AmityNoBlight

A trans chick with entirely too much time on her hands and entirely too many ideas for short stories about lesbians. Also I take writing commissions at AmityWrites and AmitySellsOut!

[kittnswitmittns]

I'm going to take a risk today. Most probably it won't pay off, and I'm just putting myself in front of more eyes to be judged by more people and potentially just making myself unsafe pointlessly, but I have nothing else to do. Nothing else I can think of anyway. Hi. My name is Amity. I'm a trans woman, and I've known that I'm trans for about a year now. I've been on estrogen for exactly a month, as of today. And I live in the state of Tennessee. In Tennessee, about a month ago, bill HB0754 was passed in our state senate. For those of you who don't want to click on that link and read that bill, the TLDR is that it would require every doctor and clinic in the state of Tennessee to report every patient they have who identifies with them as trans and undergoes hormone replacement therapy/receives gender affirming care. This data will be compiled into a single statistical report which will be released publicly online, every year on the 31st of December at the latest. I hope I don't have to explain how, in a state that is as Ruby Red as it gets, where public officials have recently been barred from entry to conferences they have a responsibility to attend because of their race and party affiliation, this makes me feel unsafe. I am already too afraid to front in any sort of feminine manner. I'm likely going to have to flee to another state by the end of the year. I will not get to be a present figure in my baby brother's life. I will not get to continue to be close to my pets, or my friends, or my family. I will be forced to miss more holidays and special moments than I already do because of how difficult college is. Protests over this bill have, as far as I know, largely ceased. There is no talk significant enough of overturning or appealing this bill to make any sort of news headline or to make it to me on social media. I found out about this bill because it was mentioned as a throwaway line in a tiktok video. The worst crime I've committed in my life, across 2 decades, is a speeding ticket that was not egregious enough to earn me a reckless driving charge. I'm being put on a registry, my name and age and gender identity and the names of my doctors to be made a matter of state record, when I have committed no crime other than having been born in the wrong body for how I feel as a person. Worse still, this state record is to be compiled into statistical data to be published publicly in a state where it is already not safe for me as a trans woman to tell anyone but my closest friends and family who I am. My life is going to be uprooted by this bill. In all likelihood, I will not be able to continue living in my state that I have given years to and fought to improve every day of all of those years. I don't care if nobody ever reads this, and I don't care that it more than likely won't change anything. I need to tell my story and tell people that I am real, and I am being pushed out, and that I have done nothing wrong. Please, if you have a trans friend who lives in Tennessee, send them well wishes. Try your best to support them if you can. God knows we need it.

[kittnswitmittns]

Update on this post nobody has read, since this Tumblr acts as an occasional diary spot for me by this point anyway and I might as well continue to treat it as such, I've moved states. After the incident with the Tennessee three (for those who don't know, 3 black state legislators in the only 3 majority blue districts in the state were barred from entering the meeting to redraw districts, resulting in two of their districts being unmade and the others' being cut in half iirc), I decided I couldn't stay anymore. And, I'm glad I got out when I did, considering how much worse things have already gotten for people like me. Those bills remain upheld and unchallenged, though as far as I'm aware largely unenforced, and the state senate has also recently claimed pride month to have been changed to "nuclear family month", for reasons I'm sure you could guess. I keep up with these things because despite myself, I still love my home and my family. I'm now in a different state on the West coast of the US, though I'm not going to be sharing where, and it's relatively nice here. The weather isn't terrible and the job market is marginally less shit. I might be starting a job soon, depending on if that Warhammer store calls me back. Here's hoping right? I'm going to be honest, it's hard to be hopeful nowadays. Man, it might be lame to diary-ify a tumblr, but fuck it if you've read this far you must care a little right? I love my friends. I miss my family, blood and chosen. I've been doing my best to find work, and it's not going great so far, but whatever. I'm here now, gotta make do. One of the only things keeping me going is the superman poster I've hung on my wall. I'm trying to be like him as much as I can. Life is scary. Being young is scary, and being trans is especially scary. I unfortunately don't have much else to say, or to add. If you're reading this, I guess, check out some of my writing? I think my writing channel is linked somewhere in here, but if not it should be under #amitywrites with a little purple heart icon I ripped from a tiktok pfp video. I also post on Ao3 under Kittens_with_Mittens occasionally. I'd appreciate a like or a kudos there, if you wouldn't mind. And, a commission would be amazing. Any little bit helps.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[jmtorres]

