#LABELS

[oarfishcouncil]

[soulicious]

Okay, repeat after me, will you?

You can be strong and kind. You can be sexually submissive and feminist. You can be a dominatrix and be gentle. You can be virginal and have kinks. You can have sex and be shy. You can be confident about one thing and insecure about another. You can be beautiful and intelligent. You can be gentle and blunt. You can be whoever the fuck you want to be and you can do whatever the fuck you want to do.

You don't have to fit in. Break the mold. Be whoever you want to be. Don't let anyone label you or try to fit you in their neat little boxes.

[danshive]

I think personal labels can be useful for “there’s a word for it”, “I’m not alone”, and “oh neat, I know what to put in a search engine now” reasons, but I also think they can be troublesome.

Plenty of people won’t fit 100% neatly into a label, and when they encounter a rare exception to what is otherwise an accurate label for them, it can feel like an identity crisis.

The labels aren’t literally what you are. They’re words. They’re meant to assist communication and organization, not to control you.

[lgbtq-userboxes]

[goobersplat]

Six 1980s Unicorn Labels

[bloggingboutburgers]

My partner's OK with the "gay" umbrella, meanwhile I'm mainly on board with either calling an ace of spades an ace of spades, or, if there must be an umbrella, "queer", or the Q or A in LGBTQ/LGBTQIA (with or without +).

That being said "ace" is also kind of an umbrella technically, and as far as I know neither my partner or I use microlabels for ourselves much so... Diff'rent strokes I guess! Dunno, it's interesting to think about.

[proudnb]

You can remain undefined.

Questioning your gender, orientation, etc. doesn't have to lead to precise labels.

All the questioning journey is "supposed" to do is bring you a better understanding of yourself.

[sillynessmogai]

label hoarder

a label hoarder is someone who collects / “ hoards “ labels. this can be for many reasons; having a complex identity, feeling comfortable with a variety of terms, find it fun to collect labels, etc. this goes for collecting any labels, including names and pronouns.

genderhoarder

a gender hoarder is someone who collects / “ hoards “ gender labels. this can be for many reasons; having a complex / fluid gender, feeling comfortable with a variety of terms, find it fun to collect genders, etc.

pronounhoarder

a pronoun hoarder is someone who collects / “ hoards “ pronoun labels. this can be for many reasons; preferring a variety of pronouns, being pronounfluid, finding it fun to collect pronouns, etc.

name collector / namehoarder

a name hoarder is someone who collects / “ hoards “ name. this can be for many reasons; preferring a variety of names, being nomifluid, finding it fun to collect names, etc.

this isn’t a coining / recoining post, simply alt flag designs for those who want to use them.

no IDs, help appreciated

taglist ( ask to be added or removed ): @radiomogai @rwuffles @somniabyte @fangpunk @khaenriahplurals

[prokopetz]

Frankly, if I'm the odd one in a group I'd rather be mislabelled than singled out. "All right, ladies – oh, and Dave" like, don't put me on the spot like that. For the purpose of this exercise I will answer to "ladies".

[wickedwitchoftheweigels]

Akira, 1994 US Release VHS

[incognitopolls]

Labels listed in these options are meant as examples, not a comprehensive list. Please choose the answer that you feel best fits you, and feel free to elaborate in the tags.

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

It also says "German-style tandoori chicken" in Japanese. And why is there a Pepperoni Pizza on it too?

[transparentstickers]

Six notebook stickers by Spindex corp, produced in 1982. They are made as labels, and most contain lines labelled Name and Address.

(Description under Read more)

From the top, the first is in the shape of a pencil, the lines for name and address in the yellow center acting as the corners of the implied hexagonal shape.

Second, a yellow spiky shape warns: "TOUCH THIS AND YOU WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 30 SECONDS" with the label beneath.

Third, A rainbow with a golden star in the center has a golden framed box beneath to input your own text.

Fourth, a red clockwork rollerskate travels to the right with the speed lines behind it crossing a dark blue back ground. The purple frame curves in on the top right coner to match the shape of the rollerskate. The label is below.

Fifth, a black handled paintbrush makes an oval trail of rainbow paint.

Sixth, a green frame has the label at the top, and the top third of the globe in the bottom right corner, a space ship flies on top, above the frame.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

“Instead of letting labels like romantic and platonic (or friend versus partner) guide actions and expectations, it is possible for the desires themselves to guide actions and expectations. More effective than relying on labels to provide instruction is skipping directly to asking for what we want—around time, touch, commitment, and so on as David Jay wrote—regardless of whether those desires confuse hardline ideas of what these two categories are supposed to look like. When the desires don’t fit the labels, it is often the labels that should be adjusted or discarded, not the desires. If everyone is behaving ethically, it doesn’t matter if a relationship doesn’t fit into a preconceived social role, if it feels neither platonic nor romantic or if it feels like both at the same time.”

- from Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

[bodyhorror-bimbo]

I’m a lesbian in the way I which I’m never 100% sure I’m not into men at least a little bit sometimes. But I’ll never admit to that because it feels like either I’d be invalidating my lesbian identity or be somehow adding to bi erasure.

But sexuality is complicated. And labels are based on best fits on a personal metric. Cause shit is hard. And frankly, I don’t care enough to parse out if I’m really a bi woman in denial. Because it wouldn’t change how I live my life anyways.