Fighting bigotry protects everyone- not just the marginalised.
I think it's incredibly important for people to remember this, bigotry comes from hatred and disgust, and at its worst can hurt so many whether they're the target of it or not.
This applies on so many different levels and has happened to extremes in the past and continues to happen now, but it's easy to distance yourself from atrocities when they're so far from your day to day life.
So, let's take it a little more local for the majority european-american demographic of Tumblr. Something that could happen to almost anyone, regardless of whether you're in a marginalised group or not.
(transphobia CW for under the cut)
Imagine your mother or your grandmother, is ill, too ill to take care of herself and is put into specialist care. She's extremely vulnerable, and needs to be protected from infections.
Behind the scenes, without you knowing, something has been happening.
The cleaner for your relative's room is a young trans man. He's great at his job, and takes the utmost care to ensure your relative is comfortable and safe.
His manager though, is transphobic, and doesn't want this cleaner in the workplace. She treats him badly, yes, but he sticks it out, and keeps working to keep your relative happy.
His manager takes it a step further.
His manager plants a bowl of moldy food in your relative's room, because he's meant to clean that room and he'd get in trouble for leaving that there. The mold could kill your relative just by being in the same room. His manager doesn't care, because his manager wants to make him lose his job.
His manager is caught, police are involved, he never receives any blame and helps the investigation.
Your relative, thankfully, survived. Her life was at risk though, directly because of the actions of a transphobe who didn't even think about the consequences, who didn't care if your relative died. It doesn't matter what you think of trans people, because this goes beyond just the trans cleaner. He wasn't directly hurt. It was your relative whose life was at risk.
His manager was investigated, and despite being proven to have done this, wasn't fired. His manager was given a warning, that if they did anything else, they would lose their job.
They tried to kill your relative, and were left only with a warning.
This sounds a little extreme, right? Who's plotting murder to get some random trans man out of a job?
Well, my partner's manager.
This all happened to him earlier this year.
A sick, elderly woman's life was endangered because my partner's manager was a transphobe.
Bigotry doesn't just hurt its targets. Anyone can be hurt by it.
We fight bigotry not just to protect ourselves, but to protect everyone we love.
Hello can we see the Other Power of the Towers Beepo?
YES. YESSS.
Introducing THE AUTUMN PRINCE
(Also known as Twig)
The Power of The Towers in my park is formed of old magic, magic from the Fae realm. These roots are known by very few, and as time has gone on the connections have gotten weaker. Within the Gardens though, the fairy doors can still be found if you know where to look. As with any door though, it lets things out as well as in.
The Autumn Prince is one such case, a Fae Prince of the Autumn Kingdom who fled their realm after years of political struggles and betrayals due to their status.
Now they can exist more freely, revelling in their trickster nature and able to live completely free from their home thanks to the Fae Magic that's so resonant within the park. As such though, they're fiercely territorial over the crystals as one of the few who understands them.
Though they act like they're above others, in reality they're just a curious teenager who doesn't know how to make friends.
(Have a question about/for Twig or any other character I've introduced? Go right ahead! My ask box is always open.)
Gladly. (CW FOR BLOOD AND TALK OF HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION)
Introducing DR E. WARREN
(Just call them Warren.)
As a 16 year old desperate for cash and to get away from a bad home, Warren agreed to join a medical trial, but unknown to them it was luring from the Oblivion Project operating under the Ministry of Joy for something far worse- Experimenting with Void on human subjects.
As the only survivor, they spent years recovering from the physical and mental trauma, but they weren't catching a break yet. With the connection to the Void remaining, the Lord of Darkness had access to their mind, silently influencing them to further his own pursuits (which I talk a little more about Here).
Eventually they were free of his influence, but by that point 12 years had passed, and they found themself working as a biochemical scientist and researcher working with Oblivion, and making it to the very role of the people who experimented on them...
...They don't like to talk about their history too much, especially not those early days of working under the Ministry of the Lord of Darkness.
Now though, they act as Head of the Oblivion Project, and have been a leading force in the push for high ethical standards of practice and making strides in medical research using Void.
They also met an unfortunate demise and subsequent revival as a result of some... Encounters related to the Invitation, but does it really matter if the one in charge of Oblivion also happens to be a vampire?
Personally I don't see a problem with it.
They also have a giant Void lizard named Gus (short for Gustopher)
(Have a question about them? Have a question FOR them? Go right ahead.)
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