Normalcy is overrated

The Pinky: do whatever

The Middle: Middle Apprentice Ishmael mentions a Middle Sibling (singular), which is cool. When you come out they probably throw a mandatory gender reveal party complete with all the worst parts of gender reveal parties. If you do not want to come out to everyone, too bad. All your other siblings go “Don’t worry about getting hate! If they don’t respect your identity we’ll just kill them” if you express your desire to maybe not be so loud in announcing your new title

The Ring: encourages messing with your pronouns and gender presentation to the point that no one can tell who is serious about their gender and who is doing it for as performance art (and if you try to insist that this is about your core identity and not a persona, everyone gets mad at you for insinuating doing it for art is any less meaningful). and by “performance art” I mean less like drag and more like coming up with the longest neopronouns you can specifically to watch your fellow students struggle to pronounce them. so it's like no one will attack you for coming out but no one is really taking you seriously either and depending on what you do they might even call you boring

The Thumb: I feel like they just do run-of-the-mill transphobia

The Pinky: do whatever

The Middle: Middle Apprentice Ishmael mentions a Middle Sibling (singular), which is cool. When you come out they probably throw a mandatory gender reveal party complete with all the worst parts of gender reveal parties. If you do not want to come out to everyone, too bad. All your other siblings go “Don’t worry about getting hate! If they don’t respect your identity we’ll just kill them” if you express your desire to maybe not be so loud in announcing your new title

The Ring: encourages messing with your pronouns and gender presentation to the point that no one can tell who is serious about their gender and who is doing it for as performance art (and if you try to insist that this is about your core identity and not a persona, everyone gets mad at you for insinuating doing it for art is any less meaningful). and by “performance art” I mean less like drag and more like coming up with the longest neopronouns you can specifically to watch your fellow students struggle to pronounce them. so it's like no one will attack you for coming out but no one is really taking you seriously either and depending on what you do they might even call you boring

The Thumb: I feel like they just do run-of-the-mill transphobia

this is what I mean about how right now in the united states (won't speak for elsewhere but feel free to lmk in the notes if you'd like) a lot of us trans adults who are able to access transition care can only do so at the direct expense of trans minors. this clinic would not have opened if they held the line and offered equal access to healthcare to trans minors.

"Martin announced the direct-care clinic, calling it “one of the first times a public health department has ever taken that step.” But when Cabán pushed back, pointing out that trans youth are the ones most under attack right now—noting that there are “almost no providers” left for youth the entire city—Martin indicated the clinic would not serve youth, citing the need to “strike a balance” between providing care and avoiding “clawbacks from the federal government.” This morning, EITM can directly confirm that the age cutoff is 19—matching the Trump administration’s executive order threshold, not the standard legal age of adulthood in New York."

a lot of the structural transphobia we are experiencing is hitting minors even worse. their care gets banned first. if you want a preview of what access to healthcare will look like for us trans adults in 2 years, look at what access looks like for legal minors right now.

Bound by the Belt [Commission]

Commission for Xantoss on FA (I recommend checking his profile, it's pure gold).

I guess nobody won and everyone loses, or… nobody loses and everyone won? Also, the white lizard's name is Waru — he's not really that important, but he might appear several times.