HAPPY PRIDE YOU WONDERFUL LIZARDS!!!!! :DDD I just spent (over?) an hour reading all the comments on this thread and no regrets I love you all (/p :) ) so much!!!! Also the Pride art on here. Is just. Spectacular. I need to go make some of my own later...
well, this is a good time for a pride rant, right? :)
it was so so so amazing to see how many ppl have had the same experience as me!!! I owe the CB so much for introducing me to the LGBTQIAP+ community, for helping me figure out my pronouns, for... really a whole lot <333 I joined during Pride month last year as a very straight, very cis girl (not saying anything's bad about that!! Just that's how I identified at the time :) ), mostly because that was all I knew. During covid years, I had been exposed a bit to the term "gay" as in like loving the same sex/gender (and btw I am still definitely not an expert, so correct me if I'm wrong with anything!!) -- at the time the only connotation of the word for me was "happy" -- and I honestly just thought it was... like, idk. Just oh ok yeah *promptly forgets about it* same thing with like Nico and Alex in Riordanverse, I LOVE those books but my brain just erased all memory of the identity of those characters (don't wanna give spoilers)... still don't know how that happened 'cuz I've reread them all like eight times at least :/
aNyWaYsss, what I meant to say is tysm @everyone for introducing me to this wonderful community, for idk the past hour smiling and laughing and crying (tears of joy ;) ), for showing me that everyone deserves so much to be loved, and no matter how you identify (actually I remember one of the CBers on here was writing and said something like, "for once it would be nice to be loved, not despite who she was, but because of it", which is a quote I love very much, and it's so true), I love y'all so much <333
oh and btw I'm now a very proud and happy but also extremely in the closet haha lesbian (who has a crush on like the most amazing girl ever and I would totally rant about her if you guys ask) whose pronouns are fluid and change randomly but usually consist of she/her/herself, maybeee they/them/themself, and also I think comet/comets/cometself bc idk at first those were the pronouns of a character I created for Blackfooted Bobcat's (amazing go check it out on Inkwell please!!!) ski lodge but I honestly feel so happy using them too and now I'm just confused lol so yeah also still very much questioning and I should stop talking--
Sending so much love and happy pride y'all!!!!!!! I'll be back later to give media recommendations and fun Easter eggs!!
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submitted by CelineBurning Bright, age HAPPYPRIDE, *eco(?) rainbow confetti* (June 1, 2024 - 4:03 pm)
hehee, yeahh... it makes so much sense though, I was never really into "boy stuff" (as in, "crush stuff", when people are like, "do you think this boy is cute?" and "who looks better, this guy or this guy?" and I'm like "uh I really don't care"), and always thought that girls looked better than boys (I thought it was just "duh ofc girls look better than boys it's just natural" though lol srsly that was my whole thought process... I think because of beauty/fashion, which Ik is made up of people of all genders and stuff, but at the time I connected it with just females? So it was a given that the females would look better than the males...), and literally once was just like, "I don't WANT to marry anybody, I just want to like marry my BFF (me: but haha that's not possible) and see her every day and be happy" (although I think it was 'cuz she's my BFF, I don't btw have a crush on her at all... but still)!! Actually there are better examples than that but can't remember rn so yeah. Took me this long lol (to be fair, I only learned the definition of "lesbian" last year (or 2022?), so)
also yess I love reading your rants about your crush he sounds so sweet!!!!!! Also YAY you can't take it back now! :DDD SO she's like... just really super nice and I love her and she made me give her my phone number (if nothing she's persistent) to add me to the group chat with all the new-school friends and she's always making sure I don't get left out and she asks if she can hug me before hugging me (yeah consent is big with me :) usually I don't like touch but for some reason I'm okay with her) and she's AMAZING at soccer and ping pong and piano and like literally everything and like idk when I'm feeling left out in the group, she talks to me and says hi to me and does all these really little things that make me a bit more included and some of it is really sweet and even when it's against like what she loves (she's really competitive btw) she still does it?? And invited me over to her house last week even though school's out and I mean I could find an ulterior motive in every other thing she did (yeah I'm cynical like that) but I mean I can NOT find an ulterior motive in that because she invited just me, and invited me for SIX HOURS?? and the only reason I can think of is she's just so extroverted that she wanted to invite someone over but then why did she pick me?? I'm like horrible at extrovertedness!! I'm super socially awkward!! I don't understand lol. Even my dad was super confused; when I told him I was going over to her house, he was like "who else did she invite?" and I was like, wait she invited other people but then why not tell us all "idk", and after I went, he was like, "so who else was there?", and I was like, "just me and her and my squish" who was there for totally unrelated purposes and he's super awesome too and I'm like woahh I got to spend a whole day with like the two people I have a crush/squish on... and he was like "really?!??? None of your other friends??? Just you guys???" :) I mean idk just yeah. Oh and wait she literally just texted me so um BYE (like it's like uh byeeee)
AWWW your crush sounds so wonderful! she definitely likes you, at least as a friend :)
also i'm so glad you discovered your queerness through this website! i (kind of) did as well! i love the quote you included in your other comment about being loved for who you are, not despite; do you remember who said that?
