LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?

[Arachu]

My mom just accused me of doing drugs... For being pale. And because she smelled something burnt (I can't for the life of me imagine what smelled burnt, though).

I found an old, unused aluminum workbench in the closet though. I don't know what I could/will use it for, but at the very least it'll make for interesting furniture.

Best reaction right there! *joins chain hug explosion*

Also I think I'm gonna stick with the line in my sig. I wrote it and I'm very fond of it, and it's quite me. If not, I might stick the Pisces symbol as the end.

You wrote that? Oh, you should definitely keep it then. I'm terrible at appreciating poetry and it even moves me.

No, you were right.

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the trouble is that, on the surface, suh an argument feels about the same as saying "if you stop having a problem with things, there won't be a problem anymore."

On the one ho... Haha, I am reintegrating the patterns, neat. On the one hand, it's true; If you are monogymous then any self-defining feature which requires you to be unfaithful - and for a lot of people, it seems, looking, thinking, wondering are all signs of unfaithful behavior if not unfaithful behaviors in themselves - would probably be best. That's what is meant by meeting in the middle, and putting the relationship first. Any of your wants which get in the way of the relationship's needs are generally considered fair sacrifices for the greater good.

On the other hand though, self definition is important. People should never sacrifice themselves to their relationship. At what point is it self-destructive? at what point would the constraints of fidelity become sort of a passive-aggressive lock on the proverbial closet? There is a lot of societal and social pressure to have the Perfect Relationship. I find it rather unhealthy myself.

How does one balance these? By their nature they are two separate, equally important issues. But because thy come up together, they are put on the same scale, made mutually exclusive. Any amount of self definition becomes an argument for that much less relationship, and vice versa. The 'correct' answer in my eyes is to view a relationship as more than its sum, such that the better off the individuals, the stronger the relationship is. Two well-defined, confident people in a relationship should still have an equally stable, valid and loving relationship, but the common associations with self and loving seem to arbitrate this... This capacity, from which one draws their worth. If one partner draws too much worth it legislates less worth onto the other person.

It feels like that whole Stormwind fallacy is applied to love by society at large

Well, that's not exactly what I meant... It's a good set of points, though. *Hugs*

I was just referring to attraction and how it doesn't just disappear when you marry someone (assuming, of course, that there aren't cases where it does - I haven't heard of any, but I can't say it doesn't happen).

Maybe I actually should get more sleep, though. >.>

I have the strangest hair. Unlike most curly hair, it is incredibly thick, and also durable. Unlike most thick hair, it is incredibly curly. Hair curls because the follicle is eliptical; the more oval the hole, the more he hair bends as it is passed through. Thick hair isn't supposed to curl nearly as much... And yet it does. A trimmed lock once survived almost 48 hours immersed in hydrogen peroxide, as opposed to the less than 24 of all my classmates...

I'm inordinately proud of my hair, too. It's apparently an Irish trait, which is somewhat awkard to bring up due to past discussions with KenderWizard (;P) but that made my day when I was a wee sprat. Up until this whole facial hair thing; it works rather well. It looks good. But it feels terribly unhygienic. And recently, I have never felt quite so ugly as when waking up, rolling over, and having mustache hairs bristle against my pillow

I'm remarkably vain, considering how unkempt I am.

*Hugs* I have similar problems with my beard hairs sometimes... They've ruined more than one perfectly good afternoon-that-I-regard-as-a-morning-because-that's-when-I-happen-to-wake-up. *More hugs*

I do really like the hair on my scalp, though. It's really thick and kinda wavy, and the color's like a mixture of most every other color found in hair (there's even a slight greyish tint somehow). ^_^

(... I'm thinking about manually removing the frizziest ones, though... It looks just fine at 5 feet, but the closer I get to a mirror the more it looks like I got hit with lightning... >.>)


~Bianca

[Triscuitable]

So I've found the best way to get the best of both genders, being who I want to be when I want to be is to take advantage of a stage identity. With that, I can wear whatever I want, what makeup I want to wear, etc.

It's pretty convenient, because it's just another me.

[golentan]

I'm fond of just showing up to work in a skirt now and then.

Okay, I haven't done that.

But I totally would if I owned a skirt that met uniform requirements.

