Trans-Spangled Spookiness

He/it, 27, Queer

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John Brosio - Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013) [2000 x 1833]

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[crabussy]

I asked my five year old cousin what he would do if there was a scary skeleton and he said "I would pour water on it and then kick it" and I've been losing my shit laughing crying about a wet skeleton for about fifteen minutes straight

[crabussy]

he was so delighted by my fits of giggles that he drew eight wet skeletons for me

[piernik-miodowy]

“Boogie Street ‘52, Revachol” (Kim has this in his wallet)

A revamp of my 2022 Disco piece hehe

[thesweetiepienovels]

“No one is coming to save you.” I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said they’re proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being “saved” isn’t about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, it’s about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.

[traumasurvivors]

Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

[traumasurvivors]

Hey all.

I want to make an addition to this. I made this post a long time ago.

I’m currently back in university, and I’ve made so much progress with my trauma. I’m in a loving relationship.

Things can and will get better. It’s not too late.

Nothing is perfect by any means. But I’m happy I’m still here and didn’t kill myself. I hope you get to that point, too 💕

[traumasurvivors]

The addition is important! I see the original post circulating a lot, but the addition is important!

[traumasurvivors]

New addition two years later. I’m still going strong!

I’m getting married. I’m still in that loving relationship.

I’ve learned that there’s no real timeline. It’s okay. And while it sucks that I lost time, there’s still so much for me to experience and enjoy.

[traumasurvivors]

Newest addition. 7 years after the original post!

I got married last month! My dog is laying on me snoring. I’ve learned to have healthy friendships and relationships. I’ve learned that I’m not alone and that even when things are hard, I’m going to be okay.

[traumasurvivors]

This showed up in my notes again. And here we are. 2026.

I’ve been married a little over two years. I just got home from friendships that feel like home and family. My husband and I have our own place. I have a full ass book ready to be published.

I don’t know. I’m still in a good place and I can’t believe how far I’ve come from my original post.

[borderlinereminders]

I don’t know if I’ve shared this on this blog before, but it feels like a good thing to share here.

These posts span about 9 years. (And just to clarify, traumasurvivors is my other blog.)

The year before my first post was the last time I ever tried to end my life. I genuinely almost died.

I remember realizing that, and something in me shifted. Not in a “everything is magically better now” way. Not even close. But I realized I didn’t want to be there anymore.

I’d been trying to end my life at least once a year since I was 18. I even tried when I was 12. So this wasn’t a small thing or a one-time thought. This was a pattern. A really painful one. And a couple of those attempts were really close calls.

And I’m not saying you can just decide to be okay. You can’t. But in that moment, I decided I wanted to try.

I wanted to try to be better. I wanted to try to learn how to handle my feelings. I wanted to try and fight the shit my brain was throwing at me all the time.

I’m not healed. I’m not perfect. I still have suicidal thoughts sometimes. But it’s been 10 years since I’ve acted on them. And when they come up, I’m able to acknowledge them and understand they will pass. Instead of feeling dark all the time, I feel joy and love and hope. I can communicate in a healthy way. I can self soothe. I can ground myself and get out of spirals.

There was a moment where I chose to try instead of giving up. And I just want to share that it’s possible. It’s possible for things to improve. It’s possible to build healthy coping skills and a life you want to live. I used to think it was bullshit when people said ‘it can get better’, but from the other side of that now… it really can get better.

[traumasurvivors]

So, my wording from me 2020 reblog has been pointed out and I wanted to clarify.

This isn’t a ‘promise’ things will get better. It’s an experience of mine and me sharing that to show there is hope and things don’t have to be doomed to be awful forever.

I did need to try. I had to want to try. I had to see hope in trying. And the hope is what I’m trying to share.

I’m sorry the wording wasn’t the best. I’ve grown a lot in the last 6 years from that point alone and I’ve learned to word things better for my blog posts.

Please don’t take my 2020 ‘it can and will get better’ as the message. My message really is what I shared in my reblog from my borderlinereminders reblog. And it’s really just that there’s hope and in most cases, you need to want to try. And that it is worth trying.

