A Shout-Out

It's Christina's sixteenth birthday! She is one of my best friends - actually, possibly my best friend now that Ella knows I like girls and is obviously not okay with that - and one of the best people I know. She's hilarious, down-to-earth, incredibly smart, never has a mean word for anyone, and today we're finally the same age (my seventeenth birthday is tomorrow. The fact that I was born the day after her, am a year older, and we're both juniors is a source of great amusement to us). Ordinarily, there would be cupcakes and a buttload of double-stuffed Oreos followed by a sugar-fueled giggle fest for us tonight but there's no youth group this week so I'm making this post for her - and our mutual obsession with TV shows about witty lesbians - instead.

So! It is Christina's birthday, as I've said. Read about her on the Cast of Characters page, or if that sounds too much like work, read about me babbling about how badass she is here.  Christina's awesomely blunt and is one of the few people I know who truly doesn't care what other people think but does care strongly about other people. We have the coolest conversations, ranging from urban slasher legends to whether or not Winnie the Pooh is transsexual to the pronunciation of the word orgy to potential love interests for Queen Elsa from Frozen. And it's weird but it not awkward because it's us. I swear, we could be the main characters from All or Nothing.

Beyond that, Christina's just really accepting, confident, and chill. I've never ever ever seen her get mad, she could make friends with a brick wall, and when I came out to her last June she was just like, Yeah, that's cool and moved on. Christina's basically the only friend I have that I would honestly feel totally comfortable talking with about female crushes, and the great thing about this is that she wouldn't freak out on me over that even though she herself isn't into girls. She's totally liberal, is in my experience one of the only American white girls who is totally comfortable talking about race without being a Tumblr Social Justice Warrior (despite her addiction to Tumblr), and is currently writing a liberal children's book entitled Differences are Good.

All in all, Christina is a fabulous person and friend and I hope that she has a very happy birthday.

And now for the witty lesbians - more specifically, Amy Raudenfeld. Amy, woman, you are such a boss and I wish you weren't a TV character because I kind of want to date you. Tonight I saw the episode of Faking It where all the hot Brazilian refugees come to Hester High. This brings two very interesting developments into my life as a rabid queer fangirl. One, Theo and Lauren just might be a thing soon. Scratch that, they'd better be a thing soon - Thauren is just too adorable to not be a thing. Also, Amy was attracted to a guy! Is she bisexual and homoromantic? Straight-up bi, like me? Something else? This rabid queer fangirl is going to stay tuned...

Transgender Teenager Threatened - Please HELP!!

While on Facebook tonight, hanging out in an LGBT group, it was brought to my attention that one of the group members, Angela DeFino (born Cody DeFino) is in danger. Some bullies from her school have been harassing her because of her gender identity.

One of them threw an apple at her head and called her a "fucking faggot ass bitch" and, according to Angela, they've threatened to do worse. She had been considering simply fighting them, but I pointed out why that would be unwise and suggested she tell the press.

At first, many people thought Angela should just tell her school or the police, but the school can't do anything because no teachers saw these boys harassing her and therefore can't punish them. And the school police liasons haven't supported her - she's seen them pointing and laughing.

But the internet is a powerful tool, and I've offered to use it to help her. That's why I'm dedicating this post to her and trying to spread the word. If the police and her school won't help, I will.

Here is a picture of Angela, copied and pasted from her Facebook page. I've asked her for any information we can use against these bullies, but she has yet to reply. Until then, please just spread the word and do anything you can to help.

The Legion of Sprelves and Mervamps!

Last night when I couldn't sleep, I was chatting online with this girl named Estella. In this one part of the site, a bunch of guys had this thread going where they were all pretending to be really gangsta and deliberately misspelling every word they typed. At which point Estella joined the thread and replied in the most epic way possible: And then comes in some random chick with a dictionary who beats the he** out of everybody with it. Which made me laugh, and somehow led to us discussing whether we'd want to be aliens or magical creatures, and what kind of magical creatures we would be. I said sprelf, half-sprite and half-elf. She said mervamp, half-mermaid and half-vampire.

So it was quite late and this point and I think we'd both reached that giddy, hyper stage of utter exhaustion in which one is extremely tired yet also extremely euphoric, because we soon started joking about taking over the world with a legion of sprelves and mervamps, and I decided to make a blog post about it.

So! Here is...

             The Manifesto of the LSM

• Letting one's freak flag fly is encouraged. In fact, it is required. Freak power!
• Getting sugar highs and randomly laughing at nothing, as if possessed or on helium, shall be a common occurrence.
• Fangirling (or Fanboying) is healthy and shall be held in high esteem.
• Yes, we are indeed aliens. And that is a good thing.
• Geeks are powerful badasses who shall be given medals of honor.

THE LEGION SHALL RISE IN ALL ITS FREAKY GLORY! JOIN US, MINIONS, AND REVEL IN OUR EPIC FREAKINESS!

Hope this made you smile.