My goals are beyond my understanding.

First, fanfic "bottom" tropes are inaccurate to the gay community: Oral sex and mutual masturbation are more common than anal sex; few practitioners of anal sex are exclusive tops or exclusive bottoms, which is actually a big reason HIV spread so rapidly in the early 80s; and even those who are, it's generally not their whole personality.

Secondly, we come to the idea that Dick sleeps around. Where did this come from? Not Marv Wolfman. Not Chuck Dixon either. Not Devin Grayson or Judd Winick. It seems to come from Bruce Jones' seven-issue mini? And that annual by Marc Andreyko that everyone agrees is cursed. Neither has been referenced in almost 20 years, so we can safely label them non-canon.

It's just that the fujoshis get ideas, so if I said Dick's sex life is more in line with demisexuality, maybe bi demi because he has occasionally expressed some semblance of romantic interest in other males, this makes me homophobic. Straight people telling the bi guy he's homophobic because he doesn't like seeing a male protagonist in bed with strange women. Holy appropriation!

I've come so far on my mental health journey, I'm not the anxious teenager I used to be. I'm still anxious, but with much more confidence in myself and that things will be okay.

it feels like my life is coming together in a lot of ways, and I don't think I really thought I'd get here. it's pretty rad.

I am also getting the beginnings of facial hair and that is very exciting, and I look in the mirror at the gym and I look just like a guy! it's pretty cool to be just some guy.

I've got a ways to go before I'm the most powerful transmasc in the world (/hyperbole), but I'm on my way and I can see a path ahead of me that I'd like to take.

for any kids (or adults!) out there who are scared of the future, scared of being themselves, scared of being alone: I see you. I was there too. you won't be there forever. there wouldn't be a whole organization about how things get better if it never got better. so even if it feels like you'll be stuck where you are forever, keep going, because otherwise you will be, and you'll never get to experience the joy of being yourself.

"there wouldn't be a whole organization about how things get better if it never got better" ty we are always saying this