Y'all ever feel like you're in a soundproof box and u are like chomping at the bit trying to tear ur way out chewing clawing etc. I mentioned the cishet impulse to ignore queer topics in literature on a discussion board post, and I talked about how cishet people being silent will only generate more silence, and it's so important to engage with these concepts, especially when they're core to understanding a story, and predictably, despite pretty active engagement with my posts before this one, I got cishet silence in response. Feel like I'm screaming into a void lol. I just woke up and my brain is still fuzzy from sleep but I'm not quite over this like i thought i was