#I’m blocking accounts constantly it’s ridiculous

[redmeet]

the sheer amount of tweets from people with eating disorders that show up in my for you page… literally WHY

[mixtape-timeout]

It’s baffling to discover that certain authors have blocked me since I made that post. Let me reiterate that holding people accountable for Zionism is not drama, and refusing to platform people with such ideologies is an important part of activism. It always begins with your own community. I have been isolated from many people in my own, real life community for my strong activism for Palestine. I find it very offensive for users who have never spoken about Palestine to pretend I’m just an online Twitter-fingers type person when I have sacrificed so much in my life and fought so hard both in real life and online for Palestine. To act like I am attacking someone on the internet just to feel morally superior is a completely ludicrous statement and diverting from the true issue.

If you think that someone:

1.) Blocking countless Pro-Palestine people ((including other authors))

2.) Taking issues with boycotts and refusing to boycott, calling boycotting “pathetic”.

3.) Making many Pro-Israel posts calling Palestinians terrorists then deleting them only because of backlash.

4.) Making almost every conversation about the genocide about how Israel is the victim, refusing to acknowledge Israel’s crimes, and sharing “activism” posts that skews the genocide as a "war" where both sides are suffering instead of what it really is: The oppressors commiting genocide on the oppressed.

5.) Saying a Zionist propoganda movie which glorifies a Zionist war criminal is your all time favorite.

6.) Using Zionist talking points such as “Zionist is just another word for Jew” and is just another way to be anti-semitic.

If you think all of these examples don’t indicate where that person’s loyalties lie and don’t warrant being called out, I truly don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s ridiculous to act like I’m grasping at straws to look morally superior when there is so much clear evidence. I was terrified to make that post for days because I have been constantly attacked and ostracized for supporting Palestine in real life. My friends advised me to turn off my DMS and Inbox because they knew I would get hate for it here, too. I made that post purely to warn Stays of an individual with dangerous beliefs in our community, and if you see that as something to block me for, you need to re-evaluate yourself.

[akiizayoi4869]

(Mini rant since I know you also love Aang) I’m sorry but takes by that one Zutara account the-badger-mole is genuinely so bad, I’m dead serious. 😭They constantly try to twist Aang and make it look like Zuko is the second coming of Christ while Aang is the love child of Satan. It’s hilarious- like…I love Zuzu but to say HE was more altruistic than Aang in season 1 is hilarious. I saw a post saying that and my mind deadass melted. 💀Idm Zutara I think it’s okay but I don’t understand demonizing Mai or Aang, both are good characters and all have their own flaws…

Not to mention Idk they just seem sort of condescending to me if that makes sense? Like I just get a bad vibe from TBM 😭sorry for long ask but I just wanted to know your thoughts on their…interesting takes lol

Oh I blocked them back when I first joined the fandom on this hellsite🤣. A mutual of mine warned me about them, Sokkastyles, and a few other big names over in Zutara land. Unfortunately though I do see their takes from time to time since I follow Kataang shippers/ Maiko shippers and vice versa, and they sometimes make or reblog a post about the badger mole, debunking whatever wild claim they made (which is always amusing to see). The way how they try and paint Zuko as this saint who could do no wrong, including how he was back in book 1 is, like you said, hilarious. Not only does that just completely undermine his redemption arc, something that Zuko fans claim to love and swear up and down is the greatest redemption arc in TV history (spoiler alert: it's not) the way how they demonize Aang and try to say that he was a creepy possessive rapist just so that they can uplift Zutara as being this perfect ship is ridiculous. I seriously think that they just watched a completely different show from the rest of us lmao. And same, I also like Zutara. I don't have any issues with the ship whatsoever, but the vast majority of the shippers just get on my last nerves with their horrible takes😭. Not to mention that they act as if they are the only ones who understands Zuko and Katara, when really all they understand is two oc's who are committing identity fraud. Not liking Maiko or Kataang is fine, but you don't have to make up completely batshit reasons to justify hating them.

You're right, they do have a condescending attitude. They're on this high horse because they see shipping Zutara as being superior and smarter than anyone else in the fandom, which is honestly pretty pathetic. Imagine feeling that way because you ship a non canon couple. Get a life and get over yourself.

[heyftinally]

https://www.tumblr.com/defendingts/750845507072622592/what-do-you-think-the-p-and-the-r-in-pr-stand-for?source=share

“no celebrity is treated the way Taylor is.”

That is such an outrageous claim. Taylor is praised by 90% of the media. Taylor has a [rabid] fan base that send literal death threats to people who voice their negative opinions on her. Taylor being called out for genuinely bad work and bad choices is not hate it’s accountability.

Britney Spears has it worse than Taylor and continues to have it worse than most celebrities. Miley Cyrus endured some of the worst treatment from the general public and media of a current star when she was growing up. Justin Bieber has been abused by the media since he was 15. Michael Jackson was ridiculed at every turn when he was alive and people still tried to take advantage and drag his name through the dirt after he died. Marilyn Monroe was treated as more of an object than a person and still is mistreated today with misrepresentations of her life being made for entertainment purposes. Cassie literally just had footage of being assaulted by her ex Diddy released to the public. God I could keep going but I won’t. The proof is out there. She’s just too blind to see it. She claims she’s not a Swiftie but she clearly is. If she’s neutral towards Taylor she could at least acknowledge that Taylor has had it very easy in contrast to MOST celebrities.

I had her original account blocked but she made a new one and keeps posting in the anti tag and I’m just fed up. I’ve blocked her again but I needed to rant. Most people in the anti tag aren’t actively hating just expressing their frustrations and even if they were hating. ITS IN THE ANTI TAG. OMG. Sorry but she’s clearly a Swiftie who doesn’t have a god damn life and is baiting people into her ask box. She probably sends herself messages to show she’s got a larger following than she actually does. It’s pathetic. She calls antis pathetic but really we vent to a couple of blogs who agree with our thoughts and those blogs post them. She’s the one seeking out these things to complain about them. It’s so f*ckin annoying

I've honestly called other performers WAY worse things than I've called Taylor Swift. I've criticized countless artists for a variety of things. Hell, anyone who knows me knows I have just as many issues with Harry Styles as I do Taylor Swift (they're basically two versions of the same issues if you ask me).

I tag my posts the way I do for one reason, and one reason only: so that swifties can block me, block the tag(s), and fuck off. I'm not going to sit here and try to convince someone that they shouldn't support her - that has to come from your own moral compass. But in return, don't come on to my posts and tell me I'm wrong for having an opinion based on the facts we're given 24/7.

