Hello!

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Terry told me to introduce myself here, so here I am! My name's Jessie (just Jessie, not Jessica, I got into a shouting match with a teacher over this once. "No one name's their child just Jessie, Ms. Drake" well it's MY name and I chose it and it's NOT JESSICA and also who still calls their students Ms./Mr.? It was a small town public high school in the late 2010s, not a boarding school in the fifties), and I guess I live here now? I'm still not sure how that happened but man I'm going to save a FORTUNE on campus housing.

Hmn, what else... oh I'm a mutant, but I think everyone here is so that's not really newsworthy. I can't really do anything too flashy, I just change things on my body - like hair color, eye color, little things like that. So if you see me and suddenly my hair is the same color as yours, I swear I'm not making fun of you or anything, sometimes I just see something and think OH PRETTY and then my body decides it also wants to have that thing. I also have a bunch of tattoos that I can kind of move around, so if I want to just have one tattoo on my arm for a day or something, I can. I can't give myself new tattoos though which is a shame because that would be another small fortune I could save (I make up for that with never having to buy hair dye though).

I'm so bad at introductions idk, ask me questions! I know there are a lot of people here, I want to meet EVERYONE.

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[xp_liono]

Your teacher sounds lame. I'm Liam. Not William. Unless I'm in trouble.


uh... what's your favorite tattoo?

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Liam is a cooler name than William anyway

Oooooh favorite tattoo is hard. I think the Failsafe symbol from She-Ra, but also I really like all my butterflies. I have four - one big one on my shoulder blade usually in the colors of the trans flag, and three smaller ones on in the inner crook of my elbow. Each one of those is a different Pride flag. Yeah I think my butterflies take the number one spot lol

[xp_liono]

which pride flags?

[xp_chameleon]

Trans, Aromantic, and Asexual

[xp_liono]

there's flags for that? why?

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LIAM NO

[xp_liono]

WHAT??

[xp_lusized]

You can't just be asking people why there are pride flags for things there are pride flags for things because people get to have flags for things!

[xp_liono]

I'm not saying it's wrong, I just don't get why, isn't that why they have the rainbow flag? for anyone?

[xp_chameleon]

Oh I think I misunderstood your question, but most of my answer still applies lol

[xp_lusized]

IT IS but people also want to be known for what they are! You can have a rainbow flag AND a lesbian flag.

well you can't but I can.

[xp_liono]

are you saying I'm not a good enough lesbian? way to gate keep. is it because I'm a boy? because that's gender discrimination.

I didn't know lesbians had a flag, too.

I want a flag.

[xp_lusized]

There you go.

[xp_chameleon]

It's beautiful

[xp_liono]

omg, it's made for me!!!!! I love it!!!

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I swear to god, I'm going to give Kyle a high-power squirt bottle as a belated Christmas present.

[xp_chameleon]

I mean, I have a theory that all pride flags exist because we just like colors and everyone wants to feel special, but I don't think that's what you're asking

I assume you're questioning aro and ace because trans is pretty well known at this point, and the answer really comes down to that we're just like every other group under the queer umbrella - we exist, and we want to be able to show the world. It's not a choice (although some people do choose that kind of life and that's okay!), it's just how we are, same as being gay, bi, straight, whatever

[xp_liono]

okay, but isn't that what the pride flag is for? like, everyone that's LGBTQ+? Trans is a little different so that makes sense

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Yeah but LGBTQ+ means so much! I could plaster rainbow flags all over me and call it a day, but it wouldn't tell you anything about me except that I'm some flavor queer. Which is fine, but I'm very specific flavors of queer, and someone decided once that each flavor deserves its own flag, because we're a big group of people, but we're a bunch of smaller groups too. Like - LGBT is already four different groups of people - the lesbians, the gays, the bis, and the trans. and Q can mean literally anything. We all fall under the rainbow, but there's more to us than just that

[xp_liono]

and sometimes, people are furries.

[xp_chameleon]

Furries also get their own flag

[xp_liono]

okay, that might actually be something useful

to avoid

[xp_shatterstar]

what is aromantic and asexual. also. cool tattoos. I am Shatterstar

[xp_chameleon]

Nice to meet you!

Aromantic is not experiencing romantic attraction, asexual is not experiencing sexual attraction

[xp_shatterstar]

thx u