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same

It's sexy and romantic because I speak it and have degrees in its literature.

Actually showing that vulnerability would be a good step in showing that you're not a complete monster.

You would find mirth in a natural disaster, wouldn't you.

smash that upvote button for nice skirts

I'm so freaking happy for you two and wish you everything wonderful <3

I will look at every iteration and tell you how A+ it is.

Grats on being a nerd who is 21

The above is the quote of the century.

what if the girls were the bionicles we built along the way

And vice-versa, I mean look at me now.

They're all very great girls.

omg congrats!

RIP

Still JoJo 5 when

I'd honestly love to hear more about your studies, since until like, sophomore year of undergrad, I was convinced I needed to go all-out in physics (and ended up doing French lit). So it's cool to see someone else doing it~

will you

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with me

heck yeah fam

Baby, 'cause in the dark
You can't see shiny cars
And that's when you need me there
With you I'll always share

"You all asked for this"

But can a fresh graduate with a doctorate help himself? Of cosecant.

This is the best news. Congrats!

[Offers an encouraging hug]

And then at least the riff would have been unforgettable.

###### congrats!!!

@Imrukii

I'm not sure what the middle two paragraphs have to do with anything; you wanted the other side of what happened and I gave it. But you're kind of missing the point; my mental health has nothing to do with my identity and being. Far from being told I could only 'think' I'm trans if I had no grip on reality; i.e., I shouldn't exist.

@Iaredios

Not sure what that has to do with all this.

Okay, fine.

I came out as trans to BZP in December 2014. Among the two pages of extremely supportive and encouraging comments, there was one that deviated so severely that I couldn't even process it. Of course the original is edited out, and no way in ###### was I going to save those words, but it's still buried in a report somewhere. Paraphrased, what he thought was a nice mod was actually a psychopath, that I had no grip on reality, etc. Out of a supposed fairness, I let someone else take care of it, though honestly, it just meant I couldn't stand up for myself. That comment is one of the most hurtful things ever said to me, to the point where the words briefly flashed in my mind during a suicide attempt last May because someone who was supposed to love me unconditionally couldn't accept me either. It continued and his punishments got more severe, though of course he deleted all the public stuff, culminating here in 2016 when I wasn't staff anymore. I wasn't the only target, but as upper staff I was the most prominent, and likely the one he hurt the most. In any case, at least three strikes of breaking the intolerance, respect for members, and respect for staff rules is out.

So, during the past two years, I slowly learned to stand up for myself. I don't know what this unity thing you're going on about is, but if learning to love and defend myself against such speech is some ostensible hatred thrown at others, whatever. Letting someone else's pain dictate my being for so long nearly killed me, and though the BZP example is somehow the less extreme of the two and never would have reached that particular point, things here affected more people than just me. I've all but moved on from this site and really don't have any investment anymore, but dang if stuff like that doesn't stick to you.

There's the other side, then. No amount of platitudes or abstraction can justify unerring and shamelessly hateful attacks. You're putting hatred on the wrong side. Asserting oneself is far from that. And no, I'm not about to reconcile my own doing so with bigotry again.