
(horizonal panel. avatar standing among left-pointing arrows.)
A friend of mine posted about an "identity spectra" chart that simplified sexuality and gender into a series of straight-line dichotomies. We had a problem with that, so we thought we'd draw our own versions.

(follow arrows to second horizontal panel)
My first thought was that it needed a temporal dimension. Identity changes. That could mean complicated graphs, but I just went with a comic strip.

(Pull out asexuality arrow)
But it's even more complicated. It's great to have a simple label I can use as a safety rope --

(gathering asexuality arrow around arm, find tangle)
But once I start pulling on any of the lines, I discover that it's a tangled-up mess. 

(belaying down)
Every part of identity is twisted up with a bunch of others

(untangle two lines, rope suddenly drops, have to push through thick tangles, cut?, decide not to bother) 
superstring theory, everything being interconnected, possibly not actually lines at all, can't get down to the hindbrain to actually see where it's coming from

(Get to bottom)
Oh - they weren't lines. They were... tentacles?

(find tentacle monster head.)
Oh!
Hi.