you better wise up, 'cause i'll rise up, bring on any challenge

[comeandfindme]

[ Early on Wednesday, word goes around for everyone to meet in the Boys Bathroom at noon again, for another meeting. This time, with Salieri's help, Peregrine is leading it. ]

Okay, you guys. So, we're all scared, but we're all still here. And now we know we're not alone. For our sake, and...for theirs, let's see what we've learned what we can figure out. ...We're not gonna have another repeat. Not again.

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Comments

[themuseabandonsyou]

Straight? You mean like... [ what does that mean ] In - in terms of posture?

[ He sounds extremely unsure of that? ]

[brokeforgood]

Yeah, that's what she means.

[howtheworldwas]

[ that feels wrong………somehow………… ]

[fourbutts]

[ god she wishes that were her ]

Like in terms of... men who only like women and women who only like men.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Oh. I guess I've met a couple of men who are mostly friends with women and the other way around, but not a lot? Is that normal, where you come from? Or people think it should be? That sounds kind of... invasive?

[ At least Janis also seems to disapprove of this concept, so he feels okay criticizing it. ]

Why do people care about the genders of who you're close to, or think you should only pick one?

[fourbutts]

Oh, buddy, that would be our good friends The Catholics and The Puritans, if you wanna get historical about it.

[ she isn't actually sure the pop invented homophobia but fuck if she isnt going to pin it on him ]

[themuseabandonsyou]

I don't know what either of those things are. [ says Orpheus, unaware of the sheer exhilarating freedom he holds in his hands. ] Maybe they just don't exist where Eurydice and I are from.

[fourbutts]

God I wish that were me.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Oh. Are they that bad?

[ he asks, having been stuck in the Too Many People Are Talking and My Brain Doesn't Work zone during the last meeting derail about Christianity. Something something a priest of Jesus told Farrah she was awful which is a profoundly unpriestly thing to do if you ask Orpheus, but he doesn't really remember the rest of it. ]

[fourbutts]

[ orpheus honey youre so valid ]

Let's just say me and Mister Heteronormativity have... a history.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus nods, willing to accept that. ]

It's just strange that people would care so much about who other people fall in love with based on gender.

[fourbutts]

You're telling me. And that's not to mention how much they feel like it's their business.

[themuseabandonsyou]

Right? I guess sometimes with family businesses and things like that you run into problems with, um, heirs, and succession, but that's the only time I'm really used to hearing people get upset over it? Or sometimes people have a hard time being rejected because the person they like doesn't like them, but that happens for a lot of reasons besides gender too.

[fourbutts]

God I would've hated middle school so much less where you're from.

[themuseabandonsyou]

I didn't really go to school for very long, but I guess I can see how heteronormativity [ he has to say the word kind of slowly, still not used to it and sort of sounding it out ] would make things harder. Kids can be really mean.

[ He pauses. ]

And teachers.

[fourbutts]

I mean... I'm kind of a special case about it, but yeah. It super did.