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*including if you kept your original name

If you're wondering why it's split up this way, this is the order of how common the letters of the English alphabet are as the first letters of names, at least in the US. I'm just curious to see if trans people are more likely to gravitate to the less-commonly used letters when choosing their name.

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"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

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you know disabled rights include the rights of disabled people to have children. regardless if those children are also disabled. any mesure to restrict disabled people from having children is simple eugenics

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“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

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So many of yall will never know what it's like to have your body develop ambiguously without taking HRT and people have no clue what sort of trauma that is

Because it's wrong puberty, but in a way that you will never pass as any binary gender without constant work and effort. It's not having a closet to hide in because you can't look anything like your assigned gender and all your clothes make you stand out more and make you look more and more like a fish trying to be a horse and everyone around you knows. And it started at age 11 for me, years before most people can get their hands on HRT. This was my entire teen life. My childhood.

And it's not because we started HRT, it's all genetics and other factors. It's normal to feel awkward in an in-between stage of HRT if you're aiming for a specific presentation, but intersex people naturally live in that in-between stage while having doctors tell us we're going to die tomorrow and turn into a man in the grave if we don't try radical hair removal treatments that won't be covered by insurance for people like us.

You aren't intersex just bc you've been on HRT. But you might be intersex and not know that's the word for your experience. But you're not intersex just bc you've been on HRT.

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"leftist antisemitism" "right-wing antisemitism"

given that antisemitism is over a thousand years old whereas left and right, as political appellations, only date back to 1789 i'm not sure these are two different species

people are antisemitic. they just dress it up in different politics. but it's largely the same tropes and beliefs

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really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

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THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2024, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you can speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language, dialects, otherwise non-written languages) are more than welcome! See my FAQ for tips

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

Pinned post and FAQ

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“i was written by a man” “i was written by a woman” i was written by sophocles and then translated by anne carson

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staff: going around asking people who want be filmed while try pronounce a made up word

me: *aggressively hold up hand*

people who know me, collectively: THATS CHEATING

>:( ableism (joke)

(for reference, nonverbal AAC speech generating device user)

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for my fellow psychotics who struggle with thinking someone is in their house, a method I’ve found that really works are these guys:

i put them on my front door and anytime it opens they ring. that way if i think someone has broken in or i see someone who isn’t there i can think back to if the bells have rung, and if they haven’t i can assure myself it’s not real. obviously it’s not fool proof, like if you are prone to auditory hallucinations, but it has really helped me calm down in time to avoid major psychotic breaks. it’s a real lifesaver

nonpsychotics encouraged to rb

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#i quit years ago

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Things I need to see more of in Zombie movies...

Punching: Why does no one ever think about just punching a zombie? If they're walking around, then what's left of their brain is still susceptible to concussion. Sure, you should wear gloves, but still.

Maille: AKA "chainmail". If a shark can't bite through it, a human mandible sure as shit can't.

Bicycles: You know what vehicle is efficiently compact, requires no fuel & is virtually silent?

A fucking bike.

But noooo, it's gotta be a Harley for whatever reason.

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"there are many jews involved in the columbia encampment, and there was even a kabbalat shabbat service and a seder" and "antisemitic things have been chanted at the columbia protests and there's a serious unaddressed (and dismissed) antisemitism problem in the movement" can both be true

like. portraying this as "a group of people who hate jews and want to intimidate and block them" isn't correct, but neither is "it's all a smear and nothing we've ever said or done could ever be antisemitic."

ugh. i just. its so frustrating bc on the one hand you've got people lobbing around the word antisemitism like a club to be used on political opponents, and on the other hand you have people who respond to that be closing their ears to any and every attempt to be called in for antisemitism. and then you get labeled a zionist and not-worth-listening-to for attempting that call-in, so the people who are trying to address it get pushed out

and the jews who remain often feel that as allies it's their duty to squash any internal sense that someone in the movement is antisemitic, believing that it's really their white/jewish fragility or their zionist brainwashing coming up.

the upshot of which is that the antisemitism problem doesn't get resolved when oh my god, it would be so easy. just listen to folks calling you in and learn about antisemitism and how it functions just like allies do for any oppression. empower jews in your space to speak up, with love and firmness. stop assuming every call-in is a threat by bad actors.

like there really are ways to move forward. why can't we take them?

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I love how Stardew Valley stops you from giving you from giving people more than two gifts a week, because I like to think that it's the Farmer's weird sense of social etiquette talking.

Wanna give Jodi a single small egg then walk away without saying a word? Go head. Feel like reaching into your pocket, pulling out a fistful of tree sap, and slapping it in Lewis's hands? Be my guest. Entering without knocking? That's a must. But giving them more than two gifts a week? Hold your horses, buckaroo, do you want people to think you're some kind of weirdo? Wait until it's their birthday or you're married before you start engaging in freakish behavior like that.

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I kinda lived half of 2023 (maybe more) like a drowning rat in a bucket but this year I'll live like a normal rat. outside of a bucket