i really like the advice “write marginalized characters but don’t write about marginalization unless you experience it”
absolutely i think cis people should expand their horizons and write trans characters, but they shouldn’t write stories about being trans. likewise i think allistic / NT authors should write about autistic characters! but not stories about being autistic.
represent us. absolutely. but don’t tell our stories. let us do that.
a toucan’s skeleton looks exactly like you’re at a museum and the guide is sweating nervously behind you casually sweeping some broken toucan bones under a rug and hoping you’re dumb enough to buy their shitty job of sticking the beak onto one of the other specimens
GUYS GUYS GUYS
GUYS IM CRYING
TODAY IS REALLY THAT DAY
IM SO HAPPY
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Joan Jett at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 25th March 1977
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how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?
they should invent water for men
a bit of an idiot. i’m always mad about something. 22. health student, full of existential dread. she/her.
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