golbatgender:

Seriously though when aphobes say cake jokes are cringy or that we “stole” dragons, they’re trying to make it so a-specs feel like we can’t or shouldn’t have light-hearted representations of ourselves. And then they say that more serious positivity is “discourse.” If we play by their rules, we don’t get anything positive at all. If we play by their rules, the only context we or anyone else sees us in is “debates” about whether we have any right to exist.

We’re people, dammit. We’re not invaders or boogeymen or evil “apologists” or whatever the propaganda of the day says. We get to make jokes and be nice to each other and eat desserts and do fun things. We get to be happy or cute and present ourselves as such, if we want, because we are, we’re allowed to be that, we’re not bad, we’re not some horrific danger that has to agree to a muzzle to be let into anything and we should resist attempts to portray us as such.

We exist. We are people. We are allowed to be people. I’m going to take my cake and ice cream and dragons and words and I’m going to be happy and queer and you can’t stop me.