen and possibly leave the house so that I don’t only ever stay inside like I would if given a choice (yay hermitting!) 

Love you lil queerios <3