The first thing he broke was a Sailor Moon wand I loved.

The second thing he tried to break - after asking me to hand him something else, this rude fuck, and I was trying to find things I could sacrifice that wouldn't hurt nearly as much as the Sailor Moon wand he picked but were still "sufficiently liked" that he'd accept destroying it - was a small red radio, but it was too stubby for him to get both his hands around to snap. The wand, obviously, was super easy to break, because it was long and thin. So he gave up and decided I was punished enough, that fucking douchebag, who's now all upset that I don't want to drive a ten-hour round trip to go to a fancy dinner he wants to have for my brother's birthday, but combine it with mine 'cause "they're so close to each other." Which my brother is planning. And that my dad didn't mention inviting me to. 🙄 He's so fucking lazy.

Anyway. I have always been pissed at him for breaking that wand. I still have the companion Sailor Moon pendant thing. It's literally in my other room right now, in a mini-place of honour. I don't play with it, but I love the memory, and I'm proud I kept it this whole time (and obviously hid it to sacrifice the radio, which I don't think I have anymore. But godspeed, soldier 🫡). And over the past couple of years, I've hemmed and hawed about getting another Sailor Moon wand in general just 'cause I always liked it.

So.

Long story short.

I don't have that wand.

Because I looked it up on eBay after remembering that website exists, and searched for it.

It's BEAUTIFUL. This one has the locket on the right (the pink one) that I still have, but with the cord that I lost. That's the wand, with the red gem that was actually a ring that (even as a kid) was too small.

I know what you're thinking: "Tartra, how much is it?"

And the answer is, "Money is not a problem 💅🏽" It's my birthday. I even love that it's out of the box, 'cause I wanna swing it around.

So why did I say I didn't get it?

:/

I'm gonna be 36 next week.

I'm looking at this wand, and it's cute, and it's exactly what I remembered. I love that I can afford to replace what my dad purposely snapped for some punishment I can't even remember but obviously wasn't that bad, because he didn't even beat my ass for it. I think I was either rude or loud or who cares. I was six or seven years old.

I can't really... justify buying a hunk of plastic to swing around just to satisfy my inner child. I have the picture from eBay, and I kinda think that's enough. I don't need the real thing.

Because it's just plastic.

It lights up.

It makes noises.

The ring comes out.

That's it.

It's a kid's toy, and while it's a great one and I miss it, it's still just a kid's toy. I'm not trying to collect it for anything other than to have fun for a bit.

In short:

It's been thirty years.

And technology has evolved - LOOK WHAT I'M GETTING INSTEAD 🥳💖💖💖💖💖💖

So it's the same wand, but not only is the crescent a WAY better shape ('cause even as a kid, I was a bit bummed that the crescent was a bit flat instead of actually a crescent moon shape like in the show), and YOU CAN USE IT AS A FLASHLIGHT and as a battery pack!!

IT'S THE RESPONSIBLE, THIRTY-SIX YEAR VERSION OF THE SAILOR MOON WAND I JUST WANTED TO SWING AROUND - because it's functional! 🥰💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 See?! It's a toy, but it's a PRACTICAL TOY with REAL-WORLD USES! Like if the power goes out or I need to pee at 3 am - SAILOR MOON WAND, WITH 15 DIFFERENT COLOURS TO SWITCH THROUGH

When they inevitably do that anyways- and it's mid, because they're waist-deep in the mire of their own post-ironic, allergic-to-sincerity, quippy making- what I DO want to see is this:

It's very specific, but if you're still onboard, stick with me.

Rocket Raccoon and Bucky Barnes. Road trip sidequest. I do not care how they get there, but it has to happen. Maybe they're on the way to help the main gang. Obviously a sapient space raccoon and a 100-year-old legally dead ex-agent of a terrorist organization are not getting on a plane, so there you go.

Now, it's very important here that Bucky does not have the metal arm. I don't care how he lost it but he doesn't have it. So Rocket has to steal a new one- which is perfect, is it is already established that this is his bizarre life's passion. That is this movie's B plot.

Now once they get it, that's when plot A storyline's Big Bad comes in. Team Eyeliner arrives on scene, and now with the added support the good guys are holding their own, but they need juuuuust a little more firepower.

Rhodey is there in the suit, but he's been hit. Doesn't have manual control of the system anymore. The only way to get him back in the game is for someone else to pilot the thing remotely, but it's risky- he would be fully relying on that person to not only pilot it effectively, but avoid getting him killed in the process.

And on top of that, as major as that obviously is, we also have to consider that Tony is gone. This is probably the last suit beyond his own that he ever worked on, and if it's destroyed beyond repair... that's it.

