flootzavut:

A big thank you

This is a big, huge, enormous thank you to all the fanwriters out there who take characters with canonic opposite sex serious love interests, give them same sex love interests, and then explicitly reference them as bisexual, even when the same sex love interest is endgame.

It may not seem a big deal to some people, but it honestly, truly just makes me happy every time and it means a lot when writers don’t treat it as an either or, like giving a character same sex love interests negates the possibility they could be anything except solely gay.

(Meaning no disrespect to those people who have opposite sex relationships and eventually discover they’re gay, none at all, and of course characters can have that experience just as real people can; but the explicitly bisexual, not making it a gay/straight dichotomy thing means so much to me.)

punk-solas:

themacklemorebrothers:

In honor of Janelle Monáe coming out I put together a lil graphic about bi & pan identities! This is based on my own experiences within the community as someone who uses both terms. It of course does not cover everything! Image description under the cut.

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Note a very important part of this post: 

“I am more comfortable with the term [bi/pan].”

No bigger reason than that is needed to identify with one term and not the other.

When people tell you they are one but not the other, that is it

You do not get to argue them using even the reasonable definitions. 

Bi people can describe their attraction the way pansexuality/romanticism is defined above and pan people can describe their attraction the way bisexuality/romanticism is defined above and that does not mean they are wrong. 

The only differences between bi and pan exists within the individuals who identify with one but not the other.