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Thanks for giving such a detailed response! I know we don't talk too often, but you're always really insightful.
I'm going to say from the getgo that I have little interest in engaging with queer theory now and probably never will. I don't come at these things with some sort of academic...
I was having a discussion about this with some online friends a few days back, thought it might be interesting to post it in here. My mates and I were talking about the word queer and my personal dislike for it, especially the way it's been watered down to mean just about anything by various...
I've been dealing really poorly with being physically isolated from my real-life friends. I'm very used to being online - I've been making friendships online since I was about 6 years old - but there really is no actual substitute for physical contact. I'm as touchy-feely as they come, and my...
I think it really depends on the type of people your parents are and what your relationship is like with them. I came out as bisexual to my mum at the ripe old age of 11 with a "formal" e-mail sent from a Barnes & Noble Nook at half past midnight.
Are they the type where they'd prefer a...
Actually, I do have something of actual worth to contribute for once!
I am very happy to see people living authentically whenever I see people speak about it online, but there's this assumed solidarity to the way that I am LGBT and the way others are LGBT that just doesn't exist. I liken it to...
I did say I'd come back when the pot got stirred again, didn't I? That didn't take long!
She'd been calling me her girlfriend this whole time and I was just too cowardly to ask. I have a girlfriend now!
It feels a little insulting to say this to someone who has openly reidentified and spoken about their journey. I am a vocal skeptic of transition in many cases and how transition is often used as a form of "easy way out" versus dealing with nonconformity and homophobia. To blame the individuals...
"Are aces LGBT" is a question/debate that is mostly useless and doesn't get anywhere, and is especially not going to get anywhere here.
On another note: I can only speak for myself but I hate the split attraction model and think it's incredibly homophobic in that it allows people to rationalise...
Talking about my journey as a reidentified person at work has been well received by everyone I've told. Managed to find another new LGBT employee and we've been friendly since. Things have been going really well. Regardless of the pandemic pushing everything offline I've been trying to foster...
Hi all, I'm really keen to get speaking and chatting in French with anyone if I can :)
Also keen if anyone has example beginner Chinese resources! I'm working with gameified tutorials at the moment but looking at textbooks and italki for the future.
As a general statement to anyone who might read, contentment and happiness on your own as an individual with or without a relationship should be the goal, not self-improvement for the sake of getting into a relationship. A partner isn't going to erase years of loneliness and the feelings that...