And as far as the old bullshit of "antis are pathetic" (how very 2010 tumblr lol), I say mocking someone for having an opinion you don't like is MORE pathetic. Taylor Swift is shoved down our throats literally constantly - if I'm forced to be aware of her bullshit, I'm going to have an opinion on it. If that opinion isn't favorable towards her, sucks to fucking suck. You know what I don't post about? Who Hilary Duff did or didn't go on a date with last weekend. Because I have no clue what happens in her personal life, and I'm not about to go be a stalker freak to find out. If Taylor Swift can't stand people not liking her, maybe she should put less of herself on display. And again, if swifties don't like my opinions, they can block me and my tags like adults and move on.

[jewishbarbies]

I try to avoid Swift as much as possible. I have her and her tags blocked on all social media, I say not interested when posts about her pop up, but I still see stuff about her constantly.

Yesterday I heard one of her songs playing from outside a restaurant, I also bought myself a book. After I got home I took off the price sticker and what do I see? A review stating "part-cultural exposé, part-Taylor Swift album."

I cannot escape this fucking woman. She is haunting me. I probably wouldn't feel actual hatred towards her if she wasn't shoved in my face from every direction.

Yours and the other anti Taylor accounts are the only things that keep me sane because you see her for what she really is: a brand who only cares about her self and will tear down everyone who she sees as a threat in the name of feminism.

I'm aware this rant comes off a bit unhinged, but I just needed somewhere to vent my frustrations. Thank you for not buying her bullshit.

not unhinged at all imo. it’s perfectly reasonable to have an aversion to something so inescapable no matter how hard you try. I’m gone to insane lengths to block her from my life and yet I’m still seeing her everywhere, on every app and website and hearing her music in every store. it’s getting ridiculous how unavoidable she is.

[queensakuradefender]

Since I’ve had to delete and block a few people calling me a “Zionist” and “nazi” cause of @nejisworshipper I’ll clear my side cause it’s ridiculous.. So I’ve been told that she literally talks about what anime character would support either side like between Palestine and Israel or something.. to be clear on that behalf I support Palestine and Ukraine, I’m against g-cide however I don’t usually speak on that publicly since I don’t want to cause drama

However This girl has in fact victim blamed and acts as if she hasn’t mocked Palestine even during the g-cide..

This is another one of her many accounts but she victimizes herself constantly.. even then to be clear I’m not a Nazi🤦‍♀️

[failing-to-write-again]

The Dancer and the Deadbeat

Part 1 Chapter 3

[Image description: Shu Sakamaki, blonde haired blue eyed vampire. Dressed in a white shirt, tan cardigan, and black blazer. His right hand is holding the back of his head as he looks at the viewer. His eyes are widened slightly with his mouth partially opened indicating shock. ]

(this is the face I kept thinking about writing this, I love the fact his eyes hide nothing lol)

Note to anyone reading this, if you have the time I have a poll on my account asking about the new style for this story. If you could answer I'd really appreciate it!

“I need someone to bring these manuscripts to the teacher’s lounge. Miss Himura, would you mind?” The teacher turns towards me, gesturing to a stack of 20 A4 English manuscripts. She must’ve noticed me zoning out again, hardly my fault I’m stuck in a high school class I’m far too old for. Why the Sakamaki’s, or their father I suppose, chose to cycle through this level of education is beyond me entirely. For the responsibility they'll one day be under you would think the knowledge the princes could gather by travelling through universities would serve them better. Then again vampires have to age, for all their years the triplets resemble 16 year olds in body and mind. Shu and Reiji would fit in but Shu already skips every class and Reiji seems the only one capable of wrangling his siblings. I’d never been in a high school before, I had private tutors for a time before I took on the responsibility of Richter’s heir. I think I would’ve preferred to have never stepped foot in a high school. I gather up the manuscripts while having daggers shot at the back of my head by the class Sakamaki groupie, lugging them out into the corridor and letting the door shut behind me. At least I can finally breathe without someone taking notes to gossip about. Poor Yui, how long had she had to deal with this and she’s an actual teenager. I only hope she doesn’t take it too much to heart. 

A breeze flows through the open windows of the hall, I can feel it rustle the hem of this ridiculous skirt. Another sin committed by this hell hole. This uniform was not built for an adult, or anyone with a different build apparently. The blouse was scratchy and fit weirdly, the blazer was even worse but I had been denied the option of the wool jumper by Reiji. The thigh highs rolled down constantly, resulting in teachers reprimanding me for something entirely out of my control. All of this paled in comparison to the skirt, a scratchy, weird fitting, short piece of fabric that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I looked frumpy to put it bluntly with the bags under my eyes worsening the look. Thankfully no one was around to see me. Adelaide had somehow made the thing look passable, not surprising knowing her. That girl is immune to having a hair out of place, I blame the fact Richter took us in when I was 18 but she was 3, she only remembers the aristocratic life. I need to talk to her, every day that passes with us kept apart is a risk and unprogressive in getting us home. That was the other benefit of these random jobs, if Adie does the same we’ll cross paths eventually without interference. Unfortunately so far I’ve only come across Shu sleeping in halls. He is undoubtedly odd. He ranges from crude, almost flirty comments, to rude remarks, to just stonewalling me. Since he figured out I could give back what I got he had upped the ante with the sarcasm, thankfully I was better at keeping my mouth shut when it came to important information. I can’t tell if the enjoyment he gets from it is from me or the idea of food talking back like a cat playing with a mouse. Definitely the latter.

Turning the corner I’m essentially blind with paper obscuring the floor, which wouldn’t be an issue if a narcoleptic didn’t block corridors. My foot snags on a pant leg and I’m suddenly tumbling head over heels as my ridiculous skirt does nothing to protect my legs. Instead of fully falling on my face, a knee raises to brace my chest while the manuscripts scatter in front of me as I fall to my knees. The skirt settles against my skin as I take note of my position. He finally took his shoes back at least, must not be helping much with my left knee pressing down on his toes. I can feel my ankles bent awkwardly resting over his other leg, the rest of my body was between his legs resting against him. 

“You should get less plain underwear if you’re going to flaunt yourself like that.” I pull back so I’m holding myself up, resting my hands in my lap. I turn to face the smug vampire. A smirk tugs on his lips as his leg lowers itself back to the ground he continues, “although better underwear won’t do anything to save you with how ill fitting that uniform is on you…It’s so stiff it's making me uncomfortable, how bothersome.” Of all the vampires to be stuck with, I’m stuck with this pervert.

