#trans-rights-adam-jensen

[tertiaryunit]

Hey! Asking on anon bc I can't ask as my sideblog, but it's Helix (trans-rights-adam-jensen)! Do we know anything about the potential new DX game yet, like who's working on it? Like of course it's Eidos, but is JF still there? I read Mary works for BioWare now. Will we get an entirely new team's take on DX? Do we know why they might have decided to bring it back when Mankind Divided didn't sell like they wanted it to? The pyramid of gaming companies involved and who ultimately owns what is a little over my head.

Oh hello there!!! (I feel your pain it's been YEARS and Tumblr still doesn't have an option for us to swap between our blogs when asking/liking stuff/etc)

All I know so far is that Embracer Group acquired Eidos-Montréal, so I think we might have the same team of the other past two games working on, maybe with some changes since some people have moved.

From what I recall it's not that MD didn't sell well, but more like it wasn't enough for Square Enix:

Mankind Divided was the third-bestselling game of August in North America, with console-game sales increases for the period partially attributed to its release.[104] In Square Enix's 2016 fiscal report, Mankind Divided and other 2016 titles including Final Fantasy XV were cited as factors in their net-profit increase.

(From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Mankind_Divided#Sales )

I think they might be finishing up where MD left, considering there *was* a planned sequel that was then abandoned.

I'm hyped for pretty much anything they'll come up with ngl :D

[trans-rights-adam-jensen]

Just the illustration I actually spent time on, from this post.

Also should probably reblog this during daylight hours

[ghostofadragon]

@trans-rights-adam-jensen for you a dragon guy!

[dravenxivuk]

​Further challenging myself palette wise. You’d think, given I usually work grey scale, that limited palette of 3 colours would be easier than the 5 colour ones I’ve been playing with. But no! 3 colours is in fact more difficult!

Anyway, surprise Adam art for @trans-rights-adam-jensen

[self-mythologist]

As an Icelandic Jew living in Denmark, my experience with goyische views on Jews and Judaism has always been quite opposite from what you're talking about. Denmark (as well as the rest of the Nordic countries) are generally very secular and irreligious. Most people are culturally Christian (albeit not in the same way as people in the US). And many adults I know can't remember the last time they set foot in a church. The general attitude towards religion and spirituality is one of disdain and outright fear and a gross willful ignorance about religion and especially about Judaism.

I've met people who until meeting me, didn't know there even were any Jews in Denmark - despite Denmark being home to 4 different Jewish communities. A lot of people think all Jews dress in Hasidic fashion or that "Jewish" and "Israeli" are synonymous. There exists an unbelievable amount of cognitive dissonance in gentile Danes when it comes to Jews, that they know about famous US Jews like Bernie Sanders, Adam Sandler, or Ben Shapiro, but without ever having put two and two together and realized that they're Jewish.

For context I am a very religious, practicing Liberal Jew who is a very active and dedicated member of my progressive synagogue and who despite my rabbi's worried advice insists on wearing a kippah in public and have my tzitzit hanging out when I go to service. This makes people very confused about me as it is, but on top of this I am the queerest genderweird dykefag who dresses like if Iris Apfel, Audrey Hepburn, and a circus clown had to share a body. And I'm a 27-year old who uses a flowery red cane. The only reason I haven't been beaten up in the street is because people are too busy trying to figure out what the hell they're even looking at. q

Telling people that I am Jewish and that I definitely believe in God (I'm a panentheist-ish but whatevs) takes people straight into a fight/flight/freeze/fawn response, because their only association with religious people, is the assortment of Christian cults we do have here, like the Pentecostal movement, American Mormons, or Jehovah's witnesses.

Trying to explain to the average gentile Danish Jens Jensen that it's not like that is... straining to say the least. Sometimes the only thing that works is to apply the kind of "fight God in the schoolyard/we are pro-trans rights and feminist, anti-racist and on the issue of the afterlife we just kinda shrug" kind of Judaism that you're talking about directly to the burn.

I too would love if I didn't have to resort to this tactic, but the internet is bigger than the US and we seem to have very different conundrums to deal with. Ideally, even goyim could come to understand the deep nuances and splendorous varieties of Jewish life that exist all over the world. One day, b'ezrat Hashem.

theres this specific brand of judaism thats """all-accepting""" (of women, lgbt ppl, mentaly ill/disabled ppl, etc) and 'fight with gd behind a dennys' and uwu cute and scrunkly and non-threatening that was bred in captivity by secular americans thats somehow treated as the "real", widespread version of judaism by people on social media and its so so funny and annoying at the same time. and often coexists in gentiles alongside antisemitic beliefs, talking points and ideas. anyways. it drives me insane.

[destieldailynews]

SPNFightsOn, a Recap

12/9/20 by @fitinmypoems​, @lateral-org​ To watch an archived version of the stream on YouTube, click here. Our original thread liveblogging the stream can be found here. 

When a Supernatural reunion was announced on December 6th, people were instantly excited. So far, most of the cast - especially Jensen Ackles - hadn’t said much about the finale, and people were thrilled at the opportunity to see our boys together one more time, as well as the possibility to ask them some questions about the end of the show. With the added possibility of winning exclusive merch (a signed piece of the Impala, among other things!) and the fact we were supporting a good cause - Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight campaign - a lot of people were very much looking forward to this meeting.

The first half of the event focused on Stacey Abrams and her campaign to fight voter suppression in the United States. The cast applauded her work and she confessed to being a huge fan of the show, though she hadn’t yet seen the final three episodes of the season. She says she plans to catch up tomorrow (December 10th), as it’s the day after her birthday and she’ll have a break from her campaigning. She had to leave about halfway through the stream, and then it shifted over to the cast and the show. 

A total of thirty SPN Family members (listed under the cut) joined the stream to support the cause. Unfortunately, Jensen did not leak the tapes from 15x18, however they did release the season 15 blooper reel and we got a story about Sebastian getting a massage from Jared at the Vancouver airport. There were some trivia questions asked - apparently, before the Impala was nicknamed Baby, they called her Metallicar - and in the end, they managed to raise over $256,000 for Fair Fight.

