u/Flaxorus-solar_cast

Hey guys, I'm planning to start UNF in Fall 2027, and have been wondering about what it's like being queer on campus. Both in terms of just being gay on campus and also trans/nonbinary identities. From my own research it seems to be a generally supportive environment with their pride club and everything, but it's also Florida so I'd have to assume it's not all sunshine and rainbows.

I'd really love to hear about anyone's experience with this both on campus and in the general Jacksonville environment. Whether it's personal experience/interactions, events, pride, etc. I'm interested in whatever y'all have to share (or if there's someone i'm able to directly contact to ask about this stuff, though I'm not sure how much access to those things i have since I'm part of the earliest pool of acceptances so not much to do rn). Thanks in advance for any responses!!!

Hey there, I just got my acceptance for the fall '27 term a few days ago and have been on top of some of the next stuff like applying to honors and all that. I've also been trying to find ways to make some friends who will also be starting around the same time. However, I kinda think it may be too early for those kinds of things to be up, but idk. If you have any ideas on how to find others, I'd love to hear them. I'm likely gonna be the only one in my HS going there, and so I want to get a head start on the social part so I'm not completely alone when I get there.

So I’ve been identifying with the label agender for a while, haven’t really acted on it since I’m at an all girls school so basically just waiting for college. So yeah, not exactly out to anyone but I do have a painted pin with the flag colors on my backpack which is what led to the interaction I had yesterday.

Basically was walking with a few friends when one of them notices the pin and asked if I’m agender. The question had caught me off guard and I suddenly felt kind of on edge, couldn’t even get a real yes out so just threw her a thumbs up. she then asked if I had preferred pronouns which was really nice of her but kinda made me panic and there was a weird anxious feeling in my gut.

Is this like a normal experience to get like anxious when you’re not used to talking about gender out loud?? Like whenever it’s come up for me I feel like I wanna leave the conversation and idk if it’s cuz I’m not as ready as I think I am to talk about it or just nervous for passerby to hear or because I may not be as non-cis as I’ve thought I am because I really can’t know till I can actually explore all that in college😭😭

thanks for reading lol, hopefully this fits the tag. would appreciate any advice!!!

I'm AFAB and have never been exactly uncomfortable being perceived as a girl, but I was more so, just oblivious to the whole concept of gender. Chose the guy characters in video games as a child simply for their clothing options, and would get frustrated that the options were separate to begin with. But more or less didn't think too much about it until just under a year ago, when I remembered the fact that even when I was 10, I'd never really wanted to have a chest. It was sorta an aha moment where I started to think, "wait a second, I don't think this is normal."

I'd made a binder out of an old Speedo and started discreetly wearing it and felt pretty great. After perusing through different gender definitions and thinking demigirl was a fit, since I wasn't uncomfortable as a girl, it just didn't feel completely right. But internal contemplation and getting more comfortable breaking out of binary have made me realize I genuinely have no attachment to femininity, or any of that stuff. And apparently some people do???

I think through this sub I've been able to learn more about what being agender feels like, and it seems to align a lot with what I feel internally. Especially now that I understand that people actually do feel internal senses of gender. The one thing in my way is that I'm at an all-girls school where you're not gonna rlly find people who even know what the nonbinary umbrella is. My friend circle is pretty queer and would probably listen if I talked to them about it, but it kinda feels pointless since like it'd be pretty awkward to try explaining and it's not like there's anything they could do with that info. So Idk, I'd appreciate any guidance yall may have.

Finally got around to worldbuilding because I got to the realization that characters are hard to write in a void. Actually led me down an interesting path that I wanted to share here to possibly get some feedback.

The idea I have so far is that when a character dies, their soul is evaluated by one of the world's Watcher Gods to determine the faults and triumphs that determine where they go. There's no good or bad place to end up, it's more like being a puzzle piece that gets fit into its spot on the board. from there, the person is put in their determined region. They're left to wander on their own of a while, and will hop from town to town and from one fantastical biome to another. One day, they reach a place and notice a new home pop up. The town's Divine host welcomes them into the community as they've found where they're staying for the rest of their afterlife.

The story itself takes place in the town of Coreso, an especially odd community founded in an unusual anomaly. Originally meant as a serene gathering area, it was a tropical, coral-filled ocean fit into the size of a large lake. However, after some troublemakers were messing with one of the divine mediators, the mediator got petty and impulsively drained all of the water out of the lake. Worried about getting punished by higher-ups, the mediator took one of the hosts in training and had him find the community of coreso in the dried up pit so it all seemed intentional.

Admittedly a lot of this is kinda more than needed as i'm writing a character-focused story, but I want everything to have a reason for existing. In addition to the paragraphs above here are some other parts of this that work better as bullet points.

• The afterlife itself is composed of communities that take on a more pre-industrial lifestyle but with a more modern standard of living (more modern clothing styles also carry over from life. When the watcher Gods are choosing a person's destination, they also give them the most suitable outfit from their closet.)
• While I don't have much for the living world, I keep imagining it as a kinda neon city kinda vibe
• Towns will each get rankings for the hosts to go off of. But they can get pretty competitive about it

This is just what's come to my mind within the last few hours, would love to here y'alls thoughts!!

16 F, in USA, adhd and autism and take short acting dextroamphetemine

so basically the other day I got a really good sleep and then ended up feeling super tired the entire day after, like dozing off when I barely ever do that. likewise today I had stayed up till nearly 1 and yet have felt pretty good for all of today and it got me thinking about how I usually function fine despise not exactly getting all the recommended 8 hours.

to elaborate, my average sleep schedule during the week is usually 10:00 or 11:00-5:35 when my alarm goes off. but those 7.5-6.5 hours are also far from being all REM cycle cuz I feel like I’m just rolling around half the time. I sleep in some on weekends but not normally more than 10 hours. It’s not the 8 recommended so I just wanna know if some people naturally function alright on less sleep or if my schedule is not a big enough change/hasn’t caught up to me yet.

thanks in advance for any insight!!!