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Good morning, gentles all. 🌇

Time for an #introductions

I'm a white cishet man, more or less living at the top of Privilege Mountain, trying to learn to dismantle and undermine that privilege.

Things I'm into:
• #roleplaying
• #linguistics
• #socialjustice
• #software
• #parenting
• #reading
• #videogames
• #kindposting
• #lego
• #comics
• #argyle

Things I'm (interested in?) learning about:
• #socialism
• #coops
• #urbanplanning
• And all the stuff above, naturally.

This is, of course, incomplete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Uh. What do you do when the #introductions post you pinned to your profile is out of date? I guess you make a follow-up post with the correction, pin it and hope people notice?

Anyway, uh, in the above post, I describe myself as "cishet", but I figured out I'm actually pansomethingual? Only in the last, like, 8 months or so. I'm still a white cis man, so the thing about Privilege Mountain is still pretty accurate, though. But, yeah.

testoblerone

Good morning, gentles all. 🌇

Like… just because someone has suffered or is suffering a trauma or is trying to do something for a greater good or whatever doesn’t erase the harm they enact because of it. They still did the harm. They should have to actually overcome that before we give them a hero’s ending. Certainly before I’ll read the heroine ending up with them as a reward she’s earned. Bleh.

Having read two fantasy books by her, I am upset. I like a lot about her writing, but the theme that stuck out at me across Uprooted and Spinning Silver is that asshole dudes who treat young women like shit probably have Good Reasons to be assholes and so should be forgiven (without any amends being made) and fallen in love with/married. And just… lady, no? Why have these women end up with the assholes. See the assholes, see their reasons, but have them go do their own lives and shit!

Oh my god. I just noticed that their tag like is “Y’all or nothing”!!! I’m screaming.

This baseball team’s mascot is literally a pronoun. My favorite one, so this pleases me greatly. https://www.florenceyalls.com/

Y'all. I just learned how small Rhode Island is. Like… I knew it was small. But… map projections still made it look reasonable? But, y'all… is it _so_ small!

tl;dr Texan astonished at size of other states. 😜

Not having the best morning emotionally, folks. I’ll be OK and I will get support elsewhere, so I won’t go into details. But I don’t want to only post about good, happy things and feed that FOMO-inducing engine where we all tacitly edit our lives as expressed on social media to only show the best bits.

I’m a real human and you’re a real human and we’re all just out here trying to make it through. And sometimes it’s real hard. 💖