she was a physically and emotionally abused orphan who at 12 years old knew she had no family or friends, and knew no one wanted her. and she still chose to see the beauty and magic in the world. that’s not saccharine, it’s courage and strength.
about to drop literally the sickest insider knowledge you will ever receive pls use it responsibly:
are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that’s an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?
okay, then bring it up to a librarian
seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we’ll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say “hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?” most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there’s an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen
do you want a cosplay contest? a video game tournament? a free escape room? bring it up to the library. it’s not a burden or an annoyance at all. it’ll be like christmas came early for us
social anxiety will really have you doin dumbass things like looking at something like free donuts at work and thinking “they probably don’t include me in the group of people who are allowed to take from this”
one time at college i floated the idea of going to see a movie that had just come out and my friend group immediately started making plans to go as a group to go see it and i just. didn’t think i was included. i was genuinely shocked when they asked me what day i was free because i didn’t think i was invited. i voiced this and they were like. CLAIRE. IT WAS YOUR IDEA. i truly was going thru it was a kid, huh
“But if bi women can be called butch and femme and reclaim the d slur then we won’t have any words left to let people know we don’t want relationships with men–” we do have a word for that actually. That word is lesbian.
“But if bi women use ~lesbian words~ then straight men will think lesbians can be convinced to date them–” straight men already think that because of misogyny. Bi women using butch/femme won’t confuse cishets or whatever because cishets already can’t be bothered to understand how it works beyond “gay people pretending to be a straight couple.” A straight person not respecting the existence of lesbians is not and will never be bi women’s fault.
ALT
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