A cum bomb detonated in my fuck canal ✍🏻

its good to acknoweldge the hollowness of revenge but sometimes you really do just need a story about someone who gets hurt and then kills and kills and kills and kills their enemies. its cathartic, babey.

"there's nothing that can bring my loved one back, so there's no point in killing you" and "there's nothing that can bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you" are two themes that can and should co-exist

Kickstarter has launched!

It is time! The Novel Navigation Notecards have launched on KS. You can back the project here.

This tool is designed to help you develop and organize your stories in a way that is tactile, adaptable, and fun. Bring your plotting off the screen and into the physical world.

Shuffle things around, tack things to the walls, spread 'em out like tarot cards, it's all up to you.

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Please Help a disabled Enby and their elderly disabled mother survive the winter while Homeless.

Remaking for February, same sitch, new Month.

I'm Casi, I'm a disabled enby who is the sole caregiver for my elderly disabled mother. We are Homeless, and staying in a hotel because it is the safest option for us. There are literally no shelters anywhere accessible, we have no family that could put us up, and the county sheriffs will arrest you if they find you on the streets or camping in the desert. We dont even have a car to live in. We have no transportation and no other options.

Mom has chronic bronchitis and severe arthritis and has difficulty breathing and walking, I have chronic pain and autoimmune issues.

Currently Moms SSI is our only stable income, and it only goes so far, I do sell my art and am looking for stable work but, so far not much luck on either front really.

The room costs $72 a night, $557 a week.

Literally anything that anyone could spare to help us is so incredibly appreciated, even $1 helps, a reblog especially helps because the more people who see this the more likely someone who can afford to help us will see it.

Right now we've got the room paid for until the 7th, and moms second check comes in tonight, which should cover another week. I'll update on the 7th when I know how far Moms second check will cover.

PayPal // Ko-Fi // Redbubble

Update March 1st: (I'll remake a fresh post when I have the mental capacity to write it all out but for now) Mom got her first check and we've got the room paid for for 6 days (until the 7th) but we've got nothing left for food or our medications and we're going to have to put all of her second check towards the room too In order to keep a roof over our heads for as long as possible. If anyone has any way of helping us get a little bit of food to get us through until our food stamps re-up on the 9th it would be incredibly appreciated.

Excellent tags by @bottom-growth . Even if the desire to lean into presentation through clothing is there, income, access, and personal safety can make an affirming wardrobe take a very, very long time to assemble. (It sure did for me.)

A lot of visible trans people are both visible because our aesthetic appeals to both cis and trans people, and we are then under incredible pressure to continue to present in a Unique Way. I'm, like, only so visible—according to the numbers I've seen for hiring influencers myself for NerdyKeppie, I count as a "microinfluencer*"—but I've seen and felt that pressure.

The point is pretty much:

*It's so deeply weird that this exists and that I know it.

I've ironically seen the aforementioned pressure twist "transvestigator" type transphobes into adopting the most contorted logic.

I've literally seen these transphobes cast suspicion on anyone with a nice beard of being a trans man. It's especially wild to see them spiral during the current wave of trans masculine body builders I've seen on social media. They have to convince themselves they can always spot a trans person.

So, while I do feel like trans folks are more likely than cis people to have (or desire) a more personal relationship with their clothing, "all trans people have swag" mentality can quickly become a "we NEED to be able to always tell" mindset.

Yes, yes, exactly. It has shades of the "metrosexual" thing, too, where 25 years ago any man who looked like he occasionally washed his ass was "metrosexual" and possibly secretly gay. And if he used "product" in his hair, well. He might as well be sucking dick on the promenade.

Since our current moral panic shifted to trans people directly from gay people after Obergefell (and, we are learning, was very deliberately shifted in part after a trans woman accused Epstein of grooming and rape)—while literally using all of the same terminology and arguments—this is, in that sense, just another c/p from older bigotry. And while this ask was meant as a compliment... yeah.

My personal experience is that trans people start out dressing "worse" (baggy clothes. Dysphoria hood. Etc.) I personally ended up developing a very strong Apathy towards fashion because my mom kept getting me *almost* what I wanted. And I couldn't argue that those clothes weren't cuter, and since I don't actually have dysphoria it was fine. I just that, as a baby butch everything I liked was "tacky."

