wondaboy says...

(8/9/25) During my brief period of unemployment, I partied vigorously. Engaged in pleasant convos with some wonderful people, fab drinks, and powerful ass shaking. I’ve been using this time to work on my social skills, get connected with others like me building more genuine relationships and now, I can understand more why it’s so important to find community in safe spaces. Personally, I found the most comforting feeling being the visibility by likeminded souls. Knowing that I can talk to other black gay men that have my sense of humor, my sense of joy, and my struggles to be understood. It also helps to make one feel more accepted in society. It all sounds cliche to me and definitely makes me feel more like a baby gay than I actually am, but maybe that’s what happens when you’re isolated for too long from your community. You start to become to attached to the idea of being alone to the point you forget the rest of society exists and that there’s no one else to reach you. That daily dos...

TW : The characteristics of maggots are discussed throughout this piece. If you are sensitive to such content, I suggest you not continue. The theme of the week is maggots. Yes, those disgusting larval parasites that grow and feed in warm, decayed environments including humans (myiasis).  According to an informative Brittanica post by Anna Dubey, this form is several stages in the development of flies where they have nothing but grubby little bodies and hooks for mouths to ingest decaying organic matter, after hatching from eggs (2025). Subtypes of maggots consume a variety of different dead cells from plants to animal feces, or interchangeably both, and are even found to fester within untreated open wounds in humans/animals (2025). Anyways... I bring this info to you because all this week the topic of maggots has been constantly coming up in discussion and media around me, while simultaneously undergoing multiple transitions like leaving my job, recognizing my bias for sexual rela...