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Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social |
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Overtly loquacious bardic artificer support character, overloading her base class and learning the self-care of embracing joy instead of doomscrolling life. The second best day to become the person you were always meant to be is today.
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Leiracal
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Just to be clear, Kari Lake's campaign literally proposed internment camps for LGBT people during the midterms and she spent the last year vying for Trump's VP seat. Multiple other GOP candidates, including "Trump's Pastor," called for mass executions of LGBT people. It's closer than most realize.
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Leiracal
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Unfortunately, the realization that I look like her and the realization that she's a toxic narcissist happened at roughly the same time. Now seeing myself in the mirror is a one-two punch because I can focus on the dysphoria or on the person who gleefully discarded my life to make The One Joke.
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Leiracal
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If you're like me and you've forgotten because of everything else that's happened since then, a reminder: they pulled this shit on Hillary too.
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Ayo
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good morning my community, A word of advice. You may be struggling with your feelings of shock with the Neil Gaiman allegations. Now is the time to process that conflict silently, in your own heart—not on the timeline where other survivors have to watch you struggle to believe. Okay.
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Doc Ranma Saotome 🏳️⚧️
@impossiblephd.bsky.social
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My Husband Who Actually Turned Out To Be My Wife.
You can read the scanslation here. It's very light, and there's not much to it, but it's cute.
mangadex.org/title/5765f9...
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Leiracal
@leiracal.bsky.social
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I got my diagnosis online for like $100, took it to my primary care provider, and she prescribed. Then my parents admitted they'd known since I was 3 and hid it. Decades of failures, all due to a disability and not "I should have tried harder" like I was taught. I'm still livid about it.
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Faine Greenwood
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I’ve had over a decade to miserably marinate on an anti-democratic process in which, to my great sorrow, all my gloomiest, wildest predictions keep coming true. Despite that, I still don’t think we’re doomed or that we should give up and walk into the sea en masse.
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N. K. Jemisin
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.
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Cats of Yore
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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Leiracal
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Two hours into my first Adderall dose and "holy shit people actually get to live like this ALL THE TIME" is practically a trope, but it doesn't ring any less true. Now to be responsible and walk away from my screens, to ensure I don't pour this energy and focus into the wrong tasks. 😅
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The Loch Ness Monster
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People talk a lot about “second puberty” in terms of the physical transformation and hormonal sensitivity / turbulence, which are of course both important. But, less is said about the social adjustment and personal realization sides of this experience. (1/14)
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morosoph; don't mess with imperfection 🖤🐘🤍💜
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this is the way. if this isn't the basis of your beliefs and actions you must fix your heart.
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
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I didn't go through all this pain and despair and hard goddamn work transing my entire gender just to smuggle a baggie of emotional support misogyny through to the other side, and oh how I wish this attitude was a universal part of the transgender experience.
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Leiracal
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It was always going to be huge rewrite to have the world react to Zelda instead of Link, but what impressed me as I played was how closely the new dialogue hewed to the central theme of violating destiny(and expectations) and forging your own path, which fits BotW Zelda's character arc perfectly.
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Leiracal
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The amazing thing about the Zelda mods for BotW is that the game is an entirely different narrative experience when there's no character in the role Zelda plays in the official title. Not being guided, and not knowing what to do b/c you're not the Hero, is an core theme of the revised storyline.
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Leiracal
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If you're able to do mods, there's a handful for BotW that transform the entire game into a story for Zelda, where Link dies, Zelda is wounded and put in the rez chamber, and she awakens to a world with no Hero and the sages telling her she's breaking prophecy by filling his shoes. It's *amazing*.
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Kathleen "zaftikat" Zaftikat
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I love seeing personal posts from girls who are having their first experiences with presenting as their gender in public. I'm so proud of you and so happy for you. it doesn't always feel that good, but something better happens. it starts to feel normal.
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get a life sara
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transitioning has been going through 9 personalities in 2 years to find my “most authentic self”, only to land back at my original self with her autism fully unmasked
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Mom Friend 64
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Very few things hurt quite like talking to someone who's questioning their gender and hearing them say, "I'm okay. It'll be okay." in that same dead voice you used to use
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Leiracal
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I have a lot of bad memories of that school. I was forced into the sports I played. And I have a lot of trauma that stems from being a closeted trans girl in the boys' locker room. But every Friday we went out there, held our heads up, and tried our very best. I'm still proud of that determination.
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Leiracal
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I hold a state record for consecutive losses in a high school sport (nearly the record OP mentions). It was a team sport and we were so small that we literally had to field every physically capable student to qualify. The freshmen when the streak started were seniors when we finally got a win.
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Doc Ranma Saotome 🏳️⚧️
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An important thing to remember when you deal with transphobic idiots. 💜
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Adam P. Knave
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Not my creation, found. But so true.
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Leiracal
@leiracal.bsky.social
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Their actions are custom-tailored to fulfill exactly one agenda: "what would make the greatest number of disaffected people lower their opinion of environmental activism?" Throw in their Anonymous-styled decentralization (preventing accountability) and donors, and they don't pass the sniff test.
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Leiracal
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"You can't *have* womanhood" was so deeply and brutally carved into my skull that I spent about a year desperately trying to learn if I actually *wanted* it. I'd spent decades repressing a pining for a life I had been told I could never have. When it awakened, that was that; nothing else mattered.
