had a dream last night about a meme that sprung up out of nowhere after a tumblr user who was having a minor surgery for idk what made a post beforehand that said "going under anaesthetic today, wish me luck!" and inexplicably attached a photo of a whippet or a greyhound or something that looked something like this:
so naturally, everyone reblogged with the same image on repeat (and we all thanked god for tumblr collapsing huge posts), and very quickly Pave (which was collectively decided to be his name and was pronounced "par-vay" and not "payve", as you'd expect) became the shorthand for both expressing enthusiasm about surgeries/medical procedures, AND used in light-hearted posts griping about post-recovery.
he became particularly big in the trans community after an incident where a user made a vent post about post-op pain after she'd had cosmetic gender-affirming surgery, and some fuck-ass terf decided it was their job to criticise her for "complaining about an elective surgery" (with a whole load of other bullshit besides). someone else reblogged and added pave as a shorthand to express their sympathy to the user for her pain (of both the surgery AND bc some fuckhead decided to bullshit on her post).
apparently though the terf hadn't encountered the meme before and fucking ERUPTED, with a bonkers reply accusing the other user of threatening them and abt how they feared for their life (which. they hadn't done anything else? just the meme), like copy-pasta level of ridiculous.
so naturally, everyone started reblogging with pave, and editing him to be progressively more uh
which eventually had the terf deactivating lmao. at this point people were now defaulting to using crunchy trans rights pave, who was now operating as a short hand for wishing someone support or luck, and Also to signal terfs to stay the fuck away.
pave kept being edited pretty relentlessly, but everyone would just adapt and use the newest edit. at one point they gave her big unnaturals!
i think by the end of my dream she looked something like this
in hindsight the dream definitely happened because i'm stressed abt an upcoming wisdom teeth removal and my partner and i had a pretty lovely chat about gender last night anyway i woke up and was genuinely a little bummed out that pave didn't exist so instead of doing productive things i made her real