daemon: Gildad

[smileslie]

RAINBOW MEME

Preferred Alias: Mandy

RED - Something about yesterday: I spent an obscene amount of time trying to remember all the words to The Ladies Who Lunch.
ORANGE - Something you do well: Making costumes.
YELLOW - Something about your childhood: I used to like going to church, mostly for the hymms.
GREEN - Something you learned last week: They've made Lord of the Rings films. I don't think I'd watch them, even if I'm sure the costumes are gorgeous.
BLUE - Something you can't live without: Cigarettes
INDIGO - Something you watch: The Batman televison show in reruns.
VIOLET - Something you listen to: The Carpenters.

Ask Me About My Rainbow

[what's worse, Gildad being truthful in telling people both that she used to enjoy church or that she listens to The Carpenters? Probably the latter]

Comments

[tangleofgarlands]

As depressing as that is, I do understand it. Here it's easy, but if I lived somewhere I was constantly getting harassed for the way I dress, I can't say I wouldn't wash off some color myself.

[It's hard to admit to, but Mandy has been so open with Arthur he can't bring himself not to return that kindness. In a way, it's a refreshing take on interaction, not to hide anything that might be unpleasant behind a thick veneer of stoicism and invulnerability.]

As far as I can tell, there's always someone who's had it harder than you, but that's true for them too. Just because someone else might have had it harder in some ways doesn't mean it wasn't hard for you at all. I got off lucky, compared to a lot of people I spoke to, but I still bled.

For me, at least, it wasn't the frock or the makeup or the glitter,
it was the willingness to put them in front of a camera in the first place. I thought there was something wrong with me until I saw that I wasn't the only one.