Happy Pride, Kiddo
Bit late to the party but I wanted to talk to you about Pride and Queerness with regards to being heathen.
This is one of those things where there's misinformation on both sides, you'll have people talking about how the Vikings didn't care about queerness and had total gender equality and that's not entirely true and then you'll have a bunch of people beating their chests about the Viking Alpha-Giga-Chads or whatever and that is notably less true.
One of the biggest issues I dealt with growing up queer and heathen was people who probably felt they were well-meaning asking me about kids. Questions that got weirder when I grew up, transitioned, and married my also-asexual husband.
So here's my advice, kiddo: Fuck those guys.
You are enough. Community matters but that doesn't mean you have to have kids, it doesn't mean that if you want kids you can't adopt. Family matters but chosen family is still family.
Your blood brother is your brother as much as your brother by blood is.
If your family can't accept you, they are the ones breaking Frith, not you, and you deserve family, kiddo.
Your people, your troth, is waiting.
And I am so fucking proud of you,
--Your Heathen Uncle
