My Colors

[tilia_tomentosa]

This is my own translation of my own essay that I wrote for Sofia Pride this year. I decided to stick to American English this time. Thanks to my friend Melody for helping me to edit the translation.

I’m making myself rainbow-colored bead bracelets for Pride, experimenting with the arrangement of the beads and with my typical terrible perfectionism

Comments

[dan4behr]

BRAVO!

[tilia_tomentosa]

Thank you! :)

So it reached you before I managed to post it on FB. :)

[osodecanela]

Dari, this is why I adore you!

[tilia_tomentosa]

Thank you, Weaver! *blush*

[tamena]

I would think the beads being slightly different would be a good thing =) they still make a beautiful bracelet/statement even if they're not exactly like the others =)

and I find it interesting that the symbolism of the rainbow is lost on most - in the area around my home a rainbow anything is All Pride All The Time! I guess that's because of New Hope Pa more than anything else...and probably Asbury Park NJ.
I see a rainbow on something and it's instantly linked with pride stuff.

You would love New Hope Pennsylvania. Neat little town and very Proud. I LOVE it there - it's one of my favorite places on earth.

[tilia_tomentosa]

LOL I din't think of the beads that way. I was just being all OCD about symmetry, as usual, the way I hate to use two different pegs on the same piece of laundry. :D

Just two words: Eastern Europe. We hadn't even heard of such a thing as Pride on this side of the Iron Curtain. You may think there's been enough time already since the fall of the communist regime, but we only had our fifth Pride in Bulgaria this year - always in the capital city only. The rainbow symbolism hasn't sunk in yet in such places as my home town.

You can't just buy any pride accessories in a shop in my country. If you want a Pride T-shirt, you have to have it custom-printed. And if you want a "real" rainbow flag (and not just a little paper one), you have to order it from abroad - or have it custom-made, which is the more expensive option. I got such a "real" flag as a prize for my essay, by the way, and now I don't know what to do with it. Maybe it will have to wait until next year' Pride. :)

[eric_mathgeek]

I adore you.

(And I didn't read the above comments before I wrote that!)

[tilia_tomentosa]

Now what am I supposed to do with so much adoration? :)

*hugs*

[omero_hassan]

Serious question: how did you get to be so awesome?

[tilia_tomentosa]

I discovered LiveJournal by the merest chance in 2008, and that's how it began. :)