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Heyyyyy guys! Early final chapter cuz why tf not?

Chapter 12 of Let Them Run From The Violence

I thought I'd post it now so as many people as possible can read it while they still can. I'll be on hiatus until October to rest and write as much as possible of the rest of this series, hopefully updates will be more frequent then.

Stay safe everyone!

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This one is for the USA peeps

Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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hey guys just here to say that the new online safety act in the uk has blocked the suicide hotline

this is extremely problematic for very obvious reasons and i have no idea what the fuck this country is fucking coming to

childline has also been restricted

if you're a uk citizen and still haven't signed the petition please do so

even if you're not a uk citizen please reblog to spread the word !!!!!

this isn't safety, it's censorship

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Hey, just to be clear. If you think that banning everything that has "adult content", which would include anything with violence of any type, LGBTQ+ content, NSFW content, horror etc is protecting children from anything, you are delusional.

Most of the games being banned are not free, which means people buying it are NOT CHILDREN. This is censorship at it's most obvious.

And yes, it's going to affect everyone, because the uk isn't the only country issuing the "online safety act". The USA had already tried to pull that (and I'm pretty sure it passed), the EU is going to vote it in the upcoming year, Australia is trying to pass it, Russia is going to implement it.

So yes, your little safe corners of the Internet are no longer safe, because credit card companies like visa and Mastercard are on a power trip.

How to act under the cut

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For anyone who wants to call Visa or Mastercard about the Steam/Itchio: be the nice but inept person who eats up all their time.

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Starting to get worried about my ability to post on ao3 ngl. Luckily I don't live in the uk, but the EU is following close behind.....

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I finally reviewed and reread the whole chapter! It's now much more clean and I'm expecting happy with how it turned out. Hope you guys enjoy!

A wild author has appeared!

Right, sorry, I'm silly today. It's Thursday though, ya know what time it is? That's right folks! A new chap- *earpiece noises" wait, hold up.

WHAT??

Right, fine, whatever.

Heyyyy guyssss. I have good news and bad news. The good news is, there's no more plague! Huzzah! (You get your ltrftv chapter)

The bad news is, there's no more London.. (it's lesser quality)

Right, here it is, enjoy!

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"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.

no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.

they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."

every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.

your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

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Thinking about my fic while rebloging this...

pinky promise

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A wild author has appeared!

Right, sorry, I'm silly today. It's Thursday though, ya know what time it is? That's right folks! A new chap- *earpiece noises" wait, hold up.

WHAT??

Right, fine, whatever.

Heyyyy guyssss. I have good news and bad news. The good news is, there's no more plague! Huzzah! (You get your ltrftv chapter)

The bad news is, there's no more London.. (it's lesser quality)

Right, here it is, enjoy!

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The way I'm about to ruin every body's day should be illegal. Like, wdym I'm responsible for yall? I'm barely responsible for me. And I'm an ADULT.

Anyway, that's my thoughts on why keeping to the plot you came up with despite it being the opposite of what you want to happen atp is, yk, not fun.

Maybe I should add an angst tag. I can't tell how emotionally taxing things are, I'm too traumatised. Every time I upload a chapter and something happens I wonder if it warrants a warning and I'm insensitive

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Writing chapter twelve and making it so different to what I've been writing so far for the fic is very refreshing. But also I'm crying now. The emotional damageTM is not fun....

No spoilers but yeah. It gets saddddd. And now I'M sad.

Writing, man. It takes it outa ya

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Just some persephone and hades coded stobotnik shit under the cut

Stone being a young agent and full of life smiling such a pretty smile always smelling like flowers only imperfection the dirt he has stuck under his painted nails.

One of his first missions is in Greece and it goes to shit immediately. The other agents, older more experienced, present watch as this green barely graduated agent looks so at home among the carnage he's causing and yet still smiling so softly.

One agent to break the tension calling him persephone and Stone laughing and asking if that means he should be wary of pomegranates.

The name sticking throughout the years (the dirt long gone from his nails but followed by how easily he disappears in the foliage as if the trees themselves are hiding him, the scent of flowers faded but his victims can taste it as they draw their final breathes and he stands over them, that smile still so pretty and soft but uncanny in the dark).

