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I mentioned this on twitter, but I wanted to put it in a real live blog post, too: I didn’t make Team Bella or Joss Whedon Puppy buttons because I was afraid the former wouldn’t be readable and the latter wouldn’t sell at ConBust. But they are things I will keep in mind for the future if buttons do well!
Speaking of ConBust: I would really like to sell Maddow Is My Homegirl shirts (especially since the con’s in her neck of the MA woods), but I can not spare the money right now to order them. If you want to see those, donations would be awesome.
Thanks for reading!
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↓ TranscriptMARIA (typing): Dear Grandma, sorry I took so long to get back to you, I’ve been busy. College life is going fine. I’m doing well in my classes so far. The apartment is lovely, thank you so much for helping with that. You should come up sometime and see it. It would be nice to have a guest. It gets really lonely here
MARIA: …
MARIA (typing): Dear Grandma, sorry I took so long to get back to you, I don’t have a good excuse. My classes so far are astonishingly easy; I’m bored to tears at all times. I end up feeling like a freak when I try to hang out on campus and my friends never visit
MARIA: Aw, shit.
MARIA (typing): Dear Grandma, sorry I took so long to get back to you, I’ve been having the time of my life because college is the best thing ever. I am winning all of my classes and my friends are going to throw me a big surprise party with pizza and cake and a special appearance by Patrick Stewart. This afternoon I pooped a rainbow.
MARIA (typing): Dear Grandma, sorry I took so long to get back to you. College life is going ok. The apartment is lovely, but I’ve been really homesick. Please send kittens. Love, Maria.
The third letter draft made me giggle.
Ugh, poor Maria. 🙁
I hope she’s able to find someone to confide in. Being trans in college can suck a lot at times and there’s just..stuff…that cis folk, however awesome, just don’t seem to quite understand.
Here’s hoping she’s not alone (and that, if there are others on her campus, that they’re rad people!)
AWWWWW Maria D:
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Oh, Maria.
Grandma must be pretty frakkin awesome.
You’d be surprised how uninteresting trans-ness gets. I work for a huge company with a trans-inclusive non-discrimination policy. I identify as a non-op, non-horm, soft-butch trans-woman, but I tend to pass for cis-male. There’s a much more stereotypical trans-woman who works across the hall from me. We get on okay, but it’s never I’m trans your trans, we should automatically be friends. I knew other trans people in college mostly we talked about D&D, comic books, kink, and computer games. YMMV
I think the issue isn’t so much that trans people all automatically get along as that it is sometimes extremely frustrating to not have any trans friends at all to interact with. I’m currently trying to deal with depression that is mostly caused by the fact that all nearly all my offline friends are cis men.
I mean, they’re cool people and all, but gahhhh I cannot relate to them in the same way. ._.
I mean, I also can’t particularly relate to any of the trans people I’ve met offline, either. Because, you know, you do need a bit more than transness in common 😛
Giving hugs to EmilyEmilyEmily because depression is alarmingly high amongst the TG community, and because she sounds like she needs it.
And Ellen, liked your comment too. I’m also non-trans, non horm and it’s easy to forget I’m not the only one.
And I also giggled at the “ppoped a rainbow’ draft!