THEY SAY IT TAKES ONE MILLION WORDS

Like I try to be nice about this but I have seen SO many fucking people being like "lol yeah ace/aro discourse was one thing" and that is deliberate erasure of real and important queer history in service of dodging blame on the parties that did this who, for the most part, never fucking apologized or owned up to it, or, in the case of a few blogs I still see going around, clearly still stand by all of it and just hope you don't point that out, and ofc, no one ever fucking does.

I can't offer forgiveness or absolution to everyone, but you don't need me to forgive you to forgive yourself and move on, and I do think most of the people who got caught up in it have more than earned moving on.

However, what I want is for everyone to stop downplaying it. Don't call it stupid infighting, don't go "ace stuff was one thing but this with trans men is too far" don't claim it didn't leave tumblr or the internet, own how bad it was. If you were there you know, and your history is valuable, so even when it sucks please be honest about what happened. This part of queer history should not be forgotten, and especially not for the people who never really changed and have an interest in making sure everyone thinks this was just some silly infighting.

That's what I ask, do right by us, don't let us be erased again.

Especially because when you forget, when you downplay it, you downplay what's happened with truscum shit, with biphobia, and now with trans masc exclusion. You downplay it and you disguise that it's the same people saying the same things about a new group. I found out about the rise in trans man/masc exclusion because I saw someone saying that trans men are collateral damage secondary to the real targets of transphobia, trans women, and I immediately knew the person saying it was a shithead I should NEVER trust because that is exactly what they said about bi and ace and aro people. Word for word.

You do those who were hurt a disservice when you downplay what happened, but you also make our spaces less safe because if we pretend what happened didn't we can't stop it when it starts again.

>looks inside

Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.

Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.

Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.

Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.

So, we've all been having fun with the Pink (or Mad Mew Mew, if you prefer) and Kris connections, i.e. Pink is a Lightner possessing a Darkner, in the same way the SOUL is possessing Kris.

Well, I noticed something during Pink's battle that I don't think anyone has pointed out yet. During the third phase, where she splits into Ghost and Body, we get this visual:

Which is very similar to this visual that appears whenever the SOUL is moving to the battle box:

Actually, it appears whenever the SOUL is removed from Kris for whatever reason:

Besides that, though, Ralsei can usually deal with people who are outright mean or bullying. What Ralsei really hates in Flowery are the things he's repressed in himself. Flowery openly cheats. Flowery doesn't want to serve lightners, he wants to protect what's important to him, personally. Flowery believes in himself and his own ability to defy fate, not in a prophecy or the powers-that-be.