#I did not realize that I used a lesbian flag color palette

[tubbytarchia]

Liau drew such an awesome salmon merPearl that I couldn't help but do the same because I can't stop thinking about her (also I turned it into Gempearl of course)

[magical-mogai]

my dyke flag.

heya, folks. lilith of magical-mogai here, to talk about something i made. a flag, to be specific.

for the past four years i've struggled with the words lesbian and dyke. at first i felt connected to both! then dyke lost its appeal and i became just a lesbian, and i was... fine with it for a while, i think?

then about two years ago, i started to distance myself from the online queer community. i still had an off-and-on mogai hyperfixation, but i was just so sad, to put it bluntly. i couldn't find where i belonged, even in the community about belonging. even when i made my own labels, i'd never be able to check off all the tiny boxes that made me feel seen. i never was what i expected to be, in any way.

overall i started to slip from labels, as a whole.

i called myself a lesbian in front of my friends who i knew wouldn't get it, but in private i tried the words "queersbian", queer, "lesbiqueer", about every combination i could make without having to call myself a dyke.

then for a while, i just let the question go unanswered. what am i? gay, i guess? i think? i let it be a question, and i found comfort in that.

eventually i came back to the word dyke. and left. then came back again. and again. and again and again and again until i couldn't deny its presence in my identity anymore.

and even then i still did. so i called myself bi for a bit. tried it out, worked through the preconceptions i had of bisexuality, and tried to ignore the weird feeling it always left in my mouth to call myself bi.

i met other queer people in the real world. old trans people, those who dont call themselves anything, a lesbian married to a man, bi girls who only date men, trans men with husbands who call themselves straight, everyone who i at one point (shamefully) tried to recategorize in my brain to fit my view of the world, and i just accepted them as they were.

so eventually, i too tried to accept that i was just bi, but i realized that i was just... wrong. all of a sudden i knew that i was going off a label i THOUGHT should fit, not the one that did.

so i came back to dyke.

and i looked for a dyke flag, something to proudly display on my wall, but found lesbian flags. and gay flags. and queer flags. i didn't find anything i felt myself in.

so i made a flag.

using a light pink, purple, and blue color palette, and featuring two interlocking venus symbols, here it is. my dyke flag.

use it if you want, or don't. or design your own, or don't. make yourself feel seen however you need to.

so here it is. my dyke flag.

maybe in two years i'll come back and laugh and go "wow, she got it WRONG." but for now, here i am. here it is.

my dyke flag.

[swearphil]

2023 writing gif-making round up

Rules (adapted for fic, gifs, art, etc.): Share what you made this year! It can be works you posted to Ao3, Wattpad, Tumblr, or anywhere else! You can share everything you made or just the projects you're most excited about. tagged by @reasonandfaithinharmony! thank you, friend!

buckle up, friends, because I somehow posted 98 gif sets this year and it's probably going to be 100 sets by the end of the year tbh. that number sounds so ridiculous. it's all your faults because part of the reason why I made so much was because I felt so encouraged and loved by the people I've gotten to know and know better this year, so thank you.

I started trying to put all the sets in a post and that just got overwhelming for me to look at so we're doing my top favorites with some fun statistics at the end. I think it'll come as no surprise that I mostly made rwrb and heartstopper sets this year, so I decided to do my top 5 rwrb sets, top 5 heartstopper sets, and top 10 miscellaneous sets.

top 5 rwrb sets

page to screen ripped pages: this is the first set I made after the movie was released. I worked on it for hours and really enjoy how it turned out. the text placement was what took the longest. I knew what words from each passage I wanted to highlight so it took some rearranging to make sure those were visible.

acd x all american bitch: the idea for this came about when casey posted an instagram story of GUTS and songs that correspond with their characters. I love me some bi coloring, so using that for this set was really fun!

firstprince x wildest dreams: I don't know what it is about this set that makes me love it so much. I think it's the shade of pink and then the light orange from the text.

henry "that is him, part and parcel": I adore henry and bea and that's all I have to say about this set.

firstprince x exile: I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the tags for this one and I am not sorry at all for the pain I have caused. I got the idea for this set after sending @kiwiana-writes the fake fic title "I gave so many signs" and they wrote a heartwrenching summary. I immediately wanted to do something with it!

top 5 heartstopper sets

moments of healing: day two of heartstoppercentral's pride celebration for this year. putting this together made me really emotional. I'm so grateful for alice and these moments of communication we get on the show.

