this is from the dispossessed i believe

In addition, it also seems to include a series of definitions for gender-affirming care that could be restricted. All right here.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

i very rarely get mad at strangers who unknowingly misgender me because everyone grew up in Gender Prison and makes assumptions without even consciously realizing it, and there's a lot of gendered language in the south that can be hard to unlearn. but it's nice when someone reflects like that!

i am very aware that refusing to have short hair leads to me passing less but it was kind of refreshing to have someone state outright that that was why they got it wrong, esp bc i know long-haired cis guys deal with it too. idk i just appreciated that she was so upfront about it lol she was sweet

i met her daughter for the first time the day after she was born in the hospital and now she's fifteen. i really want to reforge a relationship with her and my cousin. i know they've also suffered a lot from so much that's happened this year and have complicated feelings about the family too.

(also none of this is a jab at op of that post i quoted, i just like being old man yells at cloud about this sometimes LMAO)

i think there's a trickledown effect from the intensely consumerist attitude towards reading that comes from places like booktok to how some people view writing. like the only objective with it is to get a publishing deal and show off your novel's cover on social media. it's really sad to me.

it's absolutely possible to write in the way artists sketch, there shouldn't be pressure for every idea you have to become something full and polished and 150k words long, you're not failing as a writer if you're not finishing everything or even a lot. it's art and you can do it for its own sake.

oh also: journaling. both journaling about life/things you find interesting as well as journaling about the writing itself. i had a workshop teacher who insisted on process journaling and it's actually insane how many writing hiccups you can figure out from scribbling your thoughts/frustrations

and like obviously a longer work is going to require you to look at those things differently, but if someone keeps trying 200+ page projects and burning out, they can probably benefit from seeing what they learn from tackling a shorter project.