Wordcount: 8715 Rating: Teen and up Warnings: Homophobic and biphobic attitudes and slurs, gendered slurs, use of 'retard' and 'bastard' as slurs, someone being outed without consent. Summary: Words are everything. It’s only through words that we can define ourselves, because everything and everyone is defined with reference and in contradistinction to everything and everyone else. Phil first learns the word 'bisexual' at the age of sixteen and won't learn 'biphobia' until much later. That doesn't stop both being very true and very real.

Posting to AO3 for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I'm getting on a flight very soon and should therefore sleep and therefore do not have time to fight tumblr for the sake of formatting.

Speaking of my imminent emigration, I will not be around to respond to any messages for a while, I'm afraid. I promise I'll get back to you eventually, but it'll have to wait until I actually have somewhere to live and an internet connection.