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Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.

When you hear people throwing around the talking point of “well there’s a high rate of sex offenders in the trans/queer community”, this has to do with why.

Being on the sex offender registry isn’t inherently equivalent to whatever horrific sex crime you’re meant to think of when it’s mentioned. It evokes imagery of pedophilia and rape, but there is a lot that can get you put on it and not a lot you can do to be taken off of it.

Public crossdressing used to be able to get you put on the sex offender registry (and by used to I mean as recently as 2011).

Public urination (you know, the literal only option for someone who’s homeless and doesn’t have access to public bathrooms, a venn diagram where trans people are more likely to rest in the meeting zone) can get you put on the sex offender registry.

Sex work is pretty much an automatic way to end up on the sex offender registry if you’re caught. (This is especially weaponized against black trans women who do sex work)

“Deviant Sexual Intercourse” (aka literally any sexual activity aside from penis-in-vagina penetration) could get you on the sex offender registry as recently as the early 2000s. That effectively impacts the entire queer community in one way or another.

The sex offender registry is, first and foremost, useless. It tells you nothing about what someone did. It’s mentioned to quickly associate a person or a group of people with the worst possible crimes imaginable.

I saw this Rivals to Lovers promptlist and got inspired for drawing some angsty OrdoMaze.

Context and headcanons below the cut:

I don't live in a walkable city.

I live in a mid-sized Texas town that only realizes that there are people who don't drive when TXDoT gives them money for active transportation infrastructure.

People constantly tell me that you just cannot walk or ride a bike in this city. It's impossible!

I do it anyway, because I firmly believe that solarpunk is a useless aesthetic if you aren't living it as best you can. We don't need technology to solve our problems we need will.

Also I do volunteer work on the political side of the local animal shelter and so I find myself at city hall several times a year and there's no bike rack.

Or rather there wasn't a bike rack.

I complained to someone, politely, informing them that I am doing this volunteer work and I don't have any safe place to lock my bike and that locking it to a handrail is inconvenient for everyone and also hideous.

A few months later a single staple-style bike rack was installed at city hall. It's not much, but I got sent a photo of someone else who got to use it before I did, clearly there was a need, if small.

Then I turned my gaze to the local grocery store, which had a bike rack, but the bike rack was terrible. It was too short for modern tire sizes, it was placed too close to the wall so one side was useless, and it was generally pretty cramped.

It took some time, but an advocate friend told me to contact the property owner instead of banging my head against the wall contacting HEB itself, and so I sent another polite complaint with a photo, explaining why it wasn't a very good bike rack and it would be really cool if we had a different one with better placement.

And about two months later, we have new staple-style racks at the grocery store, properly placed for maximum parking.

It's not a new bike lane. It's not a removal of parking minimums. It's not infill development or an active transportation advisory board.

They're just bike racks.

But that's the beauty of it. I, a person with an email address, some basic "how to be firm but polite while making an argument" skills, and a willingness to work out who to contact, fixed two problems for the local community. Trust me, I have had people wait on me to unlock my bike so they could have the "good spot." I was not the only person annoyed at the old rack.

It can be done. You're not powerless. Solarpunk doesn't have to be a wishful aesthetic.

Technology will not save us.

Thank you for the tag @mereelskirata 🫂🫂🫂

I don't have so many OCs, but my favourite one is Ros'ika, so let me yap about her! :3

1.

She runs under the alias "Ne'tra Sarad" as a bounty hunter, and keeps her "real name", Rose as a secret, for only a few to know. However, Rose is not "actually" her name - she doesn't remember the name her parents gave her; she was sold into slavery so young, that she forgot it. (Black) Rose was her call-sign in the brothel she had to work at and it just stuck.

2.

In her story, Rose is matched with Kal Skirata, and she has a son with him - Kart'ad. However, she also has a dughter from him - a twin-sister of Kart'ika. But she dies in her womb, way before even due to born (and causing whole lot of nasty infection both Rose and Kart'ad). She never talks about her, but in her heart, she named her Run'ika - Little Soul - to make sure that her spirit finds her way into the Manda.

3.

She has a nice singing voice and loves to sing, also creating songs of her own. As a mandalorian, her instrument is a small 5-stringed lyre which can be assembled from her one-handed, foldable crossbow.

4.

She has very low tolerance for dirt and mess in her household. When Kart'ad was little for a longer period, she had to share the their rooms with the mountain goats she procured for food / milk source. And those goats actively ate, pissed and defecated in those rooms too - all for her to clean. But the stink always stayed... Ever since getting a better place, she strives to have as clean of a living space as much it is possible.

5.

The first gift she got from Kal was a small beskar medallion. She treated it as her greatest treasure, but when a time came when she was deperate for credits to get rid of her debts and keep their son fed, she sold it - and swore that as soon as she will be able and capable, she will get it back. But that never happened - while Kal was always in her mind, she forget about the medal over the years due to the continous everyday troubles and challenges to overcome.

I got multiple asks about Starfucker🖤 The title actually comes from the Rolling Stones song Star Star (which is listed on my copy of Goat's Head Soup as Starfucker) which is about groupies!

So in the spirit of that, it's a Queen Maeve x Reader fic where Reader is a notorious superhero groupie (or "supie" as I think they'd likely be called in-universe) and kinda Maeve's go-to hookup. It takes place season 1-ish, so before Homelander outs her🫠

Chronic pain people: Oh mood.

The gays: I too wish for the intimacy of someone removing my spine