Out?

[resonant]

The original sci-fi erotica I'm writing for dementordelta (which I'm now thinking of as "the pouch porn") is getting a lovely polka of a beta, and I'm psyched to do a second draft tomorrow. I'm all excited about it.

In other news, I'm somewhat freaked out because without planning to at all, I went and told my best friend I'm bisexual. This is not a confession I routinely make, in the nonvirtual world -- the spouse knows, but I don't share it freely -- but it came up in conversation, and there was this moment where really my choice was to lie out loud with words ("Oh, yeah, I don't get that either") or to tell the truth.

It was terrifying.

She ... says I'm wrong. "You're not, really," she says.

This is reassuringly normal for her, actually, so my eye-rolling is much softened by relief. However, I still spent the rest of the afternoon feeling strangely freaked out. Guilty, actually, as if I'd done something wrong.

I think I don't tell the truth enough. I need more practice.

Comments

[halimede.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm not at all sure the flirting is related to bisexuality perse. Straight women, knowing each other to be straight, can still flirt with each other in a sexual way, in my experience. So yeah, lots of us identify as bi (me too if you were wondering, and you probably weren't) but that might not really be the point with the flirting, necessarily. Which doesn't mean you should feel obliged to, because obviously some people are flirtier than others and that's okay. In my not-so-humble-in-this-case opinion anyway. :)