People using incredibly specific microlabels for their gender are just as valid as people using the nonbinary umbrella label, you guys are just cowards.
me, 10 years old and gay, playing portal for the first time: thats… kinda hot
“hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me”
i made this post a year ago for the laughs but it’s not a joke and ill never be able to truly articulate the goddamn panic portal put my elementary-school-ass through
best part of this post is people not even attracted to women in the tags telling me they completely understand. glados is just like that i guess
i think the funniest and realist thing i’ve realized lately is how troubling idealization can be. every person is just… a person. the very people you want to impress or be apart of are just people. even if they seem wildly intimidating because of the way they look or because of their reputation, every one is just a person. human. as embarrassing, as remorseful and they are going through stages of growth just like you are. we only see what we want to see and then drown ourselves further in our own depression and we don’t have to.
truly and i am learning the less i idealise others, the more willing i am to meet people where they are warts n all. and the more willing i am to show myself too and bring my whole self into things. my own embarrassment becomes a new normal and fine thing. stumbling becomes more endearing.
had a teacher once who told us “idealizing people is just as dehumanizing as demonizing them” and that stuck with me so much
