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hi everybody please reblog this and tell me your go-to coffee order right now and if you don't like coffee feel free to include your go-to tea order instead

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Strange trans lifehack that I stumbled into:

For years I went by a shortened version of my legal name, which was generally considered to be a masculine name. People gave me endless grief for this. It was too much work to remember, compared to my legal name. It was just so hard to remember that I spelled it the normal masc way that people spelled that nickname, and not a femme-ified Tragideigh alternate spelling. It wasn’t even that different from my legal name anyway, so what was the big deal with people just using my legal name? Why was I being so difficult?

Then I legally changed my name to something ethnic and tricky to pronounce, with the exact same shortened nickname.

Now every time I tell people “oh, you can just call me x” I can hear the palpable relief in their voice as they do so. Overnight, my nickname turned from a concession to me into a concession to them. I instantly went from difficult to magnanimous – I’ve had people thank me for going by the same name I’ve been going by and getting grief for for well over a decade.

I guess sometimes the solution to “remembering your preferred name is too hard” is just to put the fear of god in ‘em. Oh, you think this incredibly common name that just happens to be a different gender is hard? Nah, I’ll show you hard. How about every time a stranger complains that remembering a preferred name in addition to what’s on my paperwork is too complicated, I add another phoneme that doesn’t exist in English to my legal one. Choke on that, lol.

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i think they invented the sciatica nerve specifically to hurt me

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pins by Abprallen

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“Do you fear her because her blood runs through your veins or because her belt runs through your back” 💀

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i love fic authors who are gooners with such closely held artistic sensibilities that it nearly eclipses the goon. we shall goon, but first we shall follow 70k minimum of a meticulously-plotted and spectacularly-executed character arc replete with several devastating psychological portraits and some trenchant political commentary on what it means to be a human in this world.

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I like a jealous love interest but it has to be subtle. if the main character mentions their ex and they see a flash of emotion in the love interest's eyes or the love interest sets their glass down too hard that works for me bc it shows that they have feelings about it but they have it together and don't act on it. if the main character mentions their ex and the love interest is like "if I ever meet them I'll tear them limb from limb for having the nerve to leave a gorgeous person like you heartbroken" that sucks to me

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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They say if you want to learn anything niche, ask an autistic person

Anyone here with a particular interest in (checks notes)

Style differences between steel gates and fances from different British time periods?

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An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it's grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂

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I know the movie is 32 years old but I feel like Aunt Debbie (Addams Family Values 1993) is one of the few people whose quality of life could have really benefitted from a few therapy sessions with Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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Since it's mid-august it's time for a reminder for the DIY folks or those who like to cosplay

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"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

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they don't tell you this but btw you can search 'wyll ravengard' on google and get to see him.

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Fuck with me