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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

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The thing about being trans is if you want to be, you are.

Everything else is just figuring out which flavor.

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Any trans man: Hey, can we not call reproductive health issues dealing with abortion & pregnancy "women's issues"? I can also get pregnant and in some ways an unwanted pregnancy can even be a significantly higher risk for me as a trans man. It's transphobic to say that men aren't affected by oppressive reproductive health laws, because you are actively excluding trans men from a conversation that very much needs to include them.

Some cis woman coming in to erase me: I'm not transphobic! I think trans women are women and when I talk about ~☆women's issues☆~ I'm including them!

Trans man: But you're excluding me! A man who is clearly more affected by unwanted pregnancy and abortion bans than probably any trans woman on the planet.

Cis woman: Well you shouldn't have become a man if you didn't want me to treat you like a man! Besides, I was *clearly* talking about cis men when I said "men," and you're obviously included when I say "women's reproductive health." Anyway, all men need to shut up about abortion and get vasectomies! I'm a feminist!

... Many such cases, unfortunately. It's absolutely rancid when a cis woman thinks the beginning and end of trans allyship is "trans women are women." Like, yes. Absolutely, and please keep being inclusive of trans women, but don't stop there. Give a fuck about other trans people too. Listen when trans men & transmascs have a unique perspective on cis-centric feminism, because you might realize that there's a whole facet of gender essentialism (transphobia) you're hanging onto. And if we're really lucky, you might realize that a failure to show up for trans men is a failure to show up for all trans people, including trans women.

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I'm not vile, bro. We both know you're projecting because you can't look in the mirror. I'm glad they changed their number. I hope they question their choices because both of y'all are the villains in my story. I am already getting better because I am not brought down by a selfish partner who punishes me for his own resentment. Let it the fuck go, and leave me alone. You told me to never contact you again. Please do me the same favor. Take your own advice. Fuck.

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So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry.

So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful.

She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal.

He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet...

"Oh you have a dick?"

"... yeah."

He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says

"Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride.

My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can't please my girl, but I'll show them!"

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Genuinely desperate for a top who actually loves me

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I'm hot and funny and loving why can't I find a Dom who isn't toxic cmooooonnnnnnn

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I cannot imagine what my 14 year old self would say if she knew that not only do we believe in God now, but also that God is me and we are God.

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In the moments when I can release my internalized fatphobia, it feels so correct to be fat because yeah, obviously I am expansive, have you met me

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bad things are bad not because of who they victimize, but because they victimize

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A baby roe deer in Montsec mountains (Ponent-High Pyrenees, Catalonia).

Roe deer are born in June, so it's not unusual to see them in this time of the year. Even when it looks like they're alone, they're always being watched by their mothers from a close distance. It's very important not to touch them, not to go near them, and most importantly not to take them anywhere, because they would die without their mother.

Video by Xavi Montsec on Twitter.

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Australia’s version of the onion has just character assassinated all you gays

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