It wasn't until my 30's when I shaved my head that one day I looked in the mirror and thought, "I like that."

And that's the real trick. The actual key to looking good is dressing in a way *you* like. Trans people are more likely to play around until they find that, but it's hardly universal.

Did you miss this project full of sick-ass pins, banners, bookmarks & stickers from a trans-owned business? Good news! The pre-order store is open now!

We will be open until March 29th, at which point I'll be closing the store & placing our various orders.

And another set of pins, because why should 2nd Amendment proponents get all the bling?

There are also pin banners, bookmarks, and discounted versions of most of our prior Kickstarter pins, including Faith & Pride and Historically Queer!

This is my current project - surveys will be going out to backers soon (basically as soon as BackerKit approves me to start the smoke test) but if you missed the project, the pre-order store is open!

Please note that net proceeds from the "Support Your Local Commuter" pin & sticker will go to support mutual aid in Minneapolis: NerdyKeppie's other owner, and my wife of 18 years, was born in St. Paul and lived there until she moved in with me. My stepkid and other extended family/friends still live there.

I do think it's a beautiful thing when an author is clearly going for a metaphor, but the diegesis gets in the way. The story has symbols, but they're not just symbols, they're real things that exist within the world of that story, and as soon as the reader thinks about this, the symbol can be shattered.

I don't know what it is I find nice about this, but maybe it's the wet impact of meaning-making against base reality.

I was asked for examples, here are two:

I swear I read a book that was supposed to be pro-gay that treated its gayness metaphor as a contagious, curable disease. Also, being gay meant you could regenerate from any injury and it felt really good, so before the protagonist got infected, she nearly got killed by accidentally walking in on two gay teenagers blowing each other up with a grenade as a sex equivalent.

It's why, I think, in pretty much every story about aliens/robots/elves/mutants/etc, it's a mistake to read the aliens/robots/elves/mutants as a direct one-to-one metaphor where something said about the aliens/robots/elves/mutants is something said about gays/browns/disableds for anything. Because gay people don't come from space, and disabled people can't shoot lasers, and if you were to imply that one were the same as the other you would be wrong, because they are not the same.

But it's always gonna have similarities though, right? Humans react to groups-of-people-that-are-not-like-them in semi-predictable ways, not always the same way, but there are commonalities. It's kind of inevietable that if you had aliens/robots/elves/mutants in your story then people would react to them in a kind of a way, and that way would *rhyme* with the way they react to existent types of people, especially if you want to be remotely interesting about it, even just on an individual psychological emotional level.

And that inevietabiltiy is something that makes it almost like... not worth criticising. Obviously if you interpret the orcs from mordor as a one-to-one substitution of Canadian people then Lord of the Rings would be a horrifically Canuckphobic piece of media, but you really don't *have* to interpret them as a one-to-one substitution!

There's a bad tendency in a lot of lefty media crit to act as though stories about aliens, robots, elves and mutants *aren't* about aliens, robots, elves and mutants, as if that's always just a thin and unimportant veneer laid over stories about real life social issues for a bit of flavour.

But no! Stories about aliens, robots, elves and mutants REALLY ARE about aliens robots elves and mutants! These people care about aliens robots elves and mutants and really do want to write about them!

I think in general there is a tendency by many critics to act as if a speculative fiction story cannot be reduced to mere allegory, it is of no value, because they are fundamentally not very interested in speculative fiction. But applicability is not the same as allegory, and the former is often more interesting (and has more to say).

Yeah, the allegory rarely works all the way down, but that doesn't mean it's not still working as intended.

Like let's take the X-Men example. While it's true that in-universe there's more of a case to be made for regulating super powers that let people just like, turn a car inside-out with their mind, than drummed up hysteria about immigrants or something, it's also the case in-universe that the people pushing for so-called regulation are more concerned with controlling/weaponizing any useful abilities for their own gain and experimenting on or otherwise persecuting those who aren't exploitable, and that lumping everyone from the guy with the world-shattering psychic abilities to the kid who just kind of looks like a fish into a singular category that would all become indefinite wards of the state is bad business.

