livibow

You hate it.

It looks terrible on you and you've always thought that. When you were really young, you thought that's just what everyone thought about their hair colour. When you were a teenager, people chalked it up to hormones and wanting to be unique and follow the trends of dying your hair. It wasn't.

You've seen people with brown hair. It looks so good. You start imagining yourself with beautiful brunette hair. What if you could be that? And then you hear someone talk about you, call you 'that blonde over there' or someone telling you, 'your blonde hair looks so good!' and you're reminded all over again.

Your parents talk about something. Something you've never heard of before. "All those young kids, dying hair everywhere," they say. You ask them what it means. "Oh, that's when someone with one hair colour thinks they're better off with another hair colour." Your heart lights up. There's more people like you. You're not insane. And then- "Fucking insane. They just want to feel special. All this ridiculousness over trends." It hits you in the heart. You say nothing, just mumble an 'okay' and turn your attention back to your food.

That night, you're scrolling on your phone, and one video pops out. It's talking about dyed hair. You see people not just with natural-coloured dyed hair, but blues and greens and so many other colours. It looks beautiful. You remember your blonde hair. Could it finally be brown? These people are like you. They might be able to help.

You do research. You reach out to people online. And finally, you have your hands on a box dye from a store. it's not the highest quality, but you have it. At midnight the next weekend, you do it. You dye it brown. It's messy and tricky, but your heart is swelling with joy the entire time.

You expect people at school to be happy. Your hair is beautiful. You're beautiful. You finally feel comfort in your hair, confident in the way you look. Instead, you get side-eyes. People whisper and glare. One of your friends pulls you aside. "What happened to your hair?" You tell her you dyed it. Asks her if it looks nice. She grimaces. "Yeah... it looks fine.... but your blonde hair was your natural hair colour and it looked fine as well." You tell her the truth. How you've always hated it on you. Found brown to be so, so much prettier. Looked so much more amazing on you, and felt it too. "Yeah... but blonde is still your natural hair colour, right? No amount of dye is going to change that." Your confidence starts to sink. Will everyone think this?

Turns out, they will. You hear people still refer to you as "that blonde there". New people express confusion. "But her hair's brown? It's very clearly brown." "Well, yeah, but she dyed it. Her natural hair colour is blonde." "Oh... okay."

Your parents don't like it. "Your blonde hair was so beautiful," your mother sobs through her tears. "Why did you have to ruin it? My beautiful blonde child is gone! Gone forever! Why did you do it?" And you tell her that her child is not gone, her child is right here, just with different hair. She doesn't listen to a single word. Your father is mad. He yells at you to get out of his house, that you're a fucking disgrace, that you're mentally ill and brainwashed by trends and so many other hurtful things. You can only leave.

You try to go to another friend's place. She answers the door with a scowl. "Why are you here?" she seethes. She's angry. Why? You tell her about your situation. "Serves you right," she spits. "You're incredibly offensive to everyone with blonde hair." You ask her why, puzzled. "You clearly hate blonde hair. Why else would you dye it? Do you find blonde people disgusting?" No, no, that's not it. Blonde people are fine, you try saying. It just didn't suit me. I wish it did, but it didn't, so I changed it. "Stop twisting everything," she says. "I don't want to see your face." The door closes and you're left there on the steps.

You don't know what else to do. Were you truly lying? No, blonde hair has never suited you. Brown looks better. Brown makes you feel secure. You feel it's what makes you feel like yourself. But why can no one grasp that?

You search up more on your phone, and you find a community for similar people. People thrown out, disowned, abused for dying their hair or expressing wants to. When you get there, you find that they accept you with the warmest smiles and the coziest hugs. You find people that bleached their brown hair to blonde and dyed their blonde hair to brown, just like you, and they look so amazing. You find people with all sorts of coloured hair too, red, blue, yellow, purple, multicoloured and hair that gets redyed differently depending on the day. They all have similar stories. You've finally found a place you belong.

Outside, people are still outraged. They scream at the community that they're brainwashing their kids, that they're grooming every kid to dye their hair until there's no natural hair kids left. You don't feel hurt anymore. You know now they make no sense. They push out their own children, and this is the result. They don't want people with dyed hair banding up together.

Brown hair has always suited you. You're rather tired of people trying to pretend it doesn't.

FPC Bryan is a minimum-security prison camp, and has the lowest security rating for any federal women’s correctional institution in the country

it’s the one Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to, where people (rightfully) complained about her being sent to a relatively cushy prison for her crimes

it looks like usually prisoners there are forbidden from accessing the open internet, but that Maxwell has been given preferential treatment in several ways, including seemingly internet access. it’s not unthinkable that Holmes might have secured a similar-ish arrangement or that she made an arrangement with Maxwell personally. because Holmes is obviously less focused on in 2026 than Maxwell, preferential treatment of Holmes would be less noticed by the media if it occurred

it’s also possible Holmes just straight up smuggled in a phone and this entire Twitter profile is being operated illegally and that no one at a prison camp so lax in security bothers to thoroughly check her or her cell

Her name was Juniper Blessing, and she was just doing her laundry.

🍐💙🍏 green and blue

if you take the lump sum and take from that just $100,000, you could put that into annual certificates of deposit. from the quickest of google searches I see an offer of 3.9% APY (I assume you could find higher with actual research, such as that which would be done by a hired financial advisor.)

plug this into the compound interest formula (CI = P [1 + r/100]^n - P), and after 19 years you’ll have netted an additional $95,810, at pretty much no risk to yourself

there are much higher-yield options of course, which an increase in risk as you go up

this is before even taking account for inflation, so keep in mind that a $1,000 payment 19 years from now is likely to be worth much less compared to a $1,000 payment today. $1,000 in 2007 is equivalent to $1,606 in 2026

stuff like this I think should be taught more, I was taught it in high school as a woman by other women

A patient comes in with a flesh eating bacteria that is rapidly spreading up their leg. The only way to save their life is to remove their leg.

So what do you do? To help the patient is to accept that you must also harm them.

You're a good doctor. Of course you remove the leg and save the patient's life, because trying to exercise a choice that will result in no harm is impossible where there are only two bad outcomes, but one is unquestionably worse.

yes, a revolution would be great. a successful revolution that perfectly aligns with one’s own ideology allows for deeper and more immediate change than any election. awesome

the thing is, you’ll say voting is pointless when you could spend that time revolting. maybe that’s true, given what I’ve said. but then the thing is, you *aren’t* revolting. you aren’t organizing, you’re not arming, you’re not on the street with a rifle. you’re at home jacking off or whatever

if you’re a “revolutionary,” why are the liberals doing more in the fight against fascism than you? at least they’re doing the barest of minimums; what are you doing?

the same applies to protests by the way, “what’s the point of a peaceful protest when revolutions are more effective” *does neither*

those "boundaries" get us murdered lol. trans women who can't access women's shelters or other forms of housing because of cis women's "boundaries" are left on the streets to be assaulted and murdered