imogen x ballad of a homeschooled girl: yes, I did intentionally use colors on the lesbian flag for this set. it was actually going to be purple at first to match the GUTS album but I didn't like how it looked. I tried pink, liked it, wondered what color worked with pink, and thus the color palette was born!

narlie x brighter than sunshine: day 3 of heartstoppercentral's pride celebration. as schitt's creek fans know (and as a couple people pointed out in the tags), this is the song that plays at the end of "Meet the Parents." I think I knew right away I was going to use this song for this day of the event.

narlie x fearless (taylor's version): I still can't believe I made this set. it's something just last year I would have deemed too complicated. I'm proud of myself for this one.

charlie standing up to ben: this set idea was suggested by @swiftlythebest. idk if this was intentional on alice's part, but I really enjoy how charlie says similar sentiments in both episodes. like "leave me alone" -> "I don't want to see you ever again."

top 10 miscellaneous sets

alexis rose + "destined to be on fire": I can't believe how much I've grown as a gif maker over the past three years and this set shows that growth. I also adore alexis and her journey.

david/patrick open mic: I made this set once I got back home from seeing noah in concert. I was truly close to tears during the concert when I realized I was watching him perform a song from a show I have loved for three years.

david/patrick relationship dynamic: @reasonandfaithinharmony @roseapothecary and @rmd-writes are to thank for this set coming into existence. the fact that I had so many scenes to choose from shows that this truly is david and patrick's dynamic.

schitt's creek + barbie posters: I knew right away what kind of barbie david and alexis were going to be.

GUTS + favorite lyrics: god I really love this set. the typography? the coloring? I really outdid myself.

the good witch + ages: another set I just absolutely adore. I love the shades of pink I used. also, maisie, thank you for including consecutive years in the album because it really would have bugged me if they weren't lol

danandphilgames + fuck land: my url becomes relevant again! if you told me at the start of this year that the gaming channel would be back, I would not have believed you.

calliette x love affair: I really love the overlays for this one. it just ended up working well on its own with little manipulation from me. the song is from the end of the last episode. it worked great for the antagonists event!

ellie x you're on your own, kid: I had this idea for a few weeks before I actually got around to making it. I remember being worried and surprised that no one else that I saw did a set with this song.

vampire by olivia rodrigo: the lyric "bloodsucker, fame fucker" really did something to me.

fun statistics: out of the 98 sets I made

39 are rwrb

34 are heartstopper

8 are schitt's creek

6 are music artists

5 are dan and phil

4 are the last of us

1 is tarlos

1 is calliette

32 use taylor lyrics

tagging (no pressure of course!) @roseapothecary @swiftlythebest @rmd-writes @leclercpiastri @mulderscully @victoriaspriing and if anyone else wants to do this, feel free to say I tagged you!

[galaxywhump]

🌼💙🏳️‍🌈!

🌼 - If you used any other labels before your current one, what were they?

Asexual, pansexual, bisexual... it was a journey :v I stuck to bisexual the longest until it got to the point where my thought process was basically "maybe my attraction is simply 99% women and 1% men!", and then, well, I realized I was a lesbian.

💙 - When you first learned about the Queer community, did you immediately realize ‘That’s me!’ Or did you consider yourself a ‘really good ally’ for some time?

Oh I was definitely a Really Good Ally. At that time I had a tendency to not really think about myself, my identity and emotions, so there was absolutely no self-reflection at first lol. It took me a bit to start exploring the possibility of me being queer.

🏳️‍🌈 - Do you enjoy the colors of your preferred flag? Do you incorporate it into your outfits, decor, etc.?

I love the colors of the lesbian flag! I don't incorporate the entire color palette, but I do love me some pink or peach color, and I once got my nails painted in the colors of the flag, that was fun.

[mumblino]

My self discovery journey

Heyo!

This is not what most of my posts are gonna be like, but I felt like it was important to talk about, and pride month is a perfect time to tell my (summarized) self discover journey~

My name is Brandon, although I don’t care if you call me Mumble. My pronouns change a lot since i don’t really know myself that well, but currently, they are He/Him, They/Them and It/Its. There are also days where I don’t really identify with any 3rd person pronouns, I’m just me, and that’s what I mean when I say No Pronouns.

I have Depression, Anxiety and Combination Type- ADHD, which is why i am on the internet a lot.