More about Fair Fight and voter suppression in the US: Stacey Abrams’ Twitter ‘All In: The Fight For Democracy’ - Amazon Prime documentary ‘Why We Fight’ - Fair Fight ‘Voter Suppression Is Still One of the Greatest Obstacles to a More Just America’ - TIME Donate to Fair Fight through SPN Fights On

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A complete list of everyone who appeared on the stream:

Actors

Misha Collins - actor, played Castiel. Jared Padalecki - actor, played Sam Winchester. Jensen Ackles - actor, played Dean Winchester. Samantha Smith - actress, played Mary Winchester. Jim Beaver - actor, played Bobby Singer. Rob Benedict - actor, played Chuck Shurley/God, lead singer of Louden Swain. Shoshannah Stern - actress, played Eileen Leahy. Felicia Day - actress, played Charlie Bradbury. Osric Chau - actor, played Kevin Tran. Lauren Tom - actress, played Linda Tran. Lisa Berry - actress, played Billie. Alina Huffman - actress, played the demon Abaddon. Rachel Miner - actress, played the demon Meg. Jake Abel - actor, played Adam Milligan/the archangel Michael. Seb Roche - actor, played the angel Balthazar. Julie McNiven - actress, played the angel Anna. Curtis Armstrong - actor, played the angel Metatron. Briana Buckmaster - actress, played Donna Hanscum. Kat Ramdeen - actress, played Alex. Amy Gumenick - actress, played Young Mary Winchester.

Writers and Producers

Eric Kripke - creator and writer for Supernatural. Robert Singer - executive producer for Supernatural. Eugenie Ross-Leming - writer and executive producer. Phil Sgriccia - producer for Supernatural and The Boys. Jim Michaels - co-executive producer for Supernatural since 2009.

Others

Billy Moran - musician, member of the band Louden Swain. Michael Borja - musician, member of the band Louden Swain. Stephen Norton - musician, member of the band Louden Swain. Stacey Abrams - American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and an author. She founded Fair Fight Action. ASL translator from @BayTerps

[deusexwarpaintfanfiction]

I just thought of something pretty obvious to me.

Deus Ex War Paint is LGBTQ+ friendly.

Selene grew up not only with her parents, but also with her uncle Artair and her mentor Damian.

I don’t think it needs to be said, but, yes, I want to show through my story that I support the adoption of a child by two people of the same sex.

Selene is pansexual, regardless of her personal background. One of the girls she had sex with after moving to Prague with her uncle was a trans girl: in Selene's opinion, that girl was a woman, no matter what.

Damian Fisher, Selene’s mentor, is homosexual. Artair, Selene’s uncle, is heterosexual. In my own interpretation of Adam Jensen’s character, I have “established” that he is also heterosexual, just as I have “established” that Vaclav Koller may be bisexual. The original character of Nathalie Girard is also bisexual.

I’ve never felt it necessary to say this, but taking a clear stand on the topic is important to me.

I don’t mind losing possible readers over this statement of mine.

It’s the right thing to do.

[onelittlebookgeek]

Book Challenge 2020 (100 books!!) (I did it!!)

After forgetting to track my reading for three years, I started recording my reading on Tumblr last year again, and I’m committed to continuing that this year!

This year is my final year of my Bachelor’s Degrees (I’m finishing English in June) and I’m planning to do a gap year from September on, so now more university after June (at least as far as 2020 is concerned).

I do not really foresee any issues or obstacles to reading this year, except of course finishing my thesis which will probably take quite some time, so I do expect a decline around April until early June. Although I do have a lot more time off in my gap year, I used to read a lot of mandatory books for my studies, so I don’t know whether having a gap year will mean reading more books. Since I’m not doing any university studying, I am interested in reading academic books by myself, studying by myself. Those books are often longer, denser and just take more time to get through; consequently, I might read fewer books in the same amount of energy and time spent reading.

To make a (somewhat) long story short: my expectations are in line with the amount of books I’ve read in the last years, so I’m expecting to read 75 books this year!

Update: it’s mid-October and I’ve already read 99 books this year, so I’ve finished my original goal of 75 books! Now I’m going for 100 books (which should be easy to do, and after that we’ll just see how it goes!).

The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them, with the (x) being a link to my Goodreads review!

Update: Today (November 23) I’ve read 114 books so I’ve finished my challenge of 100 books! Right now, I’m still 25 books ahead schedule! Let’s see if I can keep that energy up!

January

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (5/5) (x)

Serpent and Dove (Serpent and Dove #1) - Shelby Mahurin (4/5) (x)

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) - Robert Galbraith (4/5)

Weirdos from Another Planet (Calvin and Hobbes #4) - Bill Watterson) (5/5)

Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (5/5) (x)

Niets zal ons redden maar een beetje liefde is oké - Henk van Straten (Dutch) (4/5) (x)

, said the shotgun to the head. - Saul Williams (4/5)

Loud and Yellow Laughter - Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese (3/5)

Fireborn (The Aurelian Cycle #1) - Rosaria Munda (4/5)

Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy - Sylvia Plath (4/5) (x)

The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare (3/5) (x)

Nieuwe Herinneringen - Remco Campert (Dutch) (2/5)

Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (3/5)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5)

Alles wat er was - Stine Jensen (Dutch) (3/5)

Zij in de geschiedenis - Alies Pegtel (Dutch) (4/5) (x)

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread) (5/5)

February

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (3/5)

The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (4/5)

The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Educated - Tara Westover (3/5)

Prometheus on Caucasus - Lucian of Samosata (3/5)

March

Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader - Robert Hasenfratz (4/5) (x)

Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? - Billy Crystal (3/5)

The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Quick Question: New Poems - John Ashberry (1/5) (x)

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose - Michael H. Short (3/5) (x)

The Call of the Wild - Jack London (2/5) (x)

The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

April

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (reread) (5/5)

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou (4/5)

Poëzie in Utrechtse Muren - Ingmar Heytze (Dutch) (5/5) (x)