And sure, you can say it might not be worth it because it doesn’t get better. But how I’ve always approached that line of thinking for myself is the time passes either way, I may as well try. Maybe that can help you too.

[traumasurvivors]

Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

[traumasurvivors]

Hey all.

I want to make an addition to this. I made this post a long time ago.

I’m currently back in university, and I’ve made so much progress with my trauma. I’m in a loving relationship.

Things can and will get better. It’s not too late.

Nothing is perfect by any means. But I’m happy I’m still here and didn’t kill myself. I hope you get to that point, too 💕

[traumasurvivors]

The addition is important! I see the original post circulating a lot, but the addition is important!

[traumasurvivors]

New addition two years later. I’m still going strong!

I’m getting married. I’m still in that loving relationship.

I’ve learned that there’s no real timeline. It’s okay. And while it sucks that I lost time, there’s still so much for me to experience and enjoy.

[traumasurvivors]

Newest addition. 7 years after the original post!

I got married last month! My dog is laying on me snoring. I’ve learned to have healthy friendships and relationships. I’ve learned that I’m not alone and that even when things are hard, I’m going to be okay.

[traumasurvivors]

This showed up in my notes again. And here we are. 2026.

I’ve been married a little over two years. I just got home from friendships that feel like home and family. My husband and I have our own place. I have a full ass book ready to be published.

I don’t know. I’m still in a good place and I can’t believe how far I’ve come from my original post.

[heartsl0b]

wet specimens

[elliegoose]

the idea that women are "more allowed" to express emotions than men under patriarchy honestly seems like a lie that serves patriarchy itself.

women are constantly pressured to dissociate from the way our circumstances negatively impact us, and we are straight up not permitted more emotional expression in any meaningful way that is received well in patriarchal relations. in reality, we are marked as "more emotional" and therefore taken less seriously than men.

nobody under patriarchy is allowed a healthy and full expression of their emotions, but framing emotional expression as an advantage that women have is bizarre.

[queeranarchism]

Women are only allowed to express emotions that fit the role of servitude - love, care, nurturing, admiration, submission, and some concern or sadness when appropriate.

Men are only allowed to express emotions that fit the role of oppressor - lust, assertiveness, domination, anger, rage, violence.

These emotions are divided to sustain a hierarchy that places women below men. Anyone who violates this division - an angry woman, a nurturing man - is punished.

And women who perform only the correct emotions at the correct moment are still punished with the accusation that those emotions make them inferior to men, whose manly feelings are re-imagined as rational drivers of their actions.

[anguishmacgyver]

ah yes. the classic "I can't sleep because it will be tomorrow in an instant and tomorrow requires things of me and I Simply Do Not Vibe With That". so I'll go through said tomorrow on 2 hours of sleep. very smart and once again no lessons will be learned

[leebrontide]

Minnesota- the receipts

Ok, my previous attempt to share this list was kind of a formatting nightmare. I'm gonna try this again.

Here is a bunch of impartial news sources explaining what's going on in Minnesota right now, organized by persuasion tactic. The goal is to get as many people calling their Senators as possible, as fast as possible. Ideally, ahead of the vote Friday. But, even after that, we need people making noise about what's going on here.

Please wait till I get to the end to reblog. I'm constrained by the link limit.

In case they say “well there must be a reason for them to do this”

Oh boy are there. But they aren't good.

Here’s the Trump administration demanding we hand over control of our elections in order to stop the occupation (please see the “law and order” section below for takedowns of the lies included in the administration’s letter.) (sidebar but—state’s rights? Hello?)

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Here they are trying to override Minnesotans’ objections to mining our pristine boundary waters. (As an added note—the mining company isn’t even US-based. The money will be headed to Trump’s cronies outside our borders. I oppose it anyway because this endangers the wildlife and drinking water of…a huge number of people, but I guess some people care about that as well.)

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He's been doing this to states that voted against him. It's not subtle.

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[leebrontide]

Here are some arguments for the "think of the children!" crowd

ICE threw a gas canister into a minivan with 6 children inside who were on the way home from soccer. A 6 month old infant was hospitalized for days as a result.

