[ SECRET POST #5348 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5348 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Dhux's Scar]



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04. [SPOILERS for The Green Knight]




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05. [SPOILERS for Song of Farca]




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06. [WARNING for incest/underage ship]

[Enola Holmes]



























Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are also different types of homophobia. I grew up in an accepting area where being out was the norm. Now I live very far from there, and I haven't met anyone who is out. I've made new friends, and all of them are straight as far as I know, and if not then they're closeted like me. Nobody I've met is openly homophobic either. They support LGBT+ rights and such and are fans of some queer celebrities and media with queer themes.

I'm not attracted to any of them, but I have reservations about simply coming out to them because they might be the type of homophobes who are uncomfortable actually being around queer people. I'm not going to end a friendship with them over that because - unpopular take but - I don't think that type of homophobia equals bad person. It's internalized over a lifetime and often subconscious, and the people who have it may not even like that they have it. You can't help irrational feelings of discomfort, and you may want them to not exist, but they do anyway. I could come out and hope that if they're uncomfortable at first, they'll loosen up and become more accepting once they get used to the fact that I'm still the same person. Or they could start gradually avoiding me until we're no longer in contact and I'm left friendless again.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my mom was one of those kinds of homophobes. She had a best friend when I was younger, they were doing stuff together all the time for years. Then Friend just stopped coming around. I always thought it was kind of weird.

Then when I was in my late teens, I think Mom was trying to feel me out on the subject or something, and almost out of nowhere she was like "Do you think you could be friends with someone who was a lesbian?" and ... uh what? "I mean, I was really good friends with someone once, and then I found out she was a lesbian, and after that I just couldn't think of her the same way. I couldn't be comfortable around her. Like, what if she was attracted to me?"

...Then you tell her you're not interested and both of you move on? Not to mention, married to my dad the whole time they were friends. (I can be pretty sure that's who she meant, because Mom never socialized with anyone else much except people who went to our conservative church, and in hindsight Friend was kinda butch.) For crying out loud, Mom, wtf.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, I've been out for a long time and live in a small town and people are *still* all "oh!" when they realise that no, she's my wife. I don't expect violence or even rudeness, but it's still uncomfortable and has greatly reduced my pool of friends.