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

imo there’s correct identifications of dandelions, daffodils, easter lilies and marigolds in this thread, but buttercups are simply impossible to agree on and the only solution is for everyone to post pictures of their local buttercups

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*squints* is that a motherfucking EVENING PRIMROSE?!??

[demon-and-human]

Hello I would like to add to the confusion:

That purple fella is a Morning Glory as told by my mothers (texan)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

⬆️ morning glory

[huehueiamabaguette]

wait so if thats morning glory what is this?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[kittnswitmittns]

Seeing this reblog chain is like reading a diary in a horror game

[kittnswitmittns]

Another political post, Oh boy Oh joy

Lawful Access | Federal Bureau of Investigation

Because of warrant-proof encryption, the government often cannot obtain the electronic evidence necessary to investigate and prosecute threa

^That^ is an article on digital privacy rights published by the official FBI website. Now, it's a relatively short read, but I'm going to summarize the main points here just because why the hell not mom, so if you don't want to read it you can rest assured that I am presenting its exact points in a (biased) format here. This article (again, published by the FBI's official website) details their "heartbreak" at the fact that social networks and phone service providers (so Discord, Iphone, Verizon, etc) have been "aggressively marketing" their "anti-warrant" encryption software which makes it difficult to impossible for said companies to simply hand over the messages between any two given users at the drop of a hat. Now, keep in mind that my understanding of encryption software is based off of a skimmed wikipedia article (linked here for ease of access), but I'm going to do my best to explain why this is. It comes down to something called End to End Encryption, which functionally gives your account or device a key for every specific conversation you're having with someone. Using apple's messaging system as a basis; if I text my friend bob that I'm coming over to his house tomorrow and bringing a pizza, both bob and I can see the text regarding my arrival time and the pizza. This is because both of our phones have the key to unlock the conversation. If you were to access this conversation without that key, however, you would only see that I sent a text at X time. The actual contents of the message therein would functionally look like complete nonsense, a random assortment of characters with no corresponding cypher connected to it allowing easy decoding. This means that, if the FBI suspects me and bob of doing some nebulous criminal action, bank robbery for simplification, and they want to comb our conversations for evidence of us planning said bank robbery, they would have to either trick one of us with a phishing link or physically take our devices with a warrant and break open the on-device encryption (passcodes, fingerprints, etc).

As you can probably understand, those things require effort and resources, things that the FBI does not want to expend. Rather, they want to be able to show up to the Apple service providers and flash a warrant at them, demanding to see our specific text data. Apple, because of the End to End Encryption on their own devices, cannot do so remotely.

