rorie kelly (she/they)

A love language for me is listening to the music, reading the books, watching the movies and shows that feel like important parts of my person's identity.

I reeeeeeaaaally am not down with it being a one-sided adventure anymore, however.

Sometimes it becomes clear that the only thing to do is eat food that you have been eating since you were very young, and read a book that taught you about who you were when you are very young.

Maybe it will teach me something about who I am now too.

#booksky

Today my nephew introduced me to the perfect dessert: cool whip and rainbow sprinkles. You're welcome.

Shoutout to my friend who called me the INSTANT I rolled up to the taco bell checkout window and shoutout to me who flustered-ly gave the guy my money and then drove off without my food and then had to walk back awkwardly to the window. I did not get my hot sauce. I am NOT going back again.

Making a Grumpy Gratitude List because fuck if I'm letting all this nonsense keep me down. I'm finding my joy and everyone can eat my shorts about it.

Totally counts, congrats on your watch upgrade!

🚨🚨🚨SELF CARE CHECKPOINT🚨🚨🚨 please do not scroll by until you have checked in on how you're feeling physically and emotionally! can you please do one (1) tiny thing to improve your wellbeing? & report it in the comments so I can be proud of you. thank you!

#selfcare #wellness #mentalhealth #checkin

All right time to ruin my day *opens up news website*

For someone who's not a small talk person, I sure do make a lot of it with birds and trees.

Gratuitous subaru-in-nature glory shot

Good morning

I am so nonfunctional in the morning. At midnight I can and will have a deep philosophical discussion with you about beliefs & morality & value systems & activism and in the morning I'm just kind of shuffling around in confusion like "hmm, gotta maybe wear pants. Yeah. Getting to be pants time..."

I choose daily romance on purpose & it's steeped in my awareness and deep engagement with reality. And amazingly, the human brain has room for more than one thought. You can fight hard against fascism AND you can smell a hyacinth. It's allowed.

Day to day romance gets a lot of pushback. As though, if you're taking pleasure in experiencing daily existence you must not care enough about important things or must be naive or unaware of how bad things really are. Couldn't be further from the truth.

And the sky, just sitting there being beautiful in a wide variety of ways and occasionally getting so full it leaks and we need umbrellas. What an absolute bonkers, delightful physics situation that rain exists.

There are a lot of big stressful things out of my control in my personal life and in America right now. And, also, there are birds chattering at me as I walk to my car. And my nephew throwing a blanket over his shoulders and announcing "I'm a dhost!" (Ghost.)

Shopping/running errands often feels like a dissociative hellscape but there are zero things stopping me from smelling the hyacinths on my way in and out.

🧵A thing I have been reclaiming in the last year is day to day romance.
It doesn't affect the effectiveness of my activism to smile at the cherry trees while we were marching and chanting. But it made me feel hope and pleasure in a task that is rooted in some terrible shit that's happening.

Yesterday was REALLY good but I hit a wall in the evening & everything just seemed hard.

Emotional exhaustion is going around. I wouldn't trade the good but need more rest & basic self care just to survive the emotional whiplash of the news & my own ups & downs. Bet it's not just me. #selfiesunday

That's what I used AND I was careful about where I applied it but unfortunately it still made its way. Let me know if you find a really good one.

I'm just coming from a gig ironically and hopefully I didn't look like I was having a breakdown onstage lol

So today I put on sunscreen & it has melted into my eyes so my eyes are tearing & I look a mess

& like,
If I was going to look like I was having a meltdown I might as well have HAD THE MELTDOWN & felt the feelings but no it's just sunscreen & I don't even get credit for the meltdown I didn't have.

Um shoutout to the 8 year old girl at the brewery I sang at tonight who just came over and told me "you're the best at singing ever!" I'm not crying you're crying

Good morning friends are you remembering to treat yourself like a unicorn rather than a workhorse today?

If you need a woman to act a certain way about it or you'll get mad, then you're not actually a gentleman - you're just seeking a roleplay that no one owes you.

And certain straight men could possibly take note that you don't need someone else to play a corresponding role in order to enable your chivalry. You can just be chivalrous, be gentlemanly, be decent, *for the sake of it*.

I know that chivalry isn't dead because I myself choose to be gentlemanly on the regular.

Oh you’re from stockholm? Absolutely love yalls syndrome

BREAKING: Senator Van Hollen just met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvadore.

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."

Senator Van Hollen is a hero.