Thoroughness and clarity are important, Fiddleford.
[ But okay. He can do this. He can be a little vulnerable and a little emotionally intimate if it's in the name of summarizing an old anthropology dissertation.
Still, he does just as Fiddleford expects and presents him with a wall of text. ]
After we parted ways, I wasn't able to return to Gravity Falls for years. I traveled a lot, and I spent a lot of time with a lot of different cultures. Some were similar to American culture, and others were so different you can't even meaningfully contrast them. Many weren't even human cultures.
There were some that had three or more 'primary' genders, or none at all, that didn't have binary sexes, or that didn't have any consistent links between their sex and gender at all. So of course, in some of them sex and romance were treated in ways I'd never considered before. I probably would have figured it out just from that, eventually.
Early on in my travels, I met someone and I ended up getting along well with him. His culture was one with largely binary sexes and genders, like ours, but the criteria for taboo relationships was based far more around social status and genetic potential. It only took a few weeks in that area before same-sex relationships started to seem common and normal to me. And he and I were both male, and he was a low-ranked commoner while I was a drifter that technically wasn't even the same species, so none of the taboos applied to us anyway.
It did turn out that courtship and dating worked very differently, so he thought we were already romantically involved for three full months before I did.
But once we cleared that up, accepting his advances felt more natural than I would have thought. And that was the first time I was consciously aware that I was attracted to men.
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[ But okay. He can do this. He can be a little vulnerable and a little emotionally intimate if it's in the name of summarizing an old anthropology dissertation.
Still, he does just as Fiddleford expects and presents him with a wall of text. ]
After we parted ways, I wasn't able to return to Gravity Falls for years. I traveled a lot, and I spent a lot of time with a lot of different cultures. Some were similar to American culture, and others were so different you can't even meaningfully contrast them. Many weren't even human cultures.
There were some that had three or more 'primary' genders, or none at all, that didn't have binary sexes, or that didn't have any consistent links between their sex and gender at all. So of course, in some of them sex and romance were treated in ways I'd never considered before. I probably would have figured it out just from that, eventually.
Early on in my travels, I met someone and I ended up getting along well with him. His culture was one with largely binary sexes and genders, like ours, but the criteria for taboo relationships was based far more around social status and genetic potential. It only took a few weeks in that area before same-sex relationships started to seem common and normal to me. And he and I were both male, and he was a low-ranked commoner while I was a drifter that technically wasn't even the same species, so none of the taboos applied to us anyway.
It did turn out that courtship and dating worked very differently, so he thought we were already romantically involved for three full months before I did.
But once we cleared that up, accepting his advances felt more natural than I would have thought. And that was the first time I was consciously aware that I was attracted to men.