Could I get as many friends sharing the above post as possible? I keep running later and later, closer and closer to the absolute end of my survivability. I'm scared as heck and need a LOT of ongoing help.
To folks who hate trans people, there is NO right answer when it comes to what a trans person is supposed to do.
Once we've mentioned it, we can't win in their eyes.
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Do we want to keep our fertility? If so, we're painted as fakers- or sadly, in the case of trans women, they're painted as people trying to prey on cis women with the "evil, evil anatomy." Many places have made it mandatory to be sterilized if one wants to transition.
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Do we want to DISCARD our fertility? (raises hand)
Then we're "mutilating" ourselves, "throwing away our future," etc., especially for trans men that the patriarchy wants to make obey the mandate that all women should be pregnant as often as possible.
Is Zhan Tiri from Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure related to (possibly an ancestor of) Yzma from Emperor's New Groove?
Similar dramatic aesthetic, cruelty, sorcery.
Zhan Tiri's timeframe: approximately two millennia before the time of Tangled, which is in the 1800s. Yzma's timeframe: approximately the 1500s.
And I think it's possible that Madame Medusa from The Rescuers is descended from Yzma's family as well, with another ancestor being Anastasia Tremaine.
There are a few bits in the Descendants series that are quire clever, even if they might not be intentional. For one, Snow White isn't seen with a kid, while Belle and Aurora do. But Snow is the youngest Princess, 14, so if she had a kid, they wouldn't be in high school.
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For another, Yzma has a son in the animated shorts, Zevon. The name BEGINNING with a Z could be a nod to her nephews in Emperor's New School, Zim and Zam.
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Third, Kuzco isn't seen, nor is a kid of his. But if Yzma's kid is a teen, this could actually be BEFORE Kuzco's story takes off- we know Yzma's from a family that valued villainy so she'd have been villainous, Kuzco or no Kuzco.
The most frustrating thing about anti-maskers, (the ones who are against even letting people wear masks, but also just ones who won't wear them personally,) is that it's a violation of people's CONSENT to put them into any more danger than can't be avoided *at all.*
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I have the right to get on a motorbike and try to hop across a fleet of buses. If I crash and burn, it's on me if I am at least aware of the chance of crashing. I can't tell anyone else to try the stunt. Even challenging someone to such a stunt can be coercive.
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I have the right to eat spicy food, but not to shove it on people who aren't interested. I have the right to eat things that I know won't treat me well, it is my responsibility to handle such fallout, not my right to feed others anything they don't want.
I think it's important that Star Wars is featuring more non-Force based stories. There's always going to be something cartoonish about Magic Fascists that doesn't have the same impact as Bureaucratic Fascists have.
Even if the tyrants have immense technological capability, that's still an ordinary *method* of imposing cruelty on the world, instead of being able to fling someone out a window with your brain or subvert their free will with a mumble. Tech will always change.
And it does a great job of highlighting that the biggest scourge in war is psychological combat- manipulation, torture, false hope, misinformation, and beyond. The Sith technique of manipulating folks to wrath is called Dun Moch, but it's just one of many psych attacks.
I'm an Autumn and Spring person. Summer is too hot, winter is too cool. I love the SIGHTS of all seasons, with winter a slightly lower enjoyment. I love the FOOD of winter, though- it's easier to warm up than it is to cool down when extremely hot.
I love being able to be outdoors, so middle-of-the-road temperatures are best for me. I scorch VERY easily, both with sunburn and with overheating in general, and can overheat in lower temperatures if I overexert myself.
I love flowers, so I love Spring, I love soup and scarves and crispy leaves, so I love Autumn. One of the traditional things I *do* dig into is at least savoring the seasonal fruits and veggies, and seasonal recipes.