Brontenic (from Brontë, but also sounds elemental—like tectonic)
adjective: describing a love or selfhood that is literary, haunted, nonbinary, and drawn to masculinity
identity: a nonbinary person (esp. AFAB) who feels emotionally aligned with queer masculinity and loves it in others
🩶 Tagline:
“I was never a boy, but I learned to love like one.”
🕯 Poetic definition:
Brontenic hearts do not bloom, they burn slowly—beneath coats, behind eyes, in letters never mailed. They kiss like novels ending in ellipses, and keep the names of lovers like secrets scrawled in margins. Masculinity calls to them not because it is loud—but because it is wounded, and they understand wounds.
adjective: describing a love or selfhood that is literary, haunted, nonbinary, and drawn to masculinity
identity: a nonbinary person (esp. AFAB) who feels emotionally aligned with queer masculinity and loves it in others
🩶 Tagline:
“I was never a boy, but I learned to love like one.”
🕯 Poetic definition:
Brontenic hearts do not bloom, they burn slowly—beneath coats, behind eyes, in letters never mailed. They kiss like novels ending in ellipses, and keep the names of lovers like secrets scrawled in margins. Masculinity calls to them not because it is loud—but because it is wounded, and they understand wounds.
Brontenic hearts do not bloom, they burn slowly—beneath coats, behind eyes, in letters never mailed. They kiss like novels ending in ellipses, and keep the names of lovers like secrets scrawled in margins.
by EzraDean July 18, 2025