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (4/5)

Mijn dood en ik - Remco Campert (4/5)

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis (3/5)

Native Son - Richard Wright (2/5)

Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (reread) (4/5)

May

The Plague - Albert Camus (4/5)

Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner (4/5)

Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance - Carrie J. Preston (2/5)

James Joyce and Sexuality - Richard Brown (3/5)

June

Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5) (x)

Modernism, Sex and Gender - Alison Pease and Celia Marshik (3/5)

The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone - Seamus Heaney (4/5)

The Host - Stephanie Meyer (reread) (4/5)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5) (x)

A Terrible Beauty is Born - W.B. Yeats (4/5)

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (4/5)

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis (4/5)

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) - Brandon Sanderson (4/5)

Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour (2/5) (x)

The Tempest - William Shakespeare (reread) (3/5)

July

Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood (4/5) (x)

American Slavery (A Very Short Introduction) - Andrea Heather William (reread) (3/5)

Angels & Demons (Robert Langdom #1) - Dan Brown (4/5) (x)

Mythos: A Retelling of Myths of Ancient Greece - Stephen Fry (4/5) (x)

Mean Time - Carol Ann Duffy (3/5)

Lijfrente - Vrouwkje Tuinman (Dutch) (4/5)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) - Suzanne Collins (3/5) (x)

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (3/5)

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (reread) (5/5)

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (4/5)

Onbreekbaar - Hans Hagen (Dutch) (1/5) (x)

The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwoord (reread) (4/5)

The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde (5/5)

Het goede leven: een briefwisseling - Piet Gerbrandy & Andreas Kinneging (Dutch) (2/5) (x)

Constructions of the Classical Body - James Porter (3/5)

August

The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton (4/5)

The Kissing Booth (The Kissing Booth #1) - Beth Reekles (2/5) (x)

The Daily Show: The Book - Chris Smith (4/5) (x)

The Duchess Deal (Girl meets Duke #1) - Tessa Dare (3/5)

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehesi Coates (4/5)

Fragments - Heraclitus (transl. by Brooks Haxton) (2/5) (x)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (reread) (5/5)

The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) - Mackenzi Lee (reread) (4/5)

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (4/5)

Catilina’s Riddle (Roma sub Rosa #3) - Steven Saylor (2/5) (x)

When Dimple met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi #1) - Sandhya Memon (1/5) (x)

Adulthood is a Myth (Sarah’s Scribbles #1) - Sarah Andersen (4/5)

September

Normal People - Sally Rooney (3/5) (x)

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age - Donna Zuckerberg (4/5)

Sadie: A Novel - Courtney Summers (4/5)

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (4/5)

Vloedlijnen - Piet Gerbrandy (Dutch) (4/5)

Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (reread) (4/5)

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (4/5)

Envelope Poems - Emily Dickinson (4/5) (x)

A Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10) - Agatha Christie (3/5) (x)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (4/5)

October

Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare (4/5) (x)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)

Het verhaal van Aeneas - Vergilius (trans. to Dutch) (reread) (4/5)

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (2/5)

Lesbia, Verzen van Liefde en Spot - Catullus (Dutch) (transl. by Paul Claes) (4/5) (x)

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (4/5) (x)

The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (reread) (5/5)

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) - Agatha Christie (3/5)

November

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (3/5) (x)

Narratology and Classics: a Practical Guide - Irene de Jong (3/5) (x)

The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)

The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #11) - Agatha Christie (4/5)

The Great Cat (Poetry Collection) - ed. by Emily Fragos (3/5) (x)

Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O��Neil (4/5)

The Northern Lights (His Dark Materials #1) - Philip Pullman (4/5)

Vincent van Gogh en zijn brieven - Leo Jansen (Dutch) (3/5)

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell (4/5)

The Fill-In Boyfriend - Kasie West (reread) (4/5)

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) - Agatha Christie (1/5)

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[genderdysphoriablues]

17/8/'19

I had the day off today, so of course I stayed up way too late and slept in way too long. Well, actually I guess it wasn't as late in the day as it could've been.

I went to Spirit Halloween because it's finally open. Not the one closest to me, though, so I went to the next city over. Fortunately it's also right next to Ocean Mart-the international store, so I went there too. I'd forgotten how cool that place was.

Then I had Taco Bell, because was was also close by. I gave them the name "Adam," which is a name I have been considering off and on ahead for the past year. I expected to feel something exciting when they called it out, but I just felt weird and detached. It's not my name. I think I'll experiment a little more, but I'm starting to be pretty sure that Jensen is definitely my name.

I got home and chilled and opened my new binder from Outplay. It's a Flatsea-S, and it's very nice. Not as much compression as my regular binder, but because it's designed for swimming I guess that's a good thing. It's also longer than I thought it would be. But here's the taking nifty thing: the neck is really high, so no chance of cleavage, and the armpits are also really high, so my breasts don't squish out the sides. And it's really comfortable.

Then went to a meeting for Mormons Building Bridges. It was really nice with really good insights. I loved talking about how to better help strengthen the connections between the LGBT community. And I knew someone there! @closetmormon was there too (he invited me).

After the meeting the hostess opened her pool to us so we got to swim for a bit. She almost stayed out to talk with us, but didn't because she didn't want to be creepy and "watch two young men swim." It feels so good to be called that, to be recognised for what I am.

After swimming Closetmormon and I went back to his house and watched an episode of Queer Eye. I'd never seen it before and he showed me an episode with a trans man who had just gotten top surgery. I'll admit, I was kind of jealous the whole time. One day I'll be in testosterone. One day I'll have the flat chest I was always supposed to have. That will be a good day.

[guarddogbitch]

Mluvčí from Vyhlídka na věčnost - Listen, he is a bastard. He is dangerous. He went to hell and back. Twice. Literally. He is also good with kids. And with guns. And swords. He is an absolute Mary Sue (affectionate) and I absolutely love him.

