Re-blog to support Jason Collins, who has become the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major American team sport!
Jason says he wears jersey #98 to honor Matthew Shepard and The Trevor Project (we were founded in 1998).
More random writings that may go somewhere
Going along with this post here (particularly the second part).
Warnings: GLBT, coming out
Inspiration: I saw something that asked about the hardships people go through who are in the GLBT community. There are two kinds of hardships, to me. There’s the hate we always see, the slurs and bashing and whatnot, and then there’s the stuff that this piece is about. Sometimes it’s the quieter words that are the most harmful. A lot of times kids/teenagers are told that they’re “too young” to understand things when adolescence is, to me, the most judgmental time of a person’s life.
There’s times when someone feels like they get it and they’re flat out told “no” if it doesn’t fit “the norm,” that they’re “too young” and “don’t get it,” which I think, in a way, is just as damaging as the blatant ”in your face” hate because people don’t realize how harmful it is, they think they’re doing something good in saying such things, and a lot of times… they’re not. The worst part is that they honestly do mean well, you know? Parents mean well, they want what’s best for their children, so they honestly do think that saying such things is not only o.k., but necessary.
So, here’s my pieces, for now. It’s ongoing and just me putting words together, really, that I might put together into a thing later.
In which I have opinions and writings and things ^^;;; Remember to check out the blog full of writings and things :)
Nano novel teaser: Double H
So for those of you who are genuinely curious about my writing outside of Persona 4 and fandom, here’s a teaser to what I’m working on now.
Short Synopsis: Gable and Avery have been together all through college, something that Gable’s parents have no knowledge about. As the two lovers get closer to graduation, they’ve made plans on moving in together and having a future with one another. Gable needs to tell his parents soon, but he’s worried about their reaction, especially since Avery’s parents have completely disowned him over the fact that he’s gay. Gable often tells Avery to not be around when his parents are visiting, putting off their inevitable meeting. Avery has no problem with it, still remembering the day his parents turned their backs on him.
Sadly, Gable has no idea that this time, when he tells Avery to make himself scarce, it will be the last time he will ever see his partner.
Avery goes missing and is found a week later, dead. As Gable cries himself to sleep he thinks of the last time he saw Avery, trying to cling to the good memories of his boyfriend. Unbeknownst to Gable his dreams are not like ours. His dreams seem to have an effect on time itself. The next time he opens his eyes he’s back in his room, a week before Avery’s disappearance. This gives him a chance to save his lover’s life, but is he strong enough to use this power to save Avery and stop a killer who targets young, gay men?
(yeah, because I can’t just have a romance story, or just a gay romance story, or just a story about being afraid to come out… it has to be a supernatural murder thing, too, cuz… you know, that’s how my brain works ^^;;; If you want to leave feedback, that would be wonderful, since this is a work in progress)
A quick headcanon before bed
Today (oops, yesterday, it’s after midnight) is/was “National Coming Out Day.” I already posted some long emotional blar blar on my facebook, so I decided to do something a bit more fun on tumblr.
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Yosuke Hanamura discovers that today is “National Coming Out Day” thanks to the powers of the internet. Being the awesome friend that he is, he tells Kanji Tatsumi about this day, because if anyone needs to “come out” it’s him. Not that Yosuke has a problem with it, the two have been through too much for a little thing like sexual preferences to get to him anymore.
Besides, he had mostly been joking.
And double besides… there’s a certain someone he…
… but this isn’t about him, o.k.?! This is about Kanji and coming out!
So he tells Kanji about “coming out,” how it’s when you stop hiding and… yeah, just come out already, Kanji, he says.
Kanji mentions that, um, duh, he had already done that before. Shadow? Bathhouse? All that flamboyant jazz? He’s been there, done that, and has made plenty of plushies for his mother’s shop to show for it.
But this is different, Yosuke says, that was inside the T.V.
So Kanji takes a deep breath and does it.
He comes out.
… and… tells Naoto Shirogane that he has a crush on her.
He tells her how it’s “National Coming Out Day… or whatever the hell.” It’s a day to stop hiding, and thus, he stops hiding, and nervously waits for some sort of reaction.
The logical part of Naoto wants to explain to Kanji what the day really means. However, the way he shifts from one foot to the other is a bit endearing. She supposes that, deep down, Kanji sort of has the meaning of the day correct. He isn’t hiding his feelings – though, if she thinks about it, had he really been hiding them? The blushing, the stuttering, it was all out in the open.
So perhaps… she is the one who needs to come out.
So she smiles and comes out with him.
Yosuke sighs, once again marveling over how Kanji can be so dense sometimes. But hey, Naoto is kinda a boy, right? So Yosuke considers the day to be a success.
