Thank you very much for your constent support @goodomensafterdark !
Good Omens saves me and you help me to find my path. Since I have joined you I made new friends, I learned a lot of english..., I traveled, I've done things I never thought I could do my whole life and above all you gave me the possibility to do what I love : create and bring hope and joy for everyone.
It's not always easy, as people know I struggle with my health, I have no proper job and I fight for LGBTQI+ rights, especially trans right and I try to be a good ally in all the other fights. For that I'm volunteer in the first LGBTQI+ association here in my city, I'm an activist and I recently created my own association with some friends.
When I started Teach Me I had no idea the impact it will have on trans people, mostly trans masculin people. I received a lot of good comments, lot of love for the story, lot of good feedback. But the most important and priceless messages I got was from young (and less young) trans people who found themselves, who found the strenght to came out, who started their own transition .. just because this story. I have no word to say how much I'm happy and proud for this.
And none of this would have been possible without @goodomensafterdark , the people who created it and the people who give their time to allow it to exist. It's not easy, it's a lot of work and they do it for free, for us, to make it a safe place for everyone.
Recent event in the community put this place in danger, pointing out the mods and pretending a certain complacency with problematic people, I even read they get artists (by artists they mean just illustrators.. to be clear. I include writers in artists anyway) preferential treatment?? Finally blame GOAD to claim being a safe space when it's not...
So I just want to remind you there is no perfect safe space as long as there is more than one people in it. We are human, we are all different, we can agree on many things but we are not perfect! No one is. We all make our best, even the moralizers.
Places like @goodomensafterdark might be not perfect but they are precious, especially now!
Thank you for everything 🙏🏻
"Always try to be nice, never failed to be kind"