Molly Millions from The Sprawl Trilogy - William Gibson, like many male authors, can't write women. Molly is a character who was archetypal back then and most authors of modern sci-fi and especially cyberpunk works still use her as a model of sorts. Trinity in Matrix is Molly. Without Neuromancer, there wouldn't be Matrix. Why do I like her? Sexy, strong, badass, has knives in her fingers. What's not to love.

Adam Jensen from Deus Ex - Cold, stoic man with an identity crisis after his body had been altered and rebuild from almost nothing. Suffers from PTSD, has survivors guilt. It's pretty easy to project onto him when you are a trans person living through a global pandemic.

Zabulon from The Night Watch - Near omnipotent dark mage with great fashion sense. Intelligent. Ruthless. Also a bastard. Deus ex machina in the last Watch novel.

Laura Moon from American Gods - Main characters wife brought back from the dead. She was pretty badass. Especially enjoyed her in the Yggdrasil passage in the book.

Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House - she is powerful, she is scary, she is foxy. Ma'am, I have feelings for you.

Hatori Chise from The Ancient Magus' Bride - Her over the top tragic backstory and very convenient combination of powers and talent. She's pretty cool, okay? The whole cast of the anime is.

Roland Deschain of Gilead from The Dark Tower books/Stephen King literary universe - he is magical, he is immortal, he was destined to do something and by god he will do it. He is also disabled. And suffers from bunch of mental problems. They did him dirty in the Dark Tower movie. And I'm not talking about casting a black actor to play him. Idris Elba was phenomenal.

Aragorn from Lord of the Rings - I love Aragorn. His journey from running away from destiny to becoming the returned king? Phenomenal! He is caring, he is strong, he shows his emotions. More men should be like Aragorn.

Yennefer of Vengerberg from The Witcher - He is beauty, she is grace, she is the only character I like in all the iterations. The books, the games and the Netflix series. She is really well written, her motivations are realistic. Honestly, kudos to Sapkowski. His portrayals of women in the Witcher books are, surprisingly well crafted characters who aren't there only as an eye candy or to get fridges to advance the narrative. He was also surprisingly vocal about women's rights given his background and how books of similar genre often treat treat such topics. I'm rambling. Anyway, Yennefer is pretty fucking cool, okay?

Thanks for the tag ❤ Anyone who sees this is tagged, if you want to be :DD

thank you @moonwich for tagging me!

Top 10 favourite characters from different universes:

1. Jaskier/Dandelion from The Witcher - both rather different flavours, but i love them both, one in the “this is my sunshine darling” and the other in “this sleazy bastard is my garbage husband”. he’s just such a fun character!

2. Connor from Detroit: Become Human - i’m weak for cute androids discovering their humanity. it’s one of my favourite character archs.

3. Václav Koller from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - czech cyborg boy!! what’s there not to love? i played DE:MD just because i heard he’s there and i do not regret it.

4. Bohdanka from Sedmero krkavců - I Want Her To Be My Wife

5. Bertram “Bertie” Wooster from the Jeeves stories - pure of heart, dumb of ass, home of sexual. i just think he’s neat. (oh, to be a young, stupidly rich british socialite in a vaguely homoerotic relationship with his valet…)

6. Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3 - listen. i never really got vampires, you know? they were kind of cool, but they weren’t sexy. but then i saw astarion and i understood. they’re really fucking sexy.

7. Mazikeen from Lucifer - she’s just amazing. even though sometimes the writers made her do stupid shit, i could still relate to some of her struggles. she’s fun and cool and deep, and if i ever got back into lucifer, it would be because of her.

8. Lenka Šímová from Ďáblova lest - you are not immune to anna geislerová with a gun. or at least, i am not. also her and sumara’s relationship always fills me wtih so much joy because never once they do that will-they-won’t-they shit and instead are just BEST BUDS

9. Uriáš from Anděl Páně - the bestest boy!! another pure of heart, dumb of ass character, though this one is much sassier. i would have put Crowley from GO here, but, let’s be honest. local is better.

10. Lu from Elite (don’t judge me lol) - lu is a bitch and i like her so much. i mean, i hated her at first, but she grew so much and i can’t wait to see her and nadia’s friendship bloom in season 4.

i’m tagging @myvalzpival @juhele @lynxs-shitposting-inc @ledabyl @slunecny-hrob @treba-neco-napise @reinvent-and-believe and anyone else that wants to do this!!

[trans-rights-adam-jensen]

ANIMA! Toughest Man

PMVs are too time consuming for my scrambling little brain, so have an abbreviated sketchy lyric comic.

I am once again, on brand and posting Jensen being trans-relatable. Also I have HC'd Malik as a trans lesbian from literally day one too, so.

This didn't turn out exactly like I wanted, but it is done, so. :)

EIDOS THIS IS A THREAT.

REUNITE THEM.

[smallpressdistribution]

12 SPD Books for a Super Scary Halloween

BOO! Here at SPD, we are going to get in you into that ghoul & goblin mood with some of SPD's scariest, most terrifying books. YIKES! It's trick or treat time, everyone. Hold on to your butts.

On Ghosts By Elizabeth Robinson (Solid Objects)

"Elizabeth Robinson's ON GHOSTS returns us to the haunted aura around words. Here, a crossing of genres—poetry, prose meditation, personal testimony—shows that language itself amounts to a gathering of ghosts. Robinson's oblique lyricism beckons us toward a twilight zone where we become 'witness to the unverifiable.' This is writing as the highest form of bewitching."-Andrew Joron

lo que les dijo el licantropo / what the werewolf told them By Chely Lima (The Operating System)

"Be very afraid of the full moon. There are several transformations in lo que les dijo el licántropo/what the werewolf told them by Cuban poet Chely Lima, and all of them come with teeth, blood, and a sort of vicious sadness lying just below the surface. In the title poem of the collection, Lima’s speaker (the werewolf) speeds down the highway with their own body in the trunk, “la negación / de la negación” (“the negation / of the negation”) (16/17), muffling their own screams. " -Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

Skeleton Coast  By Elizabeth Arnold (Flood Editions)

"Arnold’s collection is simultaneously powerful and delicate, radiating elegance and resilience." -Publishers Weekly

Ghosts and Grinning Shadows: Two Witch Stories  By Helen Adam (Hanging Loose Press)

"a welcome and timely treat." - Chance

The Tales of Horror: [A Flip-Book] By Laura Mullen (Kelsey Street Press)

"Mysterious fluids, blood curdelling screams, inappropriately all-caps sentences--they're all here, and wonderfully immediate, making an exaggerated, rollicking introduction to many of the pre-occupations, rhetorics and methods of experimental poetry. "  -Publishers Weekly

Utopia By Joey Yearous-Algozin (Counterpath Press)

"In UTOPIA, Joey Yearous-Algozin rewrites the first of the seven Saw movies in the second person, using the undated version of James Wan and Leigh Whannell's script available on imdb.com.”

Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D’Allesandro By Dodie Bellamy and Sam D’Allesandro (Talisman House, Publishers)

“Real contains letters between Dodie Bellamy (Mina Harker) and Sam D'Allesandro; the transcription of a story that was taped by D'Allesandro before he died in 1988; and a letter by Bellamy that concerns D'Allesandro's death.”

Murder By Danielle Collobert, trans. Nathanael (Litmus Press)

"Uncompromising in its exposure of the calculated cruelty of the quotidian, MURDER'S accusations have photographic precision, inculpating instants of habitual violence."

The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist By Ed Steck (Skeleton Man)

"With language by turns horrific, violent, and austerely meditative, THE NECRO-LUMINESCENCE OF PINK MIST is the undead exploitation film Ozu never made, and that the world is finally ready for."

Pop Corpse By Lara Glenum (Action Books)

"A radiant brew of emoticon opera, fairytale fan-fiction, and chat-room flame war, POP CORPSE! follows a heroine mermaid on her devoutly disarming search for "realness." Along the way, Glenum dismantles pieties of both the left and the right, proposing new models of configuring text, voice, body and species-hood for those who swim in the increasingly fetid waters of the 21st century. "

PUSWHISPERER By Mark Crislip, MD (Bitingduck Press)

"How does a cat parasite in the brain make you a terrible driver? Why do people erroneously think 98.6 is normal body temperature? What do mummified head lice say about human migration to the Americas? All of these questions and more are considered in the PUSWHISPERER, a collection of a year's worth of Medscape blog posts that has been edited and reorganized for a lay audience."

Third-Millennium Heart By Ursula Andkjaer Olsen, trans. Katrine Ogaard Jensen (Action Books / Broken Dimanche Press)

 “Olsen's ambivalence entails an embryonic potential: uncoupled from all normative arrivals, her syntax sprouts with mutant possibility, one nimbly conveyed by translator Jensen's flexible touch. From the darkness of this "comajubilation," in a stutter-step of declarations and retractions, THIRD MILLENNIUM HEART is a work of radical re- conjuration.“

[spnreactionblogging]

our father, who aren't in heaven

SPOILERS BELOW BUT I'M REALLY LATE TO THE PARTY THIS TIME

[I actually watched this like a month ago but didn’t remember to post it, oops]

I got so backed up with real life shit that I'm delayed watching this but I stayed off tumblr and twitter almost entirely for the last few weeks to avoid spoilers but god DAMN it it's a fucking buckleming episode

why do they keep being put in charge of the return of characters who we're all very invested in? you ruin kevin tran, you are likely to ruin adam, god fucking damn it.

at least RSJ is directing

you can tell they always think their episode titles are really goddamn clever too and it pisses me off

is john winchester not in heaven anymore? I thought that was a big fucking todo, that he and mary are up there and they don't want to ruin it for them. or are you referring to chuck? or both? who cares.

poor adam.

chuck what fun is it if you just automatically win every time, huh? what's the point?

I do love rob benedict though. I don't like being frustrated with his character.

buckleming's gotta get in as many "terrified women in exploitative situations" as they can before the end huh

I like eileen a lot and I probably ought to get around to watching her actual original episodes at some point

"guest starring jake abel" has got me choked up

HEY TOO BAD THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN READ THE TABLET IS FUCKING DEAD HUH, HOPE YOU KEPT ALL THOSE NOTES OF HIS THAT YOU OCCASIONALLY DRAG OUT AND DECLARE WORTHLESS

poor kevin, god fucking damn it all

SAM: so he has an achilles heel DEAN: well i'm saying he has a weak spot

YEAH BECAUSE DEAN IS STUPID RIGHT? THANKS BUCKLEMING

I hope misha's hip is okay

I do like donatello, I hope nothing awful happens to him :(

sorry though guys the only prophet i acknowledge is kevin tran

okay so obviously as we've known since day one they're gonna team up with the darkness to subdue chuck but things will probably work out in the end to maintain universal harmony or some shit so whatever

sam really does have queer flannel, i like that black and white and red all over shirt

I hate buckleming episodes for so many reasons but not least of all because everyone behaves like a petulant kindergartener

is sam just reading the bible? it's got that golf leaf edge

okay seriously though don't they already have kevin's notes? why is donatello translating this fresh? kevin did all this work and fucking died for it. at least honor his legacy. jesus fuck.

really though, 14.08 establishes this:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/14.08_Byzantium_(transcript)

[Dean awakes where he passed out on the kitchen table, and hears voices in the other room. He gets up and follows the voices to the library] SAM: Man, haven't seen this stuff in years. WOMAN: And what language is this technically in? CAS: We're not sure, but it's-- it's written in cuneiform. Kevin was very thorough. SAM: Yeah. We kept it all-- the translations, his notes on his translations, annotations. You name it. [...] SAM: That's not-- Dean, listen, last night, after about whiskey number five, it hit me. I mean, we've torn through all the lore looking for a way to cure Jack, right? But we've never looked through Kevin's angel tablet translations. DEAN: Yeah, 'cause they're worthless. I mean, Kevin translated them into-- to crazy scribble only a prophet can read. And last I checked, we can't exactly ask Donatello. LILY: Maybe I can read them.

