memento mori; carpe diem

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

Here's a reoccurring pattern of fucking trauma responses that we KNOW is common in repressing trans women

Actually, what's happening with the fresh members of those at any given moment is that there's a girl who's convinced herself she's wrong for being there and is now formulating a fresh convoluted theory of how she's uniquely terrible, deserves to suffer, and will be leaving the server forever, while the others are trying their best to help her.

Most members of these servers have joined at least twice. They're all working through iterations on the same issues. They have been fucking harmed by a world that tells them they can't be trans.

Most of them have never met a single other trans woman in real life. Most of them say that literally just meeting one earlier and being told they could also transition would have helped them.

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• maizulee version

A fascist might say that a healthy and strong nation is represented by a white traditional family. A liberal will disagree on the surface - they'd be likely to say that gender diversity and cultural diversity are signs of health and strength. But they're still operating under assumption that "nation", "health", and "strength" are neutral or positive political concepts.

And once you start noticing it, you notice it everywhere. People aren't arguing whether sorting people into ranks by quality is acceptable, they're arguing who's the real superman and who's the diseased collection of abnormalities.

That's what I see when someone says politicians are fat and mentally ill, men are dangerous emotion-driven beasts, shaving body hair invites sexual assault of children, and liking blondes is a sign of moral corruption.