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submitted by Azalea, age 17, the pink pony club (June 3, 2024 - 5:58 pm)
2 months later, I return! :P I just randomly found the quote, it was on the 'Prompt' Exchange Thread, which Jaybells just topped, so here it is if you still want to know:
Alair turned to face him, her blue eyes shining with tears.
"It would be so nice," she said, "not to be loved in spite of who I am, but because of it."
submitted by Poinsettia (August 28, 2023 - 2:50 pm)
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submitted by Celine@Azalea (August 8, 2024 - 7:33 pm)
i'm sure i say this every year but i'm so grateful to the cb and all of you for exposing me to the queer community and just being so supportive and welcoming and awesome :)
i'm still figuring stuff out haha, but i'm pretty sure i'm bi (if extremely closeted irl :P) and maybe ace too?? and who even knows about gender anymore but whatever :P
ANYWAY i gotta go now but i'll be back later with some pride art and stuff :DD
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submitted by pangolin6, age she/they, all BI myself (June 1, 2024 - 6:12 pm)
oh we're introducing our orientations like characters in the end credits of an eighties action movie, i can absolutely dig that.
i'm gender fluid. sometimes, i feel like a girl, and that's when I'm really happy, but usually i'm stuck somewhere in the middle. i'm attracted to anyone who is attractive. there are labels that fit me, but counterpoint, i'm scared of them.
if you're in middle school, it gets better. might not ever be "great" but someday you will feel better, and capable of loving yourself, and the people you love, at the same time
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submitted by Lord Entropy (June 1, 2024 - 10:27 pm)
"i'm attracted to anyone who is attractive. there are labels that fit me, but counterpoint, i'm scared of them. " that's... a great description of how i also feel! wow!
also, i did not know that was a feature of 80s action movies, but that's a very unexpected comparison XD
and, ^^^^^^^ to the last sentence!
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submitted by Azalea, age 17, the pink pony club (June 3, 2024 - 6:05 pm)
last pride month i remember being (maybe a bit unreasonably) sad about there not being a colorful straight flag (judge me, I LOVE COLORS TEEHEE)--aaand now i'm pretty closteted (i told 2 PEOPLE YAY) but pretty pangender :D and...bi questioning.
ive never had a crush on a girl before, or anything, but um is it weird to possibly be a simp for certain characters? i may be biromantic...but i'm also pretty catholic (i go to church and participate and love God).
i'm not sure whether i'm biromantic or not...but i am pangender. so i'm glad that's figured out!!
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submitted by endless_parodies, any pronouns!! <3 (June 2, 2024 - 2:37 am)
Actually, there is a colorful flag for cishet people! It's called the ally flag! Also, the straight flag that's just black and white bars is often related to homophobia...
Anyways, congrats on figuring out gender! I'm still working on that lol
I don't normally draw that often, but I've drawn the non-binary flag as a nature scene before so today I decided to do the ace flag! Maybe I'll do some more pride flags later. Are there other ones you guys would like to see as nature scenes?
