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clap along if you feel like a wraith without a tomb!

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sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.

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"Good Morning, Rose"

My short story for the wlw anthology GLIMM*R!

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he deserves 800 more of these little guys actually

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I love Colin upgrading himself to only need 6 minutes of sleep a day and then still not doing that lmao. incredible

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A cool thing about being alive is that you can just Make Creatures, there's no rules against it or anything

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eldritch invocation: ghostly gaze.

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imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster

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Flat-color commission for @fairyshotgun !

Really enjoyed this one, the lineart was a blast.

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some blackbirds for you ❤️

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being on the aro spectrum would be a lot easier if being single wasn't made to feel like a literal death sentence

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if you misgender trans women & femmes who also identify as men & mascs by ignoring their identities as women and/or femmes, no matter what your reasoning for doing so is, you're transphobic. you're participating in transmisogyny. trans women & femmes are also allowed to be bigender, multigender, gender non conforming, butch, masc, men, boys, androgynous, gender neutral, genderfluid, and other gender identities along side being women and/or femmes.

these other identities do not cancel out our womanhood or femininity- these identities are not "opposites" of one another. denying a trans woman/femme their identity because they are a person of color and don't align with your idea of what a woman/femme should look like, you are also racist as hell, which is a huge part of transmisogyny.

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UK petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

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We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by transgender children. We feel that an independent evaluation is necessary to ensure children aren’t being unduly harmed. We think that only through a transparent process can we guarantee fair access and treatment for trans children as well as restore faith in the current NHS services.

Deadline: 12 June 2025

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Who can sign?

Anyone living in the UK (regardless of citizenship)

Any UK citizen (regardless of country of residence)

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'Tis the season to unpack some stuff about Christmas from a minority perspective:

Christmas is a Christian holiday. The fact that many celebrate it in an irreligious way (which is valid!) does not change its origins, connotations, symbolism, nor what it has historically meant for religious minorities.

The idea that Christmas is "secular" (read: neutral) is a product of Christian hegemony and the blindness of many in Christian countries to the permeation of Christianity as "default" culture.

When someone says they don't celebrate Christmas since it's a Christian holiday, it is not actually reassuring or helpful to say something along the lines of "oh well it's just a secular day of family & presents for everyone! So you can celebrate it too!"

Though the above statement is usually well-intentioned, it is often distressing to hear because it is untrue and is erasing our lived experiences. The reflexive effort to make Christmas universal is a cultural reverberation of the millennia-old evangelizing effort to make Christianity universal, and as such, can be very uncomfortable for religious minorities.

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hmm actaully no 1 thing im worried about wrt the job im starting next year is that afaik theres no gender neutral toilets there

theyve got a whole buncha stuff by the main enterance about how theyre recognised by a buncha places organisations as lgbt+ and some specify trans friendly

but they dont even have gender neutral toilets

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man every single sketchbook ive tried has been almost perfect for me except that they have all had One Major Flaw that makes it very annoying to use