Now, this alone would be bad enough; I mean, who among us hasn't heard the Nineteen Eighty Four alarms going off in their heads already, but the thing that makes it worse to me personally is the fact that the tone of this article is so particular about the guilt they want you personally to feel. They call this encryption "Warrant-Proof", they use words with negative connotations to describe it like "Aggressively Marketed", and "Obstruction of Lawful Access" in order to give you the feeling that this encryption is an attack on the safety and freedom of the nation, something they also claim. Furthermore, they bring up points such as advocacy for victims of CSA and Human Trafficking, when what they really want is to trivialize their jobs by violating our privacy. They quote, in the article's sidebar, a law enforcement agent from California (unnamed), who says: "It is heartbreaking to know that victims' voices may never be heard as evidence of child molestation, human trafficking, and murder are physically in our hands, but we can' open the suspects' encrypted devices, even with a search warrant."  (Yes I'm aware there's a typo, I used copy/paste, the typo is in the original article) But that is objectively false. A warrant permits lawful access only to the items you have a permit for, and in most cases (as far as I am aware) does not require the person or persons to tell the officers involved their passwords or hand over their biometric data. The data enclosed in the device is, yes, included in the warrant, but immediate access to it via a password or encryption key is not. If they cannot figure out how to access the data themselves, it is their problem not yours, and therefore the assumption this officer is making of "knowing we have evidence in our hands" is false; they do not know, they are assuming, and throwing a fit because they cannot prosecute based on assumptions. There is, however, a simple beacon of hope here in the fact that this tantrum over their inability to backdoor into every device in the world with ease is likely not a sign of bad things to come. Put simply, the United States isn't the only nation on the planet with phone service providers, and because companies like Samsung which are owned by non-American groups are still in competition with Apple over sales, Apple is unlikely to compromise our privacy to capitulate to the whining of the FBI. Samsung, if pressed on this issue, is likely to simply laugh it off and say no, which means that Apple would be directly pushing large portions of their consumer base towards a direct competitor if they were to do such a thing. This tracks similarly with social media services, similarly to how the US shutdown of TikTok would have only resulted in a mass migration to a foreign app in RedNote. This does not change any of the fundamental criticisms I've levied at the Federal Bureau of Invasions of Privacy, of course. It's still creepy as shit that they want this, and it's still funny as shit to read this article imagining some loser behind a desk rage-crying because their job is so much harder without violating our rights. Also, please, if you're an expert in any of the presented topics such as digital encryptions, federal law regarding warrants, or anything relevant to this post and I got something horrendously wrong please let me know in the comments. I'm trying to spread information, and I will gladly offer apologies and corrections if you give me a reason to think I fucked up. Thank you :D Vexillum Spei Portamus. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

[kittnswitmittns]

Hey so like fun fact; They've deleted this article as far as I can tell. I'm sure I had nothing to do with it, of course, it was most likely an internal decision due to larger creators backlash and the fact that the tone of the article was very whiny and self important. Though, it's important to note, they are still demonizing the concept of your privacy. They have released several articles since then and urged several groups including the UN to ban end to end encryption because they want to be able to not have to do their jobs. Yes, they could theoretically use this to find child abusers and such, but lets be honest with ourselves: will they? This kind of legislation isn't made to catch child predators, they can do that in a million other ways with relative ease. Honey pots, phishing links, warrants, legal methods that make sense. This sort of mass banning of an aspect of digital privacy, especially in a world that increasingly relies on digital communication, is meant to monitor people. Sure, there might be some people pushing this who genuinely want to use it for the right reasons, and you do still have to get a warrant for the information, but the people who give warrants aren't immune to corruption. In the hypothetical world where this goes through, it's easily possible for just some random FBI agent to see you post something anti trump on twitter. He can call up his buddy, steaming mad, and have a warrant on his desk the next day allowing him to comb through everything you've ever said. Sure, you've never dealt drugs over the internet, but maybe you bought some once? Maybe you pirated a movie? That's a crime. Or what about those texts to your friend about how frustrated you can get sometimes, joking that you just wanna kill your boss; in the right lighting, that can be a welfare check. Or a CPS visit. My point is, be careful. Don't trust these people, they aren't your friends, and they don't exclusively arrest bad guys.

[kittnswitmittns]

Portrait by one Amity Lovejoy. It depicts a long and bloody struggle played out until the very end, in the last few moments of which defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory. Title: "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT NOOOOOO-!!!"