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submitted by Periwinkle, age 14, Somewhere in the stars (June 2, 2024 - 10:20 am)
HAPPY PRIDE YOU WONDERFUL LIZARDS!!!!! :DDD I just spent (over?) an hour reading all the comments on this thread and no regrets I love you all (/p :) ) so much!!!! Also the Pride art on here. Is just. Spectacular. I need to go make some of my own later...
well, this is a good time for a pride rant, right? :)
it was so so so amazing to see how many ppl have had the same experience as me!!! I owe the CB so much for introducing me to the LGBTQIAP+ community, for helping me figure out my pronouns, for... really a whole lot <333 I joined during Pride month last year as a very straight, very cis girl (not saying anything's bad about that!! Just that's how I identified at the time :) ), mostly because that was all I knew. During covid years, I had been exposed a bit to the term "gay" as in like loving the same sex/gender (and btw I am still definitely not an expert, so correct me if I'm wrong with anything!!) -- at the time the only connotation of the word for me was "happy" -- and I honestly just thought it was... like, idk. Just oh ok yeah *promptly forgets about it* same thing with like Nico and Alex in Riordanverse, I LOVE those books but my brain just erased all memory of the identity of those characters (don't wanna give spoilers)... still don't know how that happened 'cuz I've reread them all like eight times at least :/
aNyWaYsss, what I meant to say is tysm @everyone for introducing me to this wonderful community, for idk the past hour smiling and laughing and crying (tears of joy ;) ), for showing me that everyone deserves so much to be loved, and no matter how you identify (actually I remember one of the CBers on here was writing and said something like, "for once it would be nice to be loved, not despite who she was, but because of it", which is a quote I love very much, and it's so true), I love y'all so much <333
oh and btw I'm now a very proud and happy but also extremely in the closet haha lesbian (who has a crush on like the most amazing girl ever and I would totally rant about her if you guys ask) whose pronouns are fluid and change randomly but usually consist of she/her/herself, maybeee they/them/themself, and also I think comet/comets/cometself bc idk at first those were the pronouns of a character I created for Blackfooted Bobcat's (amazing go check it out on Inkwell please!!!) ski lodge but I honestly feel so happy using them too and now I'm just confused lol so yeah also still very much questioning and I should stop talking--
Sending so much love and happy pride y'all!!!!!!! I'll be back later to give media recommendations and fun Easter eggs!!
(June 1, 2024 - 4:03 pm)
omG UR lesbian! Congrats on figuring it out OMG :D
Also feel free to rantabt ur girl hehe (ive ranted about my crush on here, so ur not alone mwahahaha)
(June 2, 2024 - 2:30 am)
hehee, yeahh... it makes so much sense though, I was never really into "boy stuff" (as in, "crush stuff", when people are like, "do you think this boy is cute?" and "who looks better, this guy or this guy?" and I'm like "uh I really don't care"), and always thought that girls looked better than boys (I thought it was just "duh ofc girls look better than boys it's just natural" though lol srsly that was my whole thought process... I think because of beauty/fashion, which Ik is made up of people of all genders and stuff, but at the time I connected it with just females? So it was a given that the females would look better than the males...), and literally once was just like, "I don't WANT to marry anybody, I just want to like marry my BFF (me: but haha that's not possible) and see her every day and be happy" (although I think it was 'cuz she's my BFF, I don't btw have a crush on her at all... but still)!! Actually there are better examples than that but can't remember rn so yeah. Took me this long lol (to be fair, I only learned the definition of "lesbian" last year (or 2022?), so)
also yess I love reading your rants about your crush he sounds so sweet!!!!!! Also YAY you can't take it back now! :DDD SO she's like... just really super nice and I love her and she made me give her my phone number (if nothing she's persistent) to add me to the group chat with all the new-school friends and she's always making sure I don't get left out and she asks if she can hug me before hugging me (yeah consent is big with me :) usually I don't like touch but for some reason I'm okay with her) and she's AMAZING at soccer and ping pong and piano and like literally everything and like idk when I'm feeling left out in the group, she talks to me and says hi to me and does all these really little things that make me a bit more included and some of it is really sweet and even when it's against like what she loves (she's really competitive btw) she still does it?? And invited me over to her house last week even though school's out and I mean I could find an ulterior motive in every other thing she did (yeah I'm cynical like that) but I mean I can NOT find an ulterior motive in that because she invited just me, and invited me for SIX HOURS?? and the only reason I can think of is she's just so extroverted that she wanted to invite someone over but then why did she pick me?? I'm like horrible at extrovertedness!! I'm super socially awkward!! I don't understand lol. Even my dad was super confused; when I told him I was going over to her house, he was like "who else did she invite?" and I was like, wait she invited other people but then why not tell us all "idk", and after I went, he was like, "so who else was there?", and I was like, "just me and her and my squish" who was there for totally unrelated purposes and he's super awesome too and I'm like woahh I got to spend a whole day with like the two people I have a crush/squish on... and he was like "really?!??? None of your other friends??? Just you guys???" :) I mean idk just yeah. Oh and wait she literally just texted me so um BYE (like it's like uh byeeee)
(June 3, 2024 - 2:01 pm)
AWWW your crush sounds so wonderful! she definitely likes you, at least as a friend :)
also i'm so glad you discovered your queerness through this website! i (kind of) did as well! i love the quote you included in your other comment about being loved for who you are, not despite; do you remember who said that?
