I watched Nimona yesterday
and I lay in bed awake wishing that such a show had existed when I was a child, that I had grown up in a more diverse environment, that people had told me it was okay to be not-white and not strictly my own gender.
I still think back a lot to the day when I was ten years old and my father told me that I wasn't allowed to cry anymore since "boys don't cry."
It's terrible how I'm afraid to come out to people, to wish for something better, to think for a single moment that I could present something that's not heteronormative.
I remember when I was playing DnD and my friend laughed. "What's up?" I said. "You're a type." "Hmm?" "You play a tiefling, and you're going for the trait that gives you unlimited uses of Disguise Self, and you're going for the feat that changes your voice." "Ah, fuck." "No, it's good. Have fun."
I had the most fun ever.
Watch Nimona, by the way. It's good.