The good news is, they have a specialist. The bad news is, it's Rocket. And Rocket literally just showed up with a bedraggled Buck, pulling up on the scene and falling out of a shitty little early-2000's Volvo full of empty cans with a "my kid's an honor student" bumper sticker slapped on the back and a freshly duct-taped-on arm that looks like it was made for a 98 year old florist- certainly not something that would be of much use in the kind of combat he's used to.

And it is at this point that we must ask ourselves a question.

We must ask ourselves THE question.

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Finally made Duke & Cass team up episode! Always had this episode in mind since the beginning of Overload series, so I'm so glad I finished it! Hope you guys enjoy it!

Also, we're at episode 6! To anyone who are still sticking around, just wanna say thanks for enjoying the comic. Lot is happening in my life and it's really overwhelming sometimes, but I don't wanna abandon this series. Sharing it with people who loves Duke, just like I do, really means something to me. Idk. Thanks, and I hope you'll stick around in the future.

it is true, though. studies show that trans men/mascs do face the highest sexual assault rates, and it is a fact that they make up the lesser portion of political figures

https://victoryinstitute.org/outforamerica2026/

we as trans people all have incredibly high rates of sexual assault, and not one single moment of loss of sexual autonomy is acceptable whatsoever, trauma should never be compared, it is all shit.

but just like people bring up trans women having higher rates of nonsexual violence on a regular basis in conversations about trans people as a whole (to note: the study you linked here says trans women are four percent more likely to be physically assaulted, whereas the gap between trans men and trans women in the same study in regards to sexual assault is seven percent) this too is necessary to understand specifically what our communities are facing, and the likelihood of us facing them.

according to the 2011 study ‘injustice at every turn’ done by the national center for transgender equality, trans women were shown to be ten percent more likely to be assaulted in prison or jail, two percent more likely to be assaulted by police, eleven percent more likely to be assaulted in shelters, and five percent more likely to be assaulted in the workplace. do you know what all of those places have in common? they’re public. yet in study, after study, after study, after study, after study, including the one you linked, trans men have higher lifetime rates of sexual violence, with one of these showing a gap as large as seventeen percent between us and trans women, which denotes that said violence is happening to us in private. that does not mean it is not happening. there is nothing but horror to be had at even the concept of v coding, but that is not something that should be used, nor makes sense to use, when speaking about lifetime rates of sexual violence in the overall trans community.

speaking of the overall trans community, that hrc study on the wage gap says in the very first paragraph of methodology that this study should not be used to represent the entire lgbtq community. which you are explicitly doing. i again, can only imagine you must not have read your own sources.

if you were to have looked into this topic further perhaps you would have found this study done using the data from the 2015 u.s. transgender survey that expands on the nuances at play regarding transgender men and women and our incomes.

if you’ll notice, this study found that transgender men are more likely to work part time, and in the study you linked, they only included full time work in the data.

I’m not saying the others haven’t been in space. They have, for crisis-level events, or to visit the Justice League, or possibly for other minor things. But there’s a difference between visiting space and space faring, and I’d argue only Dick has crossed into the latter (barring maybe Bruce).

True, true. I hate it when this happens.

As I’m sure we’ve all experienced. Right boys? Right?

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Shout out to that one tumblr post that was like: "You know it's not just trans people who ponder their gender, it's healthy for cis people to take a look inside and be like! Yep that's all good!" And I read this post and was like.... like what do you look at inside though T O T??? I asked my boyfriend how he knew he was a boy and he said he just felt this unexplainable intrinsic feeling he was a boy... and I'm like... I HAVE GENUINELY NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WTF 😭😭😭!!!!!!!! So apparently its like. Normal for people to feel this inexplicable 'Gender' feeling or whatever,,, I feel like how asexual people feel when they discover people around them aren't making up the fact they experience sexual arousal T O T

Obviously all my sciency stuff is just speculation! But I'm the type of person who believe that everything has a rationale behind it, and like an adopted child who is curious about their biological parents, I am just interested in my origins! The field of genetics still is mostly just like,,,, hmmm we think this whatever MIGHT be a contributing factor to a person turning out this way... maybe. If you are more interested in the topic I discussed, just look up 'epigenetics' and there should be some more stuff OuO!

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In the middle of conflict, it’s important that both people feel heard. The problem isn’t wanting someone to understand your pain. The problem is when the conversation becomes entirely about your pain, to the point that there is no room left for the other person’s perspective or feelings.

Being understood is important. But conflict cannot be resolved if only one person’s feelings matter. This is the point I was trying to make.

The problem is, several times I've been so into the details of a debate that I completely miss that the other person is hanging on for dear life. What to me is an uplifting wind is to them a battering hurricane. It's horrifying to suddenly realize what you believed was a thought provoking debate was actually a relationship harming argument.