Text UN: 1stStrike CW: Comp Het/Internalized homophobia?

[strikefirster]

[Johnny Lawrence stares at his Omni briefly. Ever since the whole speed dating fiascothe month before there has been something nagging at him. Something that didn't quite feel right to him.

Which is what brings him to his Omni today. And after two or three times where he is accidentally posted on the network one would think he'd learn his lesson, right?]

How not to be gay.

Is doing karate with dudes gay now?

[Wrong.

The network is not google, Johnny.]

Comments

[slightlytaller]

I had some additional help a couple months ago. That bastard left me with Questions, but I'll not clog the good Sensei Lawrence's question with them.

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, of course.
This is a very serious post that demands answers and we don't want to muddy the waters with our own dumb bullshit.
The rumor, at last, come out: Does Johnny Lawrence is gay?

[slightlytaller]

The Eighties were not necessarily a good time to be Gay. I wasn't open about it until fairly recently in my Earth-- remember, my calendar last said it was 2004.

He might not even understand it. Seeking info is always a good start.

[hauntedsavior]

God. Yeah.
Germany in the early 90s was its own special brand of fucked. Sometimes I forget about everything else that people were living through at the time.
I guess I got lucky figuring it out in 2010. Obama years, baby.

Maybe I should stop teasing him and actually try to help him.
I guess.

[slightlytaller]

He doesn't talk to me like he talks to you.

But I'm willing to help him how I can, as a fellow survivor of the Eighties.

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah.
All I know is that if this is the reception I got when I was figuring out the gay stuff with Rose, I would've stayed in the closet way sooner.
Then again, he's got the same fire in him that I had when I was 19. Maybe he'll learn more about himself just to spite me.

[slightlytaller]

I suspect that spite is a BIG motivator here.

He's going to try to tick as many boxes to prove he's straight that he'll probably realize straight people don't think this hard about it.

Honestly? It's kind of adorable.

[hauntedsavior]

Oh, cool, he's gonna be hetero so hard he loops back around. Yeah, I know people who have done that.
I'll start finding some day-glo shirts and fanny packs for him.

[slightlytaller]

As long as we don't go as far as that Ken doll they stopped making, he's probably not going to notice.

... I've been here for nearly a year. Maybe I should start adding color to my wardrobe too.

[hauntedsavior]

Aw, they stopped making Cock Ring Ken? What a shame.

Go for it, dude. Won't be anything I do anytime soon -- K's the one who makes colors pop and all -- but I support it with you. Get crazy with it.
Who's gonna judge you? Moss King? Fuck that guy.

[slightlytaller]

Bausphomette most likely. They're the reason I spent MONTHS as a Centaur.

[hauntedsavior]

Aw, really?
Baus always seemed cool to me. Full of love and protection and empathy and all that.
Never managed to commune with them, but, like, idk if I have to anymore?
Anyway. That's actually a shame.

[slightlytaller]

I don't think it would be necessarily mean.

You're just not the only one involved in cosmic jokes. The ones I get wrapped up in at least seem mostly harmless.

[hauntedsavior]

Well, I'm glad the Pthumerians are spreading the wealth.
I guess I'm just glad that Baus got to you before the disease got to Baus.

[slightlytaller]

DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS.

At this rate I'll be a centaur for half the year!

[hauntedsavior]

You and I both know that if I were important enough to give the Pthumerians ideas, this place would be way different today.
Way more concerts and boobs.

[slightlytaller]

Concerts are great but I'm not sure I can handle having boobs.

Great now I'm giving them ideas.

[hauntedsavior]

The boobs that I would give people, if the gods listened to me, would only ever go to people who want boobs.
My love of tits does not ever extend to giving people dysphoria.
#feminism

[slightlytaller]

In fear of sounding like Johnny, THAT is a new one.

[He was only aware of gender nonconformity because of his swap out with Alexandria, but the exact terms regarding transgender subjects weren't something he studied over much.

2004 was not an easy time to be anything other than a cisgender heterosexual either-- moreso than the 80s, but he didn't have the direct perspective of twenty years in the future.]

I mean, I get the basic idea, but it's not something I knew well on my Earth.

And now my head hurts because of Other Reasons.

[He needed to shift gears and directly search Alexandria's knowledge, and that level of switching wasn't simple for his brain. ]

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, it was all new to me back in 2018 and if it weren't for this really cute twink I dated for a bit I wouldn't know shit either.
Oh shit, wait, you having a gender revelation?
You need some time to think about stuff?

[slightlytaller]

I've been having it since I got back to myself, but I didn't want to interrupt your breakdown with mine.

🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥

[hauntedsavior]

Ah fuck.

Well. I'm doing a little better. If you wanna trade breakdowns.

[hachitaro]

I don't know, does Bruno Mars is gay?

[hauntedsavior]

According the last reported this singer revealed himself as homosexual!
Holy fuck. Of all the references I expected to land.

[hachitaro]

I had a friend - well, 'friend' - send that to me a long time ago.

I'm not as like... terminally online as some people but I get fed memes sometimes.