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Tomorrow, April 1st 2025, we have a massively important State Supreme Court election here in the state of Wisconsin. It will decide the balance of the state supreme court, and it's vitally important that we get Susan Crawford elected. Elon Musk has literally poured millions of dollars into Brad Schimel's campaign, and we are fighting for our lives here. I've already voted, and if you haven't yet and you live here... make sure you do.
But no matter what happens tomorrow, no matter what the result is, the fight is far from over. ICE agents are grabbing people off the streets, our public institutions are being systematically destroyed, and our international and diplomatic relations with historically close allies are just, honestly, fucked right now. Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and trans and queer rights have been under steady attack by the right. As a nonbinary person and member of the trans community, I'm genuinely scared for a lot of my friends right now.
But we fight. We stand up. We survive.
If we accept defeat, we are handing victory to those who want us dead. By living and fighting, we carry on to the next day and then the day after that. I know I posted it right after the election last November, but there's a pretty famous Joe Hill quote everyone should keep in mind: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
Go out, hug your friends. Build a local community if you can, and get involved in your local politics. Make sure you call your Reps and Senators every day if you can, and for pete's sake fucking vote.
We can make it as long as we don't stop fighting.
Remember that on April 5th at 11AM Eastern/10AM Central you can join me for the Critical Thinking Witches' Collective's April Brew virtual event! Attendance is free, and you can register here!
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This should be fun. (Barring the obvious fun.) The first time that kind of relationship is tested with an outside sexual thing… it can be interesting. It might be fine, and it might kinda not. The reality sometimes record scratch skips your brain into spitting out how you really feel about this now that it’s not an abstract.
Don’t get me wrong, how you really feel can be yea, nay, and may or may not agree with how you thought you felt. But it is a bit of a portentous moment in any relationship that includes it. End pontificating.
This is not the first person Sarah has slept with since getting together with Ruth.
This is the first person who has shown up in the strip physically (others have been mentioned in dialogue)
Yeah, I think the point being this is the first person who it seems to be more than just a sexual attraction.
Yep, thanks Ecchi – that’s what I was trying to convey, albeit poorly – perils of too much post revision. Previous, it hasn’t been anyone that’s mattered enough to signify one way or another. The first one that strays into “Really want” territory is often the problem child.
Yeah – see my reply to Ecchi, over-revision led me to word that quite chimptacularly. Mea culpa.
“Someone break out the banjo”
….I’m not thinking of a banjo tie in. Am I missing something?
Only a very inside joke