I'm the real girl boss

"You're transitioning, YOU'RE transitioning, YOU'RE transitioning, are there any other transitions I need to know about!?"

- obsessed with what thisr parenys would want

- canonically a therian already

- In love with a cat girl

- canonically has a closeted idenity thats just a parody of masculinity

The Amazing Digital Evangelion

The Amazing Transgenderism Circus [featuring Jaxxine's internalized transphobia & cringe-phobia.] A post-episode 8 "Caine gets a redemption arc & joins the humans as Just One of the Guys" AU that I'm sharing before episode 9 drops.

I've never really come up with a satisfying answer to the "their barbarous cliches, our glorious tropes" thing, and I don't really think I'm going to; my respect for a story's execution is often bound up in my respect for the overall project, which is often contingent and vibes based.

An example of this- around Easter, I was doing a review (since on the backburner) of a bad pulp sci-fi novel from the 60s called The Day They H-bombed Los Angeles, which is, basically, the exact kind of referent fiction for the pastiches present in Fallout. I found it interesting as a time capsule but not good in any meaningful way- but the thing is that it did contain a plot twist, right. Well telegraphed, logical within the rules set up within the story, more visible on a second readthrough (although still pretty visible on the first readthrough.) It borders on active genre commentary, even! But it's embedded in a book so thoroughly mediocre and of-its-time in its prose and politics that I can't bring myself to be enthusiastic about or even fair in my assessment of the solidly workmanlike elements. And on the other hand, I know for a fact, right, that if I'd encountered this book as a small child, if it had been a formative read rather than a curiosity, I'd be running defense for the exact same elements that I'm writing off right now, scrambling to find something worthwhile to latch onto and elevate in order to validate my one-time tastes, in order to escape the sense that I've built my entire sense of aesthetics on a foundation of quicksand. Which is what I think a lot of people are doing a lot of the time.

No, and that is why the laws were written. These laws were written so that stochastic terrorists can form lynch mobs of one to enforce white supremacy. Full stop.

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Unfortunately, I have bad (though unsurprising) news regarding the hate crime suffered by the Black Youtuber CerosTV which was highlighted here a few days ago. The cops have essentially closed it because "no one saw it and there's too much crime for us to investigate it" (Here's the video where Ceros describes the experience in his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNWrtS2osc)

As a reminder, he currently has a fundraiser active to help him recover, where you can read the full story of what happened: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ceros-after-car-theft-and-attack (tw for homophobia, racism, and a graphic image of his injury). His car was ransacked, he is looking for a new place to live, and he needs surgery for lasting nerve damage.

If you can spare even just a few dollars, please, consider helping a queer Black man recover from this horrific attack. I know the economy is hard for all of us right now though, so if you can't contribute, please share the fundraiser to your blog instead.

I want to end this ask by uplifting Ceros, so here are a few of my favorite videos from him for you to check out after you've shared or donated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI8SI7Ut5KI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWsofHCfm-I

This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.

“The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail. After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison. They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.”

My father just had his 70th birthday.

When my parents first met it'd been less than a decade since the ruling was official.

They were convinced it'd be overturned and did not want their children to have to suffer for it, so they did not get married and searched desperately for each other in their own races. They could not find the love they had together in anyone else. They did eventually get married.

Too late for them to have the amount of children they'd desired. They had two, adopted a third, and that was that.

It was near enough to now that I, my sisters, and my parents were directly affected by it.

The Watsonville riots of the 1930's where white mobs attached Filipino farmworkers for being seen in dancehalls with white women, are part of a very long history of whiteness violently asserting its need to "protect" the purity of it's women and future children. And these kinds of backlashes are not in the past, we've just moved to different battlegrounds, the same accusations, of defiling the purity of white womanhood and white childhood are now leveled at the dangerous "othering influences" through book bans and other right wing conservative censorship efforts.

According to PEN America’s Banned Book Index, 41% of banned books include LGBTQ+ themes. 40% feature characters of color and 21% address issues of race or racism.

Remember, if we don't keep standing up loudly for equality the biggots on the right will be louder and keep dragging us further backwards from every step towards equality we make.

That's why I write stories for mixed, brown, bi, folks to see ourselves and our loves reflected in.