This is a very long post, so buckle up

//TW: Transphobia, Enbyphobia, Homophobia, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD,  Disordered Eating, Racism (not a huge part, but there are mentions of it), Self Harm, Mentions of a Psych Ward, Medication

I am a trans-masc, afab teenager. I am a romance-neutral aromantic (my interpretation of that is that I don’t mind romance, but I don’t actively want one or seek one out), and a sex-repulsed asexual (I am completely repulsed by the idea of engaging in sexual intercourse with anyone). and I am currently out to my friends, my mother, and my step-father, and am in the beginning-middle of my transition.

 I started questioning my gender identity when I was in early 7th grade, after my friend Saturn (pronouns are They/It/Bun) first came out to me as Non-Binary, and asked me to use They/Them pronouns.

I’ve never really actively considered myself straight. I’ve always seen love as between two people, and while I usually thought of a man and a woman, I have always been open to same sex couples. My best friend in 2nd grade actually introduced me to the LGBTQ+ community (not directly, but she did talk about those types of things quite a bit), and while I don’t want to assume her sexuality, I am fairly certain she experienced attraction to both boys and girls.

Before this, the only thing I really knew about trans people was that they existed, and I didn’t really care that much. However, my brother and my father had the idea that most LGBTQ+ people are “snowflakes” and since I didn’t know anything else, I believed them.

However, I wanted to learn more about Trans people, and how to be respectful and supportive of them. I did, at the time, consider myself to be LGBTQ+. In both 5th and 6th grade I thought I was either a lesbian or bisexual, since I didn’t know the difference between aesthetic attraction and sexual attraction, and well, people are pretty!

I also had this need to be very masculine, and I always have. I’ve always wanted to be a tom-boy, to be the masculine one in the group, be the Buttercup of my friends! And during th grade, as I started to learn more about LGBTQ+ people, I wanted to be the top. I wanted to be the stereotypical lesbian. The one with the androgynous style, chill attitude, and the one that scares the shit out of guys.

I’ve even said to myself (not knowing that being trans was a thing) that I want to be a boy. I’ve always identified more with the guys at my school. Not in a pick me girl way, but in a “I relate to you a lot, and I feel like I fit in with you” way.

 And to some extent, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is because of how often feminine guys are made fun of. I would not be surprised one bit if this is because femininity has always been demonized to me, especially if a guy is being feminine.

Anyways, through this dive into the Alphabet Mafia, I found out about asexuality. It really resonated with me, because I always found sexual things gross, but that also confused me. If I was asexual, why did I want to be masculine so badly? Why wasn’t I like the other girls? I’ve always felt like an outcast around most people, but especially girls. I never related to them. I always related to more masculine people, and boys especially.

After this, I decided to start looking into trans culture, and FTM culture especially. Through this I found Kalvin Garrah. I know now that he is very much a toxic influence on the Trans community, but he taught me a lot about trans culture. I also found Sam Collins and Jammidoger through him, who also taught me a lot (and are much more positive influences.) These FTM youtubers taught me a lot, and I started to realize, that I might be trans.

Because of this, I decided to ask Saturn if they could refer to me by They/Them pronouns. I went with They/Them because I didn’t feel like I passed well enough to use them. My hair was still long, I wasn’t out to my family, I still acted feminine sometimes, etc.

I would also like to make note of the fact that at the time, I was not very accepting of most gender identities outside of the “binary” and didn’t consider it a spectrum. I had a very close minded and rigid view of gender, and this is mostly due to family influences. This view is why I didn’t want to use He/Him pronouns, because I didn’t feel like I deserved it. I have since grown out of that viewpoint, reflected, and tried to do better when trying to understand other people’s identities.

This stress of my identity crisis, untreated mental conditions, toxic friends, and general struggle with school caused me to develop disordered eating habits. I have never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, however I’ve struggled with disordered eating for a long time. During 7th grade, I started to struggle with binge eating. The moment I would get home, I would immediately start a binge. It was uncontrollable, I felt horrible, and eventually, my mom had started to notice that I was eating an unhealthy amount.

A few months after this, I started to see a therapist, and at the end of my first session with her, I came out to my mom. I could not be more thankful for how supportive of me she is. She has only shown love, and care for me, and the only time she’d no to a step in my transition, is out of a genuine concern for my physical and mental health. She is also religious, but she loves me for the way that I am, and has a very loving and positive viewpoint when it comes to that.