did he not take demon tablet notes? he sure seemed to have a bunch of those in seasons 8 and 9! also why do demons not care about this anymore

"if my dad kept me locked in a cage for ten years" oh yeah? if one month on earth is ten years in hell, then adam's been in the cage with michael for 120 earth months = 1,200 years in hell. OVER A MILLENNIUM IN HELL.

buckleming so completely fail to hold my attention even during the episode that ostensibly the whole fandom's been waiting for for a decade, that writing the word "millennium" got me sidetracked into watching some backstreet boys music videos and an nsync one to boot. what do you even have to say for yourselves, buckleming.

okay I got way distracted about the 8tracks closure

so I can't help but notice that STILL they have nothing to say about adam, they just need michael. like.

wow.

cas is the one to bring it up! I fucking love you castiel

keith szarabajka does a good rob benedict

buckleming writing this: chuck should immediately threaten all the women in their lives

oh so NOW dean doesn't want cas going to hell. cute. after forcing him to do so alongside belphegor. fuck you, dean.

i love sam and eileen doing witchy shit and cas watching

oh rowena's back.

i guess we should've known if she died she'd just like. go to hell.

"so fix it!" says rowena, by way of buckleming, dismissing everything castiel has every right to be angry about, as if this should just be shrugged off. easy for her to say when she's the one who fucked things over for crowley. not cool with sam being out of the room for that either? sam is very much involved with these proceedings.

I'm here for adam's food appreciation

I don't remember what happened to adam's mom? was it with the ghouls?

family does suck, adam.

I don't want to hear dean's commentary about sam's relationships or whether eileen is hot or anything like that, ever. butt out.

I do like the actress playing lilith

I need bourbon too, donnie. fortunately i had some prepared before i clicked play on this episode

I loooove these shots of castiel with the chessboard and the railing/bannister/whatever

I get that cas is being "BAMF" again I GUESS or whatever but I'm irritated with him stooping to this level of like... what dean pressured sam into with jack in S14, with using this intense sincerity to trick people. not a fan. and SHOCKER, "jack in the box" was written by buckleming too so there you go. there's this episode of bob's burgers where linda's running a murder mystery dinner and is like "ha! I was the murderer all along even though I said I wasn't!" you didn't connect shit, you're just lying

I will give buckleming exactly one point, even though it's 99% jensen's delivery, but calling him "mike" so derisively is hilarious

why don't they just tell him his AU self had the same goal last season

they definitely don't let them actually apologize! gee! all this time and they don't actually apologize. fuck off.

you could've written ANYTHING. anything at all, buckleming.

adam knows all about not knowing the secrets your dad is keeping

I'm glad adam doesn't forgive them.

"they believe it's true so it's probably true" is bad reasoning here

I feel like sue is probably fucked? or else this is a trap.

michael's the golden child and doesn't realize he's being abused by god just like the rest. at least he doesn't in this version

who said he had an entire tree up his ass, balthazar? zachariah? dean? bobby?

I think cas was right to show him the truth, just the events as they occurred

ugh i'm so nervous and uncomfortable for cas that there's no one here to intermediate if dean goes after him

literally after I type this I unpause and cas asks "where's sam?"

yeah i knew it was a trap. and here chuck's going to hurt eileen because he can.

I'm glad dean apologized on behalf of both of them I guess? but also not cool with sam not being here to talk to adam himself.

I'm glad michael found out about AU michael

stoked about purgatory honestly. bring back benny. BRING BACK GORDON. bring back dick roman.

cas looks so tired. what a note to end on.

I am also tired.

[deans-haunted-baby]

That’s how I’m looking at it too. Like I’m devastated because this has been my show for 15 years. That’s a HUGE chunk of my life and I’ve had on/off moments with Supernatural. Dropping it in between years then picking it right back up; so I kind of have this everlasting love/hate relationship with it that’s now cemented in stone. It’s my comfort show and I have EVERY season on DVD/Blu-ray. These characters have meant so much to me for over a decade. There’ve been moments where Sam drove me crazy. There’ve been moments where Dean pissed me off. There’ve been times where I was mind-boggled by so much fuckery that was going on in the story and with all these characters. 

There’ve been characters introduced that I couldn’t stand and wanted gone (Charlie Bradbury, Claire Novak, AU!Michael, Kaia Nieves, AU!Bobby, Bela Talbot, Ruby, Asmodeus, Alexandra Jones, Metatron, Donna Hanscum and Jody Mills). Characters I wanted to keep seeing that deserved better (Adam Milligan, Michael, Bobby Singer, Garth Fitzgerald IV, Kevin Tran, Lisa Braeden, Gabriel, Original Death, Benny Lafitte, Don Stark, Andy Gallagher, Sarah Blake, Samandriel, Crowley, Meg, Rowena and Belphegor). And I love the Winchesters I do but some of the shit they’ve pulled (like trusting Ruby, abandoning Adam in Hell, and the whole Jack debacle in S14) have tainted them and their message of “family first” forever. 

I’m crushed that Supernatural Season 15 is going out on such a bad note before the final curtain. It hasn’t entirely been a satisfying journey even though there are parts about it I enjoyed very much (like the awesome Adam/Michael comeback 15x08 and the Dadstiel centric 15x15!). However its so obvious they didn’t have a solid story planned and just made things up as it went with some cheep final farewells thrown in. When we went through that 7 month hiatus due to the pandemic I was somewhat relieved because I got to have these characters longer before the show left the air. And of course before the bullshit. But now after episode 15x19 I’m ready for this to be over. If it means these characters can’t be ruined any further (than they’ve already been) then I’ve made my peace with the show ending. 

I’m forever grateful and have no regrets being part of this ride even if its going out on a whimper because it gave me the most memorable series and characters I’ll cherish for the rest of my life. So thank you Jensen, Jared and the rest of the cast you all did the best you could with the crap you were handed.

