Status Updates From One Life to Lose (Queers o...

cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg I just want to hug everyone

WOW 🤣
There have been a lot of Amazing things said, and many Incredible Conversations. But this one! This one takes the fucking cake. Cam and Merin, comparing fucked up in the head notes.
- Dude tried to kill me & my boyfriends
- my dad is abusive and my mom wishes I hadn't been born
"That must be disheartening."
I've been struck in my own workplace, geez.

"You are a special occasion." Goddamn, got you a Keith. I adore this boy. And a Josh for that matter. We know why I love them. Bc I fucking am Cam in several ways.

"Oh hell yes. Merry Christmas, let me rim you." OMFG I LOVE KEITH

"Can we get back to this thing where you think we don't love you? Because fuck you, we can love whoever we want." Have I mentioned I love Keith with all my heart?? Bc I do. Very much so.

God, I'm gonna start fucking sobbing. Cam's pain is too real, too visceral. It's frankly triggering to me.

OMFG. I fucking love Keith. LECTURE THE POLICE ABOUT KINK 2K19!
He's so offended on Josh's behalf. How dare the police not appreciate Josh's expertise in kink?? SO RUDE.
"No, I don't need a sedative!" Omfg let Keith emote 2k19!

"Don't be ridiculous. He's been honing his killing-people skills. We didn't even know we should have been practicing our not-getting-killed skills." Omfg. Cam is right though.
Omfg I love Keith. And you know what? He's kind of right. Let traumatized people respond emotionally 2k19. Lecture the hospital about your healing.

"Don't believe everything gun-wielding nutjobs say when they're trying to kill you." That is a real Pro Tip. Sound life advice, tbh.

Everyone /has/ a temper, they're all just different.

"You don't understand how this works." YES. Tell him, Cameron. Tell him he can't fucking understand.

EW EW EW EW EW I HATE THIS FUCK8NG STUPID GROSS IMPLICATION.
ID LIKE TO TEAR SOCIETY TO SHREDS AND START OVER.

MAY I ASK HOW THIS MUCH DETAIL IS RELEVANT

I went back to chapter 24 of the Queer & the Restless. To find where Ed met Joey. And holy shit. Those red flags, in hindsight, are so fucking bright & alarming!
This is also the danger of forgetting your collective community history. Bc as both Ed & Cam said, we've all been here all along, we just haven't gotten the credit or benefit of the community like white cis gays have.
Fuck society for the AIDS crisis too tbh

I don't like how easy it is for someone to fall into the trap of othering people.
I know it can happen to anyone about anyone else in theory, but God. It's horrifying.
Most of us understand we're stronger together.
The attitude of protecting your own and promoting exclusion is so dangerous.

JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ?! WHAT THE FUCK
OMFG
JOEY.
I knew Joey was familiar.
But I couldn't put it together while everything was ~happening~!!
I can't fucking breathe. Ed talked to him briefly.
I can't believe it's Joe's son. Holy shit. WHAT THE FUCK. I'm fucking reeling. This shit is fucked up.

Poor lady police officer. Always having to be The One Who Comforts Traumatized People.

911: "Is anyone hurt?"
Cameron, laughing at the stupid absurdity of that question after what he's just experienced: "Yes. Everyone is hurt. Everyone here is hurt."

"We definitely need help." Such true facts.

"He'd asked me if I planned to kill myself, and when I'd told him I might, but it would mean the end of the Rhein so I hadn't decided, he'd acted like that was a reasonable answer. Hugh had never demanded I be okay to save him worry, which enabled me to not be okay, a gift I hadn't fully recognized until years later."

Hugh is so important, I love him so much. His character hasn't been featured much, but this bit speaks volumes.

That's a fucking Mood, Keith. I too respond to such stress by trying to control everything plus eliminate ambiguity and do not enjoy it but instead feel guilty and like a jerk. Very #relatable