I didn’t do much for my transition at the time (other than switching my pronouns to He/They at some point) and focused more on school, depression, and my romantic orientation.

This was a part that really confused me. I’ve never had a crush (except for one that came from peer-pressure) and I’ve never had an interest in romance. (Keep in mind I had no idea what ‘Aromantic’ was) So what was I? For the time being I decided to consider myself either bi-romantic or hetero-romantic, because like I said, people are pretty, and I tended to notice pretty girls more than pretty boys. 

There was also another hurdle. My (now ex) group of toxic friends. These friends weren’t toxic in the way that they wouldn’t include me, they were toxic in the way that they would talk shit about any minority group, a lot of which i was a part of. They were racist (I am not a poc but it still made me upset and uncomfortable) ableist (they threw the r-slur around a lot) homophobic (this was the biggest one, mainly making fun of them, callng them ‘pixies’ and would say they would ‘burn them’) and transphobic/enbyphobic (they didn’t consider they/them pronouns valid, they threw around the ‘attack helicopter’ joke, and they would dehumanize trans people, and call them ‘transvestites’)

Over the summer, I still spoke to them, and tried to ignore all of their behavior, because if I had cut them off, I would be completely alone. I have an extremely intense fear of abandonment, so the idea of doing that was comparable to death.

Through the first half of 8th grade (I was doing school from home) I didn’t talk to many people other than them. I stayed in my room a lot, and the first half of 8th grade was a steady decline in my mental health. My depression and anxiety had significantly worsened over that time, and I was extremely lonely. This was also worsened by the fact that I have ADHD, and at the time, it was undiagnosed, so I was failing almost all of my classes. 

The only way I was able to comfort myself was through my hyperfixations, and over the summer, I had a developed a hyperfixation on the Origins MCRP group. Because I had nothing else to do, I decided to pick up drawing again, and in October, I did an Origins version of Inktober. Every day, I would draw a different character from their series Fairy Tail Origins. I did not complete the challenge, however I did get through the first week, and I am proud of myself for that.

One one of the days, I had to draw a character named Brandon (partial inspiration for my name lel.) Brandon is a sky devil-slayer, and a co-guild leader of a guild named Divinus Magia. and I decided to draw him in a picture that symbolically showed his mental struggles with a devil named Jupiter. I posted it to the fan discord, and the actor and creator of the character (online username is ReinBloo) noticed my artwork. I was extremely excited about this, and decided to start drawing more and more. 

Because of this newfound motivation to pick up drawing again, I decided to create my own persona. I decided to make my main persona a revised design of my profile picture at the time. It was an improvised character, but I liked the aspects of it, and in late 2020, (yes i am 14 shut up) I created my main Oc, Jupiter. (at the time he didn’t have a name and I landed on Jupiter because I like it, and it fit him.) Jupiter is a space inspired demon, with dark grey skin, white star-like freckles, pure white eyes, white hair (that is slightly purple) and light gray ram-like horns with gray stripes on the base and tip. His color palette is that of the Asexual flag, and this was originally unintentional, but since I like the colors, and my Asexuality is an important part of my identity, I went with it.

I fell in love with this character, and he helped me figure out a lot about myself. I continued to watch origins, and draw for them (mainly ReinBloo’s characters lel) and on January 27th of 2021, in the premier chat of one of the episodes of My Hero Origins, I met MissyLea (She also goes by Lea, and Vesper). We instantly became friends, and moved over to discord to continue our conversation. By February 10th, we were already planning on being platonic valentines. We related on so many things, she was so kind, and loving, and understanding, and very quickly, I grew a strong emotional bond with her.

By the end of February, I developed an emotional attraction to her. I wanted to be with her forever, and while I personally wouldn’t consider it romantic right now, at the time, I did. After a few months of identifying as Aromantic (I had learned about it by now, through the Asexual community) I decided to change that label to Demi-Panromantic. I realized that I didn’t really see her gender, I didn’t care. I love her, and that’s all that matters to me. Now, I feel as though it was more of an emotional and somewhat sensual love for her, but even so, I love her to the edge of the universe and back, no matter what our relationship is.

I have told her things I’ve told no one else. When I was struggling, she was there for me, with kind words, and an endless amount of unconditional love. She is the type of person everyone deserves to have in their life, whether they are a friend, a family member, a partner, or anything else, everyone deserves to have a friend with the amount of love in their heart that she has.

