A collection of Xan's ramblings

They call themselves the children of the Sunlight Sisters fandom. This tends to pop up whenever the sls get mentioned or Celine gets seen around and about. A common thing is that the Huntrix fandom tries to make the Sunlight Sisters trend on certain dates to ‘support their moms’

So there’s the picture of Mira checking in on Zoey/Rumi’s stream that’s a meme (it means ‘Are you ok? Need anything????) But there’s also Rumi crawling over the green screen (I MUST tell you this right now) gifs of Zoey bouncing up and down (excited!) gifs of Rumi snapping her head up to glare at certain fans at events (used to mean I heard that !!!!) and Rumi when Zoey pulled the green screen down all of the sudden (a replacement for :0

‘New Sunlight Lore dropped’ = Rumi mentioned Celine the tiniest amount in passing

‘New Sunlight Lore dropped!!’ = Rumi mentioned Celine in context of her childhood

‘NEW SUNLIGHT LORE DROPPED!!!!’ = actual new Sunlight lore dropped

‘Call the lore master’, used as a tag for Zoey if someone has questions about either about the Sunlight Sisters or the random memes and trends of the Huntrix fandom

‘She just looms’, a defense against people thinking Mira is the leader/mean. Got made backwards compatible with Celine in the Sunlight fandom then made its way back to modern Celine.

‘Rumi is an international wanted criminal’, an in joke about how Rumi is probably breaking laws when she buys plants from around the world and brings them home

It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.

It governs more lives and more wealth than most nations. If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.

What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.

If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American."

she’s right where she wants to be

So let me offer some words of reassurance:

Growing up is great. I know it's scary and sometimes it sucks, but big picture, I genuinely think growing up is great.

(I say this as someone who had a p Not Fun Time when I was younger, so btw, that's both my bias and also proof that you do NOT have to have had a good childhood/adolescence to enjoy growing up.)

Leaving middle school? Fantastic. One of the greatest blessings of life is no longer being in middle school. At least 95% of adults will agree with me on this. (translation: ages 11-14 in the US)

Leaving high school? A bigger jump, and adulthood has a lot of stuff to figure out, but honestly really nice! The vast majority of adults would also agree with me that "No longer being in high school" is one of the great blessings of life! You just get so much more autonomy, potentially in not having to go to school/do homework and/or just as a newly legal adult. Also, most jobs are both easier and more bullshit than high school, and college is at least way less strict/gives you so much more autonomy/treats you like an adult (translation: ages 14-18 in the US)

(And because I know some of you are like me and definitely wondering: No, you do not have to ask to go to the bathroom or to leave the class in college, and yes, it is glorious.)

Leaving college? A good thing! Next stage in your journey! Yeah, if your college experience didn't suck, you probably have some things you're really gonna be sad to lose, but that's not inherently a bad thing! And if your college experience did suck, then the prize is no longer being in college! And whatever the case, just like for high school, I promise that the vast majority of jobs are both easier and more bs than being in school (translation: tertiary education, ages = adult, yes this explicitly includes community college and trade school)

i used to work at a Local Organic Produce store that's popular with the lefties in my city who are interested in food justice. i quit for a lot of reasons, mostly the boss, but something i will always remember is one of our suppliers coming in to drop off produce, being told her check wasn't ready, and her laughing and responding it didn't matter -- even a low bank account was more than enough to pay the migrants who picked her produce. i am not filling in any blanks here. she said this.

after quitting, this was a common story i told people about my time there. some then became annoyed at me, acting like i was a wokescold trying to undermine the store's "eco" mission with unrelated "ethical" concerns. but, like -- if food justice isn't for the people making food, who the fuck is it for?