Depression, Suicide, Dysphoria, Family Crap
Last week I found the Depressed Teenage Trans Girl Bingo Card so of course I decided to fill it out. Except I'm not a teenager anymore so I decided to do something worse: circle everything that applied at any point between being a teenager and now.
I got a triple bingo.
Also a kilt I'm trying to get rid of lmk if you're local and want to give me a reasonable money for a kilt.
Tfw you get an e-mail from a Very Published Person in a field you are sort of active in asking you for your most updated pronouns because she needs to cite/reference you in talks and even though she has only seen you once in the last 10 years she's pretty sure you're not using the same pronouns as you did 10 years ago.
(That feeling is me going omgomgomgomg and then impostor syndrome somehow comes back to slap me repeatedly anyway.)
Southern Gender Bullshit, Lewd
Also the idea of appropriating Southern culture and having a party where you get to wear The Fanciest Dress so you can be like "hello ~~boys~~ queer ladies I'm a woman now and these childbearing hips are officially open for business" is really fucking hot.
You know, when it's consensual and not because your parents made you do it.
Southern Gender Bullshit
I suppose the problem with capital T Tradition is that it gets shoved down the throats of anyone whether they want it or not.
Consent is kind of important yes.
Southern Gender Bullshit
Coworker from Alabama was telling me about how when she turned 16 or something she had her Gender Oppression Ceremony where her family made her skip school for a day so she could put on an antebellum dress and have a thing to "introduce her to society" i.e., tell the town that she's now available a a potential wife.
I was torn between disgust and "omg I want that except I want my dress to be black".
Trans Kids, Terrible Family Members
I have stumbled upon the corner of Reddit where sad trans kids make hilarious memes to cope with shitty things like terrible family members and I want to be like hello children it's going to be okay one day your parents will no longer have power over you and you can wear glitter lipstick and eat mac and cheese for breakfast and if they don't turn around by then you'll find parental figures and friends who are like 5,000% better because that's what you deserve.
I decided to search for "fox slime" and found this delightful floop and it makes me happy.
Source: http://seersongs.tumblr.com/post/146973192827/goop https://awoo.space/media/xP0fbSt7Ne0TSNLGOOs
Share What You Do for a Living But Make It Sound Scary?
It's okay, I whisper to the children, there is good and justice and hope and---
There isn't.
There was only darkness in the skies, there is only darkness in the hearts of men.
But maybe with enough lies, some of them will believe.
And if enough of them believe, it may even become real.
Food, Republicans, Passive-Aggressiveness
So I have to make food for a potluck in a rural town tomorrow and a good chunk of attendees are (probably) Republicans.
This means that I'm using the shitty store brand vinegar (as opposed to Fancy Ass Heirloom Vinegar Made From Historic Cider Press) and using dried and canned ingredients instead of fresh stuff and oops I forgot the oregano guess there won't be oregano in this now.
Am annoyed that TJs ran out of normal kale so I had to do organic tho.
stack of illusions and glamours and dreams piled up on top of a fox type thing // they/them, or she/her when exactly three corvids are present