I'm Tate, and I'm more-or-less your average Zillennial; delightfully queer, underpaid, and overanxious. If you're an awkward, well-intentioned nerd, I think we'll be friends. I have to get real for a second - Our world is at war, and if for any reason you find yourself siding with genocide Joe, then you can go ahead and block or disfollow me thanks. Most of my posts are queued, if that matters, and all personal posts are tagged under "#tate talks". Main Blorbos (in no particular order) are LotR/Tolkienverse, Avatar the Last Airbender (animated show only), Pokémon, Adventure Time, Disco Elysium, Delicious in Dungeon, Star Trek especially Lower Decks and Next Gen., WWDITS, Monster High, Steven Universe and, Gravity Falls. When I'm not being a potato, I'm a hair stylist. I'm also leftist as fuck and only growing more progressive as late stage capitalism continues to thrive. Honestly if you read this far, we're friends already! TERFS, SWERFS, homophobes, racists, and other bigots are not welcome here, but if that's not you, welcome bestie!
So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"
The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.
remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals