okay but aging is literally a privilege. notice that

like i just have no fucking patience for the way that as soon as we start talking about how JK Rowling is directly funding the oppression of trans people someone in the notes (who is almost certainly not transfem) comes back to respond with "well actually the books are bad too!" LIKE WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD. a lot of us did read them as kids and have realized how bad they are in retrospect. it shouldn't matter how good or bad the books themselves are. Rowling could have written the best book series on earth and i wouldn't have cared because she's still fucking funding a genocide against trans people. like sorry; our lives matter just a little bit more than what you'd rate her books on goodreads.

I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves

Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.

the horrific way language evolves in a group chat

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my writing gland is purple and swollen

i like when superhero actors go yeah i read a lot of comics in preparation for this role bc 70% of the time u can tell no the hell they did not

the other 30% admirably did try but they found a reddit-sourced list of the most popular comics for that character all of which horribly mischaracterize them