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ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

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C2E2, 2025!

This was my second year going, and I had an absolute blast! I got to see so many cool cosplayers, and I even met the bunny squad at the end.

Thanks for all the fun memories! I can’t wait to come back in the future.

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An Open Letter to Donald Trump

I am not you. You are not me.

I believe in human rights—and in the radical notion that every human being has value. Whether they’re privileged, wealthy white men like yourself, or the rest of us—regular people trying to make it in the world with whatever mix of gifts, grit, or luck we were handed.

We, your constituency, matter. Every single one of us. Documented or undocumented, gay or straight, rich or poor, PhD or high school dropout, Democrat or Republican—we matter. And we will not be discarded.

For starters: we see you.

We see the ruthless slashing of the federal workforce. The gutting of public service infrastructure like it's a bloated carcass in your way. We see you starving universities and civil society organizations—those pesky pillars of democracy—of funding, or holding their futures hostage like a third-rate mob boss.

We see the “drill, baby, drill” smirk as you drain the lifeblood from the environment. The way you bully public servants, LGBTQ+ citizens, judges, Black and brown people, journalists—mocking them for sport, or worse, ruining their lives. We see you naming entire bodies of water, like a toddler with a Sharpie and no sense of scale.

We see all of it—for what it is. A grotesque attempt to consolidate power and control the narrative in ways this country has never seen—and never signed up for.

And we think: how narcissistic. How vile. How contrary to every decency we were ever taught—about dignity, integrity, and treating people like they matter.

And yes, we’re angry.

Do you know—really know—that tens of thousands of federal public servants show up every day with the same sense of duty and courage as any soldier? That researchers at the NIH, park rangers, humanitarian workers—they all serve this country with quiet valor?

Thanks to you, many now face a crisis they didn’t create. Laid off in an economy teetering on recession, they’re left scrambling to pay rent, cover healthcare, and put food on the table.

This is the carnage. Not the one you promised to end—the one you gleefully unleashed.

A USAID staffer you sent packing—someone who spent a career saving lives on the front lines of global crises—told me they felt like trash. Like a Vietnam vet coming home. Spat on. Shamed. Forgotten.

You might be wondering—who am I to write this? Just a nameless, middle-class civilian. One of the millions living under your gilded thumb. Who am I to address you—the self-anointed most powerful man on Earth?

I’m the great-granddaughter of a Jewish immigrant who fled Lithuania before World War II. One of the lucky ones. The rest of our family? Murdered in the Holocaust.

I’m the granddaughter of a man who grew up on food stamps in Depression-era Brooklyn, scraping by in a city that only valued the wealthy and well-fed. And on my mother’s side? My great-great-great-grandparents packed their belongings into wooden wagons and crossed the prairie to Nebraska, armed with grit, stubborn hope, and maybe a cow or two.

I’m a former journalist—sickened as you wage war on the press, eroding public trust with every lie, every sneer, every “fake news” jab, until truth itself is bleeding out on the floor.

And I’m an adjunct professor who struggles to look her students in the eye and promise them there’s still a future worth fighting for.

You look at people like me and see weakness. You slap labels on us—radical left lunatics, traitors, threats. You dream of jailing us, silencing us, bending us to your will.

But here’s the thing: we’re not going anywhere.

Because people like me—and everyone like me—we come from fighters. From survivors. From generations who stood up to tyranny, to hunger, to hopelessness, and kept going. My mothers, because I've been lucky enough to have two, taught me how to use my voice to help others.

And we will keep going.

You may think you’ve broken something in us. But all you’ve done is awaken what was always there: the will to resist, to speak, to rise. And rise we will.

I write to you today to affirm my place in the resistance. In the streets. In the courts. And in the hearts and minds of the people.

This is a call to action. A cry for solidarity from someone who wants to be part of the movement for democracy—not the vanity project you’re dressing up as one.

And I get it—it’s hard to show up. It’s easier to be lulled into a stupor by Netflix, or football, or Pilates. To believe the myth that democracy runs on autopilot. Many of us grew up in the richest, freest country on Earth—and for too long, we mistook that freedom for permanence. We took that freedom for granted. I'll own that I've been too tired. Too busy. Too afraid to speak out. 

No more.

Because now we see what’s at stake.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

And we are alive with the spirit of our ancestors, whispering across generations: Never forget.

Source: An Open Letter to Donald Trump

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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Texas’ HB 3399 bill will kill people if it passes. It will make hormone therapy illegal. For all ages. Period. This was never about women’s sports. It was never about bathrooms. It was never about “protecting the children”. They want us dead. If you’re a fellow trans person and you live in Texas, I strongly urge you to be ready to move somewhere safer.

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Just reminder:

Fuck ICE

Death to Trump and his billionaire buddies

Always punch Nazis

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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China really did hit us with a cultural revolution by doing literally nothing. Seeing regular people from two geopolitical rivals do something as unprecedented as simply talk to each other is one of the few things giving me hope right now.

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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Someone tell me why our most beloved trickster always looks so exhausted O-o

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“Friend…?”

(Spoilers and chapter 8 theorizing below cut)

Oh, he’s so unbelievably tragic. CJ Pawlikowski absolutely knew what he was doing when he made Shadow Milk sound so broken at the end.

I had two thoughts when Pure Vanilla was talking about how lonely Shadow Milk had been.

He and the other Beasts were cut off from the rest of the world for eons, but they were still together, right? So was he feeling lonely from not being able to communicate with the outside world, or was it because of a strained relationship with the rest of the Beasts?

It’s hard to imagine that none of them were friends to begin with given their shared positions as trailblazers of the developing world. Not to mention, Shadow Milk already showed that they’re at least acquainted with each other when preparing to release Burning Spice from the lab. Then what caused that strain in their relationship where they all distanced themselves from each other, making Shadow Milk yearn for friends again? I’m starting to think it was their change in personalities from when they were corrupted.

Mystic Flour chose to seclude herself when she was corrupted. She’s dead set on setting everyone free from the burden of life by turning them back into flour, and so far, she hasn’t shown any interest in collaborating with or following the interests of others. As for Burning Spice, he’s loud and aggressive but has shown that he’s capable of calming down and thinking rationally at times, like during his interaction dialogue with Nutmeg Tiger. But as for the rest of the time, he’s still uncontrollable and will destroy anything, even if it once meant something to him.

So if you put these three together in a tree plus the two other Beasts who likely have major problems of their own, it’s bound to be a bad time. I can imagine it’s pretty hard to maintain stable friendships between people who avoid others like the plague, are very aggressive and emotional, and whose hobbies consist of clowning around of nitpicking others’ psyches for fun.

I’m really interested in seeing their canon dynamics in the future though. Maybe as a final boss, we’d get to see them all come together to go after the Ancients one last time. I have no idea, but I can dream O-Q. I’d kill to see some soft moments between them.

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The lads (I need the chapter 8 update so bad)

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elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

trump refused to swear on the bible during his inauguration. (i’ve gotten some comments about this specific point. i didn’t include it because i’m christian, because i’m not. i’m agnostic. i included it because he’s the first president in history to refuse to swear on ANYTHING, bible or not. in the bible it teaches that the only person who cannot touch the bible is the antichrist, yet that on TOP of everything else will never convince his followers that he’s unfit.)

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives who are also considering filing similar resolutions.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.

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Some doodles from today

I managed to get the SMilk plush preorder for the second round, but shipping is only going to start at the end of April O-Q. It was a great 45 minutes of constant page refreshing about every minute.