[kittnswitmittns]

I can't stand the internet anymore, it's like constantly being surrounded by a bunch of angry misanthropic weirdos who can't just enjoy anything. Every time a person with a decent following does or says anything even slightly off color, even if they then immediately apologize, everyone dogpiles on them and starts calling for them to kill themselves and shit. Like, you fuckers constantly complain about how "oh why do we not have any good content creators anymore", and I am here to sincerely tell you that oftentimes it is your fault. People who have done little to nothing in the way of being at all problematic or even rude will say one ignorant thing, and not ignorant as in bigoted ignorant as in speaking on a topic they dont yet fully understand when put on the spot and giving a sort of bad take, and suddenly you've got a million people tagging them in long callout threads about all the people they hurt like we all also dont say ignorant things. Obviously this doesn't go for people who say blatantly racist shit just because they want to be racist, or people who do evil things, but saying "as far as I know this person did nothing wrong and you guys are weird for insisting they deserve death" should not be a cancelable statement just because you dont like the person they're defending, especially when they clarify a misunderstanding of the context immediately after. You all expect way too much of content creators and it's why we only have like 5 people that arent problematic who still regularly make content. Everyone is all about rehabilitation and learning from your mistakes until they get the chance to virtue signal and shittalk someone as proof of their moral righteousness.

This is about funkyfrogbait, also fuck you guys.

[kittnswitmittns]

Actually I already have more to add and its not like anyone is going to see this anyways

They already apologized. They did more research and recognized they fucked up and said sorry, but that isnt good enough. People expect perfection 24/7 and that every content creator be perfectly up to date on random ass drama they have no stake in or relation to, and then when it gets brought up to them in a random on the spot moment and they give an opinion that's only marginally related suddenly they're a racist bigoted freak who should die. I hate you all. You people are the reason people kill themselves, yknow that? People can give their whole lives to your entertainment and one tiny spur of the moment rant about something barely related to a topic *you* probably don't even really care about outside of personal self aggrandizement is enough to bully them and put actual effort into ruining their life because you're all so vapid and devoid of stakes in life that the slightest fuckup is enough to decide someone's life, dedicated to fighting injustice and speaking on issues they care about in an entertaining format for your personal enjoyment with only the request of enough money to live off of in return that you dont even have to personally contribute toward paying them, has suddenly become worthless. Fuck until a month ago everyone thought Gooseworx was hot shit, and contrary to your social media addicted chronically online perspectives most people don't register changes in the perception of online micro celebrities they hardly engage with in a months time

The way that you treat people fucking matters. Good content creators who make differences in the world quit because of you. People kill themselves because of you. You're all about personal growth but only when its yourself, all about mental health but only your own. You are all so fucking entitled that the slightest deviation from complete perfection in someones awareness is treated as a disgusting crime against nature. If they end up hurting themselves, or abandoning their channel, or anything like that I don't want to hear shit from any of you. You all ruin this for everyone.

[kittnswitmittns]

I can't stand the internet anymore, it's like constantly being surrounded by a bunch of angry misanthropic weirdos who can't just enjoy anything. Every time a person with a decent following does or says anything even slightly off color, even if they then immediately apologize, everyone dogpiles on them and starts calling for them to kill themselves and shit. Like, you fuckers constantly complain about how "oh why do we not have any good content creators anymore", and I am here to sincerely tell you that oftentimes it is your fault. People who have done little to nothing in the way of being at all problematic or even rude will say one ignorant thing, and not ignorant as in bigoted ignorant as in speaking on a topic they dont yet fully understand when put on the spot and giving a sort of bad take, and suddenly you've got a million people tagging them in long callout threads about all the people they hurt like we all also dont say ignorant things. Obviously this doesn't go for people who say blatantly racist shit just because they want to be racist, or people who do evil things, but saying "as far as I know this person did nothing wrong and you guys are weird for insisting they deserve death" should not be a cancelable statement just because you dont like the person they're defending, especially when they clarify a misunderstanding of the context immediately after. You all expect way too much of content creators and it's why we only have like 5 people that arent problematic who still regularly make content. Everyone is all about rehabilitation and learning from your mistakes until they get the chance to virtue signal and shittalk someone as proof of their moral righteousness.

This is about funkyfrogbait, also fuck you guys.

[kittnswitmittns]

I'm going to take a risk today. Most probably it won't pay off, and I'm just putting myself in front of more eyes to be judged by more people and potentially just making myself unsafe pointlessly, but I have nothing else to do. Nothing else I can think of anyway. Hi. My name is Amity. I'm a trans woman, and I've known that I'm trans for about a year now. I've been on estrogen for exactly a month, as of today. And I live in the state of Tennessee. In Tennessee, about a month ago, bill HB0754 was passed in our state senate. For those of you who don't want to click on that link and read that bill, the TLDR is that it would require every doctor and clinic in the state of Tennessee to report every patient they have who identifies with them as trans and undergoes hormone replacement therapy/receives gender affirming care. This data will be compiled into a single statistical report which will be released publicly online, every year on the 31st of December at the latest. I hope I don't have to explain how, in a state that is as Ruby Red as it gets, where public officials have recently been barred from entry to conferences they have a responsibility to attend because of their race and party affiliation, this makes me feel unsafe. I am already too afraid to front in any sort of feminine manner. I'm likely going to have to flee to another state by the end of the year. I will not get to be a present figure in my baby brother's life. I will not get to continue to be close to my pets, or my friends, or my family. I will be forced to miss more holidays and special moments than I already do because of how difficult college is. Protests over this bill have, as far as I know, largely ceased. There is no talk significant enough of overturning or appealing this bill to make any sort of news headline or to make it to me on social media. I found out about this bill because it was mentioned as a throwaway line in a tiktok video. The worst crime I've committed in my life, across 2 decades, is a speeding ticket that was not egregious enough to earn me a reckless driving charge. I'm being put on a registry, my name and age and gender identity and the names of my doctors to be made a matter of state record, when I have committed no crime other than having been born in the wrong body for how I feel as a person. Worse still, this state record is to be compiled into statistical data to be published publicly in a state where it is already not safe for me as a trans woman to tell anyone but my closest friends and family who I am. My life is going to be uprooted by this bill. In all likelihood, I will not be able to continue living in my state that I have given years to and fought to improve every day of all of those years. I don't care if nobody ever reads this, and I don't care that it more than likely won't change anything. I need to tell my story and tell people that I am real, and I am being pushed out, and that I have done nothing wrong. Please, if you have a trans friend who lives in Tennessee, send them well wishes. Try your best to support them if you can. God knows we need it.

[kittnswitmittns]

Another political post, Oh boy Oh joy

Lawful Access | Federal Bureau of Investigation

Because of warrant-proof encryption, the government often cannot obtain the electronic evidence necessary to investigate and prosecute threa

^That^ is an article on digital privacy rights published by the official FBI website. Now, it's a relatively short read, but I'm going to summarize the main points here just because why the hell not mom, so if you don't want to read it you can rest assured that I am presenting its exact points in a (biased) format here. This article (again, published by the FBI's official website) details their "heartbreak" at the fact that social networks and phone service providers (so Discord, Iphone, Verizon, etc) have been "aggressively marketing" their "anti-warrant" encryption software which makes it difficult to impossible for said companies to simply hand over the messages between any two given users at the drop of a hat. Now, keep in mind that my understanding of encryption software is based off of a skimmed wikipedia article (linked here for ease of access), but I'm going to do my best to explain why this is. It comes down to something called End to End Encryption, which functionally gives your account or device a key for every specific conversation you're having with someone. Using apple's messaging system as a basis; if I text my friend bob that I'm coming over to his house tomorrow and bringing a pizza, both bob and I can see the text regarding my arrival time and the pizza. This is because both of our phones have the key to unlock the conversation. If you were to access this conversation without that key, however, you would only see that I sent a text at X time. The actual contents of the message therein would functionally look like complete nonsense, a random assortment of characters with no corresponding cypher connected to it allowing easy decoding. This means that, if the FBI suspects me and bob of doing some nebulous criminal action, bank robbery for simplification, and they want to comb our conversations for evidence of us planning said bank robbery, they would have to either trick one of us with a phishing link or physically take our devices with a warrant and break open the on-device encryption (passcodes, fingerprints, etc).

