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fandomtownies2017-07-08 05:54 am
myownface) wrote in fandomtownies2017-07-08 05:54 am
Entry tags:
- @around the island,
- alec hardison,
- anders,
- atton rand,
- cassandra pentaghast,
- dani davis,
- eliot spencer,
- gratuity tucci,
- hannibal lecter,
- jonothon evan starsmore,
- katherine hana li,
- khadgar,
- leto atreides,
- liam kincaid,
- lucille sharpe,
- merchant of miracles,
- parker,
- peter octavian,
- pinkie pie,
- raven darkholme,
- sparkle,
- summer smith
Fandom Pride Parade: Saturday Afternoon
The day started with a rainbow. Not that there had been any rain last night, really. The island, noticing the handwavy posters up around town, had figured it wanted to contribute to the spirit of the whole thing, and slapping a big, bright rainbow into the sky had seemed like the obvious way to do it. By around noon, it was clear that the rainbow was going to be sticking around, too, less a meteorological phenominon and more a banner painted across the sky. Down below, little flowers had popped up overnight in bright colours, some mimicking the rainbow up above, some in other configurations; pink-purple-blue, blue-pink-white-pink-blue, black-grey-white-purple, yellow-white-purple-black, and so on. The flowers, fortunately, were there to be pretty, with no other weird effects on the island's populace.
Though, really, if presenting a bouquet of them to one's favourite person ended well for somebody, the island wasn't going to complain, either.
The parade itself was to start on the Causeway, a good gathering point for Fandomites in the past, and a fairly central location on the island. From there it would follow Griffin Lane to Galactica Drive, Serendipity Place, Godiva Street, back onto Serendipity and following it until it turned into Loon and Loon turned into Chimera. Then one final turn onto Apocalypse before ending up at the Park, where people were welcome to sit and mingle to their hearts' content.
The weather was nice, making liars out of the meteorologists in favour of shunting clouds aside for sunshine and a pleasant breeze. A perfect day for a parade!
[OOC: Open! Welcome to Fandom Pride!]
Though, really, if presenting a bouquet of them to one's favourite person ended well for somebody, the island wasn't going to complain, either.
The parade itself was to start on the Causeway, a good gathering point for Fandomites in the past, and a fairly central location on the island. From there it would follow Griffin Lane to Galactica Drive, Serendipity Place, Godiva Street, back onto Serendipity and following it until it turned into Loon and Loon turned into Chimera. Then one final turn onto Apocalypse before ending up at the Park, where people were welcome to sit and mingle to their hearts' content.
The weather was nice, making liars out of the meteorologists in favour of shunting clouds aside for sunshine and a pleasant breeze. A perfect day for a parade!
[OOC: Open! Welcome to Fandom Pride!]
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"I mean, that can be arranged," he said. And then tried to slip a string of beads over Atton's head. "This time next year, I can throw the biggest, gayest party on the island."
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So Atton had lucked out, really!
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A pause.
"Something witty about pans here."
He tried.
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He'd gotten a lot of flags to pass around.
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Look, he'd considered himself pretty plugged in back home. Out here, he was way out of his depth.
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"Sorry," he said. "Some are for gender identity, and some are about attraction, either sexually or romantically. It's all a bit coded, but... you know. Lots of things have been sneered at or worse over the years. Pick one and I can explain it?"
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"That one's pansexual," he explained. "It's kind of like bisexual," at which point be pulled out a flag with a pink and a blue bar on the outside, framing a smaller purple bar in between them, "which is an umbrella term these days for being attracted to more than one gender, but it kind of branches off to specify an attraction to all genders, regardless of gender identity or expression."
He rummaged for another flag, holding up one that was pink and blue on the outside, much like the flags for bi and pan, but this time separated by a stripe of green.
"This one, on the other hand, is polysexual," he explained. "Not to be confused with polyamory, which means having multiple partners. Polysexual means being attracted to more than one gender or gender expression, but not all of them. It's somewhere between bi and pan. So, for example, you could give, like, zero shits about what's in a person's pants or even their gender identity, but only be attracted to femininty. They like dick, but they're not attracted to most men. Trans women who were assigned male at birth? Sure. Non-binary people who tend to present themselves as more feminine? Why not? Cis women, naturally. But probably not, like, cis men or trans men. As an example. It could work the other way. Or be some combination of whatever. Maybe you just like everybody with a dick no matter how they identify. Or people who identify as non-binary or male, but women don't really do it for you."
And naturally, you could break that one down from there. Because, again, this stuff was always evolving. And sometimes kind of confusing.
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A lot of it, actually. Atton had always liked the grey areas better, anyway.
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Case in point, gah, I'm so sorry!"Like, I haven't even gotten into the trans or ace umbrellas yet. And you kind of have to make sure you're looking in the right places if you want to learn about this stuff, because gross people are always there on the outskirts trying to turn everyone against everyone else."
He made a face. Boo, gross people.
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Stupid world.
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That was mostly a joke.
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"Full time gay boy, occasional princess," he replied with a smirk. "Usually shameless and always amazing."
Okay, he maybe still didn't feel that last bit as much as he would like to. But it seemed like the thing to say.
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Yeah. Weird. And he was well aware that was dumb. He knew plenty of queer people on the island. But it was always so... casual? So just-what-it-was.
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