A month ago during the “soundcloud is going down” scare I wrote a script that basically downloaded my entire corner of SoundCloud at incredibly abusive speed and got bandwidth-banned for a month since CloudFlare detected it as a mass DDOS (which is fair I mean I was downloading like terabytes of data)
This may have been sent already, sorry. Whenever I see a guy whose appearance I admire I get these thoughts where I wonder if I want something to happen with him. But I don't want that. But how can I not since he's okay looking? Then I think I can't be gay with such thoughts and is there actually a locked and oppressed part of me that's straight? And I feel shame because what lesbian will read this and not think this is straight girl talk? And it's one mess I can't make sense of.
Well, number one and maybe most important: nothing about that reads as straight-girl talk, and any lesbian—or otherwise—who tells you being confused about your feelings makes you automatically straight is just being an asshole. No one can tell you you aren’t queer. That is for you and you alone to determine.
As for the rest…sexuality isn’t a straight line. It’s okay to have people who confuse you. It’s okay to visually enjoy someone, but not want anything to do with them physically (or romantically). It’s okay to think dudes are hot in the abstract, while knowing you never want to be with them, and it’s okay if you find you actually meet a guy down the line you do want to engage with. You’re still queer. It doesn’t go away or get invalidated by any of what you’re dealing with. If you determine at some point that you’re bi/pan/fluid or that you just don’t feel like any given label suits you, you still are valid. You still belong. And if you find lesbian is the word that most feels like home, that’s wonderful, too. I think it’s important to recognize that these words are meant to be tools to help make identity easier. They’re not rigid cages to lock yourself inside. Gender can shift around. Sexuality is a spectrum. The important thing is finding the presentation and the relationships that make you feel happy and safe. The rest is just…extra flourish.
over coffee with my mom this morning: “sometimes we hesitate to invite people into our life because we feel like our space isn’t good enough yet. things are a little messy, or our place settings don’t match, or our situation isn’t quite what we want it to be. don’t let that stop you. invite people in anyway.”
Two bite brownies?? Don’t tell me how many bites to take per brownie, Trader Joe’s, okay for me, they’re zero bite brownies. I suck those things down like a BURMESE PYTHON