Knight of Breath

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

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have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

They tried to execute me yesterday but my ass was too fat to fit in the electric chair so they just told me to promise I'd stop posting stupid shit. Which I obviously did not agree to.

i wonder if i'll still have a blog tomorrow when i wake up!!!! it looks like posts are getting deleted right off my blog so idkkkkkkkkkkkk

well that didn't take long, less than an hour. @staff do you wonder why we loathe you?

please note that none of you would have seen this if I hadn't reblogged it because I believed her. can you please believe me that it happens so much more often than you hear about? the only rare thing here is that it's too obvious to miss.

I wonder if people in the fallout universe are still using 200 year old tampons or if some crazy chemist named fuckass atomic Becky or whatever has figured out how to mass manufacture them

Making home brew wasteland birth control and/or testosterone at a chemistry station out of some random stuff you found in a subway station. No need for atomic Becky’s janky tampons after that.

Atomic Becky of course has an issue with homebrew testosterone. Not because she’s transphobic but because there’s less people buying her questionable tampons.

h- hopital

The hospital is overrun with super mutants so good luck with that

How I post when I don't know the Followers of the Apocalypse are right there and can solve this problem for free.

Not everyone lives near the followers of the apocalypse. Some of us are still raiding zombie infested Walmarts for some Tylenol.

I wonder if people in the fallout universe are still using 200 year old tampons or if some crazy chemist named fuckass atomic Becky or whatever has figured out how to mass manufacture them

Making home brew wasteland birth control and/or testosterone at a chemistry station out of some random stuff you found in a subway station. No need for atomic Becky’s janky tampons after that.

Atomic Becky of course has an issue with homebrew testosterone. Not because she’s transphobic but because there’s less people buying her questionable tampons.

h- hopital

The hospital is overrun with super mutants so good luck with that

How I post when I don't know the Followers of the Apocalypse are right there and can solve this problem for free.

Not everyone lives near the followers of the apocalypse. Some of us are still raiding zombie infested Walmarts for some Tylenol.

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing