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45. Host of Disaster Area podcast. Cisgender bisexual female, she/her pronouns. Writer and part-time dog camp worker. Hopelessly addicted to Pepsi, dyeing my hair bright colors, and comic book movies.

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trollprincess

Okay, so about the hateful bigot on my town’s council.

[Quick summary: Trumpy homophobic Karen is on the town council. Last year THK was charged with defrauding $63000 from SNAP and medical assistance. THK also responded to me speaking about being a member of the queer community in town at a meeting a couple of months ago by sneering to my mom, who’s also on council, “I didn’t know your daughter was ✨ like THAT ✨.” You’re goddamn right I am. *flips nonexistent ponytail, nearly falls out of chair I’m sitting weirdly in*]

The majority of the council has done approximately jack shit in response to THK’s charges and upcoming trial. No job restrictions, no asking her to resign, nothing. They keep saying she’s innocent until proven guilty, which … okay, true, but also you miiiiiiight want to set up precautions just in case she IS found guilty. Just saying.

Anyway, her trial is next month. My mom is frustrated with the rest of the council essentially wrapping THK in bubble wrap, and they’re frustrated with my mom because my mom isn’t going to stand for this bullshit much longer. Now, I’ve got my mom AND the mayor asking if I’d say a few words at the council meeting tomorrow night. (Our mayor is openly gay and sick of her shit, too.)

So I am. Even though I hate public speaking. But I hate bullshit more (I am my mom’s kid), and at this point I’m literally WAY less mad at THK than I am at the town council. If she’s found guilty next month, they knowingly allowed someone they knew allegedly defrauded state welfare services of tens of thousands of dollars continue to do her job exactly as she had been doing and they did NOTHING. Not one damn thing.

Anyway, I wrote a speech calling them out and almost being *nice* to THK. Also, my mom just sent me a copy of tomorrow’s agenda and it lists THK having a statement to make at the end of the meeting labeled as “Exposure.” I would be speaking toward the beginning of the meeting during public comments. So either she’s going to complain she’s being picked on, or she’s going to resign.

I wonder if it’s too much to hope for that the tooth that just broke tonight while I’m at work either gets pulled tomorrow and requires painkillers or is in excruciating pain by the time of the meeting so I can just speak and leave.

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christs-cock

my friend asked me to pretend to be her boyfriend because her parents are homophobic af but they ended up hating me so much that they were glad when she said she was gay task failed successfully

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christs-cock

okay so

  • be a goth. conservative christian parents don't approve of goth men. show up to their house wearing all kinds of satanic symbols if you can
  • know more about religion than the parents. they'll try to introduce you to christianity because you don't exactly look like a christian but your dad's an ex priest and has a phd in theology so *cracks knuckles* you'll correct them on every little mistake they make
  • call your fake girlfriend every annoying petname under the sun. i'm talking about babu, shmoopie, snuffleupagus. when you run out of annoying english terms of endearment call her shit like "my liver" or "my little cabbage" (actual greek terms of endearments but the parents won't know this they'll just think you're annoying :3)
  • to continue this, talk to your fake girlfriend in the most high pitched annoying voice possible but talk in your regular voice to everyone else
  • stare at her older brother's ass for just a little too long
  • have an annoying laugh. think of sybil fawlty but a stereotypical villain playing a church organ in his castle
  • let them quote bible verses to you. then ask "so when were those two destroyed for sodomy?". it's very funny to do this when judas kisses jesus, and it's even funnier when you've just corrected them over a minor mistake in church history
  • ask WHY abraham was begging for sodom. it doesn't make sense to you why a good christian man would go and beg for tha-
  • be over possessive of your fake gf (dont really do this, it's just an act)
  • go and fuck her brother in an alleyway. the parents won't know about this so it's an optional step
  • use words no one knows the meaning of. do this without realising because you always talk like that
  • just be yourself! that's enough on its own to make them despise you tbh
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jockoppressor
  • None of them are gonna be physically violent
  • The Reddit users are going to judge you if you express any religious or “unscientific” sentiment
  • The Catholics run the gamut from “hardcore pro-lifer” to “Nun who invented communism”
  • The Protestants have brought lots of food but are going to proselytize the entire time you eat
  • The crystalists are split 60/40 on whether or not vaccines cause autism, and you don’t know who has the majority until you’ve been there an hour
  • The Anglophiles have good pastries, but 1/3 of them are in Sherlock cosplay
  • The girlbosses are all within 10° to the left of the center of the political spectrum and will try very hard to get you to invest in their MLM
  • The vegans brought food but will turn hostile if you let slip that you’ve used animal products in the last year
  • The reenactors have booze, but your phone is dead and they’re giving a very pro-America history lecture
  • The influencers have a pool, a jacuzzi, and lots of drugs, but they have a combined net worth that teaches seven digits and won’t let you forget it
  • The retirees have great weed but they’re gonna ask you a lot of invasive questions and give you a lot of unsolicited advice.
#the reenactors honestly#I feel like I could just keep poking them by asking them to tell me about terrible shit we did#and then saying boy early Americans sound Ike real assholes#over and over and over again
trollprincess

