yeahlikethebird reblogged
“When the language was imperfect or nonexistent, people still spoke, still looked for others like them. Connecting in new ways, loving in infinite ways, all as beautiful as the next. All because someone reached out and explained themselves, and someone else understood.”
— Laura Darling (via makingqueerhistory)
#learning new words sometimes makes me cry#often because i relate and find out others feel like i do and there are words for it#sometimes at the implications it casts on the world#sometimes just at the painful poignancy of human expression#but it's happened enough over the years that it feels like a cyclical astronomical event#whose cycle i don't yet understand well enough to predict#words#queerness#tag rant#language#honestly it's also the kind of crying that happened when i found out that linguistics is a field you can actually go into#i haven't started yet but i need it to not slip out of reach#i know a calling when i hear it