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  1. aFLYINGPlatypusThatEatsMeat on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 03:04AM UTC

    So sweet so pure so divine! The Love pet name is absolutely the best.

    Bruce’s his “someone is flirting with my boyfriend” sense is absolutely divine (kinda makes me want to be in a relationship honest)

    “usually a woman; Clark “looked straight,” as countless people had told him over the course of his life” I KNOW RIGHT? This just hits too close home.

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    1. rotasha on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 03:11AM UTC

      Emma Frost in diamond form, deflecting bullets, over a gradient pink and orange background

      Writing this kinda made me want to be in a relationship tbh but that sounds like a lot of work... I'll just wait until I make a really close friend who I trust more than anyone else in the world and then fall in love with them over the course of many years until neither of us can deny it anymore... that happens in real life right, not just in my fanfiction?

      Man I have short hair, don't wear makeup, and dress androgynously and some people still have the nerve to be like *surprised pikachu face* "you're GAY?" so I cannot imagine what it must be like for anyone who doesn't fit the stereotype.

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      1. polarisnorth on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 03:35AM UTC

        As a lesbian who apparently doesn't code as such, can confirm it sucks.

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        1. rotasha on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 03:45AM UTC

          Emma Frost in diamond form, deflecting bullets, over a gradient pink and orange background

          It sounds like it does! And I've heard from femmes and other not-butch lesbians that it does. I'm sure in some environments "looking gay" would cause me problems but luckily I haven't had issues, and it's convenient that I don't have to come out to everyone all the time because at least most people assume. (But again, some straight people still be oblivious af.)

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      3. aFLYINGPlatypusThatEatsMeat on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 06:23AM UTC

        Having a friends to lovers romance would be great, sadly I’ll need to make friends that aren’t either in a relationship or straight (I seem to be lacking those sadly)

        I- well if you see me when I am anywhere but work you’ll definitely think “Oh that one married a guy and will totally be a stay at home mum”. I really want to cut my hair short, but my face is too round for that (it didn’t work when I was 13 it won’t work now), and I won’t lie I absolutely looove the girly kind of clothes (but still, just assuming is so rude). “Oh little girl why did your little friend called you a boy?” Me trying to explain the concept of being non-binary to an old lady I’ve never met before.

        Thanks for coming to my Ted talk I had no idea I had so many emotions about this.

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        1. rotasha on Chapter 1 Fri 03 Dec 2021 06:30AM UTC

          Emma Frost in diamond form, deflecting bullets, over a gradient pink and orange background

          Yeah lmao same about the friends......

          And oh god yeah explaining nonbinary to strangers?? No thanks just assume I'm a woman I'll take the hit. (Hell, explaining nonbinary to my *parents* is something I don't ever even intend to try so strangers? No)

          Also "I had no idea I had so emotions about this" is how every single one of my fics starts RIP

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          1. keyne on Chapter 1 Tue 07 Oct 2025 02:42AM UTC

            Van Gogh's painting "Irises"

            When my eldest came out as our daughter, her elderly grandparents rolled with it and adjusted pretty quickly to “she.” But when we acquired a nonbinary bonus kid they had a tough time, never having fully grasped the use of “they” for a known person.

            This book, which we gave them for Christmas that year, helped a lot:

            https://www.amazon.com/How-They-Them-Nonbinary-Pronouns/dp/1632173131

            (Non-Amazon link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/626188/how-to-theythem-by-stuart-getty-illustrated-by-brooke-thyng/ )

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            1. rotasha on Chapter 1 Tue 07 Oct 2025 12:22PM UTC

              Emma Frost in diamond form, deflecting bullets, over a gradient pink and orange background

              Actually, great news, since posting this story, my family has made great progress toward figuring out nonbinary identities!

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