#i am queer enough

[goddess-of-lies-and-goodbyes]

I'm queer. Pansexual, if we're getting specific. A pansexual woman struggling with a passing identity crisis. I'm married, and my husband, well, he loves me for all of me and accepts my queerness - hell, even loves me more for it. Yes, he's straight, and I remind myself, yes, I am still queer.

I wish I didn't feel the need to justify my sexuality. To remind myself that I was coming out in middle school, openly affectionate with the girls around me and called Leslie and Lezzy by my classmates. I remind myself my 8th grade yearbook was signed to Lezzy B. Ann. (My name is Kate.)

I remind myself I crushed on my middle school best friend. I remind myself I wanted to kiss her as we shared a bed during a sleepover, my heartbeat burning in my throat. I remind myself I forced those feeling away, scared it would ruin our friendship. I remind myself it was ruined over a boy in high school, wanting her to be happy more than anything. I remember how she threw the phone at my face as I was kicked out of her house.

And still, I remind myself of night spent with a friend in high school. Giving in to our feelings and fueled by teenage hormones, she and I kissed until the sun rose the next morning. I remind myself of the few awkward dates we shared.

I remind myself how I'd keep my eyes down in the locker room to avoid glances at the exposed skin around me. I remind myself how I tried to explain bisexuality to my mother.

I replay the memories in my head because I find myself whispering "not queer enough" in the back of my head. "Not queer enough" as my gay brother wishes my gay nephew happy Pride, but not to me. "Not queer enough" as I post my pictures from Pride on my feed. "Not queer enough" as I proudly share my sexuality on social media.

And then I remind myself, I am pansexual and married. My husband loves me and supports me. And still, I remind myself, I am queer enough.

[stars-irises]

CANONICALLY GAY ALICE AND COLIN!!! EXCUSE ME!!!

[transmaskedfag]

The question, "am I queer enough" is irrelevant when "let's get gayer together" is the answer (you know it's the right one)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.

you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[khathastrophe]

heard the news?

[angelbambifemme]

I 🩷 being a hairy femme

I 🩷 having hairy legs

I 🩷 having hairy armpits

I 🩷 confidence and beauty and embracing my body for what it is instead of conforming to the societal expectations of what feminity should look like

I LOVE YOU HAIRY FEMMES!!! I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!! MWWWAAAH 💋💋💋

[yellowocaballero]

Trigun 98 really is the anime of all time. It did absolutely say "Here is the biggest idiot you've ever seen in your life. It's going to be four episodes until he does anything that is not blindingly moronic and it's going to be five before he says a sentence that is not a lie. We are now going to vaguely imply that he has a dead girlfriend and that's why he's sad. You will learn ten episodes later that the dead girlfriend is his mother. In episode nine a random man is going to call him depressed and they will spend the next three episodes doing absolutely nothing important but forming an unshakable bond of friendship, and we are also going to learn that they are in space."

What are we supposed to do with any of this. Insurance agents with fifty guns and one gigantic gun respectively are the only reason we have a plot at all. An entire episode's resolution only makes sense with information we are never told and barely implied. The main character is Jesus but also a deconstruction of Jesus. I feel like the show is giving me a rabid guinea pig and leaving me to wonder why this guinea pig is on crack before telling me three hours later that he's a robot guinea pig, answering no questions and raising so much more.

[marzipanandminutiae]

brought to you by "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791" by Louis Crompton

when you first start studying queer history: sapphic acts have basically never been criminalized in any western society! so queer women have always had it easier than queer men!

when you delve even the slightest bit deeper: why do we still believe this

(OP cannot control who does and does not reblog this post, but she firmly believes that trans women are women)

[stargore]

forgot to post this but i’m finally getting around to it!!! here are the photos of a jacket i made for my friend <3 this was super fun to make, it’s very different from my usual style

there are a lot of things i wish i had cleaned up or made better choices with but on the whole i am suuuuuper proud of it

^ a few patches i really liked, this picture doesn’t do the starry night patch justice it’s one of the best things i’ve ever painted

also!!! messy splotchy glow in the dark stars!!!!! they look very different in person, i like them i think they’re cute

[affixjoy]

There are no words for how much it means to me to see a beautiful fat* woman running and enduring and doing what she needs to do. So many other shows would have made this a joke.

Thank you Discovery, Tilly is fucking amazing.

Gorgeous, gorgeous woman.

*I hope it’s clear to everyone that this is not a bad word and I am not using it in a way to insult her. I’m fat too! It’s simply a descriptive word.

[fairyblue-alchemist]

both everyone who says july is gay wrath month and everyone who knows july to be disability awareness month are correct. everyone who is both gay and disabled gets a 1.5× damage multiplier for the rest of the month. may we all live our lives in dignity and peace

[dragonagedastferaasdf]

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

stan: how can you be polyamorous and aroace, or…whatever mabel called it?

ford: in my case, i have my family and i have my platonic polycule. i would prefer to never have to interact with anyone outside these two groups

stan: what about soos and wendy? they’re not in either of those groups

ford: first of all, i am soos’ uncle, second of all, are you saying you don’t believe i would both die and kill for wendy?

stan: you’ve got a weird way of defining family, six

ford: it’s my favorite way

[torchickentacos]

i will always shout praises of bi4bi but given recent discourse I feel the need to say that I love bi4het too! I just love bisexuality in general in its many forms, and anyone who only likes it when it's 'queer enough' for them is biphobic. Bisexuals should be able to bring their LaMe CiShEt BoYfRiEnD to pride without being made to feel like spectators and outsiders to their own event.

[tippenfunkaport]

When you see queer show after queer show get cancelled, I'm just forever grateful Crew-Ra at least got to finish SPOP and end the story their own way.