TiggyMalvern

me, stunted 12 year-old whose only representation of trans women had been ace ventura and jokes about shemale prostitutes, "well, i guess when i'm like, 40, and everyone i have any obligation to is dead, i can get a bunch of sex change surgeries and fuck gross men for money. but at least i'll kinda look like a girl."

this feels particularly relevant with the global push to chase minors off social media. none of it is about protecting kids, it's about control. it's about cutting off vulnerable, marginalized, young people whose only opportunity to learn more about their own gender and sexuality--and find other people who are like them--is through social media platforms.

Yes. Yes! Yes he does! And he wants to do it, it's important both culturally and personally to him, but he realizes that he cannot do it. He cannot do the most important step - tell his secrets - because that's not what an Obsidian Order agent does, that's not what Tain taught him. (And it's so, so heartbreaking just how removed from his own culture Garak is, how much damage Tain did to him in every conceivable way; Garak serves Cardassia and loves Cardassia, but it's clear in that moment that he isn't allowed to be a Cardassian.)

Fan fact, microslop actually harkens back from the 1990s!

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).