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I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

I try to encourage my children to study, but I stop at a painful question: What can I reward them with?

Yusuf, my youngest child, was born during the war and will soon turn three. Three years of his life have passed without knowing what play should feel like for a child, without choosing a toy from a store, and without experiencing the joy of a small gift from his parents.

Even toy stores are no longer the same. Their shelves are nearly empty, and what remains has become rare, like items displayed for viewing, with prices beyond what most families can afford.

And there is nowhere else to make up for it... No amusement parks, no playgrounds, and not even a zoo where we can take them to experience a moment of happiness.

Why are children’s toys being prevented from entering?

What danger could a doll or a ball possibly represent, other than giving a child a small piece of the childhood that was taken away from them?

tumblr I could give you a rundown of the fire that gutted my friend Sam's bus she was partially living in and how she needs to fundraise quite a lot of money to both replace it and retrofit it for living as she had done with the previous bus

but I choose, instead, to relay how we met:

I live in the wilderness now, very very rural-beyond-rural remote, and I wandered onto Sam sitting with a friend of mine, and he makes introductions between us and the first thing she says is she goes "Trans?" after looking me up and down, and I'm like "yeah, I am!" and she's like "me too!" and before I can ask any questions at all is like "I got a botched pussyjob in Thailand in 2002" (or 2003, I forget, one of those) and I was like "oh...okay! uhh...what pronouns do you prefer?" and she was like "what's that?" and I explain the concept of pronouns and she sorta shrugs with a perplexed look on her face and I explain...like, the concept of nonbinary transness, in brief, since I thought maybe the they/them part was confusing for her or something (she's a lot older than me, and has lived in the woods since the 90s, so it was starting to become clear she just had no referents for any modern LGBT culture or terminology) and she nods along with what I'm saying in a kind of "I'm not fully following but I sorta get it" way, and I ask how she conceives of herself/thinks about herself and she says, and I will never forget this:

"I guess I think of myself as a Hybrid."

I usually use they/them pronouns based on that introduction, but she doesn't seem to mind any pronouns at all...but anyway she's saying "woman" in this givesendgo post, so I'll go with she/her pronouns based on that!