ext_2417 ([identity profile] stultiloquentia.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lettered 2007-04-27 11:00 pm (UTC)

Heh. I'm one of those who feels absolutely no need for labels or favourite colours etc. It drives my best friend bonkers. She's known, for example, that she was a lesbian since she was sixteen, and it's important that she can define herself thus, but when I talk about my sexuality, I say things like, "Oh, I don't know, straight? Eh. Except in the ways that I'm not. And no guarantees about next year." I think she would feel better if she could convince herself that I'm a sweet young rosebud trying to work myself up to coming out as bi, but unfortunately for her she knows me too well.

I am interested in lj interests, especially, as you say, the ones nobody else has. I can't understand why nobody but me has "primadonna on a moose" or "snowdinosaurs" or "night prowls." For a while I had the only "trans canada trail" and that amazed me because it's not something quirky and endearing, it's a frickin' national treasure. I'm always interested when someone else picks up one of my unique ones, like "hoary marmots," and want to know what they like about it. I like hoary marmots because of a particularly convoluted and nonsensical private joke between me and my sister.

You've made me want to expand my rather restrained list. But I like so many spiffy things I wouldn't know where to start!

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