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Multiple children were kidnapped right off their school bus, including a 5 year old boy who was kidnapped right in front of family after being used as bait. He is a legal asylum seeker and pretty obviously not a violent criminal. He has since vanished across state lines

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ICE argues loud and proud that they are not responsible for sexual assaults occurring in their facilities- including those perpetuated by their own officers

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They have multiple facilities just for kidnapped children under age 5 who they took without their parents. These are our "dangerous criminals"?

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Multiple school districts have gone to all or partial virtual learning because ICE keeps sniffing around schools, presumably for more "bait" children.

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[leebrontide]

For the “it’s a bunch of fringe terrorists resisting legal law enforcement” crowd:

- Firstly, some images of about 50,000 Minnesotans showing up in the middle of a negative 20-degree work day to protest ICE. We had the first general strike in 80 years. Look at these pictures. Minneapolis is a small city. We have never had this kind of cross-class, cross-generation, cross-race, cross-party lines unity before.

This is not fringe. This is because everybody here has stories of seeing ICE try to beat and abduct people. In the city, in our small towns, and in our suburbs.

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Even a bunch of local republicans are begging for this to stop

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For the Second Amendment fans:

NRA’s statement about the murder of a nurse who worked at the local Veterans’ hospital. He never pulled his gun; we have video proof from many angles. He had a gun he was legally allowed to carry, so they shot him many, many times while holding him down.

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[leebrontide]

For the "it's about law and order" person in your life (this one will take multiple reblogs because I have SO MUCH DOCUMENTATION of ICE's flagrantly illegal behavior)

People seem to have forgotten that being undocumented is not actually a crime! That’s why it’s not handled by the criminal justice system. It is not illegal.

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Here is some documentation of ICE arresting thousands of citizens with no due process, no Miranda rights, and not even with anything they can be charged for. Often accompanied by violent beatings.

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ICE are grabbing people with no warrant, no probable cause, without even knowing their name. Being brown or black, having an accent, or filming them is enough for them.

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[leebrontide]

ICE is claiming they can go anywhere they want - including into your house, without a judicial warrant. They think that because the Trump admin put out a memo saying so. This is flagrantly illegal.

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Here is ICE lying about it being legal to film them. Again, they believe this cause the administration told them it is true. It is not.

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[leebrontide]

Here is ICE brazenly lying about multiple murders they conducted in broad daylight. The insult of them thinking nobody will notice is just staggering.

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Here is ICE harassing local police

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[leebrontide]

In fact, here are a bunch of police leadership speaking out against ICE.

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And while we're at it, ICE and the Trump admin have been lying about Minnesota crime rates.

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ICE is whining about being “assaulted” by people laughing at them, shouting at them, refusing them services (remember that republican law that says you can deny services due to your beliefs? We can use that, too!), or putting water outside their hotel room. They say they can shoot people and it’s fine, but people stopping them from kidnapping others with things like yelling, whistles, and singing is “assault” to them. They then used this to try to suspend our right to assembly.

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[leebrontide]

ICE running people off the road and then saying people are attacking them with vehicles.

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ICE insists that not only should they be allowed to do all this, but they also deserve anonymity. (Probably because they know state police are building legal cases against them)

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Here they are lying about deporting veterans, under oath, and getting caught.

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[leebrontide]

Here they are denying people access to their lawyers—again, violating one of our constitutional rights. Like, not just once or twice, but as a matter of policy.

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For “But-But- The Fraud!” nuts in your life:

The current round of “fraud” accusations was started by a YouTuber who showed up with a camera at a bunch of daycares and concluded, since nobody would just let the strange man come onto the private property with the children, that they were hiding something.

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The other fraud republicans are supposedly up in arms about was already prosecuted. Arrests were made.

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[leebrontide]

For those focused on taxpayer's dollars

ICE’s budget is bloated to the extreme, and they want to keep expanding it, and no they don't want to be asked what they're doing with it all.

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Meanwhile, immigrants have always been great for Minnesota's economy- which is stronger than most of the economies of states with less welcoming policies. Just saying.

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And that's it for now!