As you can probably understand, those things require effort and resources, things that the FBI does not want to expend. Rather, they want to be able to show up to the Apple service providers and flash a warrant at them, demanding to see our specific text data. Apple, because of the End to End Encryption on their own devices, cannot do so remotely.

Now, this alone would be bad enough; I mean, who among us hasn't heard the Nineteen Eighty Four alarms going off in their heads already, but the thing that makes it worse to me personally is the fact that the tone of this article is so particular about the guilt they want you personally to feel. They call this encryption "Warrant-Proof", they use words with negative connotations to describe it like "Aggressively Marketed", and "Obstruction of Lawful Access" in order to give you the feeling that this encryption is an attack on the safety and freedom of the nation, something they also claim. Furthermore, they bring up points such as advocacy for victims of CSA and Human Trafficking, when what they really want is to trivialize their jobs by violating our privacy. They quote, in the article's sidebar, a law enforcement agent from California (unnamed), who says: "It is heartbreaking to know that victims' voices may never be heard as evidence of child molestation, human trafficking, and murder are physically in our hands, but we can' open the suspects' encrypted devices, even with a search warrant."  (Yes I'm aware there's a typo, I used copy/paste, the typo is in the original article) But that is objectively false. A warrant permits lawful access only to the items you have a permit for, and in most cases (as far as I am aware) does not require the person or persons to tell the officers involved their passwords or hand over their biometric data. The data enclosed in the device is, yes, included in the warrant, but immediate access to it via a password or encryption key is not. If they cannot figure out how to access the data themselves, it is their problem not yours, and therefore the assumption this officer is making of "knowing we have evidence in our hands" is false; they do not know, they are assuming, and throwing a fit because they cannot prosecute based on assumptions. There is, however, a simple beacon of hope here in the fact that this tantrum over their inability to backdoor into every device in the world with ease is likely not a sign of bad things to come. Put simply, the United States isn't the only nation on the planet with phone service providers, and because companies like Samsung which are owned by non-American groups are still in competition with Apple over sales, Apple is unlikely to compromise our privacy to capitulate to the whining of the FBI. Samsung, if pressed on this issue, is likely to simply laugh it off and say no, which means that Apple would be directly pushing large portions of their consumer base towards a direct competitor if they were to do such a thing. This tracks similarly with social media services, similarly to how the US shutdown of TikTok would have only resulted in a mass migration to a foreign app in RedNote. This does not change any of the fundamental criticisms I've levied at the Federal Bureau of Invasions of Privacy, of course. It's still creepy as shit that they want this, and it's still funny as shit to read this article imagining some loser behind a desk rage-crying because their job is so much harder without violating our rights. Also, please, if you're an expert in any of the presented topics such as digital encryptions, federal law regarding warrants, or anything relevant to this post and I got something horrendously wrong please let me know in the comments. I'm trying to spread information, and I will gladly offer apologies and corrections if you give me a reason to think I fucked up. Thank you :D Vexillum Spei Portamus. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

[probablybadrpgideas]

System with Rock-Paper-Scissors style weaknesses, but instead of Rock/Paper/Scissors, it’s Fuck/Marry/Kill.

[kittnswitmittns]

Fuck beats Kill, Kill beats Marry, Marry beats Fuck

[kittnswitmittns]

Note to self; make post about hatred stemming from jealousy, and how men who wanna fuck trans girls but hate trans girls are really funny

[kittnswitmittns]

So okay following up on this after I finally managed to find time to actually sit down, but I've had/might still be having a discussion in the comments of a previous post of mine in which someone decided to attack me for being trans instead of for any actual political point made in the post. Long story short, he ended up tipping his hand with overindulgent descriptions of what he thinks my body looks like, and I came to realize that he probably has a fetish for trans girls. If he doesn't, at the very least he very much seems like it.