The one thing I’ve lucked out on in my life is landlords. I’ve have two different landlords for my current apartment and over the course of nearly twenty years they’ve raised the rent twice.

It is now $500.

Look, there’s a reason that when my mom told me when I was moving back from DC that a friend of hers had a two-bedroom apartment for less than that, I said I didn’t care if she found a body inside, I’d take it.

#the one good landlord
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maddie-grove

As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”

#omg honestly
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wootwona

since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!

trollprincess

Watching “In & Out” on the first day of Pride Month 2023 and the climax of the movie being people believing having a gay teacher will turn the students gay is just …

GIF by kaleidoscope-vol2
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knitmeapony

Look, I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for this but this show was all about breaking cycles.

Rebecca could have become another wealthy owner, utterly embittered, much more interested in hurting those around them to keep themselves up than to actually finding any happiness in the world. Instead she became her own person, found several families, embraced them all, and gave back in a way that helped most of them.

Nate could have learned that lashing out and repression were at least an outlet for his frustrations, he could have followed in Rupert's footsteps and become a miserable jackass. Instead by accepting the kindness and Grace of other people he started over, found love, and came home.

Keeley could have become a lot like her friend, never recognizing her inherent talents, slowly panicking as she aged, abandoned by the Machine by the time she was 30. She could have seen other women as enemies or at least combatants, but instead she found better friendship and mentorship and began to pass it on to others as she bettered her own life.

Roy's endless cycle of rage and hurting himself and pushing himself too hard to return could have literally killed him. He could have been like any number of Aging athletes whose life ends at 35. Instead he has a new career in a place that he loves, and he is finding ways to improve his mental health and open up.

Jamie could have been just another celebrity douchebag, possibly even sinking into the alcoholism that was taking his father. Just as much as keely, he was often seen as only as good as his physical fitness and his body, but he went back and read the books, he learned tactics, he learned to accept help and to give help and he became 10 times the man and 10 times the player that he was at the beginning. his career could have flamed out young but he got his second chance and he gave his father a second chance in turn.

And Ted, oh god Ted. his father made the ultimate selfish choice. He decided if he couldn't be perfect and he couldn't be everything he would be nothing. He would rather absent himself from his son's life then be there for him in whatever ways he could. Ted could have been happy in england. Ted could have had an incredible career. But Henry would not have had a father. How many times did people remind us that parents are responsible for the ways they fuck up their children during this show? Every other fucking episode, another way to point out that there are cycles of failure and frustration and psychological damage that get passed down from generation to generation. He broke that cycle, over and over. He didn't pin Michelle down into an unhappy marriage. They split up, and were both happier for it. He chose to put his son first, to not abandon him. He can have an incredible career anywhere in the world with a season like that. But he can't be in Henry's life the way he wants to be from six time zones away.

This isn't denigrating people who by necessity are long distance parents. But I would be willing to bet that if you asked any of those long distance parents if, given the choice, they would move back to be close to their kids? I'm willing to bet you pretty much every single one of them would say fuck yes, I want to hug them in the morning and tuck them in bed at night. I want to go to their soccer games and see their art shows.

Ted chose to be sincerely and honestly present in Henry's life. I don't think he's getting back with Michelle, he's not going back for a marriage. He's going home to be a father and I think his father would be proud.

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knitmeapony

Some people are, in the comments here, talking about why I should not be calling suicide a selfish decision. My own resistance to my suicidal ideation has in large part had to do with recovering from some extremely solipsistic worldviews, and it always helped me to think of my own experience that way. ( I am fine, and this has not been an active ideation in over a decade.) This is me projecting myself onto a fictional character. I acknowledge it might not be universal. You no longer need to send me messages about this.

#ted lasso#ted lasso spoilers