Kid in a toystore

"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.

Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"

Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

From another obituary:

And this in-memoriam piece.

In reality, populations only rise so sharply as people begin to receive better access to healthcare and maternal and infant mortality in particular decrease. Eventually, as healthcare access is more evenly distributed through a population and people on a larger scale are able to access family planning care, the population stops increasing and levels out and decreases.

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"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn't cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)

Now I'm reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked "So. Do you come here often?" with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn't think I'm a straight woman does he????

Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I'm like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.

Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA "in the arms of the angels" song

We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes "I was wondering why people were dressed like that!" He turned to me and asked "So they're like dogs?" And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went "Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!"

When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went "There's a dude version too?!" And I said yeah they're called drag kings. And he said, low, "Drag kings."

During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, "Your legs are better than hers." in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid

When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said "I'm so sorry, it's dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn't have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I'm so sorry about that."

When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said "Oh don't worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!" Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for "Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight."

like. You gotta recognize there's going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn't mean they're actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

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Literally the succession plot: *Hinges entirely and precisely on the fact that Aurora is expecting a child from Armand, the heir to the Sheran Sharm family. Meaning the child positively needs to be a Sheran Sharm themselves to have any right to the throne. If it were just Aurora's bastard child, a Corvus, apparently; then they would have no access to the Sadida Kingdom*

Me:

Having said that, it is extremely common and realistic for succession disagreements to evolve into straight-up crises and even wars. Especially if there's a lot at stake.

I'm going to be info-dumping a lot about Spanish history because that's the one I'm most familiar with, so bear with me for a second.

The thing is, whether the Osamodas or Amalia ascend to the Sadida throne is a matter of great political importance. Yet everyone save for Yugo and Amalia act as if Aurora being the rightful heir is a fact. When in truth, that's the kind of conflict that should create alliances and rivalries. In other words, there should be people, nations, really, that prefer Amalia as queen before Aurora.

Power as great as ruling an entire kingdom leads to great conflicts of interest. People from all over the world will prefer a certain candidate over the other because of family ties, similar policies, shared history or principles, because it will allow them to have a hand in controlling said territory...

For all intents and purposes, Amalia and Yugo should most definitely have allies that prefer them in the throne over Aurora!

Hell, this kind of unavoidable conflict has led to wars even when there was actually a designated heir, so I don't know why Amalia should just take it instead of rallying up allies to defend her claim.

1) The Visigoth rule ended in Spain with the arrival and subsequent conquest undertaken by the Muslims because a rejected candidate to the Visigoth throne summoned them to retrieve his supposed crown and it completely backfired on him.

2) Isabella I of Castille was the sister to King Henry IV, and she became Queen of Castille after going to war against her niece.

4) The Spanish Succession War happened because, even though Charles II had appointed an heir because he didn't have any children, the powers in Europe said "no, thanks" and still went to war over who should rule since a certain candidate would benefit one nation or another.

3) Spain's gone through several Carlist wars throughout the 19th Century because Ferdinand VII's brother Charles did not accept how he changed the law so his daughter Isabella II could become his rightful heir and rule.

More often than not, nobody gives a fuck over the king's actual wishes!

And you're telling me Amalia and Yugo can't have supporters who'll prefer to have them on the throne rather than the Osamodas????

Don't mock me.

Even better!

Queen Astra's position as ruling queen, alongside the Eniripsa and Pandawa Queens, already implies that in the World of Twelve succession is not a right reserved solely to the men in a royal family. So Amalia was always a suitable candidate to succeed her brother, meaning, she should have even less people opposing her!

Although the real problem with this line from the webtoon is that it implies the Sheran Sharms have lost all relevance and Amalia is protesting the Corvus family trying to take over the Sadida Kingdom despite having no ties to it. When in truth, the existence of a tentative heir bearing the Sheran Sharm name is the very reason they have any claim to the throne at all.