@amelia I’m in such a small majority that I don’t run into this often but I hear this. Going to my parents fridge with that one pic, that is probably hard to explain to non familiar, must be a trip.
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Just a bear being audit he can be.
@amelia for real, I glowed up pretty awesome and handsome at that.
@evacide this has always been my biggest fear, and now that it is real and occurring, I need to step up as a queer elder. I’ve stood back in the shadows, whispering gently about policy for too long. Being a baby queer taught me so much opsec I never knew I had.
@annaleen I feel like we fled to livejournal first. But yeah, fuck queer censorship.
@babyfangs I have such mixed emotions about acab but part of the reason I quit was because of it. I worked in a specialized unit that was… less
acaby? then others but the whole culture is toxic. Even if 60% are good, it still rots. So I tried my best to be queer as fuck, (basically a gay ass bear) while trying to protect my life from being murdered as a trans person. Which lead to some comedy, as I’ll eventually get to.
acaby? then others but the whole culture is toxic. Even if 60% are good, it still rots. So I tried my best to be queer as fuck, (basically a gay ass bear) while trying to protect my life from being murdered as a trans person. Which lead to some comedy, as I’ll eventually get to.
@wally3k I didn’t miss it until a few years back, but then I think about how easy it was to connect with that obscure, carpenter, ftm dude who drove a Tacoma because you had the same livejournal connections and that’s how masto feels to me. My near sole identity back then was trans and ftm, so I met such interesting folks. And then the internet came, and everything changed. And being queer was quiet, and ok, lady fest wasn’t a revolution. And then, all the recent events that have happened gradually then suddenly made me go, whoa, there are a ton of us who maybe need to get back to that very public, geocities my first shot of T (shout out 20 years ago) site. We’ve been holding down this fort for ass time!
@wally3k we were all on aol once? Right?! Aol? But not ironically? This reminds me of chat rooms so much.
So while I was ultra (ha!) stealth, I decided I was invincible, and applied to be a corrections officer in a the top 10 deepest red states. I’m not even sure, probably because as a trans guy, in the late 90’s/early aughts that I thought that was the best way to help my community? And I was overly confident?who knows. My sister cried when she heard I accepted a job.
Well, long story short, I’ll do a full bit about it sometime, I met some good people, and was compassionate enough to work in the protected unit and there were some trans sisters incarcerated there. And it made me realize how even though I was a deep stealth ftm, I could still empart my wisdom, empathy, care for everyone including the mtfs who I interacted with daily, and the fellow COs I worked with about treating everyone with respect. This was nearly a decade ago, but even as deep and red as the environment may have been, there were some good people. And also some invisible, queer folks as well. Also, acab til no cab. And maybe, as I start to tell more of my story as both part Mary Poppins part Paul Bunyan, I’ll lift some spirits and encourage those to carry on.
@babyfangs it sooooo reminds me of old yahoo groups it’s incredible . Before they just vanished. And at some point I will share my archived.org geocities
Oh hey! I’ve been too scared to do an intro post because SM has been tough on for me the last while. But I’ve decided that this will now be where maybe I finally come alive again.
But it’s so weird, I’m a deep stealth ftm (trans guy) in his late thirties- transitioned during high school (2003) My entire adult life I’ve been so deep stealth that some of my closest friends don’t even know. But here’s the problem, being trans is part of my everyday life, even if it’s not public. And I’m funny as fuck. So this leads to some very interesting, everyday, “normal” things witnessed, but through a trans lens but then a public hilarious, “cis het” lens.
Long story short, I think im going to workshop some comedy ideas. My mom always said she hoped I’d become a gay comedian. And that was before she knew how queer as fuck I’d hide I was.
a/s/l : 37/m/wa
ps. My mom told her friends that I was actually a twin and the other one died on an island. 🤣