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hi i’m van. it/thon/they. tme. young adult. mixed race. i’m a kuroku shikirine stannie first and a human being after that.
i like to draw and make music and cover songs. i use a variety of vocal synths like utau, voisona, vocaloid, alter/ego, dectalk, literally just whatever
whenever i see a baby in public i wish i were like a powerful faerie god mother character who could give the baby a gift like “you’ll never get a cold” or “math will always make sense to you” or something like bein’ great with string instruments but I don’t have any powers that I know of but it doesn’t stop me from trying so every time I see a baby in public I tell the adult with it “what a beautiful baby” and it makes them smile and then I pretend I can take the goodness of their smile and I look at the baby and I think very hard “you will have a good life, even if it’s hard, you will end up happy” and I’m just hopin’ the magic kicks in at some point
faerie: for your service, I will grant you one boon
“theres nothing wrong with him hes just annoying” is such a powerful grounding affirmation thank you toby fox. like you know what actually i don’t need to be mean to this person bc the thing that irritates me about them is perfectly harmless and subjective. it’s literally fine
*through gritted teeth* being annoying is not a moral failure
The government: “Don’t say covid. Don’t say mask. Don’t say public health. Just be normal. Just do normal. So what if normal is killing people? You don’t want to be *weird* do you? Just ignore our glowing red eyes and vampire teeth btw.”
Society at large: “Don’t say covid. Don’t say mask. Don’t say public health. Just be normal. Just do normal. So what if normal is killing people? You don’t want to be *weird* do you? Just ignore our glowing red eyes and vampire teeth btw.”
Medicine at large: “Don’t say covid. Don’t say mask. Don’t say public health. Just be normal. Just do normal. So what if normal is killing people? You don’t want to be *weird* do you? Just ignore our glowing red eyes and vampire teeth btw.”
Me in my elastomeric, strapped to a pole to be burnt at the stake like Robert Neville: “I Am Legend.”
If you’re in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:
The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
The recruiter will tell you you’re special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They’re lying.
The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won’t. They’re lying.
The recruiter may tell you you’ll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They’re lying.
The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They’re lying.
Even “It’s just four years!” is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don’t care what happens to you.
If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you’ll do them.
The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.
Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
Veterans’ benefits suck these days.
Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
A lot can change in four years.
All of this!
If you want an organization who WILL tell you the truth about your rights to conscientiously object, how to legally get out of the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) or about any of your other rights in the military (whether you’re enlisted, thinking about enlisting, or a family member or friend of someone enlisted (or thinking about enlisting)), who will do it confidentially & for free, you want the
GI Rights Hotline
run by NGOs & non-profits, which has been counseling folks for DECADES now:
Even if all the person you’re speaking to cares about is the money, the money sucks.
Minimum wage in California just went up to $16.90. You need to be rank E4 or be E3 with at least 3 years of service before you’re making more than the CA minimum wage in the military.
You will literally get better pay and benefits working at a costco. (And that’s not even accounting for the fact that the military isn’t a 40 hour work week, your entire life is on the clock)
I cannot emphasize this enough, if you’re a desperate young queer person you will make better money, get better healthcare, and have more affordable options for school if you move to California, get a job at costco, live with roommates, and go to community college than you will have if you join the US military.
if you like a character long enough you begin to lose the plot a little. just made my nonbinary wizard lactose intolerant and allergic to some sunscreens. okay
loving all the enthusiasm on this post but I AM noticing a lot of tags like “me giving the character depression” and “yeah I gave the character a fear of bugs” NAHHH! NAH!! get more nuts. lose your marbles more. get weirder. those headcanons are great but here are some other traits I have bestowed upon my nonbinary lactose intolerant sunscreen sensitive wizard.
no sweat glands, they regulate temperature by letting off low-level magic particles that carry excess body heat away. if you licked them on a hot day (WHY) it’d be like licking a 9V battery
sparkly sneezes. like tiny fireworks
hatred of grass touching their bare feet. it’s boots or dirt or NOTHING
stomach acid so strong it can dissolve metal
cannot digest most foods due to being an obligate carnivore but eats lots of fancy food anyway #stupid #stomachache
their natural body odour smells like cumin and star anise and is almost pleasant
“if you licked them on a hot day (WHY) it’s be like licking a 9V battery”
I think the “why” is obvious? they have no sweat glands so it won’t taste bad and it’s like licking a 9V battery. two great reasons
But if they missed the fact that I was an anti-ICE journalist who didn’t fill out her paperwork, what else might they be missing? How many convicted domestic abusers are being given guns and sent into other people’s homes? How many people with ties to white supremacist organizations are indiscriminately targeting minorities on principle, regardless of immigration status? How many rapists and pedophiles are working in ICE detention centers with direct and unsupervised access to a population that will be neither believed nor missed? How are we to trust ICE’s allegedly thorough investigations of the people they detain and deport when they can’t even keep their HR paperwork straight?
And if they’re not going to screen me out, what hope is there of figuring out which recruit might one day turn into a trigger-happy agent who would forget that law enforcement officers are trained not to stand in front of vehicles, get jumpy, and shoot a 37-year-old woman to death on the streets of Minneapolis? (x)
Just a reminder from me (a military brat) and my parents (both military from military families): The most definitive way to know a recruiter is lying to you is to listen closely to what they’re saying. If you hear sounds, they’re lying.
Tome of Wings