Regardless of whether he does or doesn't, it reminds me of the myriad other times that this has happened to me. Theres a lot of connections to be made here, and I'm just one young woman, but I'll try my best to summarize the points I'm envisioning for my own benefit.

1: Straight men seem to think that antagonizing and demeaning women based on the core values that make up them as a person will get them laid. Now to be clear, this isn't entirely the fault of the individual, it's a systemic problem, but I think modern women (and trans women in particular) are more resistant to these ideas because the way we were raised is different.

2: Despite all indications to the contrary, transphobic straight men do want to fuck trans people. Not all of them, but plenty. I think that's where a lot of the hatred comes from; being trans is supposed to be a source of shame, so lusting after trans people is also a source of shame for them. Its unclear to me if this is just a fetish for them or if it's a genuine attraction that they minimize unhealthily until it becomes a fetish.

[kittnswitmittns]

Note to self; make post about hatred stemming from jealousy, and how men who wanna fuck trans girls but hate trans girls are really funny

[attheendhello]

you heard it. reblog if u support yuri

[kittnswitmittns]

I heard the song of creation and it was Copacabana by Barry Manillow

[kittnswitmittns]

This is a video by tiktoker Rita Marie Valerie, tag visible in the video but just in case I'll paste it here;

The video lists, in recording and in the description, the goings on in Minnesota from the perspective of a person who lives in the state and can see exactly what is going on, as well as collect firsthand reports from friends and neighbors. If you don't want to watch the video, I'm going to include a bullet point summary of the things that she says.

Things elaborated in the video include:

- Instances of ICE gassing the entrances to preschools, elementary schools, and middle schools in order to prevent parents from picking up their children

- Schools offering online learning because parents feel unsafe sending their children to school

- ICE pressuring paramedics and hospital staff to diagnose lacerations on the back and fractures to the skull as self inflicted

- ICE forcing detainees who are being released to strip naked and releasing them into the middle of the woods alone with no cell phone, leaving them to suffer frostbite and potentially death

- ICE turning away family members with life saving medication from detention centers and denying that medication to their prisoners

- ICE agents ambushing parents who are picking up their children from school and detaining them

- ICE agents ambushing children at bus stops and in car lines at schools and detaining them

- ICE agents claiming they've hit or damaged the car of a "suspect" and then arresting them when they come to exchange insurance information and survey damage

- Children being sent to detention centers in other states for the express purpose of keeping them from family and friends who can help

- ICE agents pulling fire alarms in apartment buildings to flush the building and detain people

- ICE agents following and intimidating innocent people who are getting groceries for neighbors who are scared to leave their homes because of their skin color

- ICE agents confiscating and unlocking phones to use the GPS travel information without a warrant or permission

- ICE offering immunity and cash rewards for immigrants to snitch on each other

- Sexual assaults in internment camps

- ICE camping outside of hospitals to trap people, thus intimidating people out of seeking care for medical emergencies

- Detaining people here on asylum or valid student visas and stripping them of those Visas

- ICE agents detaining, at gunpoint, innocent civilians observing their right to record the public actions of a law enforcement official

- Destroying checkpoints created by protestors to watch for ICE and keep innocent people safe

- The government using AI to tamper with video and photographic evidence of wrongdoing, to make protestors seem aggressive and petulant

- and one notable instance of ICE locking a woman and her infant child in a bathroom overnight in a federal building

These things are happening. The united states federal government is lying to you. They want us to look away from these things because they are real, and because they fear that us knowing that they are real will make us harder to control. Help them realize that fear.

Vexillum Spei Portamus. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

[kittnswitmittns]

"OH MY GOD THEYRE SO GAY FOR EACH OTHER AKFIQBFIQNFUWJW" and it's just two mediocre white boys in each other's general vicinity

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[kittnswitmittns]

Yur

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[kittnswitmittns]

YUP.