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bookblather ([personal profile] bookblather) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2014-01-20 11:32 pm

Admin Yellow 15: anyway

Author: Kat
Title: anyway
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Admin yellow 15 (In the end, we're all alone and no one is coming to save you.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, seed beads, graffiti (Martin Luther King Junior Day Event: "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." - Letter From a Birmingham Jail), novelty beads (Pride), glitter ("You don't always have to tell people you love them, you just have to give them no reason to doubt it." – Julienne Merza), oils (a storm on the horizon).
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: I love you anyway.
Warnings: homophobia.
Notes: I want to make it clear that I do not consider racism and homophobia to be the same thing. This is what I thought of when I read the quote. I don't think I'm being hurtful, but I am a white girl, so if I have been hurtful, please tell me so I can apologize. Thank you.


"I love you anyway," his mother says, with a horrible wobbling smile, and it cuts, the way she says that: anyway. Like it's something she has to get past, a flaw in his character that she overlooks because he is her son. She loves him, so she doesn't mind that he's gay.

Hector wants to cry when he thinks about it, so he doesn't say anything, just nods brusquely and makes his escape, speeding down a California highway with the top down so the wind can blow the words away.

I love you anyway. He'd almost rather she disowned him.
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[personal profile] kay_brooke 2014-01-22 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch. Yeah, there's something particularly heartbreaking about that kind of response, that "support" without any real acceptance.
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[personal profile] auguris 2014-01-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeaaaah. Yeah. The core of "hate the sin love the sinner" right there. Just... yeah. Hit it on the head.
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[personal profile] shipwreck_light 2014-01-30 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent use of the novelty bead. Excellent, knife-edged, hurting use.

*sniff*

*CUDDLES*

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[personal profile] shipwreck_light 2014-07-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
After that fib a minute ago?

YES PLEASE TAKE MY PAIN. ACCEPT IT IN TRIBUTE.

XD