Season 15 is so funny because on one hand I’m incredibly disappointed that Supernatural is ending on one of the worst quality seasons it’s ever had, but on the other hand the last season being So Bad makes it so much easier to cope with it ending because at this point I’m just like “good riddance, show I’ve invested multiple years of my life in.”

[ratpac-atx-blog]

Regarding the Disruption of Robert Jensen

On Sunday, March 5th at 12 PM, three members of RATPAC-ATX disrupted known trans-exclusionary radical feminist Robert Jensen’s talk at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin. Earlier in the week, ATX Resist had found out about Jensen’s talk and told the church to cancel it. The church declined, saying that they want to give a platform to everyone’s ideas, and to back up that claim they offered ATXR a chance to speak in May. 

Because of our past positive history with this church during ICE Fuera de Austin’s Let Sulma Stay campaign, we decided to disrupt this event after hearing the news to make clear where we stand:  that although the organization showed solidarity with the LGBT proletariat in the past by providing Sulma Franco sanctuary, staying amicable with anyone who gives room for the state to attack and dehumanize trans people is a clear breach of that solidarity. If the First UU Church of Austin truly wants to stand with the oppressed and toiling LGBT people of Austin, they have to understand the difference between freedom of thought, which we must encourage if we’re to find correct revolutionary ideas, and freedom for hate speech, which Jensen blatantly represents when it comes to trans people. Otherwise, the rainbow flag they fly is a farce. If there’s room for unity between this church and RATPAC in the future, it will only come through struggle and accountability. We are still completely willing to work with the First UU Church of Austin on possible fronts, but they must have full solidarity with the transgender and LGBT proletariat, and they must struggle toward unity with proletarian organizations when they are criticized.

Quickly after Jensen’s talk began, three RATPAC members in the audience stood up in red masks, chanting “When trans people are under attack, what do we do? Fists up, fight back!” As soon as they seized the stage, they were swarmed with angry middle aged men who told them to leave, likening them to the KKK (the irony of which, given the circumstances, is not lost on us), and threatening to call the cops, all while physically assaulting three trans people. The member who was prepared to give the speech against Jensen and the church’s decision to host him quickly began reciting it, moving about the stage avoiding the reactionaries’ attempts. Eventually, two women who thankfully had more authority and sense in them than the men assaulting our members ceded five minutes, even though a few of the men were still adamant that these trans people had to leave and Robert Jensen had to stay. While we wish we could have gone further, we didn’t want to take our chances without the numbers to back us up (and especially given how many arrests our members have faced so recently), so once our speech was finished, our members led a final chant and exited as the threats to call the police continued. Rest assured: next time, we’ll bring more.

Below is a transcript of the speech read by one of the attending members. They were regrettably not able to record our own video of the event because of the short notice on which the action was carried out: “A year and a half ago, the Revolutionary Alliance of Trans People Against Capitalism stood in solidarity with this church as they allowed Sulma Franco sanctuary while the genocidal US imperialist police state wanted her deported back to Guatemala, where she would be killed for her LGBT activism. We still applaud the decision this church made to stand with Sulma and the immigrant and LGBT people of Austin, and RATPAC is glad that the church accepted our organization’s support. However, solidarity with LGBT people can’t be one sided. By hosting Robert Jensen, who promotes a so-called critical view of trans people, this church is allowing a full platform to someone who aligns with the patriarchal capitalist system and the trump administration when it comes to trans people. You’re giving a voice to someone who actively harms trans people and by extension all oppressed women of the world, including Sulma! This is all while we are in a growing time of crisis for oppressed people, where trans people are a specific target of the growing fascist movement in the US.

Jensen claims to harbor no ill will toward trans people, but in practice, he gives validation and legitimacy to people who want us dead. It doesn’t matter what he claims; what matters is what he does. He sees no humanity in trans people; he sees us as a topic for his thinkpieces. He takes our daily experience of severe oppression and violence at the hands of the capitalist and patriarchal state, and turns it into a debate about whether trans women deserve the same right to access women’s shelters or women’s bathrooms as cis women. Trans people face more patriarchal violence than cis people, but somehow to Jensen, it is patriarchal to allow abused trans women and cis women to share the same spaces and get the same protections. He always tries to mystify his position on trans people, but there’s nothing cryptic about supporting Dan Patrick’s Texas bathroom bill (SB6) that is going through the legislature now, which would see people jailed for entering a bathroom that doesn’t match the sex on their birth certificate.

As a radical feminist, and a trans exclusionary one at that, Jensen will always miss the point. The working class women of the world, both cisgender and transgender, don’t and can’t hold themselves to his intellectual and disconnected standards of what it means to reinforce the patriarchy. He says that reinforcing the patriarchy means performing the gender roles capitalism forces everyone into, but we say that reinforcing the patriarchy means delegitimizing and harming the existence and struggles of cis women and trans people around the world. His stance on trans people and his support for SB6 is incredibly patriarchal. He wants individuals to somehow ‘dismantle’ their own oppression, but RATPAC understands that no form of oppression will be destroyed without a violent and organized fight against the people who profit from capitalism, racism, and patriarchy. We are confident that the most oppressed people in this country and in the world stand with us and against Jensen in that fight. We don’t need radical feminism; we need revolutionary feminism! If you support trans people, don’t listen to Jensen and don’t give him a platform.”

[michaelfallcon]

Elle Jensen: The Sprudge Twenty Interview

Photo by Tony Adams.

Our coverage of the Sprudge Twenty interviews presented by Pacific Barista Series continues this week on Sprudge. Read more about the Sprudge Twenty and see all of our interviews here.

Nominated by Kat Melheim

Elle Jensen is an entrepreneur, community organizer, and coffee professional based in Denver, Colorado. In 2015 Jensen opened Amethyst Coffee on Denver’s Capitol Hill; in 2018 the brand’s second location opened in the Berkeley neighborhood. In 2015 she launched the Cherry Roast, a landmark “platform and coffee competition to support and provide visibility for womxn/trans/GNC/gender queer coffee professionals.”

In her nominating essay, Coffee People Zine creator Kat Melheim writes “[Jensen] creates a welcoming and inclusive space for guests and baristas alike. She is an amazing, transparent, and honest business owner with the interests of the community at heart.”

