A bit ago I was having a casual conversation about the hypothetical survivability of each member of a friend group in an apocalypse, all cis except me, and at one point I joked “but yeah I unfortunately do like having the pharmaceutical system for my hormones, in this situation I’d have to go old school with horse piss” as a way of saying how it would be shitty but then in the moments afterwards I had a beautiful vision of being a nomadic horse herder on the slowly rewilding, post apocalyptic great plains, purifying the urine of the pregnant matriarch mare and distributing it to women with hormonal imbalances (cis or trans), slowly travelling Northwest with the spring thaws to reach the grazing lands in what used Montana
Obviously it’d suck for a lot of other reasons. But. Y'know. A girl can dream
sometimes i get home from an event with my family and i just have to sit in my car for a second & read that one sarah schulman quote on familial homophobia
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.
Hey guess what i saw this a few days ago when i was in an absolutely scary slump and then i spoke to my counsellors and did what they told me to do and now i feel so much better. So this is true. Reblogging for more good luck
out: Cassandra of Troy speaking in mysterious metaphors and oracle verse
in: Cassandra of Troy talking like uncle Colm from Derry girls so she’s so boring that nobody takes anything in
im sobbing op
[image: A screen cap of tags from a previous reblog that read:
#and she’s no sooner entered the city than a load of Greek ships arrive on Trojan soil #and I don’t mean six or seven #easily a thousand ships #and I says to myself I says I #Cassandra #if this war goes on the Trojans are sure to loose #and the wind #I mean i haven’t seen naything like it]
These are art in themselves, in a some of them point out what lockdown was like for us, they’re expressed themselves in a really cool way. But I think these are going to be talked about in the future.
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