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like axolotl has never been "axe-uh-lot-uhl" (/æk.sə.lɑ.təl/); I don't believe the Nahuatl have ever called it that & it's not like Nahuatl is an extinct language we can no longer learn or something— there's more than a million & a half speakers in Mexico rn

still a great & silly & whimsical song I just can't help but think what a great cultural exchange it could be for [ axolotls becoming popular at least in some circles I've seen ] to also cause [ folks learning just a little bit of Nahuatl & thinking of the land where such marketably cute creatures arose ]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

look at that fucking gleeful "oh ho ho" shit face Ralsei makes if you turn off Flowery's voice clips

I have a solution but you're not gonna like it.

And it's just so frustrating to see so many people at each other's throats in every other trans Ralsei posts. Sure, there were still people who hated Galsei fans' guts and left rude messages here and there before the new chapter (and this is me speaking from experience), but now that people are realizing that Trans Ralsei Might Be A Thing, publicly headcanoning or reading Ralsei as a trans girl, transfem, non-binary or genderfluid feels like being under a magic blinking sign with an arrow pointing at you that says "please give me your unsolicited, rude opinion that I didn't ask for".

I feel like it should be more towards the end of chapter 6, because I want the journey to get there to be more clear, and a journey