winter woman.

It can be so fucking difficult for us to identify our same-sex attraction in the first place. The presence of OSA is often an eclipsing force.

And it is so so so easy to live and die in the closet as a bisexual. We can all come up with countless excuses that keep us afraid and hiding.

I like men so clearly what I feel about women must be platonic. I desire men so there’s no way I would like vulvas and I need to stop worrying about it. If I catch myself having thoughts about women I can replace them with thoughts about men.

...yeah, and it's not as though any bi woman has ever been pressured to "just come out as a lesbian already" or told she owes it to the cause to prioritize women or that if she's in a relationship with a man she's "basically straight" and should be quiet when the real queers talk.

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

i know i hurt you, tony. i guess i thought... by not telling you about your parents i was sparing you, but… i can see now i was really sparing myself.

made for @lightsonparkave round 65 – lies