Laughing every time a green agent gets dared to give him something pomegranate related and never accepting.

Walters seeing this unflappable agent and thinking maybe this is the kind of agent robotnik needs. Walters sending in the transfer orders and not thinking about it further.

The whispers of sorrow and worry that follow him as he packs his stuff and heads to the lab smile still place never failling.

The lab being dark and lonely and sad and the man inside just the same but better at hiding it (not really not to stone) and Stone deciding this place while dead and lifeless is still a garden of sorts and he's always been good in a garden.

Robotnik opening up to Stone, because while it's different Stone and him are the same in a way and robotnik has been desperate for someone to see the world like him even if he doesn't say it, and giving Stone a gift as thanks.

It's nail polish but more than that it's pomegranate red and Stone accepts it and spends his lunch break painting his nails in the new shade.

Years pass and gun tries to bring Stone back into the fold but he always returns to robotnik before long as if drawn as if trapped nails always that same shade.

And then the doctor vanishes and they try to erase him try to pretend he never was there. And Stone smiles and laughs and the lab deploys poison gas killing the scientists sent to steal his work with Stone watching breathing fine. The lab is empty and Stone is gone when they finally clear the fumes.

The doctor returns smelling of fungus yet no worse for wear and Stone is relieved. He stays by the other's side as he seeks the master emerald and stays even when it all goes wrong and the damned hedgehog throws them both to the ground. He stays by the other's side surrounded eating pomegranates as the doctor recovers and stays until he's thrown away left behind and forced to watch his love join the stars.

They don't talk about robotnik he's not real was never real but they mention Stone's name even less. Because mentioning his name gets his attention. He'll find you if you speak it and you don't want him finding you. Only Persephone is mentioned in the faintest of whispers as they watch the world fall to flowers and robots.

Whispering of the myth of the dread queen who was known before his love. Who was feared before his love stole him away. Who will be feared long after his love has been forgotten again.

And the world fills with the scent of pomegranates as it burns.

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New chapter for ltrftv!

Hope you guys enjoy, because there's only 2 chapters left after. And maybe an intermission fic, who knows what the people want

Anyhow, I am very excited to share the last chapter, I have some lore to put in there. But alas, that's 4 weeks for you guys to wait :)

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So here's what happened on Reddit:

A transmasc posted about how transmascs and trans men are often invisible, how our issues are dismissed, and how resources, especially medical ones, are almost always written with non transmascs in mind. They posted this both to r/Trans and r/lgbt.

A moderator of r/Trans responded by telling them to “stop bitching.” That’s the word they used. That’s the level of respect trans men get. Transandrophobic by the way, don't call trans men bitches.

The comment was deleted, quietly, after backlash. Then the entire post was removed. When asked why, a mod responded that the post was “playing oppression olympics,” and took the time to go through and dismiss each of the original poster’s points, including saying that trans men being sexually assaulted isn’t “unique to transmascs” and therefore not an issue, and claiming that access to testosterone isn’t any more restricted than access to estrogen, which is a straight-up lie, because T is a tightly controlled substance in most places and E is not.

The original poster was banned for three days.

Then a separate mod made a post saying, “nobody asked us our side of the story,” which is wild because people absolutely did, publicly and repeatedly. Users also started reporting that they’d had supportive comments removed or had been banned after disagreeing with the mods, some of those claims are still unconfirmed, but given the general behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising.

Then r/Trans locked down entirely. No new posts. The conversation was forcibly ended.

Some people posted about it on r/FTM, many of those posts were mass-reported, automatically removed by Reddit’s automod, or quietly buried. Meanwhile, r/lgbt also removed the original post, with no explanation.

One of the r/Trans mods eventually posted an “apology,” which was really just a soft-scrubbed PR post full of noncommittal language and distancing. They said they didn’t mean to call a trans man “a bitch,” they just used it synonymously with “complaining,” and they didn’t think about the implications until later even though the first post was about microaggressions just like the mod committed. They did not apologize for anything else, not for wrongfully banning people, not for accusing a transmasc venting like any other user of playing oppression olympics, nothing at all. They said they’re on break and can’t do anything about it. They said, and I quote, “please don’t be mad at the rest of the team.” even though the rest of the team are just as culpable for not stopping their behavior.