“Did you hit your head and knock what little thoughts remained from it?” I’ve been staring and silent for far too long.

“No just waiting for you to get bored, you’re lying anyway.”  I keep my voice cool and face blank, hopefully he does actually get bored so I can finish this inane task.

“Lying?” Shu shifts to sit up, his arm reaches out to grab me by the arm. I’m pulled to face him, an arm’s length apart. “Where did I lie?”

“Since when is lace plain?” I sound far too smug for my own good, the face Shu was making was certainly worth it though. He is really bad at handling teasing with a straight face, his eyes go all wide and he looks so much less deadpan this way. His grip tightens around my arm as he pulls himself back together and into his sarcastic ways. The smirk returns as his eyes sweep down to the sliver of thigh visible from my skirt. The silence was palpable, broken by the low rumble of Shu’s laugh. His face suddenly pulls closer, his hand moving to gently hold the back of my neck blocking any escape. Lips a breath’s width apart, his fingers brush the hair at the nape of my neck. His laugh continues low and grumbly. It vibrated through his fingers and in the air around us. It was almost suffocating. I could feel my cheeks warm. I raise my palms to rest flat against his chest but they are hardly effective at putting some distance between us. The solid wall of his chest is not budging in the slightest.

“What a filthy woman associating herself with demons and flaunting her underwear for anyone to see,” his other hand moves while he speaks, coming to rest at my hip dangerously close to my skirt’s waistband. “Definitely not a church girl, that other girl would be scrambling away by now.”

“I told you already, I’ve been stuck around vampires far too long to care about that stuff anymore.” He still doesn’t look like he believes me, how many church girls has he and his brothers killed? You’d think the exasperation in my tone would be enough, it was hard to fake this much exhaustion at his antics.I abandon my efforts at pushing him away. My hands shift to lightly hold his jumper, shifting my weight to sit more comfortably. Before either of us can speak a gasp interrupts us. I whip my head around fast enough to catch a glimpse of the same classmate from earlier run off. Great, now she’s really going to have it in for me seeing me up close with her crush. I chew the inside of my cheek, letting my head fall back.

“Ugh! How are you so good at causing grief for me?” I need to collect those manuscripts and get going before classes end and even more Sakamaki fangirls spot me. Shu simply chuckles, splaying his fingers further tangling in my hair guiding me to look back at him. I give him my best disinterested face but his smirk remains.

“You should really learn to be more afraid for your own sake, demons aren’t nice.”

“I don’t fear heaven or hell, the biggest worry on my mind is what that girl is going to tell the rest of your little fan squad.” He hums tilting his head, half lidded eyes staring up at me. His hand lowers from my waist to the skirts edge, fingers tickling my exposed skin.

“Prove it.” I want to wipe that grin off his face so bad.

“Promise to let me go?” 

“Why not, it’s not as if you will-!” I surge forward closing the small gap left between us, my fingers grip at his cardigan. I can feel his breath catch as he freezes against me. It only lasts a second before I pull back to his gobsmacked expression. Puffing out a breath I giggle. 

“See, if they exist I’m not going to heaven and just did yet another act that’s sending me straight to hell.” I back away grabbing the manuscripts and assembling a quick pile. Just before picking them up I turn to look back at the still stunned vampire. 

“I don’t dislike that expression, just don’t get any ideas perverted man.” 

I stand and make my escape, if I’m fast I’ll be done and back before the bell chimes.

…

What on Earth did I just do!?

[themis-moved]

A post about what I’ve been doing, and how I’ve been doing:

I got a job around July of last year. It’s right around the block from where I live, so I have essentially no difficulty showing up for my shifts. On top of that, the people I work with are all completely delightful and constantly show me that they care about me and my well-being, co-workers and managers alike.

To drive home the fact: my birthday passed in February. I requested my birthday off, and I got it, but when I came back to work for my next shift, my executive chef had literally bought a cake for me. After I got off my break and returned to the line, there was the Minions birthday song playing on the speakers. ( 😭 ) But my chef was standing at my station with the cake and candles in it for me.

My assistant general manager had also put a candle in a Hostess cupcake and brought it to me mid-rush as a gift:

I had a party on my birthday - which only about 4 or 5 of my friends were able to attend, but I’m grateful they did - and one of my coworkers gave me his two favorite books, Into the Magic Shop and The Obstacle is the Way. I finished ITMS recently and it was so outstanding it made me cry on numerous occasions. I have yet to start TOITW. I see why ITMS is one of his favorites, and I look forward to reading TOITW. I overwhelmingly recommend reading Into the Magic Shop (author James R. Doty, MD).

Do you remember Avery? and Mokushi? The story that Avery was originally part of has been slightly overhauled, and the previous owner of Mokushi transferred ownership of her to me. I’ve expanded the rest of the “TARDUS Crew” with 3 new characters - Renatas Monte, Emil Oberto, and Hường Hoa. I’ve started working on a few little pieces of writing for the TARDUS story itself, which can be found on the site, but I also expanded into Fallout 4 AU territory with “To Change and Not to Change” (subtitle What Grief Does to People, for the ridiculous acronym TCANTCWGDTP) which I have gotten heavily invested in. The stories of Mokushi, Emil, and Danse are outlined, and I have yet to write out Avery’s story. Hường also comes into play in Mokushi’s story, and I have plans to write out Mokushi and Hường’s initial meeting.

(Footnote for TARDUS/TCANTC: There’s an ‘incorrect quotes’ page on the TARDUS site. Very fun to read, and offers a quick depiction of the relationships between the characters/how they tend to interact with each other. “K” stands for me, Kepler, because I’m funny.)

All in all, only outlines taken into account, I have written ~7,500 words for TCANTC. I have also drawn a comic titled “Medical Attention” for one of the events in TCANTC, as well as a 3-chapter, ~8k word fic following TCANTC’s version of the Blind Betrayal quest from Fallout 4. It is available to read on my website, and also hosted on Archive of Our Own. (Don’t @ me, it’s still one of the best-constructed and high-traffic writing sites on the internet.) I’ve also commissioned Moth to build a site for me, which looks amazing - it can be found at a sub-link of his Neocities, here.

