Rain
Comic 1412 - Not Today
Author Notes:
I know this is going to be a bittersweet page for some. Again, I'm sure folks just want to see Allison happy. But remember, this doesn't mean she can't be. This doesn't mean she isn't. "Happy" means a lot of things to a lot of people, after all.
Besides, Allison's just learned her orientation like two minutes ago; maybe she should take a little more time to consider the implications of what that means for her before immediately confessing her feelings to someone actively in a relationship with a pregnant person.
There's kind of a lot to wade through with this arc, but I am leaving it there for now, and moving to another scene next time. I'm a little nervous some of you are going to be mad at me, but that doesn't mean I don't want to hear your thoughts. Let me know how you feel about all this. :)
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What's sad about my situation is that my friend is happily married and leaving the sexual tension out of our relationship is what I feel allowed us to become so close. Most relationships in my past failed because they saw me as romantically available and their advances turned me off. It's not an easy position to be in.
This is about what I went through a few years ago, starting to learn things about myself. It made me way more introspective and lead me to figure out my demi-side. And how all of my relationships developed from friendships first. And to be figuring out how to be in a poly relationship and figuring it all out not long after realizing it was happening? She has more maturity than I feel a lot of us potentially had at her age.
There's "close friends" (BFF)
And there's "found family." That's one that appeals to me, since I have _never_ had what I think of as a "family-like" connection with anybody in my family of origin (especially not with my parents.) My ex (who I divorced because I couldn't deal with her issues) feels more like family than any of them.
It's a question of what you want out of the relationship.
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Oh, for sure! I totally understand. I don't mean to say anyone is wrong for hoping to see positive reps of things they identify with. Lord knows I get bummed out too when I see another story where I think they're building up a character to be trans or ace... only for it revealed to just be a phase (or in the specific cases of asexuality, they're "cured by sex"). So, I do get it. And I hope my blurb, or the direction of this plotpoint wasn't too harsh or anything. I just didn't feel this was the specific place for it.
That said, I do hope to someday include a more prominent on-screen showing of a positive polycule in my writing. Maybe even from its formation. If anything, I guess I didn't know if I felt ready to write it in a way that would do it justice. So, like Allison, I won't rush. This way, I can do things right. ^_^
I think if you had said that you didn't feel ready to write such a relationship in a way that would do it justice in your blurb it wouldn't have hit me so negatively. From the narrative point of view you're right, it wouldn't really fit right now. I wasn't even hoping or expecting for it to become a polycule.
But as is, the blurb felt like you were specifically shutting down hopes for polyamorous representation with an excuse similar to, "not every character has to be trans." I cried over it for a while last night and again upon revisiting it this morning. Then again I'm pretty emotionally compromised lately, so I might be overreacting.
I sincerely apologize for that. That truly was not the impression I wanted to get across. :(
I have not, but thanks for the recommendation
Anyway. This story continues to be a soothing balm on wounds that I didn't even know were still hurting so much.