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Leiracal
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Emphasis on "I didn't know *I* could be trans." My cishet-normativity was built entirely on the cornerstone that I didn't *get* to be anything else; that I was stuck. It was enforced so strongly that I gave others the right to be themselves, but continued denying myself the slightest possibility.
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Doc Ranma Saotome 🏳️⚧️
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@tillybridges.bsky.social linked this excellent article in Nature, out last week, and I wasn't to talk about it a little. In a nutshell, it argues that scientists ought to move to the term "gender modality" instead of "cis/trans" or "gender identity"--
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧵(1/?)
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Leiracal
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Just some thoughts I've had after reading May Peterson's excellent essay, explains at length the trauma and suffering of being trans, and how much of that pain centers on the incessant need of cis society to focus on only the trans suffering that makes THEM uncomfortable.
medium.com/@mayrpeterso...
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Leiracal
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They couldn't understand how the pain of how I live now has NOTHING on the pain of how they'd told me to live before: a pain I'd worked to become numb to, until I'd become numb to everything. That truth asked them to understand the ways they played a part in my pain, and they rejected the request.
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Leiracal
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This is critical to me, because this was the point in the conversation where I lost important people in my life. They only understood the pain and awkwardness of trying to live through transition, with all the physical markers of having gone through the opposite puberty (one I'd always disliked).
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Leiracal
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Cis people are *compelled* to shove us into any other box, any other solution, and in trying to do "what's best" for us, are incapable of seeing the source of many of our traumas lies in their own preconceptions.
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Leiracal
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They see "transitioned and didn't need to" as an obvious and violent risk but can't see "needed to transition and couldn't" in the same way, because "need to transition" is constantly being devalued, minimized, and argued against in our society.
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Leiracal
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The problem is that cis people typically do not understand the inherent suffering of gender incongruence they way they understand the suffering of transition, and so only try to eliminate the latter while constantly downplaying the former.
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Leiracal
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Much of the pain and suffering of living trans centers on the incessant need of cis society to frame transition on its terms: not as necessary suffering on the path to wellness, but as a needless, torturous thing cis society is subconsciously trying to make happen as infrequently as possible.
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Leiracal
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Imagine there was this huge movement to reduce the "social contagion" of early cancer detection and treatment, spearheaded by people who'd never considered the suffering of going undiagnosed, never contemplated how many people had left this world because their untreated suffering proved unendurable.
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Leiracal
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Imagine if everyone you know pushed you away from getting tested for or diagnosed with cancer, out of fear of what it would mean if you actually had it. Imagine if the social pressure to avoid being tested or treated for cancer became more unbearable than cancer itself.
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Leiracal
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Imagine if people obsessively, and in numbers too large to ignore, tried to talk cancer victims out of chemotherapy because they were actively distressed at witnessing the visible suffering chemo causes, but failed to see the suffering cancer itself caused. That's how cis society views transition.
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Corvid Dallas Multipass (he/him) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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You know what I would really like? Just one day without feeling afraid. Hell, I'll take a day just without ANXIETY. I'll probably delete this for being too real, but I would like to not be constantly, desperately afraid for my own survival. Existentially and otherwise.
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Leiracal
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Clinical criteria for neurodivergence includes this and "a strong sense of justice," which is the centerpiece of my long-standing argument "we're not the strange ones, we're just outnumbered."
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Matt Beanzy
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
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"I want to become a monster hunter," the young man said. "Any advice?"
The old moster hunter thought. "Those determined to find monsters," he said at last, "will always find them."
"Great! Anything else?"
"Always ask who decides what makes a monster." He paused. "And why."
#MicroFiction
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Doc Ranma Saotome 🏳️⚧️
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A friend of mine wrote a hell of an article about internalized transmedicalism in the trans community, and specifically how we talk about transfeminine peoples' bottom statuses.
Might be worth your while to read.
nicolaelle.substack.com/p/draft-infi...
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Leiracal
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Update: he offered more insight into his life as a white cis rural gay man who doesn't really have any interpersonal connections (because "I could never love someone the way I love myself") and I think I understand why the concept of marginalized solidarity and community is completely alien to him.
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the Lone Futurist
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No one calls Twitter "the hell site" anymore because it's no longer hell. It's something worse.
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Leiracal
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My team at work were so amazing at accepting me that I just stopped listening to my impostor syndrome on the job; it was too important to put everything I had into doing right by them. It helped that I was the third trans person on the team at the time. 😁
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Leiracal
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Just had a cis gay man who "doesn't get Pride" explain that he "doesn't wear his sexuality" and has nothing to worry about because "no human being has power over me" and as someone whose fought the last two cycles of anti-trans legislation the strength of my held tongue could have forged diamonds.
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Leiracal
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Those are rookie numbers.
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Leiracal
@leiracal.bsky.social
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You gotta hand it to him, he's broadcasting loud and clear that, if this nation gives him the slightest chance, he absolutely will correct every mistake, every impediment, every check and balance that stopped him last time.
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Leiracal
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I worried about this for years - it was the same when I put a subtle trans sticker on my car - but I see plenty of folks in town with flags and cars covered in progressive bumper stickers, and nothing's really being defaced, so I choose to join in the much-needed visibility to intimidate the haters.
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