Pandora Parrot @pandora_parrot@beach.city

I'm so anxious and exhausted, my eyes are twitching

And twitching badly.

To the point I sometimes I can't see.

Played a LOT of Blade and Sorcery last night. It's exhausting and I really get a sense for how sword combat works. I was amazed at how physically demanding it all was!

RULE for self: No clicking on disturbing CWs today. Just no.

I don't drink alcohol much really. But I think today is a "I need more alcohol" sort of day.

Birdsite... Birdsite, WTF are you doing? What... why are you promoting this to me?! WTF.

That's it. I check my pro twitter like once a day or so for professional related things and just like... I got pulled in by the rage-a-hol I posted about before and I need to come back here and stay away from that hellsite.

This thing is just so absurd I think it broke me. I'm walking away.

Cisgender woman writes story about trans man succeeding in an era of early doctors.

*Genders said trans man exclusively as female.

*Gets told off online very appropriately for this blatant transphobia.

*Turns around to intentionally AGAIN misgender this trans man: https://twitter.com/EJLevy/status/1096158218592473088

God, twitter sucks.

I try to avoid importing twitter garbage here, but this one really pisses me off.

As long as smol

Or maybe a rat. Or a very small bird.

I want a tiny tiny mouse fursona.

I mostly align with what I guess is "extreme left" positions. But I'm not ideologically linked to that. That's just what my beliefs are. And I'm happy to welcome anyone as an ally that does cool shit.

Stand with me against hate and hurt and bullshit, and we're cool. Knock me over because you wanna score points, and we're not. I don't care about the rest.

I'm very happy with my appearance these days when I have my makeup on and stuff.

However, the diseases I have really have hurt my appearance. I don't have hair on my body, and I have a lot of red acne-like things all over my face.

Without makeup and wigs, my appearance isn't something I have confidence in. I don't look "normal" at all.

Imagine how I feel when people mock people for disfigurement when I know all that keeps me from that is a thin layer of makeup.

I still remember standing in front of the HRC Gala over a decade ago when they were throwing trans people under the bus in the service of getting more rights for cisgender queer folks.

It all sucks. The focus should be on what's right and wrong. Being kind to each other. Not on "winning virtue points" with "your team."

Like... every time someone mocks someone they don't like by saying they have a "punchable face" or saying they are ugly in some way... It hurts people like me who are disfigured in some way. Because that's what we get too.

Every time someone mocks Ann Coulter or someone for "looking like a man" and stuff like that, that hurts trans folks and other gender non-conforming folks.

Right? Left? Centrist?

I'm frustrated by *anyone* that adheres to ideology at the expense of actual people. By *Anyone* who is willing to throw anyone else under the bus in their quest to dunk on groups they don't belong to.

Leftists I know seem to really be into "being good people" by being tolerant and welcoming. But I *frequently* see them completely willing to make ableist jokes, mock someone for being ugly, fat, disfigured, trans, etc.