A Cloak of Elvenkind

Xitter ate the tweet this is from, but Tim Bender posted it

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Peanuts

Translation: "Chancho! I'm leaving now dude, i'm leaving to go work now dude."

it's something we think a lot about, this fact that the world just really doesn't accommodate for people that aren't Women or Men. there's an interview with sam smith (i think???) where they mention something about how they've just had to accept that people will always misgender them at first until corrected. and for us, even surrounded by people who care in a relatively safe environment, it still happens. we're used to it, but over and over, there's that assumption. if you're trans, you're the "opposite" of what you were assigned at birth. or you're basically just cisgender with a fun dash of side pronouns.

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

unmarried childless women whenever there's a newly released low birthrate statistic