sorry for being annoying [remembers that practicing gratitude instead of shame is better for my mental health and my relationships] thank you for letting me be annoying with you
if every time i complain about cis people/transphobia around my cis friends i had to put a big asterisk saying “oh but not you honey you could never do any harm to people with less power than you and you definitely don’t benefit from systemic oppression that very explicitly gives you more legal rights and access to resources than i have” that would be a clear sign that they are not as transfriendly as they demand to be told they are. this is a post about trans women in predominantly tme spaces.
i don’t want my transfem friends to have to tell me “but not you though” every two sentences when they’re venting. i don’t want my transfem friends to be scared of me.
i got a 100% on this bostonian-to-english quiz but i grew up near boston….. i’m curious what you guys get. there’s a couple things in here i didn’t even know are regionalisms + a couple things i hadn’t heard before but could parse pretty easily from context. tag/reply with what you got and if you’re familiar with the area or not!
GENUINELY before today i thought fluffernutter and american chop suey were part of National American Culture ™. i was so puzzled by those questions that i googled both bc i was like “ohhh, this quiz maker thinks some american things aren’t as widespread as they are….. they’re assigning regional markers to things that aren’t regional…… every american will instantly recognize these….”
and then i discovered both of these things are, in fact, particular to the new england region.
we know exactly why gideon is Like That, she was treated as property of the ninth her whole life and starved of any kind of affection, making it so that the second she gets any kind of respect and tenderness from harrow she’s immediately on board to do unspeakable things to her body in harrow’s service. as far as I can tell, camilla is Like That because she is not well.
the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)
assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life
Just because what you wanted didn’t happen, doesn’t mean it’s queerbaiting. It is now being used an excuse when the ship you want didn’t get together. Queerbaiting has to do with marketing.
