Anyone got any thoughts on explaining to my 14-year-old, probably-cis sister what gender policing is and why it's not fucking cool? Because unless my parents have gotten much, much better about this stuff in the past four years without my notice, we're talking about someone completely trans-ignorant, and who I'm not comfortable outing myself to ( Read more... )

In the future, remind me to avoid NaNo board posts that speak of gender variance in any capacity, because most of the ones I've fallen across involve massive amounts of fail and bullshit and kind of pissed me off. Possibly because I'm still frustrated and trying to get out of the closet and stay there in real life ( Read more... )

One of the good things that has come about from almost three years of increasingly severe insomnia:

I have fallen back in love with short fiction. My uncle gave me The Way of the Wizard for Christmas and I've probably devoured two thirds of it by now. And then my mom got me Small Jobs, the collection of Dresden Files shorts for my birthday (which ( Read more... )

Oi. So it's the general life-update time I get every once in awhile when I need to turn things over in my brain ( Read more... )

Three life updates ( Read more... )

It's three-oh-two in the morning, I have an eight am class, and I just spent the past four hours watching television on my computer. I can't sleep, and I don't know that the body will go down in a couple of minutes when I set my alarm for seven thirty and resolve to try. I was sick all weekend and actually slept, so now I'm back to three hours a ( Read more... )

I have slept through at least two of my Shakespeare classes now. As in, I didn't wake up in time to go to them. *headdesk* Although, given how much time I spent asleep last weekend, I'm probably mildly ill. And incredibly sick of the drama that is happening in my social circle. And I'm sure at least one of them is wondering why I've been avoiding ( Read more... )

More talking to myself via the making-a-post box that I may or may not post.

I don't know. The first week of school actually went fairly well. I made all my classes, gave a speech that I didn't totally bomb for Public Speaking on Thursday, failed to write anything with content, and on the whole it's not been a bad week. I still owe icarus_chained  fic. I really ( Read more... )

Sometime in the future, I'm going to have to start looking into whether or not I'm renaming myself. On one hand, my name is clearly feminine and that means I'm not going to want it for the rest of my life. On the other hand, I realize it's different for everyone, but I do love and respect my parents, as incredibly frustrating as they're being just ( Read more... )

Finally worked up the nerve to tell a real life friend of mine I would really rather be called by a male pronoun.

Okay, actually, he called to talk to me about his 21st birthday and I kind of blurted it out, but I did it. And he told me that if it made me more comfortable in my own skin, he'd do it.

That's, like, the first time I've just point blank ( Read more... )