Women of Lit: A Safe Place To Share

Slightly random post, but this appeared on my Insta dash.
Since England won the Euro's they have a platform as advocates for women's sport in the UK, highlighting, for example, the trend for young women becoming discouraged from active team games because of poor clothing options that prevent leaks. I hope this mural is for real and not AI
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Just venting

So, I got put in someone's friend zone, and I'm crushed😢😢
I felt the most rejected yesterday by this person after my attempts to flirt. This is a person I've been sexy friends with since last summer... It hurts.... Really bad.
Aww… sending hugs, Sweetie!! 🤗🤗
 
I love music 🎶 and there's a few songs that remind me of a recently fucked up D/s dynamic I was in for a LONG time...
But here's the one that really resignates my feelings...

"The Grudge" by Olivia Rodrigo

I don't feel comfortable sharing the rest, how he is sooo narcissist, and gaslit me horribly recently...
But I learned about myself after that ended...
💕That's the important part💗

ETA:
I can't call it a "relationship", according to him . It was 3 years, he sent me cards and gifts... Dedicated a song, chatted and played together daily.. But it wasn't a "relationship", and apparently it was in my head that it's anything more than FWB..

Fuck all that!! He's blocked, and if he's reading this...
✌🏻I'm stronger than you think...
 
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Here's the powerful lyrics:

I have nightmares each week about that Friday in May
One phone call from you and my entire world was changed
Trust that you betrayed, confusion that still lingers
Took everything I loved and crushed it in between your fingers
And I doubt you ever think about the damage that you did
But I hold onto every detail like my life depends on it
My undying love, now I hold it like a grudge
And I hear your voice every time that I think I'm not enough
And I try to be tough, but I wanna scream
How could anybody do the things you did so easily?
And I say I don't care, I say that I'm fine
But you know I can't let it go
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried for so long
It takes strength to forgive, but I don't feel strong
The arguments that I have won against you in my head
In the shower, in the car and in the mirror before bed
Yeah, I'm so tough when I'm alone and I make you feel so guilty
And I fantasize about a time you're a little fuckin' sorry
And I try to understand why you would do this all to me
You must be insecure, you must be so unhappy
And I know in my heart hurt people hurt people
And we both drew blood, but, man, those cuts were never equal
And I try to be tough, but I wanna scream
How could anybody do the things you did so easily?
And I say I don't care, I say that I'm fine
But you know I can't let it go
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried for so long
It takes strength to forgive, but I don't feel strong
Ooh, do you think I deserved it all?
Ooh, your flowers filled with vitriol
You built me up to watch me fall
You have everything and you still want more
I try to be tough, I try to be mean
But even after all this, you're still everything to me
And I know you don't care, I guess that that's fine
But you know I can't let it go
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried for so long
It takes strength to forgive, but I'm not quite sure I'm there yet
It takes strength to forgive, but

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Daniel Nigro / Olivia Rodrigo
the grudge lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
 
I love music 🎶 and there's a few songs that remind me of a recently fucked up D/s dynamic I was in for a LONG time...
But here's the one that really resignates my feelings...

"The Grudge" by Olivia Rodrigo

I don't feel comfortable sharing the rest, how he is sooo narcissist, and gaslit me horribly recently...
But I learned about myself after that ended...
💕That's the important part💗

ETA:
I can't call it a "relationship", according to him . It was 3 years, he sent me cards and gifts... Dedicated a song, chatted and played together daily.. But it wasn't a "relationship", and apparently it was in my head that it's anything more than FWB..

Fuck all that!! He's blocked, and if he's reading this...
✌🏻I'm stronger than you think...
Fuck him, that's totally a relationship. It's only a question of what kind of relationship.
 
Yeah, definitely not a romantic one... But I agree fully.. It was something to me, especially.
 
Some relationships need to be literal ships and sail away. When you find the one that becomes a safe harbor, that's when you can disembark, build your home, and plant your garden—together.
That reminds me of my favorite poem that ends,
" I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul."

I am so grateful for a special guy friend in my life, who keeps me as sane as I can get.. And when I drift from that sanity, he's my rock..
 
That reminds me of my favorite poem that ends,
" I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul."

I am so grateful for a special guy friend in my life, who keeps me as sane as I can get.. And when I drift from that sanity, he's my rock..
Invictus, by William Ernest Henley! Yes! ❤️
My best friend shared that poem with me while I was in the hospital recovering from the episode of violence that ended my last relationship. To this day it brings me strength.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
 
I'm going to post this here.. Since I'm doing bragging and bitching about men:

This is sooo true...
2 men in my life I shared my feelings with about our "relationship". I had ended it multiple times on different occasions,
Guy 1 blamed me, took zero responsibility.
Guy 2 takes into account my emotions, I'm still in his life...

 
I'm going to post this here.. Since I'm doing bragging and bitching about men:

This is sooo true...
2 men in my life I shared my feelings with about our "relationship". I had ended it multiple times on different occasions,
Guy 1 blamed me, took zero responsibility.
Guy 2 takes into account my emotions, I'm still in his life...


That seems to be where I am.
 
She's completely right and it gets me so depressed.
She is right!
And here we are in this country with so many assaults from people like teachers, police officers, religious leaders and all the conservative media and politicians choose to demonize are trans and lgbtq+ folk.

Like many, I wish I knew how we get out of this ugly place we are in, but in the meantime I choose to raise my voice at public gatherings protesting.
For me it helps just doing this small act, and being with others that feel the same.
 
She is right!
And here we are in this country with so many assaults from people like teachers, police officers, religious leaders and all the conservative media and politicians choose to demonize are trans and lgbtq+ folk.

Like many, I wish I knew how we get out of this ugly place we are in, but in the meantime I choose to raise my voice at public gatherings protesting.
For me it helps just doing this small act, and being with others that feel the same.
I can’t find his name now but one Republican strategist announced several years back that yes, they were going to make trans people targets solely in a cynical attempt to activate the fears that gay people no longer produced. He fucking TOLD THE MEDIA he was going to do this, and then did it, and the media blindly amplified “these good people’s real and honest feelings of concern” <vomit> as if they had not been told in advance it was a con.

What victories we have had for queer rights have only ever come from being open and letting people see us as other perfectly normal people. But right now when the government is actively hostile and openly crazy rather than indifferent? Im scared for my friends. I really am.

I’m a married mom, outwardly hetero, only dipping my toe into indulging my Bi side. But my daughter is openly Ace, my son has a mass of autism and ADHD special needs. I can’t really hide. ultimately all of us are at risk.
 
What victories we have had for queer rights have only ever come from being open and letting people see us as other perfectly normal people. But right now when the government is actively hostile and openly crazy rather than indifferent? Im scared for my friends. I really am.
If the media was truly an impartial, objective source I wonder if we would be in this mess? Likely not, or perhaps not so hopelessly mired....

More than one lgbtq activist I've read has said that as a community we do need to be visible, but omg! it hasn't been easy at times!
 
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