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Remember that time that I started a new Tumblr in response to Twitter being a dumpster fire but then realized after I deleted Twitter that my life didn't really require a replacement for it?

Uh yeah apparently I didn't either.

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Today, three things are true:

1. Thanksgiving is a colonizer holiday built on genocide and most of us are not taught the true story as children.

2. Many people feel forced to spend Thanksgiving with family, even when that family is bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic, or just generally cruel and dysfunctional.

3. Gratitude is a good thing and I will take any opportunity to be grateful. This year, I am grateful for:

* my kind, loving, ridiculous, smart, silly, patient spouse who is the best thing that ever happened to me

* my three kitties and all the kitties I've loved before because cats are the greatest thing in the world

* my supportive, fun, interesting friends and family who are spread all over the world but who I have also been finding here in Madison

* my job, which is still a job but also something I've wanted since I was a tiny nerd in Nebraska reading a book about a Swedish pioneer girl I bought at Scholastic Book Fair

* the ongoing benefits of therapy and the gains I've made in the last year in becoming more healthy and happy

* that this year I could confirm my childfree status via surgery

* the joys of my many hobbies from reading to gaming to crafting to journaling to photography and beyond

* that I have the opportunity to push the world to be better through speaking up, living my life, and being very resistant to letting bigots win

* the movement I've made towards achieving other dreams of mine - list to be continued

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Early season snow.

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I wrote about trans people dying in hate crimes at an event to remember other trans people who were killed in other hate crimes, and why it was so easy to see this coming.

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genuine tip for any tumblr newcomers: block literally whoever you want for any reason. even if you've never talked to them. they don't even need to be "problematic" or whatever. that person posting the worst takes imaginable in your favorite show's tag? block em. that person who runs a blog dedicated to a ship that makes you want to gouge your eyes out? block em. that person you've never interacted with directly but they left a comment on a post you saw and they just seem like a dick? block em.

the block button: it's free, it's easy, it's the key to a peaceful tumblrina life

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Back this if you like good comics.

The huge softcover collecting and completing my UFOs/US Politics comic Saucer Country is now, thanks to Zoop, over 90% funded!

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My heart hurts today.

Another shooting at a gay club, this time in Colorado. Mass shootings have become so ordinary in the US, and this one doesn't have the same particular weight that Pulse did for me personally, but it still hurts. When the Pulse shooting happened, I'd only been out as queer for a couple of months and was just weeks from heading to Omaha to start my life as a queer woman, not a woman married to a cis man. That morning, as I read the news, I was headed to LA Pride, as was an attacker with guns and bombs who was thankfully detained. That feeling of vulnerability hit me that day and never left. It just became more familiar.

The shooter in Colorado wasn't stopped by "good guys with guns" but by our community. We stand up for each other because there's such a huge chunk of the population we can't rely on. Including, for many (most? all?) of us, the police.

I miss the relative safety of life as a cis woman in relationships with cis men, but I also love my life and I love my love. I wouldn't trade where I am now for that safety, and I know I'm not alone in that. It is not fair that LGBTQ people have to live with this fear for no reason other than bigotry. Our community is about who we are at our roots and who we love, and there is nothing that reasonable people should hate about that.

I love you, my LGBTQ friends. I love you, and we do not deserve this hate. I want to wrap you all in a hug that will protect us all from violence and hate. Today, I think of those five people who died, the many injured, and all of us fighting for love in a world too determined to hate us.

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In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes

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seeing transphobes on tumblr is insane. Brother you are blogging on the trans gay sex website

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Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

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Autumn Valley

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But when I say I care, I mean I'm judging it and expecting you to judge mine.

Don’t listen to the haters. I care about your spotify wrapped.

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Hi! We're introducing Important Blue Internet Checkmarks here on Tumblr. They're a steal at $7.99—that's cheaper than some other places, when you consider that you get not one but TWO checkmarks for your blog on web only (for now). Why, you ask? Why not? Nothing matters! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Get yours here!

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Hamsterdance.com is available for sale. It would be a good investment to buy it and put the old hamster dance on it, right?

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The love of my life and my spouse.

j/k, I love Wisconsin cheese and my spouse equally.

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…a true autumn day makes life and nature harmonize…