They also added that trans men are “a welcome part of the community” and tried to point at moderation history as proof. Because apparently we should be grateful that people occasionally get banned, every so often, for implying trans men aren't oppressed at all, wow, thanks, that is like below the bare minimum, cool.

The current state of things is: r/Trans has over 600,000 members, and trans men and transmascs were silenced, banned, and told to shut up for bringing up their own oppression. And the subreddit is locked down. There’s a mass exodus happening to the new sub, r/trans4every1, but let’s be real, the damage has already been done.

Now let’s talk about what this actually means.

This is not “just more Tumblr discourse.” This isn’t some random blog saying they don’t like transmascs. This isn’t a Twitter reply guy. This isn’t a niche zine or a spicy personal take. This is a massive trans-focused subreddit with over half a million users. It's easily one of the largest public facing trans community online, maybe even the largest, I've certainly never found a bigger one myself. And the moderation team made it crystal clear: they do not want transmascs to feel safe or welcome there.

This is what transandrophobia looks like on a slightly larger internet scale. When it’s in the hands of people who get to decide who gets heard and who gets deleted.

And for anyone who’s still stuck on “well they apologized” listen: trans men are told all the time that we’re being too loud, too angry, too entitled, too manly, too feminine, too confusing, too “binary,” too "Nonbinary", too much. We’re told that we’re “oppression olympics-ing” just for talking about our lives. And now we're getting banned and locked out of the spaces that claim to represent a huge portion of online trans people.

This isn't just online drama. This is a bellwether. And if it isn’t setting off alarms in your head, it should be.

The way transandrophobia manifests in online spaces absolutely bleeds into real life, into medical gatekeeping, into poor data collection, into the erasure of sexual violence against transmascs, into advocacy groups that write us out of the picture, into educational materials that treat us like footnotes, if they include us at all.

And if you’re sitting there thinking, “well it’s not that deep,” you’re part of the problem.

We need to start being more honest about this: Transandrophobia is real, it is widespread, and it is growing. We need to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt when they’ve shown us they don’t want us in the room.

And frankly?

We need to start making TRFs [Trans Radfems & transmasc-exclusionary feminists alike] deeply uncomfortable being open about their beliefs. We need to make them afraid to be TRFs, the way they’re trying to make us afraid to exist.

The same way we don’t coddle fascists. The same way we don’t tolerate TERFs. We need to stop tiptoeing around transandrophobia.

Because this growing wave of transandrophobia is going to kill people. Full stop.

Protect trans men. Protect transmascs. Protect your siblings; all of them!

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REMEMBER:

✨ A woman doesn’t have to have a vagina.

✨ A man doesn’t have to have a penis.

✨ A body part ≠ a gender identity.

✨ Trans women are just as women as cisgender women.

✨ Trans men are just as men as cisgender men.

✨ Not all nonbinary people look androgynous. And no they don't owe you androgynous.

✨ Not all genderfluid people "switch" day by day. There is no rules of being genderfluid.

✨ Not all agender people want to be invisible. Being agender has nothing to do with being visible.

✨ Not all intersex people want to be "explained." They have nothing to explain, they are normal people with their own identities.

✨ Not all trans people want surgery. It's all their own choice.

✨ Not all queer folks want your approval.

✨️Personality or style/appearance has nothing to do with gender.

✨️Every person deserves to be called with the pronouns they prefer no matter what.

✨️Not all genderqueer/transgender/nonbinary people experience dysphoria. Not experiencing dysphoria is as valid as experiencing dysphoria.

✨️Not all asexual people feel no love.

✨️Asexual people don't have to be aromantic.

✨️Aromantic people don't have to be asexual.

✨️Xenogenders and neopronouns are concepts created by people (many of whom are neurodivergent) who are trying to understand gender in their own unique way, and they are perfectly valid.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:

✨️Existing as a person is valid and valuable enough. People don't have to label themselves or put themselves into boxes. There is no "gender rules/labeling rules", labels are meant to make people comfortable. Not to put people into boxes.

IF I SKIPPED AN IMPORTANT FACT, MY APOLOGIES. I WILL ADD THAT FACT IF YOU DM ME OR COMMENT!