me, thinking about romance between other people: OH MY GOD. BABIES. MY HEART. MY PRECIOUS CHILDREN. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH. FUCK. I AM DYING. LOOK AT THEM. I AM DEAD AND GONE HH O LY S HIT THROW ME OUT A WINDOW
me, thinking about romance involving myself: ew wtf no
Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.
Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’
To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’
The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’
We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.
my favorite thing is that when the young avengers writing team got angry backlash for having two non-straight heroes involved in an obvious and textual relationship they added more queer characters, made any of their seemingly straight characters either bisexual or ace or completely accepting, and basically said that anyone who is against queer rights is a sack of chodes