Not Cordelia
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Appalachian autistic trans woman. 36. Writer of dyke shit. Wife Gal. Poly. Always reading. MDNI.
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I'm really sorry for continuing to spam this, but at this point this GFM is no longer just about getting our stuff back but making sure Nic & I can stay on our feet in the mean time while we look for work. Anyone who can boost or contribute is greatly appreciated. You will keep a trans couple safe.
I have yet another round of applications in and I'm starting to worry. We have immigration things next month and I haven't been able to land a job. I feel like I got my wife out and I'm going to stall out at the finish line. If you can help or share, thank you.

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I'm really sorry for continuing to spam this, but at this point this GFM is no longer just about getting our stuff back but making sure Nic & I can stay on our feet in the mean time while we look for work. Anyone who can boost or contribute is greatly appreciated. You will keep a trans couple safe.
I have yet another round of applications in and I'm starting to worry. We have immigration things next month and I haven't been able to land a job. I feel like I got my wife out and I'm going to stall out at the finish line. If you can help or share, thank you.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou...
Donate to Support Our New Start and Urgent Needs, organized by Nic Frankenberry-Saas
Hello! We are a married lesbian couple (a trans woman and a nonbinary wom… Nic Frankenberry-Saas needs your support for Support Our New Start and Urgent Needs
www.gofundme.com
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Tonight's game of World of Darkness was a lot of fun. It doesn't feel like it has already been a almost a full year since I originally joined the group.
To be clear, the only reason a conclave is occurring is because our vampire diablerized a pope like half a dozen sessions ago lol
In tonight's session, the party sealed the future deaths of a bunch of heads of state guaranteeing the outbreak of World War II, planned the murder of both of a party member's parents, and hatched a plan to make major changes to Catholic dogma by hijacking a conclave.
The party in our World of Darkness game are on increasingly opposite sides of the machinations of our Sabbat big bad, and I'm incredibly happy as a GM right now. Our Vampire and our Mage might actually kill each other before this campaign ends lol
I never considered myself a surrealist/absurdist when I was younger, but ever since I started transitioning, surrealism/absurdism has become a touchstone of my storytelling.
I don't even know how to describe the tone of this World of Darkness campaign anymore. Absurdism is probably the principle genre at this point besides like... metaphysical/existential horror.
Also, our werewolf is likely to be responsible for World War II at this point.
The party in our World of Darkness game are on increasingly opposite sides of the machinations of our Sabbat big bad, and I'm incredibly happy as a GM right now. Our Vampire and our Mage might actually kill each other before this campaign ends lol
One of like half a dozen historical West Virginians worth celebrating.
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
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Adham came through a brutal war of oppression and genocide; now he needs us to help him start over and recover from that titanic effort and suffering forced upon him.
We thought we had survived the genocide but then we found ourselves slowly dying..

Everything collapsed: our beautiful city our home, our lives, my office,my car & the dreams I had built with years of effort.

Survival is no longer easy, but our hope is in you.
Donate:❤️👇🏼
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happy "lets murder white supremacist slaveowners" day to all who celebrate
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
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Governments who create killing zones in the middle of a Holocaust, to lure starving families with the promise of food, and name them "Gaza Humanitarian Fund" sites, are pure evil.
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Now, I may not be overpaid think tank talking head or a pollster with techbro friends who post Nazi memes in the group chat, but it appears to me that being openly and vocally supportive of trans rights is somehow part of a successful electoral strategy in a nation gripped by transphobic media.
*hug* I hope things turn around soon, friend.
Even when I'm not GM-ing a Powered by the Apocalypse game, I kind of can't help but bring that "play to find out what happens" mentality to my table. It's the only way that roleplaying feels natural and not like a railroad to me.
I have ideas for situations, but nothing is set in stone until it happens at the table, and nothing really happens at the table that isn't me intentionally making what I hope is the strongest choice to stay in conversation with my players.
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It is built within language already used. Remember, think about how we talk about Jefferson and other enslavers on the whole in media. Consider the way white people talk about their ancestors here who were enslavers and terrorists. They use soft language analogous to this.
What a treat it is to watch the vice president of the United States approach this "young republican-I love Hitler" text scandal with the old "kids will be kids!" defense and then to find out all of them are like 25 to 35 years old.
My players have gotten to a point where they're all self-motivated in terms of moving their character forward, and it is in fact very easy to just respond to their choices w/o having to build a skeletal chassis around the session where you wind up not using half of your prepped material.
My prep for my World of Darkness game has become increasingly minimalistic, and I think it's for the best. I know you aren't supposed to GM Storyteller games as a sandbox experience, but honestly, I think it's sort of the only way I can begin to approach the factional politics/lore w/o going crazy.
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I hope very much that we white queers can also see how much Black folks’ rights are being decimated right now, and how much POST-CIVIL-WAR RECONSTRUCTION, which was already compromised, is being torn apart right now.

There’s a lot going on for Trans folks, but holy shit, y’all. This is grim.
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Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
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I can't begin to describe the number of ways that estrogen has given me a higher quality of life. My brain feels like it's my own. My body feels like it's my own. Sex is indescribably better on estrogen. Anyways, if you want to get on HRT, you should because it is pretty fucking aces.