(June 3, 2024 - 5:58 pm)
2 months later, I return! :P I just randomly found the quote, it was on the 'Prompt' Exchange Thread, which Jaybells just topped, so here it is if you still want to know:
Alair turned to face him, her blue eyes shining with tears.
"It would be so nice," she said, "not to be loved in spite of who I am, but because of it."
(August 28, 2023 - 2:50 pm)
(August 8, 2024 - 7:33 pm)
Actually I take it back I was never "very straight" lol just not aware that there were other options :)
(June 1, 2024 - 4:13 pm)
(June 1, 2024 - 4:25 pm)
(June 1, 2024 - 6:50 pm)
(June 1, 2024 - 6:53 pm)
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, LIZARDS!! *rainbow confetti*
i'm sure i say this every year but i'm so grateful to the cb and all of you for exposing me to the queer community and just being so supportive and welcoming and awesome :)
i'm still figuring stuff out haha, but i'm pretty sure i'm bi (if extremely closeted irl :P) and maybe ace too?? and who even knows about gender anymore but whatever :P
ANYWAY i gotta go now but i'll be back later with some pride art and stuff :DD
(June 1, 2024 - 6:12 pm)
oh we're introducing our orientations like characters in the end credits of an eighties action movie, i can absolutely dig that.
i'm gender fluid. sometimes, i feel like a girl, and that's when I'm really happy, but usually i'm stuck somewhere in the middle. i'm attracted to anyone who is attractive. there are labels that fit me, but counterpoint, i'm scared of them.
if you're in middle school, it gets better. might not ever be "great" but someday you will feel better, and capable of loving yourself, and the people you love, at the same time
(June 1, 2024 - 10:27 pm)
"i'm attracted to anyone who is attractive. there are labels that fit me, but counterpoint, i'm scared of them. " that's... a great description of how i also feel! wow!
also, i did not know that was a feature of 80s action movies, but that's a very unexpected comparison XD
and, ^^^^^^^ to the last sentence!
(June 3, 2024 - 6:05 pm)
last pride month i remember being (maybe a bit unreasonably) sad about there not being a colorful straight flag (judge me, I LOVE COLORS TEEHEE)--aaand now i'm pretty closteted (i told 2 PEOPLE YAY) but pretty pangender :D and...bi questioning.
ive never had a crush on a girl before, or anything, but um is it weird to possibly be a simp for certain characters? i may be biromantic...but i'm also pretty catholic (i go to church and participate and love God).
i'm not sure whether i'm biromantic or not...but i am pangender. so i'm glad that's figured out!!
(June 2, 2024 - 2:37 am)
Actually, there is a colorful flag for cishet people! It's called the ally flag! Also, the straight flag that's just black and white bars is often related to homophobia...
Anyways, congrats on figuring out gender! I'm still working on that lol
(June 3, 2024 - 8:52 am)
I don't normally draw that often, but I've drawn the non-binary flag as a nature scene before so today I decided to do the ace flag! Maybe I'll do some more pride flags later. Are there other ones you guys would like to see as nature scenes?
(June 2, 2024 - 10:20 am)