nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
This B-52s video had such a huge impact on my early sense of aesthetics and what I want to be. I think it was my very first moment of "wait, what if boys COULD dress in fancy colors and hang out with the girls?"
Kinda wish I hadn't lived in NE Ohio, so I could have actually ACTED upon that epiphany much sooner. Sest lah vee-ay.
nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
@zebratron2084 “if only i didnt grow up in NE ohio” is a big mood yeah
re: nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
@Oneironott Right? I mean, I exaggerate-- even in '93, the biggest and most popular dance on CWRU campus was run by the LGBT, and I remember my So Certain They're Straight* fraternity brothers cheerfully putting on skirts and attending like it was zero masculinity threat. But still... that was Cleveland, and the outskirts of Canton were very different. The idea of a high-school with an LGBT club is just mind-blowing to me.
*this proved to be a lie
re: nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
@zebratron2084 I had a very strange HS experience in Northest Ohio. I ended up in a school with a number of other furries, one of which I still am really good friends with (hi @dargon_lover )
I wore a collar and tail to school for a good chunk of time and all my work had doodles of furries and paws and tails so also kinda no surprise that I ended up here
re: nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
@zebratron2084 I was like Egregiously Weird, but a kind of honest weird that folks ended up really respecting? I wasn't picked on too much n.n'
NE OH was just so stiftling though. not that any other place in Ohio is better, but I just needed that super gay animal life yo
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@Oneironott Yeah, I keep getting the "OH MY GOD THAT MUST HAVE BEEN TERRIBLE FROM YOU" from West Coasters when I tell them about growing up closet-queer in Ohio, and I have to explain to them it ain't like Texas. It's not that there's a toxic, hostile culture that wants to root you out. It's just that there's no culture at all. :O
re: nostalgia; camp; pfaf-adjacent?
@zebratron2084 I will say that that DEFINITELY changed when I started transitioning in Cleveland. A lot more of the culture was hostile, but not in the way that the South might be. It was just a lot of social difficulties along the lines of Midwest folks being... very nosey and talkative, honestly ^^'