I’ve stayed close with a few of my friends from Tumblr, like Moth and Apollo. A few others have hovered around though I haven’t stayed in extensive close contact with them, like Hero, Isadora, and Jay. I’ve also made a variety of new friends, such as Capt, Xeno, Clymene, Shiny, and Hacksick. I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to - and doing writing sprints with - some slightly older, more experienced writers, who I will not name to maintain their anonymity. They don’t face publicly on the internet, and I expect they would appreciate me upholding that. I’ve also been making friends with my neighbors and the people in my community - who I also will not name, for my safety and their privacy. If I didn’t name-drop you directly, and you expected to be here - sorry! There’s a whole lot of people that come in and out, or who pop up for a conversation or two every once in a while, and I appreciate you just the same. ❤️

I also broke up with and cut off my ex-girlfriend who I mentioned at times in the past. She still lives near me, which I loathe, but I don’t cross paths with her very often, which I am grateful for. In her stead, I have been talking to and connecting with a variety of other trans people in my area. All around, it’s been good to fill my life with close friends and real people. I feel much more present, less isolated, much happier, and more fulfilled for it.

I have also been stepping up to do more volunteer work for the less fortunate people in my city and the surrounding area. There is a mission that I’ve started to work with weekly to distribute food to the homeless, and I personally take leftover food from work (that would normally get thrown away at the end of the day) to redistribute to the homeless people directly in my neighborhood.

The weather around here has also been steadily improving - less snow and more sunshine - and I look forward to when the days start getting warmer so I can return to rollerblading regularly. With my job being so close to my home (just about a mile), I greatly enjoy rollerblading to work when the weather permits. When the weather is too cold but the streets aren’t snowed over, I usually like to take an electric scooter. If there is snow outside, I tend to get a Lyft to work.

I also decided to make the bad wonderful decision to install Final Fantasy XIV, and I’ve sunk 80+ hours into it already. I’m completely taken with the story of it - though I haven’t even finished the storyline of A Realm Reborn (the ‘base game’) - and I greatly enjoy the photo mode that it offers. If anyone else plays FFXIV, I’m Syn Kepler on the Siren world on the Aether datacenter. I plan on making at least one more character, on a different datacenter, sometime in the future. It’s been a lot of fun.

I’ve especially fallen in love with Thancred Waters and Cid Garlond. My main character, Syn, is a male Au Ra with the height scale set to maximum, and everyone looks tiny compared to him. I love it. (Thancred is in the first picture, Cid in the second.)

All around, life has been good. Things have gotten weird at times, and pretty awful at others, but I find that they impact me much less nowadays. Even when I think about bad things, when I remember negative memories, when things go awry, the negative emotions I feel about them are an under-current compared to the joy of living my day to day life. I wake up in the mornings happy to start a new day, to talk to my friends, to see my co-workers, to work on the things that I love. The positives of my life, after 20+ years, finally outweigh the negatives. It makes me grateful that I survived the dozens of suicide attempts throughout my life, that I’ve finally made it to that ever-preached day that “it gets better.”

It really does get better. You might - if not most likely, will - suffer. Life will be shitty, sometimes. You’ll lose friends so close to you it makes you want to die, but after the fact, you will earn new friends that you find just as much joy with. Different changes in life will make different people happy - what made me happy was freedom, to move out of the South, to live on my own, to be able to cut and color my hair and dress all the ways that I want to. To live in a place that I do not constantly fear for my safety as a transgender, gender-non-conforming, nonbinary person. To work with people who accept me at face value and don’t harass me for being transgender, who don’t say transphobic things to my face and behind my back. To work in the kitchen, and not in the dining, to not deal with customers - who have often also been the perpetrators of harassment in the past.

I’ve updated my blog themes to contain the lyrics to Sunshine by Atmosphere (YouTube, Spotify) because it wonderfully reflects the joy I finally have in life.

In the words of Slug (the MC of Atmosphere), whom I love so dearly:

Every day that gets to pass is a success.

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏

A list of albums I’ve found and loved (Spotify links only):

Fight With Tools - FLOBOTS Cardboard Castles - Watsky When Life Gives You Lemons - Atmosphere God Loves Ugly - Atmosphere Knew School - Knowmads Prohibition Swing - Lyre Le Temps Power in Numbers - Jurassic 5 This Is How We Get Better - The Narcissist Cookbook

[survey--s]

525.

Do you like getting flowers as a gift? I love flowers but they’re not most practical of gifts - I always appreciate them when they’re given to me.

Who is one person you never get tired of? I don’t think anyone falls into that category, everyone pisses me off eventually lol.

How different would your life be if “that one thing” didn’t happen? I mean, very different.

What is “that one thing”? My break-up with Chris.

What’s the most desperate thing you did? Nothing in particular is really coming to mind right now.

Where was the last place you took a train to? Manchester.

What are your living arrangements currently? Are you happy with them? I live with my husband, two cats and a dog and yes, I’m very happy.

Have you met your soulmate? I don't believe in those.

If your best friend wanted to cheat on their partner, you would say what? I mean, our marriage would be over.

Who do you know that gives very sound advice? My dad is actually really good with advice, he’s very practical.

At what age did you start to feel like a teen and not a kid anymore? Around 12-13.

What is your parents’ idea of grounding you? I was never grounded.

Do you think art museums are pointless? I mean, they’re not pointless but I would never voluntarily go to one.

Do you care about looks when you’re looking for a romantic partner? To an extent, sure.

How many times have you moved? I have no idea, 5-6 maybe?

Is Christmas stressful? No, but then again, I don’t have kids and I take two weeks off work at Christmas so I don’t really have to worry about much.

Your best friend has a good or bad taste in music? Bad lol.

What would your friends be surprised to see in your music library? I have no idea.

Do you like to talk about the future when in a serious relationship? Yeah, I mean, it’s important to have the same goals.

Do you like public displays of affection? No.

Do you believe in moving in together before engagement or marriage? Yeah, personally I think it’s fucking ridiculous to agree to marry someone that you’ve never even lived with before.

Do you watch mukbangs? No.

Do you have a lot of friends? Do you have a partner? Have you ever had one? No, yes, yes.

Do you currently have any hickeys? From who? No.

Who was the last person to come to your house? Aside from family, it was Helen I think.

Have you ever had sex with the same gender? No.

If you’ve experienced both, is sex better with men or women? ...

Have you ever been the other woman? No.

Would you ever want to be with a virgin? If no, why not? Not at my age, no, because I’d want someone with experience and who has been in a committed sexual relationship before.

