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Bubblegum
It's the wrong name. It leaves their mouth with a soreness like a wad of chewed up gum, tough and flavourless and long past its purpose. They spit it out. Try a new name.
Roll it over in their mouth, sink their teeth into the idea of it, chew on it in murmurs before ever saying it out loud. Feel it flat on their tongue before breathing into it, until it pushes past their lips in a bubble, pink and sweet, full and weightless. There they are.
#name change#deadname#identity stuff#gender stuff#this was supposed to be longer but i posted it to the wrong blog. panicked. deleted it. forgot the rest of it.#idk i got my license today and stared my governent name in the face#its just another id card#but it made me think of my birthday#where my birth name was written in icing on the cake#so i ate it away until it spelled my name#and it made me feel New
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