Alice's Wizardly Void-Space

Nowadays my worry is that no one would want anything else with me.

Day 3836 - 3 July 2026

look at my prosecutor dawg im going to jail

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞

For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.

While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.

Take everything at your own pace. You do not owe speed! We're in this for a fun time, not to stress ourselves out.

Don't compare yourself to others! You've heard it a million times; comparison is the death of creation. And, it's true! Create because you want to create, not because you're worried others are better than you. Art is most fun when you're focusing on the process!

Be respectful! You don't know what another's person situation is like at all. There are plenty of disabled people, people who are in depressive episodes, people who are experiencing executive dysfunction; we're experiencing crazy heatwaves everywhere and not everyone has AC; some people have work or family to attend to; just be kind. Understand that you won't always get a revenge or a comment quickly or at all, because some people just can't get to it.

This is the art GIFTING game! Not the art TRADING game!

I fear far too many people are very very competitive about Art Fight and tend to get extremely mad at each other for not taking it seriously, but it's not something you're supposed to take seriously. It's for fun! It's a celebration of art! It's a celebration of artists! We're all in this together to create at our own unique speeds in our own unique styles and that alone is beautiful! Note: absolutely none of this is said as an attack on anyone!! I've just seen a lot of people stressing and arguing over what is, ultimately, a game. People are going to play it in their own way and I think you'll have a whole Hell of a lot more fun with the entire event if you go in with a more lax attitude.

There is NO ONE in trans media like White Chain and it’s a god damn CRIME I don’t see her celebrated as a cornerstone of the beauty we can embody when stories are written about us with true love and care and reverence.