On March 19th, I decided to tell her how I felt. When she said she felt the same way about me, I was happier than ever. To have someone who feels the same way about me as I do about them is amazing. We started dating later that day.

It’s only been 3 months, but I feel like I’ve known her for 3 years. Vesper has made me feel complete when I’m around them, but they’ve made it so much easier to stand on my own as well. 

Near the end of my 8th grade year, I officially cut them off, and came out to them (albeit in a very aggressive way) and I wouldn’t have been able to do this without Vesper’s support. Just one person has made it so much easier to cut off toxic people.

Vesper’s support also made it easier for me to be more open with my therapist. I began to tell her more of what I was struggling with, and it has made my mental health journey so much more bearable.

Over these past two months, I have finally gotten a diagnosis, and been able to truly know what direction to go in to properly treat my mental health.

I hope that by sharing my story you can better know me, and I also hope I can help create a safer environment for others to talk about their stories.

I hope one day people will be able to be themselves, and talk about their experiences, without the fear of judgement, or persecution, and if just this one post helps us get closer to that, I will be happy.

Happy Pride Month everybody! You are all amazing, loved and valid! 🌈💖

[flockofdoves]

i know there have been many of these, but here is a proposal for a lesbian flag i made! input is appreciated and feel free to spread it around if you like it.

(feel free to edit it too, the flower could use some sprucing up)

last year i proposed a lesbian flag that while i put a lot of thought into, it admittedly was kind of ugly, and i’m realizing now that from a practical perspective many of the proposed lesbian flags would be difficult to replicate on actual fabric due to their use of many very specific uncommon fabric colors, which also could lead to them being confused with the gilbert baker rainbow flag at a distance.

why am i proposing this when both the labrys flag and pink striped flag are already commonly used?

because the pink striped flag is in fact only largely used on tumblr over the past few years, and was created as specifically a flag for lipstick lesbians, and even at that none of the many shades of pink were given any specific significance

the labrys flag on the other hand, while more well established, i have seen jewish lesbians voice discomfort with the use of the black triangle, and the labrys itself well before its use as a lesbian feminist symbol was used widely as a symbol of greek fascism, which i find much too uncomfortable to take pride in.

why did i choose this design?

as stated above, i wanted a simple color palette and no stripes so as the flag could be easily reproduceable on fabric and recognizable. despite my issues with the labrys flag, it does have a history, so i thought its design would be a good starting place.

the violet has been a symbol of lesbianism for a very long time, rooting back to a poem by sappho in which her and her lover wear a crown of violets. beyond that i had in mind that the black and white represent butch and femme lesbians and how despite superficial appearances are not simply “replicating heterosexuality”, but are forming their own womanhood outside of it, complementing each other. the purple represents the significance of flowers like violets and lavenders to lesbians, as well as representing lesbians who do not ascribe to the femme/butch dichotomy but who nonetheless have their womanhood shaped by their lesbianism. lastly the circle represents how lesbians are whole despite how lesbophobes may insist that we are not for existing outside of men.

[dragonmarquise]

I suppose this is more of a vent for myself than anything, but I just wanna... vent about something that’s been bugging me for a while. Though, bit of a disclaimer: this isn’t gonna be directly related to ace discourse, but I would greatly appreciate it if nobody tries to bring that onto this post, please. Be it for or against, even if you mean it as a joke. I’m gonna be trying to keep this out of the tags by using filler tags, so hopefully nobody tries to start a fight. e_e

So, while a lot of people (both ace and non-ace) debate on whether or not the ace flag is necessary, judging by its widespread use at this point, it’s not gonna go away anytime soon.

But as an ace person, the ace flag is kinda... blegh. For a few reasons.

One, the meanings. In particular, the white stripe is straight up just “allosexual” (and I swear I have seen at least one site list it as representing heterosexual instead, what the hell). Like? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?? It’d be like having one of the stripes on the rainbow flag represent straight people or something.

And then black is just “lack of attraction”, grey is “grey area between aces and non-aces”, and then purple for community. imo the only good/meaningful meaning here is the purple stripe.

There’s been a ton of ace flag redesigns (this one is one of my favorites that I’ve seen recently, though personally my only gripe is that it could be mistaken for a lesbian flag recolor), but let’s face it. With how much promotion and merch the current flag gets, I don’t think there’s any reasonable way to get it completely changed. So at the least, maybe the meanings could be adjusted?

