"Midnight's just around the corner..."

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Like if he is then it had to happen in the short time between seasons. He goes from one horrible incident to dying to a whole new horrible incident. He probably hasn't even fully processed that fact that he died yet, he might not even know of his new abilities.

And then their next incident is the dead coming back in the worst way possible, his friends say the dead should stay dead, and more people they thought were alive are turning out to not be. Both Isaac and Lui have lost family members, Norah's dad is probably next and Will is sitting here with the knowledge that they lost him too and they just don't know it.

It probably adds to him not telling them, like he knows their opinions on the dead coming back, plus they've already lost so much. He probably can't bring himself to tell them about his situation. Not to mention he probably feels all sorts of guilty that he came back still himself (mostly) while their loved ones don't. So he keeps it inside, no matter how much it hurts he bears it alone so they don't have to.

But his friends aren't stupid, they know something's up with him. He probably stayed away from them for a few days after it happened, unable to face them. Which is weird to them because he's always with at least one of them. He's always wearing a sweater but now if they touch him he feels as cold as the snow outside. He keeps making jokes about that damn cliff and sometimes it looks as if he's not breathing only for his chest to start moving when he notices them looking. I think Lui puts it together first, not necessarily that he's dead, but that he's changed. After all he knows him the longest.

And then William leaves after everything, while it's my personal head canon that W.A.T.C.H makes him, he probably thinks it's for the best. He probably doesn't even tell them he's leaving, just disappears one night. Leaving them to wonder what happened to him. I know they'd search for him, they'd ask questions that his parents can't or won't answer. His odd behavior before hand fresh on their minds. But as time goes on and there's no finding him, they slowly stop looking. Isaac first, then Lui and finally Norah. It's the only case they can't solve.

William Wisp becomes the very thing he loved.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.

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i just don't get why trfs won't let trans men speak about their issues. we're literally so calm and reasonable and these hysterical bitches still whine about it

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here's a bunch of screenshots of this random adult transwoman doing consensual kink with other adult transwomen. this makes them a pedo and we have to kill them

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transwomen are male socialized and have male privilege which makes them the oppressors of trans men and other afabs

edit: i can't believe i have to say this, but terfs dni!

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saw this transwoman's mutual aid post on my dash and decided to go digging just because. but lucky i did, because turns out this transwoman is a pedophile. they literally wear absorbent underwear, i have a bunch of pictures of their ass here to prove it. i also found the college they go to and forwarded this information to the faculty. but anyways please stop reblogging them and giving them money, sick creeps like this need to fall into irrelevancy

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another friendly reminder that this blog isn't a safe space for terfs! no clue what made y'all feel safe to follow me, but get lost. transwomen are valid 💖

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i really like to use my alt account to form superficial friendships with these creepy pedo transwomen i don't like so that i can try and find out more about them. if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't have a problem with this

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i really wish i had more transwoman mutuals. i feel like almost every transwoman i've met on here has been a trf, a pedo, or both... all i have is my transwoman girlfriend @.blankblogwithnothingonit

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is it just me or does it give off red flags when a transwoman has an anime profile picture? like i can just smell the degeneracy from here, especially because they're always white.

edit: ...poc transwoman? what is that, can somebody please explain

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remember that time they aired an episode where Chris Grace said "Esk*mo kiss" and, in response to the backlash, they and Grace separately issued statements + edited it out of the episode? still waiting on Reich's statement about this

it is that simple, yes. a rich, powerful white man essentially said, "funny to be called a pedophile by a man wearing a lot of makeup" and expected everyone to laugh at it.

it's notable that the response was confusion. they knew that what he said was objectionable, they were trying to find a way to avoid that conclusion and couldn't find one. I also had this moment of confusion.

we, all of us, have been taught to dismiss and excuse transmisogyny. we've internalized it, the confusion happens automatically. deliberate effort is required to overcome that impulse to dismiss, and even that relies on us having noticed it happening at all.

Is that not part of the problem? Is it NOT part of the problem that we can give plausible deniability to this because maybe the person perpetuating the bigotry didn't KNOW he was?

I don't care if he somehow didn't know what he said and his that connects to larger bigotries, several people in this room DID. Even if the dots aren't as easy to connect, there's a balk.