hullo technically i'm not new here because i made an account a year or so ago but then i forgot or lost the info (i have a tendency to do such things) so i made a new one under a different email address. anyway, i decided to re-enter the glorious world of EC because now i'm more confident about "who i am" in general, but am feeling sort of lonely. i have a lot of amazing friends but i've never met another openly queer girl -- as far as i know, i'm the only one in our (very heteronormative) school, so you can imagine the resulting sense of isolation i sometimes feel. in addition, over the past year my family life has sort of exploded a bit, involving separation and mental illness and other stuff that isn't the greatest time, but in a weird way, being confident in the fact that i like girls has grounded me a little amidst all the chaos. regardless of all this, i'm overall a pretty happy person, and since it's summer and i have little to do i thought i'd utilize the invaluable resource that is the internet and make some new internet friends. that was long. thanks for reading. hi.