Like, just with some general suggestions, maybe something like: Black for self-acceptance/self-love/self-respect, grey for positive relationships, white for happiness, and then just keep purple as community.

So then besides the meanings of the colors, I have an issue with the colors themselves, mainly that they... don’t exactly harmonize all that well? Basically it’s that the purple is just too bright and pulls the eye away from the other stripes too much. This tweet basically made me realize this was the issue I was having with the colors, since before I knew it bugged me but I just wasn’t sure how to describe why it was bugging me.

The same person who made that tweet also made this, which has the ace flag colors adjusted so that the eye-pulling isn’t as bad. I mean, to compare the original to the adjusted one:

It honestly looks a lot nicer to me! And plus, it wouldn’t require people who make merch and other stuff to make too big of a change, if at all, in what they’re making. I’ve already seen plenty of art and merch that don’t use the exact shade of purple anyways because of color palette/limited materials/etc, y’know?

The same could be applied to demisexual and greysexual (two other identities that generate a lot of discourse, please don’t discourse about them here either oh god).

With demi- in particular, I feel like the triangle part really should be addressed at this point. Everyone knows about the black triangle being used during the Holocaust and all, and like... you can’t really make a “reclamation” comparison, since it isn’t like the swastika where an originally positive religious symbol was used in a bad way. This is a bad thing made for one terrible purpose, which people are trying to use for a different thing (and I have seen discussions of how the flag was designed, it was definitely intentional that it was inspired by the black triangle of the Holocaust, just saying), which... just doesn’t work the same, imo. I don’t think I’m explaining myself very well here, but I hope at least if someone else is reading this, they have a good idea of what I mean.

And I mean, I’ve seen plenty of arguments from actual Jewish people about how this usage makes them uncomfortable, especially since the design decision was very much made by those who had no real connection to what happened back then. But, I digress.

So I’ve been thinking... why not just, maybe change it to a vertical bar or something? Helps make it more distinct from other flags and the ace flag itself without even needing new colors. Comparison, the original and two variations I did with adjusted colors and the vertical bar:

It works well enough!

Also here’s grey- with the colors adjusted too (original and then color adjusted):

Honestly, I’m not expecting this to be something everyone can agree on. And like I said, I’m saying all this mainly just to be able to vent about something that has been bugging me for a very long time. e_e

[charcolor]

Odd numbers for pride asks?

sorry!!! tumblr mobile sucks and didn’t let me see this ask

1. Who did you first come out to, if anyone?

i don’t really.....come out to people? i’m not closeted i just mention i’m gay if it comes up.....when i first started thinking i was bi, i probably told someone in my friend group in elementary school, so there’s that

3. What’s your gender + orientation?

i’m a lesbian. my gender is “don’t know don’t care” so i just call myself a gnc lesbian bc people will usually see me as a girl anyway and i’m okay with it

5. Do you have a partner?

i’m in love with candle queen, banica conchita, the mingler from toontown, and v flower but other than that, no

7. What movie/video game/TV shows have you stolen from the straights?

everything i like is gay now. DDLC? gay. gravity falls? gay. undertale? gay (although, could it have even been straight in the first place?). evillious chronicles? gay. my little pony? you better FUCKING believe it’s gay

9. Do you go to a support/pride group?

no.....i really wish i did, i want to meet more gay girls. not as just potential girlfriends but i’d like to talk about being gay with other gays irl yknow?

11. What’s your favorite thing about your flag(s)?

even though i’m nb i only really use the lesbian flag...i think it just has a lovely color scheme and i like all the different palettes for different lesbians (butch lesbians. sun/moon lesbians, etc.) that ppl have made. 

13. How often do you get tired of The Straights?

whenever i think about them to bonest

15. Has Tumblr been more harmful of beneficial to you when it comes to discussing LGBT issues or figuring yourself out?

i think ppl on tumblr have ultimately helped with that stuff? helped me realize the coerced heterosexuality is a thing and i was never really attracted to boys, and that being engaged to k.k. slider doesn’t count as liking boys, and lesbians have different experience with gender while still being lesbian......plus listening to trans ppl on here helped me be a lot less transphobic, so that’s neat

17. Distinguished, functional, or disaster?

i have a tumbkr why would i be anything but a disaster

19. Is your current environment supportive?

i’d say so. my parents don’t really talk to me about it but they’ve always been cool with me being into girls, and my classmates in general are also cool with it