Do you constantly find yourself internet stalking your ex? No, last I knew he only had Facebook and I was (rightfully) blocked, but I haven't even tried to look in a very long time. I don't look at Sara's accounts anywhere because I've learned it never, ever serves me any sort of good whatsoever so I just don't.

Are you friends with any of your exes? Not really.

Do you have an addiction? To what? The internet and caffeine.

Blunts, bowls or bongs? None of the above.

When you have a fight with your partner what do you do? We normally give each other some breathing space, then talk it over.

Who does the grocery shopping in your house? We each buy our own stuff.

Are your parents still together? Yeah, they’ve been married almost forty years.

Have any siblings you know of but don’t actually know personally? Technically yes, as my dad was a sperm donor, but I don’t really think of them as my siblings.

Greatest fear? Cancer, dementia and homelessness.

Something most people fear that you do not fear at all? Snakes.

Don’t you hate getting nice & comfy & then having to pee? Hahaha yes, and as soon as I realise I need to pee, I can’t relax or sleep until I get up and go, lol.

Ever faked being pregnant? No.

Ever had a major surgery performed on you? Nope.

Which of the seven deadly sins are you guilty of? Sloth and greed lol.

Do you believe in divorce? Absolutely - why on earth would you make people stay married to someone who makes them miserable? Or even worse, who is abusive?

Is intelligence a turn on for you? Yes, but not necessarily book-smarts - common sense and street smarts are important too.

Who has made the biggest sacrifice for you? My parents.

Do you treat others better or worse than yourself and why? About the same, I suppose.

When you sleep next to someone who usually falls asleep first? Normally the other person, but it does depend how tired I am.

Do you think it is harder for a parent to outlive their child or for their child to outlive them? I think it must be horrendous for a parent to bury their child. Obviously it’s horrendous to lose a parent too, but that’s what’s supposed to happen.

What is one selfish thing you tend to do? Take over the music in the car lol.

What kinds of people do you find intimidating? People who really talkative and socially confident.

Who is the most overbearing person you know? My old manager fell into that category.

How old was the first person you kissed? We were both eleven.

Do you plan on moving out within the next year? No. I have no plans to move anytime soon.

Have you ever slept nude? Yeah, but I much prefer to wear something to bed.

How many stories tall is your dream house? Three.

Do you consider yourself to be promiscuous? No.

Do you have any obscure pets? No, just cats and a dog.

Do you consider yourself politically correct? No. I know it’s increasingly unpopular view, but I do think people are becoming too easily offended.

[andersonpress]

n\ew shit

brownies. constipation. a resurgence of anxiety. im awake. im hungover. at the point of life where things lose their shimmer. never as good as the first try. curating my life experience as I go. exploring my individual freedom at this point. open notes. closed notebooks. built up expectations broken down truths. feeling like im needing stasis. an individual experience.

who am I now?

I’m scared.

I have bills I can’t afford.

People I owe with no way of how to pay.

And I feel like shit. I feel like an idiot for thinking this would turn out how I expected.

I hate that it always gets to this. Me - negative account with too many responsibilities.

I want to be able to give others a boost, some money, some exposure, some help...and it never seems to be that way for me. I can’t keep begging people for money or working at places that don’t deserve me for a check. I need a regular payment schedule - this shit is ridiculous.

I hate it here. I hate myself for getting into this. And I hate myself for letting it go this far. I want to sleep today. I want to duck off.

I don’t want to be seen, my shame will introduce me.

Haven’t eaten in days - no money for food. Don’t know how I will get to work - no money for gas. It’s been weeks like this and I’m afraid I’ll stay like this.

Constantly working, never satisfied, always looking for the next play.

I just want this to be over. I want to run. I need to hide.

I’d have everything I need. I wouldn’t need to ask any hu/man for anything. I wouldn’t need to lie anymore. I could relax. I’d just sit all day, maybe read a book, skinny dip. I just wish I could live on an island. That I could erase myself from the grid. Find a new life with a new start. No debt. No jobs. Just sitting.

I’m about to literally lie to get where and what I want. 2021 smells like LIES. And ignoring. And blocking.

I wish I could live on an island. And only leave when I wanted.

[inditaiga]

Imagine how fucking dumb you would have to be for you to believe the man that dumped you like a year ago but wanted to keep in contact until he totally shut you out messaged you in the middle of the night saying he misses you and thinks about you daily and wants you back in his life and you spend like 4 hours talking to him

And then he wakes up in the morning and blocks you again but this time forever.

What an absolute idiot you’d have to be to believe him.

And you don’t know if you’re shut back out because of something you said, if he was only messaging you because he was drunk or on coke, if he is just embarrassed for being vulnerable with you. If he actually meant what he said. If some how it was just some really awfully timed tech issue even but that's ridiculous. Or what. And you send a message from a different twitter account that he follows still for whatever reason that’s supposed to be offering a clean slate because you’re apparently insane as well as a fucking idiot and you love him even though he was so horribly unkind to you for months while you were having a hard time that you totally lost it. But it doesn’t sound like a clean slate in a I miss you way it sounds like a clean slate in a you need to move past it way because earlier you pointed out that you shouldn’t be talking to each other in the way he said he misses. Because you wanted to say yeah I want to show you things that you/i/we would think are cool constantly too I think about you constantly and have memories popping up all the time but you can’t say that because you’re the one that got dumped. You’re the pathetic one. And it hurts. You can’t say I miss you and I think about you all the time to the person that doesn’t want you. It hurts to have the person that decided they’d rather be alone than be with you turn around and tell you they miss you when you know he doesn’t want you back or to try again and that he’s not interested in fixing it or a relationship with you. Because it’s 4am and he always saw being with you as settling, and if he wanted to be with you he’d just say so. He would literally just say so.

I said I wanted to be with you. I wanted to commit myself to someone. That you were the only person I wanted. And you told me you couldn’t be serious about me, that long term with me would never be an option. So please if you don’t want me I can’t take it anymore. It hurts. It really hurts still after all this time. If you want me tell me. If you don’t please, please stop hurting me.

I was starting to finally get over it by accepting that you’d just never cared about me at all. And then you go and be so sweet? And then so immediately cruel? I’m so confused. I’m so confused. I can’t keep ugly sobbing like this it’s going to give me frown-lines and crows-feet.

I think about you constantly. And I hope you keeping thinking about me every day too for at least as long as I do you. But if you don’t want me. Please don’t tell me about missing me, it just makes me miss you more and come up with ridiculous what ifs. It’s not nice. Giving me that false hope is not a nice thing to do.