Across parties, when people know what’s actually happening, they are upset. So please, please help get the truth out here, and ask people to speak up to their elected officials against this occupation. Republicans know this is tremendously illegal and unpopular, and are relying on ignorance and racism to get away with it. Don’t let them. And please- speak up offline! People not on social media have very very little idea what’s going on here.

[gooberjam]

call your representatives to urge them to vote against further funding for ice. this is a very easy process through 5calls and it takes 2-3 minutes. you are almost guaranteed to leave a voicemail so please don’t feel nervous or stressed about it, this is something that could make a difference. all you need to do is put in your zip code and the site will provide a script and the numbers for your representatives.

[gooberjam]

the deadline is january 30th and it’s good to call frequently if you can

[aurorawest]

In case people don't realize the full extent of what's going on, we are under siege in Minnesota. I live in an affluent, majority white suburb of Minneapolis, and ICE is all over the place terrorizing people. They showed up at the library, kitted out in their Temu tactical gear, and stormed it.

The library. Please let that sink in.

They've pulled weapons on legal observers and physically attacked them. They're threatening teenagers and children with death. One woman told a story at my, again, affluent, majority white suburban town's city council meeting this week of being shoved from behind so hard that she fell down by an ICE agent, who then said to her, "Stop touching me." A man, in tears and begging for our city government to do something to help our neighbors, described having a baton pulled on him. They're luring people out of their workplaces with lies about "hitting someone's car in the parking lot" and then abducting them. Citizens and legal residents are being detained. People are being racially profiled and snatched. A teenager (a US citizen) working at Target got dragged out and shoved in a car, then dumped a mile away in a Wal-mart parking lot, beaten up and crying. And all of this is after they murdered Renee Good.

I don't emphasize the demographics of my particular suburb to say "but this shouldn't be happening here, we have money!" but to illustrate that the Trump administration has declared war on a US state. Even if you stick your head in the sand because you're white and won't be directly targeted, ICE is running traffic lights, speeding, tearing the wrong way on one way streets, and causing nasty accidents because they think they're above the law. They think it doesn't matter who they hurt or kill, because they're being told straight from the top that they can do whatever they want to whoever they want.

We are all under attack, and this is coming to a city near you if we don't stand up to it. Please stand with Minnesota, as well as LA, Portland, Chicago, and every other place DHS has sent their COD cosplay gestapo. I don't know what that looks like for you but please, please, don't ignore this.

[thedishonestmedia]

I live in Minneapolis. OP is not being dramatic. We will continue this fight, but please everything you can to stand with us because nobody in this country is safe if they get away with these crimes against humanity.

[dandelionsresilience]

Ways You Can Stand Up To ICE:

If you live in Minnesota, join the statewide economic shutdown and protest march on Friday, January 23!

ICE whistle resources - short bursts indicate ICE presence, long blasts indicate detainment or violence. Car horns can be used the same way. If you hear these signals and are part of a high-risk demographic, stay inside and lock your doors.

How to quickly disable phone biometrics

How to respond to ICE activity

Find a local rapid response team to join

Community support options

Minnesota mutual aid

Report and track ICE activity here, here, and here

Vehicles/plates confirmed to be used by ICE

Minnesota Rapid Response Hotline: [phone]

Other rapid response and immigration hotlines

If someone you know has been detained, you can attempt to locate them here. I don’t know how well this works with the way they’re disappearing people, but it’s probably worth a shot

[leebrontide]

HAVE YOU CONTACTED YOUR REPS ABOUT ICE'S VIOLENT OCCUPATION YET?

Because they are gonna run out of funding at the end of this month. We are right around the bend of a major weak point for them.

And you can let your reps know RIGHT HERE that you do not want them expanding their surveillance capabilities to surveil every ring camera and phone in the country. Because...they want to.

You can help Minnesota and every other place they've terrorized RIGHT NOW in less than 2 minutes, without even getting up. You can stop them from continuing to gas infants, abduct neighbors, shoot legal observers in the head, and beat bystanders.

No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

[michaelgovehateblog]

I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

[primarybufferpanel]

May we live in very uninteresting times

[broken-academia]

may you experience very precedented events

[greymoggy]

Dancing in the kitchen