[Mina Kobold]

My mom just accused me of doing drugs... For being pale. And because she smelled something burnt (I can't for the life of me imagine what smelled burnt, though).
~Bianca

*Looks at skin, looks around at room illuminated by skin's paleness*

Everything makes a lot more sense now. O_O

On showing up in unexpected clothing, I wish togas were more acceptable day-to-day wear. Not that skirts are not nice alternatives to pants, but I was expecting a lot more random togas from our High-School equivalent. :3

Or maybe an alot of random togas! X3

[CWater]

This has not been a good year so far. But at least now I feel like I'm getting better instead of just standing still.

*hugs* But good to hear that things are moving forward.

I may not be posting as much for the next few weeks. Borrowed an old computer game from my brother.

The old ones are the best

HELL YA!

I feel great! I just told my parents and they are supportive of me.


Gosh it feel good not to hide it anymore .


Thank you everyone! *Starts massive group hug*

Yay! Congratulations!

[Arachu]

I learned something today - brushes are way better for applying shampoo than combs.

... The soap, however, seems to be drying out my skin.

I'm fond of just showing up to work in a skirt now and then.

Okay, I haven't done that.

But I totally would if I owned a skirt that met uniform requirements.

I approve of everything you just said.

*Looks at skin, looks around at room illuminated by skin's paleness*

Everything makes a lot more sense now. O_O

... My god, we're walking madness emitters. @_@


~Bianca

[Lea Plath]

Yay for everyone! *hugs 6 people at once, cause*

@Arachu: You use a comb to apply shampoo? Explain!

[turkishproverb]

It can be a good way to ensure it gets on all your hair before rinsing.

[Triscuitable]

*Looks at skin, looks around at room illuminated by skin's paleness*

Feh, and I suppose your hair is red, too?

Your pale skin pales (pun) in comparison to my pale skin!

[Arachu]

My paleness could beat up your paleness!

... And my hair's got some red in it, too!

Yay for everyone! *hugs 6 people at once, cause*

@Arachu: You use a comb to apply shampoo? Explain!

It can be a good way to ensure it gets on all your hair before rinsing.

Indeed. It's also useful for avoiding damage (things can go horribly, horribly wrong if you massage your scalp the wrong way with long, wet hair ).

The brush, however, has a larger surface area - and it makes the shampoo make foam better! It's also easier to clean the brush afterward. ^_^

... And now that it's dried somewhat, I find that it makes the hair even more soft than either other approach does. It's like... It's like my head's covered in silk.


~Bianca

[Caustic Soda]

Hello again, thread. I've been absent for a bit, but now I'm back.

A belated welcome to the newcomers, *hugs* for anyone who wants them and especially for those who're feeling down

HELL YA!

I feel great! I just told my parents and they are supportive of me.
Gosh it feel good not to hide it anymore .
Thank you everyone! *Starts massive group hug*

Congratulations! I'm glad you found the determination to tell your parents, and doubly glad that they're supportive

[supernerd]

You wrote that? Oh, you should definitely keep it then. I'm terrible at appreciating poetry and it even moves me.


~Bianca

Wow, thanks a lot! I didn't know it was that good. (and then LGBTitP is just below that...)

Some are born gay. Others have gayness thrust within upon them. Either way they were given no say in the matter.

On pale=drugie: I wanted to get tan so I could look like my Colombian father's side of the family. Does this mean I look MORE like a drugie? Also, apparently having the Mona Lisa as your iPod background is also a drugie thing... Well...

[Lanaya]

Feh, and I suppose your hair is red, too?

Your pale skin pales (pun) in comparison to my pale skin!

Hmmph. You redheads think you have a monopoly on pale skin? I'll have you know that us blondes can pale just as well as you can! I even had a nickname in school because of how pale I was! Well, the parts of me that aren't mildly tanned, at least. The tops of my arms are just regular pale, but then I turn them over and suddenly I'm paler than, ummmm, something which is known for being extremely pale. So there.

Others have gayness thrust within upon them.

Oh... oh my. I'm quite scandalised.

[Lea Plath]

This thread is full of vampires. Awesome roman vampires.