[legoshi-plz]

Notice Me Part I

Pairing: Izuku Midoriya x Reader (eventually), Best Friend! Shinsou Hitoshi x Reader

Summary: College AU. Reader feels like she’s constantly overlooked/ ignored and she’s made her peace with that.

Warnings: Reader is coded as plus-size and non-Japanese (as a Black writer, I write with a Black reader in mind but the story can be read by anyone as skin and hair type are not mentioned at all.) Midoriya is Mixed (1/2, his father is Black) which isn’t a major plot point of the story but it’s mentioned like once. Also his hair is described as extremely curly + textured.

A/N: This is completely self indulgent. Please ignore if you don’t like or it offends you, this is literally just a lil treat for myself and the other black bnha girlies. Againf, it can be read by anyone though since technically anyone non-Japanese would be considered a foreigner.

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“You know, maybe you’d get to class on time if you didn’t tear your closet apart every morning,” Shinsou hummed from your doorway.

“How did you get here?” You were currently hoping on one foot trying to put your shoes on while not tripping over the piles of clothes you’d scattered on the floor.

“Your suitemate left the front door open. Now come on, I’m not letting you make me late.... again,” Shinsou turned as if he would leave without you but you knew he wouldn’t. If he was that anxious to get there on time, he would have never made the trek to get you in the first place.

“Right behind ya,” you mumbled grabbing your backpack and heading out the door.

Walking to class every morning with Shinsou was both a blessing and a curse. You were grateful he came by because it held you accountable for actually getting to your 8a.m. lecture however going anywhere with a guy as popular as Shinsou on campus could be... tiring, to say the least.

You had known Shinsou since you were in middle school where the two of you formed a quick and firm bond over the fact that you were both effectively ostracized from the rest of your schoolmates; Shinsou for his abnormal quick and you for being a foreigner. In all the time throughout middle school, people basically ignored you two, leaving you both in your own little world. However things changed drastically at U.A., at least for Shinsou they did.

When he finally joined your side in the Hero course, him being in class B while you remained in class A, Shinsou’s popularity skyrocketed. You saw him less than ever before as he was always training to perfect that muscular physique or with one of his many many admirers. He was one of the biggest players on campus and that title followed him well into his university years.

“Good Morning, Toshiii,” a voice called across campus. Shinsou waved in the poor girl’s general direction but never stopped walking forward.

“You do the homework last night?” Shinsou asked, nudging your side.

“Yeah, didn’t you? We got that assignment weeks ago.”

“You could say I’ve been a little... distracted lately,” Shinsou’s smirk told you everything you needed to know. That distraction was none other than his bustling social life with the opposite sex.

“I’ll send you the assignment. Pdf or Doc?” You sighed. Shinsou might be a little underprepared but he was still your best friend and you weren’t going to punish him for having a successful dating life.

“Doc please,” Shinsou hit you with that ridiculous ear to ear grin of his for when he got his way, which was pretty much all the time.

Class went by normal as ever but you couldn’t take your eyes off of one certain oblivious block of ice that sat exactly two rows down, three seats away from you. You were embarrassed that you had even counted.

During your third year at U.A., you interned at Endeavor’s hero agency with none other than the Half and Half prodigy himself. With his usual counterparts electing to seek out different agencies, it was just you and him working alongside each other for weeks and weeks. It was then you got to know him and realized how genuine he actually was. And funny and even considerate, in his own awkward way. It was there you fell for him and you’d been infatuated ever since.

Only he never saw you in that way. He never seemed to see anyone in that way. You had tried ingratiating your way into his friend group and though they were nice enough, you could never actually feel comfortable with any of them except for Midoriya. Midoriya knew to an extent what it was like to feel ‘different’ and he always made a huge effort to make you feel included in the group. If he noticed you weren’t talking much, he’d engage you in conversation, ask you questions, really listen to your answer and overall try to ease any awkward silences. He was a godsend and you were eternally grateful for his efforts but eventually you got the message that Todoroki would never notice you in that way and just stopped trying so hard.

“Something interesting about the back of Todoroki’s head?” Shinsou sneered beside you. He was the number one advocate for you to stop wasting your time on a lost cause like Shouto Todoroki. As your best friend, he always told you the cold, honest truth, no matter how much it hurt sometimes.

“Can’t a girl dream?” You sigh gazing back at the subject of your affection. As if sensing your eyes in their direction, Midoriya looked back from his seat besides Todoroki and locked eyes with you, giving an awkward wave that made you want to sink into the floor. You waved back slightly before turning to wallow in your own cringe.

After class ended, you stayed behind a bit to send Shinsou a few missing homework assignments and notes. As the two of you were exiting the class, you passed by Ochako, Iida, and Midoriya who seemed to be having quite the heated conversation. You were content to follow Shinsou’s lead and just walk past them when suddenly you heard a chipper voice call out to you.

“Y/N! You have great timing, you’re just who we need!” Ochako practically bounced over to you, her cheeks as pink as ever.

“Are you busy this Saturday? You wanna hang out with us?” She asked, her eyes wide. You were never really that close to Ochako in high school as she was always wrapped in other things (mainly her boyfriend Iida) but you didn’t dislike her by any means, which made you feel bad for wanting to decline her invitation.

“Um, why uh, why me?”

“We need an even number! So can you make it? Pretty please?” She was doing that thing where she had all of her fingertips pressed to one another and you knew you couldn’t say no to those big brown eyes.

“S-sure,” You looked over to your best friend who was observing the whole scene before him with a look of utter boredom. “Shinsou, you should come with us.”

“They need an even number, remember?” Shinsou rolled his eyes, while walking off. The two of you usually get breakfast after class so you hurried off after him.

“Okay, I’ll see you guys Saturday. Just text me the details,” you waved, rushing off.

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AN: Introductory chapter honestly, but hopefully the next one won’t be so dry!

[unohanadaydreams]

Don’t ask me why I made this, just know that I’m right and this is not just a Headcanon post but real. It’s not me having brain worms haha that would be insane. Honestly I just started thinking about how the hell arc introducing Seireitei approved social media would be such a mistake but god would it be fun to watch.