What issue in coffee do you care about most?

I’ll give you the answer that strikes a chord with me most in this moment, but I don’t think as business owners we get to choose an issue that we care about “most” because we are in a privileged position that demands we care about all issues at the right time. Currently, most of my brain space is taken up with ways to increase cafe transparencies to make hospitality work more sustainable for people who want to make it their career, but behind that is a multifaceted web of decisions that inevitably require that I also care about every aspect of our industry. I suppose I could distill it down into I care about making coffee a sustainable career for everyone along the value chain, with a focus specifically on front of house staff. I don’t imagine I’m known for giving simple answers…

What cause or element in coffee drives you?

The social awareness that I believe serving coffee requires. I think coffee is a beautiful conduit for human interaction, in so many different ways, and I think we have a responsibility as folks who live in consuming countries, and have chosen to serve coffee professionally, to challenge the social norms that are so harmful to so many.

What issue in coffee do you think is critically overlooked?

Again, I think there are many issues on a large scale that are critically overlooked, but being that I am, and always have been, a front of house worker, I think that there is a total lack of efficiency in coffee shops that make them much more stressful to work in and run. I always say that managers are like goalies, the ball has to get by everybody else first, but no one is mad until the goalie lets the shot in/drops the ball. This is not a sustainable infrastructure to promote people into. We set them up for failure; we reward people in the wrong ways for their hard work and dedication to our companies. There is a lack of re-addressing our existing cafe infrastructure that is holding us back and making us unsustainable.

What is the quality you like best about coffee?

It’s a tropical fruit, borrowed from D.

Did you experience a “god shot” or life-changing moment of coffee revelation early in your career?

Well, god-shots don’t exist, but, yes, I did have a defining coffee moment. It was in the basement office of Pavement Coffee on Boylston Street in Boston. There were maybe eight of us at this cupping and probably no more than six bowls. I had a Kenyan coffee, roasted by Counter Culture, that tasted just like carrot juice. It was the first coffee I didn’t relate to a memory or personal experience and actually was able to relay a flavor call. I was at the cupping table, fortunately, with some really supportive people and it is a truly cherished sensory memory.

What is your idea of coffee happiness?

Living in a world where the whole coffee supply/value chain is at peace and not just living but thriving.

If you could have any job in the coffee industry, what would it be and why?

My job. It’s an incredible job.

Who are your coffee heroes?

Breezy Sanchez, my business partner. She is a living freaking legend.

If you could drink coffee with anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why?

My dad, #ddc. I have a lot of questions.

If you didn’t get bit by the coffee bug, what do you think you’d be doing instead?

Coffee is my career, and I’m privileged that I got to make that choice. Coffee took over my life at some point, and I’m just now sorting out my identity outside of it, therefore this question is hard for me. I don’t think I need to be “doing something instead” but rather “also doing other things”. However, if you end up with access to another dimension and happen to also run into alternate dimension Elle, please introduce us. I’d love to meet her and see what she’s up to.

Do you have any coffee mentors?

If we’re talking about the traditional mentor/mentee relationship, no I do not. However, I have dear, dear friends whom I bounce ideas off of, cry to, call when I don’t know what to do about an employee situation, look up to as people outside of coffee, and who I whole-heartedly depend on as a human. I recently had a conversation with one such person and he brought up the idea of community and dependency. This man is an integral part of my life, and my business greatly depends on him. He pondered if because we are so dependent upon one another, are we more invested in each other’s lives? The answer is yes. At first that sounds strange, because it sounds like our care for one another is contingent upon our working relationship. However, it really means that in a world where everything feels temporary and “community” is a word that is tossed around like an Aerobie frisbee, coffee has afforded us the space for actual connection and a relationship that is real, happy, and beautifully human.

What do you wish someone would’ve told you when you were first starting out in coffee?

No one has the right to treat you like you are lesser than them. Also never underestimate a floor drain’s propensity for nastiness and clean that shit regularly.

Name three coffee apparatuses you’d take into space with you.

Look, I’m really not sure about the whole space thing. I’m much more interested in the bottom of the ocean, and if I’m journeying to either of those places I’m a multi-billionaire or a scientist (spoiler: I am neither of those things), because these hypothetical questions aren’t really my imaginative style. Anywhere I go I will always choose to take my people with me over any apparatus. This means I really need some buddies for the zombie apocalypse because I will have a lot of people and ZERO apparati with me. So we’ll all die if I’m in charge.

Best song to brew coffee to:

Go! by Santigold and Karen O.

Look into the crystal ball—where do you see yourself in 20 years?

This is not a question I regularly ask myself because I find it stressful and rather useless (I’m not a dreamer in this way, life comes at ya fast), but I have thought about it for the purpose of this questionnaire and here it is…

I have puppies. My husband, Stuart, and I grow our own food and have a sweet little homestead with some friends. Breezy Sanchez, my business partner, and I maintain our YouTube channel which went viral and has over 2.3 million followers. Amethyst has grown to a company run by an incredible group of passionate, courageous, smart, funny, mostly gender/sexuality fluid folks who are having the time of their lives. I have more time to be involved in social activism and political issues. Stuart and I visit Breezy and her wife at their adorable bed and breakfast in New Mexico often. I might be running for office. Stuart and I are planning to open our breakfast restaurant in which I get to live out my dreams of being a salty, feminist diner waitress.

What’d you eat for breakfast this morning?

Seeded rye toast from a bakery called Dry Storage in Boulder, CO who mills all of their own grains! What!

When did you last drink coffee? 

*sip*

What was it?

Girma Eshetu, a washed Ethiopian roasted by Jason Farrar of Commonwealth Coffee.

Thank you. 

The Sprudge Twenty is presented by Pacific Barista Series. For a complete list of 2019 Sprudge Twenty honorees please visit sprudge.com/twenty

Zachary Carlsen is a co-founder and editor at Sprudge Media Network. Read more Zachary Carlsen on Sprudge. 

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