holding on to little dreams

i think about how being a trans woman means subjecting yourself to endless suffering. stares in public, confrontations with strangers, harassment online. at best it's a cavalcade of freaks in the comments of all your posts trying to piss you off, at worst it's doxxing and long-term "lolcowing" on sites like kiwifarms.

"In 1984, a few years before his death, James Baldwin explained to an interviewer from the Village Voice that queers could see the precarity of heterosexuality, even as straights kept it hidden from themselves. 'The so-called straight person is no safer than I am, really. The terrors that homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if society itself did not go through so many terrors it doesn't want to admit.'

hello dear mutuals and followers. for pride month i need you to play Caves of Qud. Ever wanted to solve a mystery between deertaurs revolving around a lesbian situationship? Negotiate trade deals with plants with neopronouns? Meet an entire race of agender cyborgs? grow a second head to more efficiently kill psychics? Befriend a troll to learn the secrets of killing rich people? Suffer ego death at the hands of The Prism? Eat mysterious goo and permanently turn into a slug? Mind control a ventilation duct? Get lost in a Clam Dimension? Contract a fungal parasite that is actually helpful? Contract a fungal parasite that isn’t helpful, and have to find a randomly generated recipe for a cure, which you will have to procure, mix, and apply yourself?