homestuck? on my main? more likely than you think

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

YOU CAN JUST DO THIS?!?!

We goooooooot

onions!

sliced garlic!

two pears!

some frozen apples that I cut up a year ago and forgot about and were covered ice that I scraped off!

bunch of rosemary that i cut off my twiggy plant in the hope of pruning it out of being mostly twigs!

some tenderloin thing that's apparently maple apple flavoured!

They didn't have pork belly like he had it :( They only had little bacon-looking strips, and a centre roast. I'll try to find a legit butcher at some point if it this rough draft attempt pans out

175° internal, so it's probably a little overcooked since it's still gotta cool down

And the other stuff looks okay too

I'm understanding the technique behind stews (which I, to the day, have never successfully been able to make), because I'm looking at those pears like, "Damn, those should've been potatoes. What am I gonna do with these onion-y pears? Eat them? :/"

Looks good, right?

This came out incredibly well 😍 I had the heat on lower than last time, so the timing ended up being perfect. Two wrongs do make a right! (Also being a different, fattier pork helped too. 💖)

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

The clinic is officially shutting down on June 26th. People in Florida on testosterone don't have the option to do telehealth appointments because it's a controlled substance, and you have to be seen by an in person provider.

I've been scheduled for an appointment on the 1st to have my testosterone refilled one more time, and then it's going to be god knows how long before I can get an appointment at another location.

After this location shuts down, I'll have to drive two hours away to another city for my appointments every 3-6 months.

My current cost estimate is $210. If I don't make this appointment, I'm pretty much screwed, but I'm also broke and disabled with a household of other medications and expenses to cover for the month. I don't know how I'm going to to make this appointment *and* feed us.

If you'd like to help an impoverished trans guy in Florida stay on his hormones for the next couple of months while his health care gets sorted out, my pay links are below:

PayPal.me/chaosqueer

Venmo: chaosqueer

Green-veined satin geometer moth, Doratoptera nicevillei, Geometridae

Found sporadically throughout mainland Asia