You've got your passion, you've got your pride 🏳️‍🌈

my favorite song set in a gay bar

I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves

Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.

I know transfem lawyers, construction workers, professional musicians, bartenders, and academics. You can be the reason that another trans person believes the future they dream of is possible. The more trans people enter new fields, the harder it is to target any one of us or say we can't do that job

hamlet is so funny all the time. horatio being like ghosts aren’t real. i know this. i know ghosts aren’t real. i am a real mature student who goes to school and studies real mature things so i know ghosts aren’t real. i know this because i go to school. gets to denmark and the guards are like oh you go to school??? thank God we need someone who learned how to talk to ghosts

Billy Joel being some kind of bored poltergeist in the we didn't start the fire music video remains iconic

I think this gets lost in the shuffle of the suicidebattical memes but taking a sabbatical is one of the healthiest, most self-aware decisions Robby has made, both for himself and the department. He knows his rapidly deteriorating mental state is starting to affect his work. I don't think the sabbatical plan started out as a suicidebattical, at least consciously. The head of an emergency department taking a 3 month sabbatical takes some time to arrange. Gloria had to interview and hire Al-Hashimi and the paperwork involved takes time. My pet theory is that the sabbatical idea originally came from one of the therapists he briefly saw. He got worse in the time between then and when the sabbatical was actually scheduled to start and this very healthy decision to take some time away from work morphed into something else.

My other pet theory is that the motorcycle trip started out as a little bit of a dream vacation you always talk about but never actually take and in Robby's case part of the fantasy was This Will Fix Me. As the sabbatical got closer and became more real things started to change. Robby started having trouble actually picturing himself doing anything on sabbatical because he has no identity outside of work and doesn't know how to exist outside the hospital. He also quit therapy and seemingly concluded that he's unfixable, so the idea of using the sabbatical to get better--either by his trip magically fixing him or by using the time to get help--fell by the wayside.

“If I’d known you were coming I’d’ve baked a cake.”

but what KIND of cake would Enabran Tain bake…

4. Fish cakes disguised as dessert cupcakes with little Order symbol decorations

GASP Tain's evil truly knows no bounds.

He'd have baked whatever his super secret intelligence report said Bashir liked best, let's be real. And disguised fish cakes as THAT.

Bashir’s super spidey sense enhanced olfactory powers means he smells the fish long before he tries them and realises what’s going on. Eats a cake like it’s the best thing he’s ever had and asks for his compliments to be passed on to the chef. Mila hiding in the kitchen laughing. Serves Tain the remaining cakes the following day. Tain has the author of the intelligence report stitched up like a kipper.

Oh god it's That Fucking Lamp

the devil said it's lindsey graham's turn today to speak with mitch mcconnell for 20 minutes