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Holly's Family

Since I made the character, the question of Holly's exact parentage has been bouncing around in my head. Did Susie carry her? Did Noelle carry her? Was it IVF, etc., etc.? Currently, I think the most interesting way to play that element of her character would be that, on a strictly 'biological' level, neither Susie nor Noelle is Holly's mother.

By birth, Holly is a relative of Susie's (perhaps a niece or a cousin). After her writing career took off, it became much easier to reconnect with previously estranged family members. Most of these reunions went fairly disasterously, but they introduced them to Holly, who was still barely old enough to crawl around her home. One day, the two of them received a call that Holly's mother had disappeared, the police aren't suspecting foul play, and it seems more likely that Holly had simply been abandoned in the apartment. Holly's closest relatives were unwilling to take her in. Not wanting Holly to be placed in foster care (Susie had spent some time in it herself when her father was going through things; she doesn't have fond memories), Susie brought Holly over to stay with them. Originally, they'd planned to only keep her until her mother reappeared, but time went by, and that seemed less and less likely. As such, the two formally adopted Holly, and they've been a happy family ever since.

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Random Roots and Branches idea that I decided to put to pen. BONUS:

but people who believe this seem to position themselves firmly in opposition to "kris possession" believers? and seem to just outright reject the idea that we the player are literally controlling kris through the soul in the universe of the game??? which just feels very silly to me. personally i feel like there is a very strong argument to be made that the player's relationship with kris can be read as a fictional ANALOGUE for plurality and dissociation, in much the same way that the light world story can be read as an analogue for the experiences of a group of queer small town teenagers struggling with relationships and themselves in a religious environment. but just because aspects of the story could function the same if dark worlds were all imaginary doesn't mean that in the universe of the story the dark worlds are literally imaginary?? and similarly, just because the story can be read very compellingly through a plural lens doesn't mean that us possessing kris isn't literally what is happening.

I think trans mascs do experience sexual violence and there should be spaces where they can discuss it without their masculinity being invalidated. I know that’s something I would have benefited from when I was assaulted.

But that’s not what this is. It does not exist to uplift transmasculine people because it explicitly allows and encourages cis men to post, it is not meant to uplift transmasculine people because they are only allowed to post about abuse that fits the narrative of the blog (transmascs victimized by transfems)

And it does not uplift transmasculine people because ultimately the goal is not actually to support transmasc victims of sexual violence.

Trans men and TME nonbinary people deserve better than this fucking transmisogynistic propaganda blog.

It's almost certainly benign and it is operable, we have a surgery booked in for a couple of weeks from now, but it's a miserable time and they've lost a lot of their mobility and can't do much for themselves any more

We also have reasonable health care so it's not like we're now hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, but the three adults took a week off work each, we spent a few hundred on a wheel chair, a couple hundred on a walker, a couple hundred on other mobility aids, a couple hundred on takeout because the hospital is a few hours from home, a couple hundred on fucking parking, and so on. And we have to do it all again in a couple of weeks.

Which adds up to a huge hole in our normally fairly stable budget

I want to be clear that we probably don't need help, we can probably call in enough favours, eat two minute noodles for a few days, maybe borrow money to make rent, we could survive. But it's just another wildly stressful thing that we don't need whilst trying to support our newly disabled child and help them through the worst few weeks of their life

So if you can help, if you want to help, we would really appreciate it