general thoughts & opinions from a lesbian loser

🧸alcyone | she/her🧸 🌷ace lesbian🌷 🍄infj🍄 🍊synesthete🍊 🌸minor🌸 🌈dni & byf🌈

[alcyone-est-regina]

bye everyone

[alcyone-est-regina]

i’ve decided i’m going to start calling myself transgender. although my gender and biological sex are the same, my relationship with gender has changed a lot for me. so, i’m going to reclaim the term to mean someone who changes their feelings about their own gender. also, i just feel more comfy calling myself trans than cis.

wait, what? i can’t change the definition of a term so i can use it even though it doesn’t fit me, because that’s misinformation and erasure?

but isn’t that EXACTLY what y’all did with lesbian when you changed the definition to “nonmen attracted to nonmen” so that bi & non-binary people could use it?

[alcyone-est-regina]

lesbians, bi girls, and aroace girls bonding over a love of artemis is literally my favorite thing. like. was she sapphic? was she asexual? was she aromantic? we’ll never know, because historians have a very fun hobby of making every person in history seem a lot more heterosexual than would be accurate. but we all love her, because she’s the strong role model we all needed when we were 12 and wished we were normal

[nerdy-as-heck]

Phineas says Trans Rights

[alcyone-est-regina]

can i reclaim this slur?

d//ke:

only women who are attracted to other women can use this slur. it has historically been used to degrade the womanhood of sapphics because of being sexually unavailable to men, and to make wlw feel like less of women.

f//g and f//ggot:

only men who are attracted to other men can reclaim this one. it is, and historically has been, used to degrade mlm’s masculinity, and make them seem less manly for being same-gender attracted.

q//eer

you can only reclaim this slur if you experience same-gender attraction (being lesbian, gay, or bi) and/or gender incongruence (being trans/non-binary). this slur has been used historically to make lgbt people seem weird and different — because that’s exactly what the word means.

it is never ok to say a slur you cannot reclaim. and even if you can use one, you should never use it to describe anyone else (unless they’ve told you they’re ok with it). yes, that includes calling the lgbt community the “q//eer community.” please don’t.

[posbitivity]

all of the romeric (mlw) bisexuals and biromantics reading this deserve a rad day and evening

[alcyone-est-regina]

i do not possess the linguistic capacity to explain how deeply i desire to become a small frog

[alcyone-est-regina]

here’s some kitty pride icons! feel free to use as your profile picture. what animal should i do next?

(going from top to bottom, the flags are rainbow, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, trixic, toric, ace, and aro)

[alcyone-est-regina]

sexuality is fluid

AND

telling that to someone right after they come out to you is a quick and easy way to make them feel like you’re dismissing this important thing they just told you as a phase or a joke. because that’s exactly what you’re doing.

[alcyone-est-regina]

if i see one more fucking post calling stormé a he/him lesbian i am actually going to scream

[alcyone-est-regina]

if anyone wants to teach me ancient greek so i can read sappho poetry and appreciate it in its original form i’m available on literally every day of the week because i don’t do anything except wish i could read lesbian poetry in ancient greek

[alcyone-est-regina]

surprisingly, non-binary people aren’t non-binary because they’re trying to “smash gender roles” or “break the binary,” they’re non-binary because (get this) they are non-binary.

[alcyone-est-regina]

haha you know what would be, like, really cool? if you didn’t call people q*eer without asking first😘

[alcyone-est-regina]

you’re still bi when you’re dating a woman.

you’re still bi when you’re dating a man.

you’re still bi when you have a non-binary partner.

you’re still bi when you’re in a polyamorous relationship.

you’re still bi when you’re single.

no matter what anyone tells you, your relationship status does not define your sexuality.

[alcyone-est-regina]

“there’s only two genders, because non-binary is a lack of gender.”

stop saying you support non-binary people if you only support one of the four stripes.

if you think enbies can only be without gender, just say you support agender people, not non-binary.

[alcyone-est-regina]

seeing pretty girls always used to make me exhausted from agonizing over whether i wanted to be her or date her. now i know the answer is always both.

[alcyone-est-regina]

you know when you’re listening to a song like “hey this is kind of a bop” and then shit goes down and you listen to it again but now you finally understand the lyrics?