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It's been over an hour, I think it's safe to say they can't eat a leviathan

Spoiler warning: Downpour

Okay, so I'm doing experiments to figure out the limitations of the mobile rot. So I'm eating dinner and I'm seeing if Mother Long Legs/Terror Long Legs are capable of eating leviathans, and I started eating like 20 minutes ago, they're still trying to eat the leviathan but I don't know if there is any progress, but the MLL/TLL are still going at it and I'm confused if I should leave this overnight or what?

I think last night I had a dream where I died and was reborn into a new body, a new life.

One where I was a girl in an estrogen dominant body, where I was happier and had more friends stay. One where I was a happier me in a life where I was who I've been dying to become sooner rather than later. It felt like blissful joy. A life so close to my hopes, yet so disconnected by the space that weaves in between this reality and the next. It's a bit saddening, having those slumbering moments as the girl who I want to be in a body I enjoyed, though now I am back to earth, in the body I've been cursing for maybe 3 years now.

Sometimes I wish I could detach from this physical coil and drift off indefinitely within my dreams and exist free of charge, but I know I'd miss too many things to stay.

I came to realize that Ive been an antagonist and a cruel individual towards Five Pebbles. My human pride led me to think when he stated himself as being godlike in comparison to the slugcat, he was being egotistical and self-centered. It's come to my realization that the whole time he's just being blunt. Hes factual, hes realistic, he doesn't tend to use slang or have things be toned down. Hes a victim of circumstance. Hes a being above the food chain. Moon's fall was merely a lot of bad circumstances occurring all at once and in the end Pebbles winds up in the same position as Moon. He isn't some cruel individual who places himself as a sun to the land below, hes a person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and wound up suffering because of it. I wish I could be able to talk with him face to face and tell him how sorry I am that I've caused him pain, for I've pillaged him and I've silenced his everlasting wait to be one without a pearl of music.

Guess which :3

I can't let them catch me I have so much more to steal 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

some of my favorite moments from the livestream

you can say goodbye to penelope / cyclops time

i look into your eyes / helios' cow

it's been 12 long years... or has it? / jorge as circe and talya as ody

i need to talk to you in private 😏 / eurylochus light up six torches 😏

get in the water or else... / poseidon it's been 10 years (i counted right this time)

Why would you choose to be a streamer?

Some say for fortune

Some for the smiles

Some for the fame

Me?

I want to be able to see the intricate web that spirals out from what I make. The ever growing mycelium that branches and branches and branches from the base idea that I could try to plant. The ideas and joys that come from admiring and watching the content. The inspirations that soon lead to more and more ideas from other individuals. The wondrous joys that could save some from the gloominess that so often pollutes the content that most watch.

I want to become someone who could help so many others into a joyous community. I want to become someone who helps others through simple silly videos and streams.

That is why I want to try to stream one day.

Not for fame or money, but for the people it could help and the greater ideas that could sprout from it.

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Ashely Phil has reached out to me to share this video!

Although groups are being sent to Canada, they still need resources like food and water, medicine, tents, mosquito nets, repairs (especially because of the destructive rainy season), warm clothes and suitcases, etc. It is dangerous for the LGBTQ+ community, since the environment is so hostile and hate crimes are common.

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half baked morning rant

I do want to make it clear that the reason I talk about HRT and its biological effects so much is not because HRT or medicalization defines your gender.

Its because, for me personally, the interface of my biology education and my transition was mostly centered around figuring out what sex hormones do. I learned about basic biology principles like DNA organization, gene regulation, cell biology, and physiology in high school and undergrad. Taking that understanding and extending it to the mechanisms that hormones use to change gene regulation, and by extension, the rest of your body broadly, was something I did as my understanding became more complete in later undergrad and grad school. It was the key to me starting my own transition.

Why?

Because it was the first time I realized that the "basic biology" arguments of transphobes were complete and utter bullshit. From that point, it was a cascade. As in, wait, if dynamic changes in gene expression aren't considered "biological" to them, then why am I believing anything they say about anything else? When they talk about gametes, and try to include infertile cis people in their definitions of biological sex by talking about what gamete you're "intended" to make, what do they even mean? Why does my current gene expression not define that "intent"? And wait, back up, why is the brain suddenly not considered part of our biology? Why are neurological differences suddenly not "biological"? Why can we say someone's thinking patterns aren't "biological"?

Backing up even further, why does any of this matter more than psychological gender, or sociological gender? If the way we navigate society is gendered, that affects a lot of our lives, and we're just throwing that away?

Basically, being educated about how deep the biological changes of HRT really go was the first domino to fall when I worked through my internalized transphobia.

This is one of many reasons why I hate, hate HATE the concession that uninformed allies and even many trans people themselves give: "well NO ONE is saying that you can change your biological sex, sex and gender are completely unrelated, sex is binary and gender isn't!!!!!"

Well. I am saying that you can change your "biological" sex, I am saying that biological sex isn't binary, and I am saying that misunderstanding of those points has set back transgender advocacy. It makes medical decisions surrounding us less informed, it poisons conversations about how we interact with society, and it makes trans people feel like their gender and sex are less "real" than cis people's.

Not to mention the horrific way it discards intersex people from the conversation entirely.

Recently, I've seen this point enter the mainstream a little, by using intersex people and variation of sex in other species as a "counterargument" to "binary biological sex" thinking. It still doesn't sit right with me. One, because it uses intersex people as a prop for trans advocacy while not actually addressing the needs of either group. And two, because it completely disregards that your current biology and physiology is not 100% predestined from birth, and using people who were "born this way" as a prop does absolutely nothing to increase people's acceptance of trans people who change their biology later in life.

Ugh. This got away from me but yeah. That's my sipping coffee ramble for this morning. If anyone wants to add comment or correct me on discourse here, please do. Especially if you're intersex- this is all the observations of a perisex trans woman.