It's not getting better 🫩

When I first figured out I was gay I was looking at the world like it was. Being other wasn't actively as dangerous there was a future in sight where I wasn't in danger. Then when I figured out I was nonbinary after years of not conforming to gender norms i knew life would be slightly harder.

I am lucky in the sense that I can still use my given pronouns, and that the nickname I've used for years is something I truly identify with. But with recent developments of the place I now live I fear that not only my future, but my life is at risk. Who I am how I dress and how I present myself is deeply personal, and I fear that sometime in the near future I might have to trim away what makes myself me.

My right to marriage, my right to vote, my right to live in the public eye without fear of crimes against me is at risk. the adults who are supposed to protect me, supposed to watch over the next generation are too focused on the unborn. I think it's because the unborn are in many ways still only an idea. They can't be disabled in need of aid, they can't be people of color, they can't be opinionated, they can't have made mistakes yet. But that's the thing, they are the perfect tool to fake care.

And again, in many ways I lucked out, when it comes to the pyramid of minorities I do hit somewhere higher in the eyes of idiocy. I'm white, AMAB, not disabled, my nickname is something my family uses enthusiastically, my pronouns are something I don't really care about and my gender expression rarely leans feminine beyond what society finds acceptable. If the worst is to happen and all the ways I am me become criminalized again, I am able to hide myself like a shameful secret.

But I think to the trans women facing risk for just existing in a way that means they don't want to kill themselves. I think to the POC facing deportation to a country they've never stepped foot in all for the crime of not being white. I think to the trans men, erased by our culture because they aren't as publicly in danger, even though they face far higher sexual assault risks. I think to everyone too ill to work a steady job slowly dying because they can't access care. And finally I think to women, half of our population is slowly having their rights and autonomy stripped away because of old white men.

When you discriminate, criminalize and kill every singly minority you don't get utopia, you end up with noone but a circlejerk of men who can't understand why the world is collapsing. It has gotten better, but if it doesn't stop improving it's going to go backwards.

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u/im_very_gay_butbfpls — 5 days ago

I'm going to high school and I'm relatively alt, the dress code is really vague so idk if I can get away with it.

I grew up homeschooled in a different country and as such I developed a pretty strange style. I never show skin as it makes me uncomfortable but corsets, leather pants, and other strange pieces are rather common for my daily wear if I'm going somewhere. I probably won't wear that everyday but I don't want to get dresscoded for just expressing myself.

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u/im_very_gay_butbfpls — 17 days ago

I just got leather pants that are maybe an inch or two too small

I got these from a guy I know, and they're genuine bikers leather (uncle in a biker group confirmed it) but they are very snug, can I stretch the leather or cut my losses?

I know nothing about leather so this might be a dumb question.

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u/im_very_gay_butbfpls — 2 months ago

I got leather pants!! (I got em for free, wasn't what I was expecting from a church but not complainggg)

The first one has red flames on the bottommmm

u/im_very_gay_butbfpls — 2 months ago

I'm really proud of this floating island build I've done in my forever world (mob farm coverup, will add more islands to blend it later)

I added another lore installment to the sect of the soul flower--the cult I started surrounding poppies--this is a temple built of the petrified corpse of the very first poppy eons ago. the flower was killed by the wither, and from a single seed sprouted the wither rose. this temple is meant to guard it, keeping it away from the world but keep it alive as it is still wrong to kill any poppy, no matter how dangerous. the old followers of the sect decided that to keep the world safe they would raise it into the sky and place a statue to make sure it never fell. the mountain that once held the first of the soul flowers was raised and the remaining land smoothed over.

four sproutlings of the world poppy were placed to feed the greedy wither rose, permanently stunted by its ravenous need for destruction.

I could go on all day about the lore surrounding this religion, but I will temper myself because I'm not sure anyone wants to hear it.

u/im_very_gay_butbfpls — 2 months ago