drive-by thank you
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[ id taken from alt text: An eight-panel diary comic featuring a purple crow.
Panel 1: The crow whistles to himself as he unlocks the front door of his house A trans flag hangs in the window.
Panel 2: “Excuse me!” calls a pink capybara from a nearby car. The crow jumps, startled.
Panel 3: “Hi!” waves the capybara, “I just wanted to say, I’m the mom of a trans kiddo...”
Panel 4: “And I know it makes them feel good when we drive past the flag in your window,” the capybara continues.
Panel 5: The crow looks at the flags as the capybara concludes, “It lets them know there’s other people like them out there.”
Panel 6: The crow pauses, eyes water and mouth open.
Panel 7: “You’re welcome!” says the crow
Panel 8: Later, the crow happily thinks to himself, “trans kiddo! trans kiddo! trans kiddo! trans kiddo! trans kiddo! trans kiddo!” / end id ]
Queer joy detected!
One time I was at the bookstore looking for some graphic novels for my kiddo and I couldn't find where in the darn place they'd hid them, so I politely asked an employee where to find them. Said employee had a buzz cut and "they/them" on their name tag. They escorted me to the graphic novels and started recommending some to me, and at one point asked me if the kid I was shopping for was a boy or a girl. I smiled and said they were nonbinary, and the employee's entire body lit up. I hope it made the employee's day as much as it made mine.