This highlights that even in cases where you might think, huh I wouldn't mind actually if someone in a uniform came and took that particularly destructive asshole I know away, you must be careful not to actually advocate for that, because you will be playing into the hands of people who do not have anyone else's best interests actually at heart. Like, maybe you did get mugged by an illegal immigrant or something, that would really suck and desperate people do tend to do shitty things, but it still wouldn't make endorsing ICE the right thing to do.

And that is the serious real-world applicable point the narrative is trying to make, where even if the bad guys have a leg to stand on that doesn't mean you should automatically agree with how or why they want to go about doing things. X-Men goes, you have to pay attention to who is really doing what, not just who scares you more.

But if you try and extend it too far it will break and stop making sense. Because it's fiction.

The thing about X Men is that there really are genuinely are people out there who will claim with their whole chests that Jews are horned lizard people who control the weather and drink the blood of babies. These are real conspiracy theories that I'm not making up that people actually believe. So I don't think saying "well people are right to be afraid of the weather controlling people because they control the weather" is necessarily a helpful critique, because there are people who think that way in real life. Obviously it's true on the less ridiculous end of the scale, like getting mugged by an immigrant or assaulted by a gay person, but it does in fact go all the way up to and include "these people control the weather" in real life.

The question X Men is fundamentally asking is "hey, if there was a group of people who really did control the weather, would they deserve human rights?" and then comes down firmly on the side of "of fucking course they would".

Excellent tags by @bottom-growth . Even if the desire to lean into presentation through clothing is there, income, access, and personal safety can make an affirming wardrobe take a very, very long time to assemble. (It sure did for me.)

A lot of visible trans people are both visible because our aesthetic appeals to both cis and trans people, and we are then under incredible pressure to continue to present in a Unique Way. I'm, like, only so visible—according to the numbers I've seen for hiring influencers myself for NerdyKeppie, I count as a "microinfluencer*"—but I've seen and felt that pressure.

The point is pretty much:

*It's so deeply weird that this exists and that I know it.

I've ironically seen the aforementioned pressure twist "transvestigator" type transphobes into adopting the most contorted logic.

I've literally seen these transphobes cast suspicion on anyone with a nice beard of being a trans man. It's especially wild to see them spiral during the current wave of trans masculine body builders I've seen on social media. They have to convince themselves they can always spot a trans person.

So, while I do feel like trans folks are more likely than cis people to have (or desire) a more personal relationship with their clothing, "all trans people have swag" mentality can quickly become a "we NEED to be able to always tell" mindset.

Yes, yes, exactly. It has shades of the "metrosexual" thing, too, where 25 years ago any man who looked like he occasionally washed his ass was "metrosexual" and possibly secretly gay. And if he used "product" in his hair, well. He might as well be sucking dick on the promenade.

Since our current moral panic shifted to trans people directly from gay people after Obergefell (and, we are learning, was very deliberately shifted in part after a trans woman accused Epstein of grooming and rape)—while literally using all of the same terminology and arguments—this is, in that sense, just another c/p from older bigotry. And while this ask was meant as a compliment... yeah.

Advice from last year, I repeat it.

Excellent tags by @bottom-growth . Even if the desire to lean into presentation through clothing is there, income, access, and personal safety can make an affirming wardrobe take a very, very long time to assemble. (It sure did for me.)

A lot of visible trans people are both visible because our aesthetic appeals to both cis and trans people, and we are then under incredible pressure to continue to present in a Unique Way. I'm, like, only so visible—according to the numbers I've seen for hiring influencers myself for NerdyKeppie, I count as a "microinfluencer*"—but I've seen and felt that pressure.

The point is pretty much:

*It's so deeply weird that this exists and that I know it.

Consider this a sequel to this morning’s post talking about that SOS from that woman.

To kidnap people, starve them, beat them, torture them and even rape the whole taking their personal belongings? HOW does someone NOT being here “legally” justify that EVIL treatment?? Because guess what fuck sticks? NO ONE but Native Americans are here legally.

But thankfully a group called Haven Watch is formed to help these victims. You can donate if you can but if you can’t just spread the word!

My mom and her teacher friends have a similar group here in New York and me and my friends have a similar kind of group going on.

Because this is NOT about differing opinions BUT of what’s morally right and I don’t want to look in the mirror 20 years from now regretting not what j could have done.

i think chris flemings is one of the only comedians thats going to get into heaven