Day after the Pride Parade

Date: 3 august 2025 

Yesterday I was at the Pride Parade in Stockholm, it was my first time attending one. It was somewhat fun somewhat painful cs of the sun and heat. I was there with three friends and then we met up with two other ppl there for a bit, then I saw someone I knew, my friends saw someone they knew, so there were a lot of encounters. The parade went on for much longer than I expected, and the temperature was much higher than I expected it to be. On the other side of the road of the parade there opened up a stand with drinks, so me and two of my friends snuck over to the other side. But when we stood there we heard one of the ppl handing out the drinks say that they were only for the ppl in the parade, so we went back onto the road and pretended to be in the parade so we'd get drinks. Somehow we timed it perfectly for us to accidentally pretend that we were a part of the "Queer Jews" community, then we became a part of a political party cs we couldn't leave the parade cs of all the ppl. Eventually we got out with the drinks tho. Besides the heat stroke it was fun. 

Today however, I saw my bf. We met after not seeing each other for a week which felt super long. We had fun, watched movies, talked, ate food. Then came the dreaded deal we made, which is that if I show him all of my 300 tiktok drafts, then he'll let me come to his house to hangout at some point. Cs normally he doesn't let anyone come over to his place, but now cs of this painful deal he has to. My drafts span from the musically days to now so it was extremely painful to let him see everything, but I did it. 

- Elliot