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stardusted ☆彡

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Kai | 32 | they/them | writer | artist | photographer AO3: rhapsodyinpink | art blog: stardustedstudio

watching reddit go into a full death spiral is like watching the specifically trans equivalent of the library of alexandria go up in flames

like yes reddit is also the only place on the internet you can get an actual answer to any question in general. but it’s also a huge centralized community database about which surgeons will fuck you over, who takes what insurance, which doctors you can trust, how to write a template therapist’s letter, insurance appeals, peer support, questions that feel too stupid to ask anywhere else, diy guidelines, “hey this is embarrassing but,” finding trans people in your area, explaining why you need PTO without getting way too personal about it, safety tips, et cetera you get the picture

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Someone on trans Reddit just bought the url transgender.org and have put out a call for folks to help turn it into a replacement (and more). Here's a link on r/ftm but it's open to everyone

"And then Suwa starts to sing. Two verses in, I fidget, knowing what's to come, but it still bowls me over when the song tilts and pushes into the chorus. I see it so clearly, the visual sequence attached to the moment. Of Marigold free-falling, but the perspective of the camera is flipped so that it looks like she and the leaning clouds are scrolling across the screen instead. Streaks of gossamer glitches gliding down the frame, blooming into iridescent halftones.

...Afterward he beams, his eyes crinkling like new butterfly wings. It feels so natural and so, so right to watch him onstage. He's cast a spell over the entire venue."

— Beating Heart Baby, Lio Min (2022)