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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Operation Punchthroat/Throatpunch

  • Riese: I want a grant. The project proposal will be that we go to schools and find bullies and punch them in the throat. Operation THROATPUNCH.
  • Rachel: Then we make the bullies write the daily fixes on bullying. It's only fair.
  • Riese: Oh that's a really good idea, because it's also educational. They could learn basic HTML and one day, just like Andrew Shirvell, they could start their very own anti-gay blog.
  • Rachel: And SEO. That's very important.

I think I have HIV but I do not want to get tested because that is it, that will be it.

oh, love,
you are here. here is ‘it.’ you are 'it.’ not that.
you will always be you, regardless.
you must be tested, and you know that. i know your reasoning - i’ve used it myself - but you can’t sustain this kind of denial for much longer.
knowing is always better than not knowing. i wish you would go tomorrow. go tomorrow and let’s talk about it. tell me the color of the walls and how inane or lovely the nurse was. tell me you wore those shoes you like. tell me how you wanted to fall away when they took the blood. it’s ok. it’s ok because you didn’t fall anywhere.
you’re still right here.

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I feel like I need to act cool and sane around my straight friends because I am the only gay person that some of them know and I dont want them to have a bad impression of all gays. What should I do?

the most important thing is to be a human being
in all your glory
if you are kind and want good things for the world
then the rest of it doesn’t matter

i am uncool and insane
also a human being
also my best friend is a stuffed animal

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Is it possible to be in love with two different people at the same time?

unfortunately
i think so
yes

but that doesn’t make it fair
i mean it’s still just about your feelings
not about the feelings of the people you are in love with
who both deserve more than half of you
the kind of attention you likely desire to give
to a person you are in love with
the kind you wish you could give to both of them
in a ‘perfect world’ or a 'world where things are always right/easy/make sense’
and maybe there’s a gap there
or a moat of some kind
between you and the other person you are in love with
person 1 is on the other side of the gap with their love
person 2 is in the gap screaming
or vice/versa

maybe it’s terrible
maybe it’s ideal
i could go either way on this one

at the end of the day
somebody you love might hurt
at the end of the day you might be
full of blood/fire, pleasure/pain etc

a thing can be both possible
and difficult
let it all come out in the wash or something
play it as it lays

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i have a tough question i hope you’ll answer. would you ever be open to being with a woman who had/has an std? what are your opinions on that? would your feelings differ at varying levels of “extremeness,” i.e. gonorrhea vs. herpes?

yes i would be open to being with a woman who had / has an std. also, my feelings would not differ at varying levels of ‘extremeness.’
that is what dental dams and gloves and maturity are for.
i feel like if i can be sexy while i’m pregnant (i was) or when it’s 115 degrees outside and i’m covered in sweat or when a dog is in the room (ugh) or after a large meal or with a sunburn (careful) or a bad haircut or when a stupidly inappropriate song comes up on shuffle then i can CERTAINLY be sexy while using a glove / finger condom / dental dam.
you know? nbd.

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