berlynn-wohl:

knitmeapony:

@slothlorien has good thoughts

I’ve got an example:

T.E. Lawrence was a homoromantic sex-repulsed asexual masochist. Having this vocabulary helps contextualize many of the things he did and wrote. But a lot of people today – let alone 30-70 years ago – cannot comprehend that those four identities are a situation that one can even be in all at once, so most of his biographies, when they’re trying to explain his behavior, are just like