Sopotism Shall Rise

i ran out of my endo meds, and will have no HRT soon as well. im waiting to get disability, currently im struggling to even just afford to eat and need help

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ROUND 2 - 1

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Portraits and fates under the cut. [SPOILERS]

I was born Black, I live Black, and I’ll die Black.

I’m mixed and very lightskinned, and I acknowledge this and the way I benefit from colorism. That said, p much the only people who ever question my Blackness are leftist crackers trying to find a reason to excuse their own racism, because if I’m not “really Black” then they can disregard me when I tell them they’re doing racist shit, which is in itself ironically a manifestation of antiblackness.

But if you want an actual *story* for your shit, I’m in a storytelling mood tonight. I grew up in a 90% white, 0.3% Black state where at absolutely no time was I considered anything other than “The Black”. Being light ain’t stop the kkk from threatening to burn my parents place down, ain’t stop a white woman from using my Blackness to rape me by threatening to call the cops if I didn’t capitulate - after all, would they believe the 5’5” white woman or the 6’4” Black “man” in a state like Montana? - and even now post-transition and besides the explicit transmisogynoir I experience, there are multiple groups of people that actively talk about lynching me, specifically, by name.

But my suffering ain’t the decider of my Blackness, despite all thats happened to me. Other Black folks are my community, are who I’m in solidarity with and who I be prioritizing. I experience the suffering, but I experience the Joy as well. My Black family, my Black community, my Black fuckin life, and part of that is doing what I can to protect and support and amplify other Black folks because y’all don’t fucking listen when anyone darker than me talks. Y’all ain’t listen when we suffer, y’all ain’t listen when we dying, unless someone my shade says it or it’s become the trending words of the hour.

The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport. A U.S. amphibious warship is docked at its principal port. MQ-9 Reaper drones and combat helicopters fly reconnaissance over Caracas. Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops are deployed on land, air and sea in and around the country, operating out of two colonies: U.S.-held Puerto Rico and Dutch-held Curaçao.

I think fast-paced genre fiction is the best way to get people reading again. I have a few books in mind.

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

It's a contemporary mystery novel that is now considered a modern classic. The book popularized several tropes and helped renew literary conventions in the Japanese detective genre. Many elements you see in recent Japanese detective TV shows were influenced by the TV adaptations of this detective novel series.

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

It was recently adapted into a movie titled The Sheep Detectives, starring Hugh Jackman. I missed the screening, though, so I'm reading the book right now.

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

A dystopian horror novel set in a world where humans are farmed and consumed as meat. It's deeply unsettling but excellent. I think you could finish it in a single sitting.

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

We're all familiar with the premise that inspired a hugely influential movie, but many people don't realize that the film was actually adapted from this novel. I can't think of a better way to get back into reading than by picking up a book that was later turned into such a memorable movie.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Once again. I can understand the kneejerk impulse here, I do. It sucks to imagine, say, a creator scrolling online coming across some needlessly vitriolic post about something they worked on. But anyone is allowed to go "That's dickish" and move on, or people can engage with "I think this is oversimplified blah blah" if they want to but at the end of the day it isn't some kind of crime against the hobby or a fandom or even a singular person if someone just shoots off "This sucked I wasted my night" in their own accounts.

Like. A lot of people are trending towards thinking I'm talking about the importance of constructive criticism and like, sure, I think that is probably a more interesting avenue of analyzing something's flaws, but once again if you're not like, addressing an artist or interested in doing a deep dive that doesn't mean you're Not Allowed to be flippant or quick to judge. It's kind of startling how many times I've seen someone be like, "I can't stand this album" on their blogs, untagged, had that shit shared, only for it to come across someone's feed and for them to respond with "Why? What's wrong with it? People are allowed to like it, why are you being so negative, why are you tearing people down for no reason, this isn't even real critique," as though the intention in the first place ever was or ought to have been substantive critique in the first place.

GIFTOBER 2023

DAY THIRTY-ONE: FREE CHOICE

A timeline of DONALD GLOVER and MILES MORAELS