u/Own-Kaleidoscope-673

This is mostly directed to black transmasc people, but if you have any advice, it'd be very much appreciated!!

Okay so I'll be traveling to Japan for study for two weeks and I'm a bit nervous. I do want to pass while I'm there because it'll be the first time I'll be using my chosen name and pronouns outside my home. One of the main things is hair. While I actually pass somewhat with locs or an afro, as soon as I get braids I look femme again. I do love braiding my hair but it's a bit annoying sometimes lol. The style I'll be doing are those layered braids (I might color some idk). Any tips to style it?

It doesn't matter if you think Imu is a bum or the greatest man alive, I think we can all agree Luffy isn't defeating Imu on Elbaph as he is now. Apparently some people think Luffy can and will beat Imu. This is the god of the world btw. The man that defeated Joyboy. I do believe Imu will be roughed up a bit especially he's not at full power and visibly weaker but being beaten? No way. Luffy isn't on that level, dare I say not even on Roger's level, and you're telling me you believe Luffy will beat him? Please be for real.

Being black, living in Africa as a transmasc, pan teenager is not for the weak. Not only do you have to deal with homophobia and transphobia, you also have to deal with racism, not only from bigots but even some of the trans community themselves. Even your chances at romance can be lowered just for being black.

I don't have all the words, but being poc in the lgbt community is painfully hard and I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed it 100% of the time.

So I chose the name Jun a while ago while I was sounding out words and looking through those name websites and I really like it. I haven't been using it like publicly or anything since I also have the name Jo (which is an abbreviation of my given name) and what my siblings have been calling me as of now. I searched up the name Jun and found out it was an Asian name. I do like the name, but I don't want to disrespect anyone because I'm using it.

So my friend who I have a crush on told me she likes our guy best friend. Damn it.

I'm so sick tired of seeing people be ridiculous. I'm so sick on scrolling on Reddit, insta or TikTok or something and seeing the worst comment ever. Like a few days ago, I saw a comment that said "Let's not normalize shipping." Excuse me, what the FUCK do you mean by that?! This shit has been here since the 1960s! And people who complain about the evil tags or whatever are also ridiculous because do you know what you can do? You can filter them out! YES! You can filter out tags you don't want! So you know what's even better? You don't like a specific author because you saw a problematic work? You can mute them! You don't see them ever if you do that! It's super easy, and if you're confused, you can watch a tutorial on how to use AO3.

Some of y'all are so patient because I wanna scream and laugh and cry.