The more I get back into liking, loving and lusting on people, the more I'm reminded what a sanitized, segregated lie queers have been built into.

I've met the sweetest, prettiest queens who tell me "Well, I'm a transsexual. Sometimes I call myself a transman because both my trans self and my manhood are me."

New friends tell me about the sexcapades their closed polycule gets up to that they just watch because they're a kinky ace.

There's staunch lesbians who helped the love of their life transition as a transmasc, gay men begging to be topped by trans men with the fattest tits.

Older queers don't hesitate to shout "oh, like Prince!" when I tell them I'm androgyne. Vanilla questioning men will text me day after day before shyly confessing I'm their dream guy. Closeted trans women ask to kiss me because I'm their dream girl. Doms and subs who melt when they realize I'm both and neither, and they didn't know somebody like me existed.

There's vanilla lesbians on Grindr and acearos who have shown me love deeper than I thought possible and guydykes kissing girlfags and MtFtMtX elders and throuples that have so much affection that they just collectively parent babygays who got disowned.

Everybody is so beautiful! There is so much love! It is no wonder a cruel world has a vested interest in suppressing queerness when humanity is so expansive to us.

“The tadpole seizes behind your eyes. An old memory of yours, forgotten in the passage of time and skepticism of adulthood. Your vision is eclipsed by the image of a young boy. Drops of gold hang from his hair, his smile seeming to command the sun despite being shrouded in shadow. Wyll’s feelings meld with your own. You look down at yourself - scruffy and covered in dirt - but the boy holds nothing but excitement in his heart. He’s found today’s newest friend.”

Currently losing it at the idea of urchin!Tav meeting Wyll when they were kids…

Baldur's Gate 3 Origin Characters - Side Profiles