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Hello MTV and welcome to my crib I mean my pinned post!

I'm Vee Debras (they/them), and I write angsty, queer stories about healing and fucking monsters.

Ever wanted to read a story about a soon-to-be-priest having a nonbinary awakening and fucking a biblically accurate angel in a church?

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If that isn't enough and you want more stories about queer people going through it and coming out happier on the other side, I also have a book about a nonbinary person and a merman falling in love while they plot revenge against a rapist.

You can check out Tied to the Waves here or on itch.io

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“There’s no going back,” says Essence when I reach her by phone a few weeks before the inauguration. “And if there’s going to be a revolution, it’s going to be fucking sickening! If they keep taking stuff from us up on Capitol Hill, it’ll be tits out, cocks out – and I’ll be right there marching with the dolls.”

Kay Poyer wants to make one thing clear: “Texas is one of the most transgender places I’ve ever been.” It’s a Friday night in January when I reach Poyer by phone. The 24-year-old writer and internet personality, known on social media as @ladymisskay, was called “the oracle of TikTok” by The Face for her mix of no-bullshit wisdom and cleverly worded takes, phrased and delivered in a style all her own. While her home state has long been the birthplace of a lot of right-wing mess, she grows irritated when people from other parts of the country stereotype the Lone Star State in such reductive terms.

“People forget that Texas is very queer and very Black and very Latino,” she says. “So, so, so many other minority groups have huge fucking communities down here.” The state is large, she continues – larger even than France, for those unfamiliar – with progressive, multicultural bubbles scattered throughout its sea of red. “There are so many counties that are just mostly empty, and then there are all the mostly white farm towns. It’s complicated. There are a lot of contradictions down here, and it’s important for people to know that when they talk about what’s going on.”

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My dad has bees. Today, I went to his house and he showed me all the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.

I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.

Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.

We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.

When it was time for me to leave, we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.

Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.

Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.

We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.

Bee kind always.

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The thing about conservative governments and institutional mass prejudice against certain groups is, while they help a small group of people attain power and money (it's almost always a money/land grab), they are overall terrible for economies and standards of living for literally everyone else. We know this. There is evidence of it everywhere. Crushing diversity, and education, and public health, leads to stagnation and poverty, not growth. If you want modern examples, look at any red state in America. No industries, few resources, perhaps lower taxes but also nearly everything is privately owned and anyway, the lower taxes means nothing gets built or repaired (bridges, roads, hospitals, schools, fire departments). The bright people in the state who can, flee to other states (brain drain) and those who can't flee are generally forced into hiding their true selves or are forced to work low wage jobs to make ends meet and do not have time to invent or make art or do anything to contribute to their communities.

And the very rich love this, and for some reason, a bunch of not rich and will never be rich people also love this, even though it only sucks for them. And right now, it's not even a matter of a few very rich, old families trying to keep power and gain money like it was before, it's a bunch of billionaires and trillionaires. And someone needs to explain to the very old moneyed families that they are not on Bezos or Musk or Thiel's (or Kylie Jenner or Tayor Swift or Oprah's) levels and never will be.

This post is brought to you by Iowa, a state full of Republicans that should but probably won't realize that voting away someone's rights will not, in fact, benefit them or bring jobs back. But I guess at least trans people won't feel safe. So that will put a moment of pleasure in their greasy evil hearts.

sorry. sometimes my brain just screams things at me.

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The point of the internet is for trannies and furries to meet each other, and for grandparents with undiagnosed autism to teach younger generations about their incredibly niche interests and craftwork skills. Everything else is bloat.

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HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

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I can feel a headache building :(:(:(

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Attorney Generals from several states are going to be holding Community Impact Hearings in March, basically townhalls to hear complaints about DOGE's bullshit. Oregon and Arizona for sure, but it might be worth seeing your state's AG is also planning one. California's is already suing Trump, I know that much, but I don't know about this.

link from bluesky

in other news, John Deere's shareholders also voted to keep DEI. Paramount, however, did not. Neither did the American branch of Aldi's.

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I always forget how small my local library is, then I go in and they'll have like, one Agatha Christie book in their mystery section, or I'll notice the sci-fi/fantasy section is just two shelves.

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.