I'll be sitting over here with this sharp stick :P

[KenderWizard]

I am also very pale! *wants attention!*

We got some sunshine once. I remember it well. The small, pale sun showed its face from behind the clouds and people wailed and cowered in the shadows. We were, as is our custom, wearing clothes as though we have seasons, although in truth we only have two very similar seasons; long-days-warm-rain and short-days-cold-rain. As it happened this came to pass when others would call it "spring", which is the start of long-days-warm-rain, so people were wearing skirts and tshirts and such, tho' it cause them to tremble and turn faintly blue. So when this sunlight came and people ventured into the light to play and eat icecream without having to shelter the icecream from the rain, our snow white skin did glow, and it is said that the glare from the sun off our skin blinded birds and at least one pilot. It lasted four days of chaos and people will rank it among the great unexplained natural disasters that came to pass, along with Those Two Years We Actually Got Real Snow That Was Cold And Not Slushy And The Whole Country Shut Down.

Seriously, when all you ever get is different kinds of rain and wind and sometimes a sort of weak cloudy sunshine (that causes people to say things like "It's scorching out!" and go around in shorts and sandals), you get really impressed by, y'know, weather. And we don't get hurricanes, blizzards, heatwaves, tsunamis, earthquakes, or, in fact, anything remotely dangerous at all, so stuff like Snow! and Sunlight! is as exciting as it gets!

Yes, it's best to be cautious. Could you imagine if anything bad happened that day?

I don't really understand! Something bad already happened -- the boat sank! Is that the joke? Or do you mean imagine if my body chose that day to be particularly faint-y or something?

[Qaera]

My mom made me and my sister take drug tests because "we were looking paler, and she smelled a skunk, and her friend in the FBI said marijuana smells like skunk." We found the skunks body the next day and she still won't apologize for not trusting us. Probably just another reason for not coming out.

~ ♅

[Mina Kobold]

Feh, and I suppose your hair is red, too?

Your pale skin pales (pun) in comparison to my pale skin!

I unfortunately do not resemble the thundering Aesir, no. I'm quite blonde, pretty common in Denmark. Haven't met many with red hair here, sadly. T_T

My skin pales indeed, so I should be either a ljósálfar or a ghost by now! Boo!

Which should tell you that I am both a mythology geek and a great Dane. Wøøf! :3

This thread is full of vampires. Awesome roman vampires.

I'll be sitting over here with this sharp stick :P

What if they are the Van Helsing type? They don't all die from pointy sticks!

Not that I am trying to make you put it away or anything, no no. Spider-humanoids wouldn't even taste good even if I was a vampire!
>_>
<_<

[pffh]

*Looks at skin, looks around at room illuminated by skin's paleness*

Everything makes a lot more sense now. O_O

On showing up in unexpected clothing, I wish togas were more acceptable day-to-day wear. Not that skirts are not nice alternatives to pants, but I was expecting a lot more random togas from our High-School equivalent. :3

Or maybe an alot of random togas! X3

No just no. As someone that has worn togas several times I can tell you that they are a bloody bother and I avoid them as much as I can now.

[Lea Plath]

My mom made me and my sister take drug tests because "we were looking paler, and she smelled a skunk, and her friend in the FBI said marijuana smells like skunk." We found the skunks body the next day and she still won't apologize for not trusting us. Probably just another reason for not coming out.

~ ♅

Skunk is a type of weed. I know what weed smells like and it is actually quite nice.

But I'm weird :P I like the smell of leaf mold because it reminds me of bats.

[Astrella]

My paleness could beat up your paleness!

... And my hair's got some red in it, too!





Indeed. It's also useful for avoiding damage (things can go horribly, horribly wrong if you massage your scalp the wrong way with long, wet hair ).

The brush, however, has a larger surface area - and it makes the shampoo make foam better! It's also easier to clean the brush afterward. ^_^

... And now that it's dried somewhat, I find that it makes the hair even more soft than either other approach does. It's like... It's like my head's covered in silk.


~Bianca

You have such lovely hair... *murmurs*

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I'm rather pale as well, but I quite like my skin and it's rather smooth too.

[bluewind95]

I'm very pale too! My face and part of my arms are kind of more normal because I live in a place of lots of sun (and heat, sadly). But my legs and the bottom of my arms are said to glow in the dark.

[MilesTiden]

Seriously, when all you ever get is different kinds of rain and wind and sometimes a sort of weak cloudy sunshine (that causes people to say things like "It's scorching out!" and go around in shorts and sandals), you get really impressed by, y'know, weather. And we don't get hurricanes, blizzards, heatwaves, tsunamis, earthquakes, or, in fact, anything remotely dangerous at all, so stuff like Snow! and Sunlight! is as exciting as it gets!

