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@spriteforgirls

21 • she/her • terfs go to hell
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this is going to sound insane but today this girl drove me home from school, then back again because i forgot to turn in my graduation form, then back to my house and at one point in the car, she went "you know, as far as dykes at this school go, we're kind of the only two staying in town" and i was so fucking scared she was going to hit on me or something, but she just grinned and went "we need to get this place a gay bar or something" and i swear to god i felt so much love for the human race in that moment

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no because the other thing is we were both sitting there in our bras because it was so fucking hot in her car and she had the country station on and we both smelled so fucking bad and i was so fucking pissed about something dumb and she just got a text from her mom that the fridge was empty and i hadn't eaten all day and we haven't spoken in nearly a year but hearing her say that, hearing her call me that, made me suddenly feel so much better.

like, she doesn't know shit about me, but she knows one thing- that we are the same, and we are not alone.

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the context behind the conversation was really important too, she was talking about being mixed race and bisexual and i mentioned being disabled and a lesbian and she went really quiet for a bit and then went "damn, we were never built to live here of all places" and she was so fucking right

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sorry just. the solidarity of two people trapped in a place not built for them is making me emotional

when i was a young woman on tumvlr ten years ago everybody liked american football, tigers jaw, ajj, and teen suicide. and we all had a little tin plate with a candle on it, and we needed to be careful not to let the candle go out because we needed it to read the posts. one time a mutual told me they were scared of their candle going out while their phone was charging at night. the dashboard didn't have the overhead fluorescent lights yet. and we had fan mail, and we liked that comic where the girl is a possum. and the stock market crash hadn't happened yet. i made a lot of money selling my tunblr stocks and i bought a boat. i would take the boat out to sea and lie down on the deck and go on tumbr and answer fan mail, but i had to use the candle to read the fan mail, because we didn't have lights yet. it was very dark back then, and one time i fell into the gap between two posts and twisted my ankle. and some people liked elvis depressedly, also, but i can't say that i was one of them.