This is a Lucy Dacus appreciation post!!!
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
Strawberry paws 🐾
its been so fkn lonely on here since i've had to remake I didn't even think to post my latest crochet stuff lmao...
Oh my god i should totally upload my stardew coat on here
Coat
I think my favourite line in season 2 is crowley's "he's far too pure of heart to be anybody's bit on the side" because any time we get to hear the way crowley talks about aziraphale to other people is a joy, but also it's just so genuine and full of so much love. he's not speaking about aziraphale with any agenda, he's just speaking off the cuff. it's ridiculously sweet. it's also hilarious because it's crowley's immediate reaction to nina suggesting that they're casually sleeping together and crowley's like, um no, we're not, but fyi if we were I would be treating him right!
It's even better because it would be SO easy to have him downplay how much he likes Aziraphale to everyone he talks to, and not even in a romantic sense.
In a show that cared less about its characters, he would be playing up how very suave and very cool he is and hiding his feelings by calling Aziraphale a dweeb and making jokes at his expense to the people around them. I mean yes, he does that with Aziraphale himself, but it's always done in a gentle, familiar tease.
But with everyone else? He doesn't even try to hide how much he adores him, how clever and special and funny and interesting he finds him. It's so deliciously sweet and earnest, but never in a way that feels overly sappy either. It's just a matter of enjoying the person you love.