The message was posted on all social media platforms: "In one week, the richest person in the world will die, and every month after that, it will happen to the next one, and again, and again, and again..."
I've told this story before but the non-negotiable in allyship really reminded me of my gaming group. So one of my best friends is a twin and while I know *her* pretty well I don't really know her brother as well despite knowing him for roughly same length of time. We play videogames together and her brother asked to join us so at some point I took him aside and had The Talk with him because we at that point had a recently out trans fem within the group and she had just barely started hormones and hadn't done any voice training etc so I fully intended to head any trouble off at the pass.
So I basically had the "respect my friend's pronouns or die by my sword" discussion because while he knows I'm a trans guy and had so far been chill, I didn't know if that extended to all trans people.
What I did not expect was for him to pull an uno reverse on me and invite his two trans woman friends to game with us as well and did a "no no, *you* respect *my* friends' pronouns or die by *my* sword".
When I was working at Petco, one of my coworkers came to me having a total panic and anxiety meltdown and when I finally got them to tell me what was going on, the revealed they had sought me out because they were having Transgender Feelings and wanted advice. I ended up giving them my old binders that were too small for me but a perfect fit for them, and one of my roommates gave them their first masc haircut.
A few weeks later a customer speaking Spanish was saying many nasty things about my coworker and reacting with disgust. Another coworker- a cis gay man who speaks fluent Spanish- came to get me first so I could pull the other coworker away while he effectively cussed them out in Spanish. He told us the sparknotes version of the English translation and it was mostly horrifically transphobic drivel. My coworker had responded mostly neutrally to me being trans, but for him to be visibly steamed the rest of the day over my other coworker definitely bumped my respect for him.
And I've talked about how a cis lesbian friend of mine visibly bristles at anyone she even thinks is being shitty to me about being trans to the point of making them splutter and back down.
A cishet woman I am only sort of acquaintances with once caught me wincing at being she/her'd at a trial and asked if that had been happening all day. When I responded the affirmative, she stormed off and I didn't see her the rest of the day. The next day, any time anyone referred to me there was an audible pause before a deliberate choice to choose masc versions.
Another trans woman who is a friend of mine once beat up a bully for calling her trans boyfriend a heshe when they were in schooling together.
It's about holding the line. It's about making the active choice to show up for each other. And it's about linking hands and refusing to budge.
If you cannot hold the line with me by your side, then we are not moving together.
Aizawa: You left Kaminari alone with Eri?!!
Mina: He’s licensed
Meanwhile with Kaminari and Eri
Kaminari: Oh no, you have vanquished me mighty princess!
Eri: :D
Iida: I live on tea at this point. It’s calming, makes me seem responsible, can severely injure someone if needed, and helps any ailments I might have.
Sero: What was that middle one?
Iida: It makes me seem responsible.
1 - Knows exactly who they are and loves them anyways and the one who is desperately hiding their true self. Knows who they are starting out holding it over their head for leverage and ends up helping them hide.
2 - The one who knows all the books and movies and the one who knows no references, what's a reference? They fall for each other on A's quest to teach B.
3 - The quiet reader and the 'don't bother them or I'll fight you'
4 - The collector and the one who shyly goes this made me think of you
5 - The artist and their "muse" who, to everyone else, is just a normal person
6 - The idealist and the one who has made it their goal to help the idealist, even though they know how cruel the world is.
7 - The sports kid who's in denial and the "I'm punk, not emo" kid who doesn't want to deal with their crisis.
8 - The himbo, the himbecile, and the one who is teaching them things (bonus if "Im only teaching them because if I don't they'll be a problem")
9 - The one who gets way ahead of themselves and infodumps and their 'translator'
10 - The one who knows everything and the one who 'does it for the vine'. All-knowing WILL rearrange everything so their gremlin can do their goofy things safe from harm.
11 - The hated prophet and the one who shelters them. "They only said what they saw. It's not their fault you didn't like it/didn't listen"
12 - The one who tries to be smooth and the gremlin who ruins their one-liners.
i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr
Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting
Kaminari, playing with Koda’s dog: Whoozagoodboy
Koda: He says you are
Kaminari, tearing up: He’s the best boy and I thank him.
I just want a more talented author to take this off my hands. It’s not going well.
Emanator Sampard
Becoming an emanator is a two way street. You have to get the gaze of an Aeon and then accept the power they grant you (like how the trailblazer had to actually take the lance)
Qlipoth wants Gepard as an emanator since he’s a great protector, sacrifices himself for Belobog, etc.
Gepard does not want to become an emanator and spread Qlipoth’s will. He wants to stay in Belobog and protect it and his family
Gepard is also being terrible about this whole thing. He’s given up on being civil and is basically biting at Qlipoth’s hand
Qlipoth is frustrated but stubborn
Enter Aha, who shows up to bother Qlipoth
Offers to help (for the chaos ofc)
Qlipoth accepts
Aha sends their emanator (Sampo) to go convince Gepard
Whoops they are now thrown together due to Aeon Shenanigans
They learn about each other as Sampo tries to convince Gepard and they fall in love? Somewhere along the way?
Rude.
“By the moon and the stars, by the sun and the sky, I curse thee to fucking
There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance
Excuse me while I get sad .
Wanna buy some gender? We got half genders, whole genders, genders across the spectrum, and genders not even known to humans yet.
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