While my local experiences with weather are on a much less... bland scale, I am able to sympathize with you. Here, it is basically just 'fog, fog, fog, oh hey look, some clou- oh wait, nope, that is just more fog'. Except when London steals all the good fog, and the temperature hits around 75°, which is a heat wave basically. Yeah. I like the fog, but... jeez.

Oh, right, hello there everybody! >_>

Oh, and more on the current topic, I am quite happy with my olive-y skin. My father's Mediterranean roots really show. Oh, and I like my hair too.
It is a sort of dirty blond, and everyone says it is incredibly soft. I am actually planning to go get it trimmed today, so it will start growing again. Right now it is just at the length where I can not pull my bangs back into a ponytail with the rest of my hair, so it hangs down in my face no matter what.

[pffh]

Oooo weather if there is anything an Icelander knows it's weather. I would kill for bland weather. You say you have the same weather for more then 10 minutes at a time? INCONCEIVABLE! I've been up for about 7 hours now and in that time we've had rain, fog, hail, fog, rain, snow, windy, rain, sun, cloudy, rain, hail, rain and now sunny. The temperature has also gone randomly up and down between 0°C and 10°C.

This is why I want to move to the UK I hear you guys have mostly rain and 10°C over there which is perfect.

And miss Wizard as for the Irish weather it sounds like Dylan Moran wasn't exaggerating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccLy8498yg

[MilesTiden]

I have literally, at one point, gone from completely clear skies to thunderstorming to hailing to slightly overcast then blistering in 10 minutes. Nor Cal has weird weather sometimes. Although, this was technically when I lived in San Jose.

Also, an amusing phenomenom that occurs literally right at the edge of the town. As soon as you cross the town lines into Pacifica (AKA 'The City of Fog'), it suddenly becomes exceedingly foggy. This happens because the city line ends on top of a large hill, by the beach, so all the fog just sort of... stays there, covering the whole town. I still find it amusing, at least.

[pffh]

I have literally, at one point, gone from completely clear skies to thunderstorming to hailing to slightly overcast then blistering in 10 minutes. Nor Cal has weird weather sometimes. Although, this was technically when I lived in San Jose.

Yup stuff like that happens all the time here. You really can't look out the window and determine that's going to be the weather a few minutes from now and it's why we like to laugh at tourists that try and predict the weather (and tourists that insist on using umbrellas. Hah good luck with that mate. Rain falling straight down from the sky, yeah like that's going to happen! Rain goes sideways and upwards here not to mention the random strong winds that like to play havoc with people).

[Lix Lorn]

Yesterday I was standing in the sunlight, heat searing my back, and staring at the huuuge, dark storm clouds giving minute long reports of thunder ahead of me.

[MilesTiden]

Yesterday I was standing in the sunlight, heat searing my back, and staring at the huuuge, dark storm clouds giving minute long reports of thunder ahead of me.

Oh my gawd, I foundeded a Lixie. *stares*

...

I have gotten no sleep. At all. I feel all light and floaty! I love dru- wait, this is sleep deprivation, not drugs. I get those mixed up a lot. I do feel that the fossil is quite an interesting cuddletato. Mmm, now I am craving tacos... I should stop posting before my level of insanity reaches critical mass. Toodleoo! Heheh. Toodleoo sounds funny.

*defenestrates self*

[Lady Serpentine]

Yesterday I was standing in the sunlight, heat searing my back, and staring at the huuuge, dark storm clouds giving minute long reports of thunder ahead of me.

I've seen stuff like that here, too. And there was that one time that it rained on my house for a month, but going to the other end of the street it was perfectly clear...

Edit:

Miles, why did you throw yourself out a window? That's not going to help you sleep, unless you count unconsciousness as sleeping...

[MilesTiden]

I've seen stuff like that here, too. And there was that one time that it rained on my house for a month, but going to the other end of the street it was perfectly clear...

Edit:

Miles, why did you throw yourself out a window? That's not going to help you sleep, unless you count unconsciousness as sleeping...

My arteries are the only barrier standing between me and sleep. At least, thas whst the voices in my head told me. They speak with Morgan Freeman's voice. I should deprive myself of sleep more often...

[Kindablue]

I don't really understand! Something bad already happened -- the boat sank! Is that the joke? Or do you mean imagine if my body chose that day to be particularly faint-y or something?

I mean imagine a better plan. It's easy. It's literally anything else.