Real Friends Help You Hide The Bodies

[bairnsidhe]

Prompted and funded by ysabetwordsmith for the Crowdfunding Creative Jam, on the prompts "Real Friends Help You Hide Bodies" and "Changing your body to deal with dysphoria" For those new to the Super-Queers series, Calamity is the villain name of Clarity Johnson, an intersex teen who ran away from her parents to start a life of supervillainy after discovering their gender-based abuse.

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Real friends, it would seem to Calamity

Help you hide the bodies.

Real friends look at your face on a day

You can't bear to shave, because this

This is also you, and you will not cut it off,

And offer to show you how to tie a tie.

Real friends help you bury the frilly girl

Your parents demanded of you for so long

In a shallow grave of cologne and suits

Because you won't ever be her... you tried.

Real friends will also hold your hand later

As you apply shaky lipstick and blush to your

Clean shaven face, bemoaning square jaws

And tell you they've ordered you new boobs.

Real friends help you neatly stack the bones

Of the man you were once accused of being

By a disappointed date, a disappointing date,

In the closet, waiting to learn to dance.

Real friends let you decide if you are hiding

Your man's body, rough and strong and bulky

Or your woman's body, slim and shy and bending

Because on any given day...

Calamity has a body to hide.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm so happy to see this posted! :D

Re: Thank you!

[bairnsidhe]

Happy to post it, my dear! I always like working with your prompts.

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service! I'm glad I can inspire people.

I love your Super-Queers too. :D

[alatefeline]

<3 <3 <3

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you.

[technoshaman]

I am bemused... you seem to also have the gift of appropriate timing, as Ysabet so often does... y'see, just this morning I met a person who identifies GQ... I dunno if they will become friends with _me_, but they are definitely apart of my new community.

[bairnsidhe]

Appropriate timing may be the only appropriate thing about me, but I'm glad it turns out that way. I hope the new person is settling in well, and warm wishes to them from this sector of the interwebs!

See, this is why we need more diversity in our stories, so that when the chance to meet someone different and cool comes along, we recognise it because we've seen that idea before. Because the Bard's job is to remind us that different is out there, and how we deal with it matters. *Steps down off soapbox* At least that's how I see it.

[technoshaman]

Because the Bard's job is to remind us that different is out there, and how we deal with it matters.

Yes, yes it is.

And Conga Rats on winning Rose and Bay for this!

[bairnsidhe]

All the conga rats! pictures a congaline of Aeslin Mice dancing is celabration crying "HAIL" occasionally.

[labelleizzy]

i enjoyed this very much, thank you!

[bairnsidhe]

Glad to write it! I like working from prompts, especially during a crowdfunding jam when odds are good it'll be bought.

[thnidu]

Fine and fun as well as importantly real to so many, and a masterly twist on the saying.

[bairnsidhe]

Thank you. I do try to write things that are both fun, and hold some nugget of Truth or Importance inside the candy-coating of wordplay. As Miracle Max and his wife say in Princess Bride, "The chocolate coating helps it go down better."