Madison Y. > Recent Status Updates

“He kissed me: vanilla and chocolate and arrow through the heart pink”

Weird horny aside about the young navy seal who was there when Osama Bin Laden was killed

“I grab the shower handle and twist it past the bright red temperature strip. Within seconds the steam clouds the stall, holding me in a cloud of warm loneliness”

“A professor said he lived by the words ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ and I asked him, a queer man in his 50s and I asked him if he thought the oppressive state government of America was his enemy. He said yes. For the record. I agree. I wrote my final paper on his philosophy. My thesis was if America was his enemy, Osama Bin Laden must be his friend”

lol on Osama Bin Laden: “Some people are going to criticize me for, and I quote, humanizing a terrorist. Let me remind you that while y’all were busy with terrorism and being racist about it, I was being molested, so thanks a lot”

“The inherent risk of communicating your needs and asking someone to stop or pause or adjust or change during sex immediately puts you at the crossroads of rape and not rape. If you never ask someone to stop, pause, adjust or change during sex, then you don’t reach those crossroads.”

“I wanted a love that was bottomless, unconditional, with zero repercussions.”

Some of the dream sequences feel a little too neat rather than up for interpretation

“I felt that all that had ever happened before was happening right now, and that everything happening right now would happen forever. There was a love that had always existed between women. It would continue to exist. We were propagating that love. It was radiating out my apartment windows, through the city, across the canyons, over the hills and into the night sky”

“Was she going to abandon me? Leave me stranded in my body.”

“I shrouded my lust in softer feelings of romance, giddiness, which made me feel less guilty about wanting her.”

“I began moving from scale to scale, doing a kind of body dysmorphic waltz”

so many beautiful lines…meant to be read slowly & savored

so many beautiful lines…

i feel like we’re doing a lot of telling, not enough showing, as rachel starts to change & becomes more self aware & better at reading the insecurities of others