Discount Demolitions

Had a long, nearly 3 hour call with my mother last night.

It was her finally responding to my asking if I could stay with her with 3 hours of deadnaming, lectures about "respecting her beliefs", rants about my poly/bi sibling's unseemly lifestyle, guilting me about my name change, once again implying I should go back in the closet for my career...

Also I'd have to give up my cat.

I still feel sick to my stomach, and even more sick knowing this is what she thinks is being accommodating.

I have a job lead here in town I'm really hoping to pull off, but in the meantime I am once again asking for your help.

I don't wanna lose my baby, and i don't wanna live under a transphobic roof.

As always, if straight donations aren't your thing, I have a shop for my TTRPGs, and I've opened writing commissions as well.

Also just supporting my work on Ao3 really helps give me something to hold on to, and keep an eye on my Twitch for future fundraising streams.

Mordecai. No contest

WHY is the fucking AIR out here TOUCHING ME

He wears a Huna as a Matoran

eventually I got older (and medicated), but in the meantime spending time in woodland really helped. it comforted me to be around plantlife, which feeds not on life but on sunlight, and therefore causes no harm.

then you get shit like epiphytes that decided to just grow on top of other plants. strangler fig vines, for instance, which decided well fuck, im just gonna cling to this tree trunk and let it do the support work. maybe entangle our roots and envelope my host completely over time. oopsie my host died? that's ok I'll just cling to its corpse for eternity

equally horrifying is the honeysuckle, which preys on young trees boa-constrictor style, squeezing the life out of saplings, which grow with permanent deformities before dying prematurely (makes for a neat walking stick though)

then you get out and proud parasites like mistletoe who are happy to attach themselves to tree canopies and suck their blood extract water and nutrients. so yeah some plants do eat each other actually. gives ya some perspective on the old christmas tradition of hunting mistletoe with guns (yes that's a thing, shooting them down out of trees like squirrels. yes, unlike squirrels they deserve it). as for the romance angle, who doesn't want to kiss a lover beneath the dying corpse of a parasitic trophy kill? sexy as heck.

in conclusion, PLANTS ARE VIOLENT AS FUCK, and that's not even getting into the eternal chemical warfare they are forced to wage against insects, fungi, microbes and other enemies.

one day soon the forests will turn on us, and when that day comes I'm cheerfully betraying humanity and skipping away to cross enemy lines 🫡