The Current Captains On Social Media

Shunsui Kyoraku - Failed erotic novel author turned romance/erotic novel reviewer. The fan base for his work is very small compared to his actual following. There is some divide in his followers—those who follow for his life updates and those who want to hear him talk at length about his latest read. Funnily enough, his quick, messy posts usually paired with scenery or a selfie are his most popular writing, often hailed as snippets of his poetic soul. Lots of people want to give him a hug.

Soi Fon - Adamant privacy and safety poster. Took to code and anti-virus technology well, much to Mayuri’s annoyance. Posts tips and tricks that read more like demands. Is known for her bitchy responses when followers @ her with their progress that are eaten up gratefully. Her advice is punctuated by posts admiring athletic women and these women make up the bulk of who she follows. She seems to admire runners and lifters the most. Her threatening posts when people hit on her too hard/with too many notes to back them up are turned into copypastas.

Rose Otoribashi - Has one of the larger followings thanks to his nostalgic visuals as well as his dedication to frequently posting new music. He has a personality that’s easily digestible when viewed through snippets. The fact that his passion is music and his job is news/editing also do him a lot of favors. He loves doing live streams and encourages his followers to perform for & with him.

Isane Kotetsu - Her growth being captured on social media not just as a captain but as a person has given her a fan base that feels extremely protective of her. She’s less known for what content she brings and more for her personality. Any creative content she posts is likely to start trending. Especially her ‘peaceful morning’ videos and reflective writing. She’s one of the more interactive posters, beloved for her encouraging responses.

Shinji Hirako - As a more private person, he doesn’t have much of a following and his most popular posts are candid moments posted by others. Lisa is a large reason people consider him endearing in anyway. Definitely the kind of person who is either considered cringe or cool with little in between. The kind of guy who asks what he should do with his hair and then goes with an option that wasn’t listed.

Byakuya Kuchiki - Has an extremely scheduled and curated presence on any site he’s on, but is nonetheless adored. He used to ask Renji and Akon for advice on how to handle some of the more online behavior (like being @ed by women who photoshop them as their date to events or being asked how many notes a date would cost) but stopped quickly. Turns out saying something is flattering leads to more of that behavior. Any selfie he posts is edited and reposted into oblivion until it’s thousands of people’s pfp.

Tetsuzaemon Iba - Despite him being one of the most well rounded captains personality wise, he gets put onto block lists the most for his dedication to concepts of manliness, which are easy concepts to feed to the social media outrage machine. Women’s Association vs Men’s Association is a popular meme where the former is something sensible and the latter is something ineffective/archaic. That being said, he’s also known as a ‘problematic fav’ and people will often post memes about abandoning their feminism for a few minutes to like his selfies and training videos.

Lisa Yadomaru - Another captain with a large love and hate following. Often picked apart for interacting with porn/hentai accounts, thirsting after women openly, and posting pictures alluding to her sexual escapades. Despite her account being regular food for the outrage machine, she doesn’t seem to care or pay attention to it and is forever horny on Main. She posts a lot of candid photos/videos of her friends. Recommends the best fucked up fiction.

Kensei Muguruma - Of course he does cooking videos, but what really does well are his cooking challenges. He forces his lieutenant, friends, and colleagues to compete with him on making a better dish on a time limit and often with other handicaps. Usually wins. His bloopers get a ton of mileage when he posts them. His merch is constantly sold out. People often dress up as him for Halloween/conventions, usually with foam or blow up arms/abs.

Toshiro Hitsugaya - Another captain with a huge following due to him approaching social media with his tireless work ethic. His ice sculptures are very popular and his pop-up galleries sell out in hours. Is actually a huge fan of ‘cozy’ games and is known for having beautiful towns/farms/ect that showcase his attention to detail. He does events in Minecraft sometimes, where he guides people through building large scale projects (and also feels like he’s making friends but that’s left entirely unsaid). A bit harsh, but beloved.

Kenpachi Zaraki - People question if it’s really his account because it’s so random at times, but he posts videos of him mowing down his subordinates during training so it has to be. The odd content includes engaging with easy recipes & activities for toddlers and increasingly complicated punk hairstyles that he really does try out. He also posts weekly, asking for people to volunteer and fight him. The human world especially loves this and he gets a lot of responses. He tries to set up times to fight them but Nanao threatens to delete his accounts and put him on suspension if he attempts to follow through. He posts a lot of post-battle pictures and humans gobble it up. “Just fought *insert ridiculous thing here*” is a huge meme.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi - He is constantly making new accounts and circumventing bans for posting links to his old lab work, that often involves heinous amounts of gore. Actually does have a following, often from those within his own division, those hoping to be in his division, or humans who see him as edgy and a little bit off his rocker, which they think is cool. He posts pictures of himself whenever he switches up his look. And posts Nemuri a lot with unhinged captains about how she’s going to outpace even the head captain and no one could make someone as special & smart as her. Just comes off as a really passionate dad. Plenty of people are convinced he’s a creepy pasta project ran by a dude with a daughter.

Rukia Kuchiki - Like Isane, she’s really loved for who she is rather than creative content. Even her attempts at being stern and ‘captain-like’ are fawned over. She has a line of children’s books, stickers, and notebooks with her cute drawings. Her most popular set was when her daughter contributed. The human world is convinced Renji is her house husband and her life is generally seen as all around ‘goals’. Her posts are riddled with mistakes and very sporadic; she’s posted accidental live streams while she did paperwork and they went viral. She posts tons of candids of her subordinates and family but they are usually blurry or actually videos.

[ccborrega]

Just some examples on what I mean by how people in Deviantart who do comment are just way too comfortable being inappropriate, there was:

Rando who commented on everything Toy Story I posted with lyrics from the CATS musical but adapted to the TS characters. It could be literally anything, character concepts for No Name, a Woody/Bo piece, a Prideyear thing, a sketchdump. He’d never comment anything even remotely related to the piece. Turns out he’d written that crossover and he figured rather than use his words, he’d just push.

Generally people who rather than ASK if you wanted to look at their stuff, just pushed it onto you. Like. I’m not your kindergarden teacher, PLEASE, give me space.

The dozens of askers of ‘Can you draw this for me?’ who additionally often got defensive or downright rude when I pointed at my commission prices. I knew literally none of them but they expected me to draw them stuff (Highly specific stuff too, most of the time) for free.

Person without basic knowledge of how recessive and dominant genes work who did a cheating joke on a TP Zelink piece I did with their fankid ‘cause the kid’s hair was red (A nod to classic Zelda.) 

