They Forgot He's A Werewolf

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

Yeahh!!

be free!!

ENDING KOSA!

The only reason it didn't pass the first two times is because we spoke out about it!

DON'T PANIC, TAKE ACTION.

LET'S GET KOSA TRENDING TO GET IT ENDING!

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

there is a troubling trend ive noticed within activist spaces - that many people define an identity as the pain that comes from the oppression of it. you hear this in phrases like 'to be a woman is to suffer' or in discussion of trans dysphoria as if it is a universally similar and easily identifiable experience.

and there's a very understandable reason this happens - the formation of these sects of activism was to both offer solidarity and comfort for the pain of oppression, and to challenge the systems which inflict it.

the trouble with defining identity through pain is that it does not seek to form or understand a world in which that pain does not exist. that is to say - we SHOULD speak of the ways women suffer under the patriarchy, but someone's womanhood cannot be denied if she does not suffer due to the circumstances of her life or whether we personally as observers can see her suffering.

in the same sense, i think we need to remember as part of our activism, we are seeking a world together where the pains of our oppression do not exist for those that come after us. i want to imagine a world in which trans people do not have to experience the same pains of dysphoria that i did, where they can simply be themselves and have access to the life they feel most comfortable living. i do not want to draw the line in the sand for those that come after me to be 'you have to hurt as much as i did for me to take you seriously'.

we can find solidarity as comfort for our pain, and we can come together to make a world with less of it too.

Every time 😔

who can relate

I adore when trans/homophobes try to misgender someone and just end up validating them instead lmao

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.