Lesbiature

maianess's picture

I am officially coining the term 'Lesbiature'; literature + lesbian = lesbiature!!! Kissing Kate, Keeping You a Secret, etc., all qualify as lesbiature! So there you go, a handy little term for your reading material! Enjoy! ^^

And yeah, currently reading Keeping You a Secret. It makes me happy ^^ but it's also really sad... and after I'd been reading it for a while, I sat down at the piano and I think I improv'd a piece about... hate. It was... unsettling. But I'm proud of myself for it. Lately I've been in a bit of a musical rut, always using the same chord progressions and stuff. This was different. It felt good.

Arg. My neighbors are playing loud music that's coming through the walls all fuzzy and making it hard to think. And this girl from camp who I don't really like keeps friending me on facebook. But the sky is pretty.

To those of you who saw me emo, 3-line entry from the other day, the deep shit I referred to is: my cutter-friend persuaded a few of us to go onto the roof of this random appartment building with her, via fire escape. I was really freaked out and I thought I was going to get suspended, but I won't, so it's okay. I took her in to see the counsilor today, plus she hasn't cut for like 2 months, so.... maybe things are good. But what I am worried about are things with my best friend. It's not gonna be immediate, but I'm still dreading the possibility that her parents might take her out of school. And I hardly ever see her in school, most of the time I spend with her is on the subway home and for hours on the phone. Now, her dumbfuck parents have decreed the phone off-limits, she has to come home straight after her last class every day (so no waiting around for me when I get out of class), and this week I'm staying after school every day to tech for one of the plays. Arg. I... I dunno. I can just hope things'll sort themselves out. The summer's really gonna suck if I can't call her. Plus, if we don't have our over-phone-song-writing sessions anymore... ugh. Things'll suck.

I was playing Sim City on the tech booth computer today ^^ I was failing miserably... heh heh. And the director got really pissed at me and the other people in the booth b/c we were being really really loud. But come on, it was just so amazingly hilarious. We got a huge kick out of naming a Sim City "Your Mom" and reading the articles in the paper. "Your Mom's water supply runs dry," "Weather also seems to have an effect on Your Mom's water supply..." XDD And then I was playing Bananaphone and The Llama Song on my iPod on the AUX (just in the booth speakers), and besides being awesome songs in themselves, they somehow managed to add soooooo much to the play!!! XD Plus, there was the added hilarity of me threatening to play them out into the whole auditorium... heheeeee. And then, and THEN... I played If You Were Gay. And it's a great song in itself, but the amazing thing was... IT FIT THE SCENE ONSTAGE PERFECTLY!!! We'd already been joking about what a homoerotic play it was, but then we're playing If You Were Gay, and everyone was on the rhythms and all the gestures were absolutely perfect!! Aah, it was awesome... ^^ Yes, I realize this turned insanely long and ramble-y and off-topic. Apologies....

One last thing, that should be interesting if nothing else was: I think I may have just been entered into a smut-writing contest.

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jeff's picture

eh...

I think calling it something other than literature just ghettoizes it, no? Kind of like when you mention someone is a gay writer. I mean, if Julie Anne Peters was married to a delightful man and was just really committed to writing lesbian young adult fiction, would it matter? I mean, sure, people would wonder what was up with it, but... would it really matter?

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maianess's picture

I didn't know she was gay,

I didn't know she was gay, actually. Really? Iono, I'm sure I kind of suspected from the subject matter of her books, but still, it's not at all what I think about when I read her stuff. I just wanted a handy little term to refer to all the books dealing with lesbian material that make me so happy (or depressed, depending on what kind of book... *sigh*) and thus, lesbiature.

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ChicaLover's picture

That book is so fekkin

That book is so fekkin awesome. I love it, and atleast once a day i reread a couple pages. I actually bought and had no idea what it was about and then my friend saw me with it at school and figured it out, so yeah. Point is, your gonna love the rest of it.