I grew this from a seed!!! I planted a seed and kept it alive until it turned into something I can eat. I have never done this before. This is the first successful seed to vegetable of my life.
My world had been getting smaller over the years. Banned from multiple social media. Too dangerous to travel a lot of places as a queer trans person. Physical venues banning my art. All these spaces that I used to go where I can't be anymore.
It's bad enough that disability has limited what I can physically do with my body, so I've lost a lot of my joy due to that. It's been one loss after another. Nothing gained. Just loss. I'm whittled down to a twig. There's not much left to cut from me.
I ordered some burlesque costume elements the day before I found out I'll basically never work in this town again and they showed up yesterday and I'm sad now
The point of being semi retired was that I didn't want to travel to do shows anymore, but now I'll have to drive at least an hour if I want to keep performing because my town has suddenly become terrified of it. It's... not a good omen.
At least I found out that it's not singularly my fault why every former burlesque venue closed their doors to us. That's a bit less stress for me as an individual person. No one in the community has it out for me.
I was legit looking up how much it cost to buy a vacant lot and a heavy duty tent to create my own venue. Honestly, for $8k I could do it, but I don't have the time or money.
I have foraging guides specific to my region. These could be parasol mushrooms or they could be a toxic lookalike. Since I can't confirm either way, these stay in the dirt.
I grew this from a seed!!! I planted a seed and kept it alive until it turned into something I can eat. I have never done this before. This is the first successful seed to vegetable of my life.
If you tried to read Dante's The Inferno and found it difficult, just imagine trying to explain Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" to someone 700 years from now because it's mostly just that
Dating apps have been completely ruined from letting people currently sitting thousands of miles away into the local pool. The rare times it's not a bit, it's like... what is the point of this?
yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
Oh and specifically if you are trans and debating on starting hormones or having work done in the next few months.
Do it.
November could shake out and things are mostly the same as they are now, but you never want to regret not taking the step if it's removed as an option.
Make plans for the future, both for if shit goes real bad or if we stave off the worst of it. Connect with your community. Support others. Take classes on stuff like first aid or self-defense. You can absolutely be aware of how bad things can get while also not rolling over and giving up to them.
Hey, so.
I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but.
It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.
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