Weirdo who would just comment on my BLOSC with ‘Post more’ and directly lifted details from my design for Buzz’s mom to tweak her own pre-existing one to, and I quote ‘Make her more interesting’ (So it really did come off as ‘Race is something we do for brownie points, not because it actually matters.’) When I blocked her, she just went into an alternate account to keep it up. She was the reason I stopped posting about BLOSC there, I simply didn’t have the patience or energy for it. 

Funny dude who constantly dropped into my Ghostbusters stuff containing Peck to comment the ‘That man has no dick’ bit.

Another funny dude who constantly dropped on my GB art to comment downright incomprehensible jokes at the expense of my shipping Janegon.

Person who demanded I translated a comic (That, I cannot stress this enough, WAS translated in the author’s comment) after saying I was dumb for making it.

Rando who dropped in a Bo/Woody piece to say ‘It’s a bad ship’. Nothing useful or even interesting, just tripe. Additionally, when I told them to look elsewhere, then, they acted like I was over-reacting. My sibling in the Ide, how, pray tell, the fuck am I supposed to react. I wasn’t even being rude, just setting boundaries.

Peep whose only comment in one of my TP Zelda pieces with heavy ambient tint was ‘Why is she blonde’.

Mean girl trio who picked on a friend who was just learning how to art and made fun of me when I asked them to lay off, said they’d pick on whoever the fuck they pleased ‘cause they were badass like that, and then proceeded to clutch their pearls when I told them to ‘Have fun with that’ because I figured they were pathetic and not worth my time. My friend, sadly, ended up leaving due to them and I lost all contact with him.

My sister, who would go into my pieces and just generally ridicule me.

Alternate shipper from a fandom I was who redrew (More like copied) a well-known piece from a more or less famous fanartist but for their ship and got amazingly defensive when it was pointed it out. Said it was ‘Referencing’ and refused to credit the original.

The shipping discourse regarding Jack Frost.

There was a generally bad experience with the fangroup of a relatively popular Zelda fanfic but it’s too complicated to explain? Let’s just say, it was a cult to the personality of the author and it got UGLY.

QueenZelda and whatever the hell was up with her.

[jewishbarbies]

I need to talk to someone who doesn’t like TS. Cause everyone I know irl does. Im exhausted by her. She’s everywhere. Shops? Playing her music. Radio? Her songs on. Friends playlists? You bet they’re filled with TS. Fanfic or edit? Taylor songs referenced constantly (most of the time her lyrics are taken out of context cause the song itself doesn’t make sense). I just tried to watch a hair style tutorial I wanted to try. Taylor song playing in the background. She’s all over my suggested pages on my social media no matter how many accounts I block. It feels like I block one and two more appear. I probably wouldn't hate Swift as much as I do if I hadn't been overwhelmed by having to hear or see her everywhere I went in real life or online. Her fans are ridiculous and deranged. I feel like I’m going insane sometimes.

[duckymcdoorknob]

Ok this may be offensive to some but it has to be said.

CW BELOW THE CUT: Mentions if p*rn, mentions of slurs, mentions of threats of vi*lence, mentions of gr**ming, mentions of b*llying.

Dear Governor DeSantis,

Fuck you.

Do you really think your little bill will work?

Are you truly that dense?

Welcome to the age of IPad kids and Mass Media. How many elementary schoolers do you know with IPads? Plenty im presuming. And how many of those kids have TikTok or Instagram or any other social media account?

Do you think that kids won’t learn about the LGBTQ+ community from there?

Sheltering a child does nothing but delay their exposure to the community.

Do you really think that kids don’t have an impact on each other?

I’ll say it again to get it through your brain.

Sheltering a child does nothing but delay their exposure to the community.

Peer influence is the most beneficial, but also most harmful, way for an adolescent to learn.

Studies have shown that adolescents are most influenced by the ones around them, especially in close proximity to their age.

That being said, how many children are going to listen to you?

Do you think that they’ll just magically be sheltered from the LGBTQ+ community until you think they’re old enough?

Since you assure that stopping the topic in school will ensure that kids are safe and sheltered…

I was six years old when I watched my first p*rno in the basement of my family home. Do you know who showed me it? My best friend, who was in third grade at the time.

I was seven years old when I made my first threat of vi*lence against a peer. I told him to shut his mouth before I shut it for him. Now, Mr. Governor, my parents are absolute saints and would never hurt a fly. They kept me from violent tv shows and only let me watch certain channels with safe programming. So, sir, where do you think I learned that threat from? The boys in my second grade class.

I was eight years old when I learned about the R slur and the N word. Now, my third grade history class didn’t teach me about it, my friends did. They whispered it in my ear and giggled as if it was some sort of contraband they were spreading.

I was asked to trade n*des at age twelve. Now, I didn’t know what these were, but I knew they were unsafe. I didn’t learn about them in an online safety class. No, I learned from my classmate, who had already had advantage taken of her through them.

I was gr**med on this app at age thirteen. A role play blog constantly messaged me and asked me what I looked like, so I sent them a fake photograph. They told me go pretty I looked and how they would love for me to meet them. Block and delete after that of course, but imagine if it was someone more naive…?

I was bullied relentlessly from age thirteen to fifteen. One person decided that they didn’t like me, so the rest of my classmates shouldn’t too. They made group chats for entire classes, where they would ridicule me for the smallest things. It didn’t stop until I was in high school.

I was sexually harassed by one of my peers at age fifteen. He made a comment about my butt, claiming that I “had a fat ass.” And that “it’s a shame i’m so fat though.”

I was offered a drink at age sixteen. Not by my parents, but from a peer, whom said I would be “such a fucking funny drunk.”

If you want to shelter kids from the “atrocity” of human sexuality and gender identities, shelter us from the shit that actually matters too.

I don’t care if kids learn about drag queens or gay families.

But God damn it, don’t let them be exposed to the shit I was.

If you’re going to enforce safety, give us the safety we truly deserve, not the safety you old farts think we need.

Learning about gay people is not unsafe.

Being exploited for another person’s sexual gain is unsafe.

Being offered gateway drugs is unsafe.

Being told slurs and their meanings is unsafe.

Being bullied to the point of hopelessness is unsafe

Being threatened by a classmate is unsafe.

Being exposed to the harmful world of p*rnogr*phy is unsafe.

The common thread in all of these?

None of these were exposed to us by our school systems, parents, or home lives.

They were brought upon us by our schoolmates…

Our teammates…

Our cast mates…

Our staff mates…

So, Mister Governor, sir.

What’s your next move?