Whatever I get is going towards fixing my car so I can start working full time to be out of my house more. My brother’s getting insanely violent again and honestly, I no longer feel safe. I live in a small town so there’s not many options for me until I can afford my own place (which I’m trying to get my credit up to be able to do).
I don’t have a set amount I’m raising, because again, it’s going towards my car and if there’s anything left over, it’s being saved up for my own place. I always lock my bedroom door before going to bed, but unfortunately we all have a skeleton key and my brother could break my door anyway.
I have been sexually abused by him in the past. But because I wasn’t taking my medicine at the time, my family wouldn’t believe me. And the only other family I could stay with isn’t good for my mental health either. Mainly because of how they treat me and always calling me by my deadname.
I know it’s the Holiday Seasons and people have their own financial situations to worry about. I promise you the moment I can, I’ll pay it forward and/or back to you.
My goal is at least $650 towards my car. But again, every little bit helps as it’ll be going to other much needed things as well.
Thank you in advance.
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If you can’t donate, please share this. I really need my car fixed so I can get more hours at work instead of having to rely on family to take me to and from.
“Alaska’s interior has turned out to be an unlikely place to find some big political gains, as two trans women end up in elected office.
During the state’s municipal elections, held in October, Liz Lyke and Kathy Ottersten won in their respective races. Lyke to the North Star Borough assembly in Fairbanks, while Ottersten was elected to the Fairbanks city council.
Lyke will be representing almost 100,000 people, while Otterstan will serve 32,000.
Both candidates had to navigate their identities as transgender women in the election in the state that brought us Sarah Palin, but both stress that being trans is simply another facet of their life.”
(I’m not posting this less to correct the timeline portrayed in Bohemian Rhapsody, which I mostly really enjoyed, than simply to share a beautiful story that shines light on who Freddie actually was, up to the very end.)
Steve nodded slowly. “I thought the orphanage said they had a family lined up for her. They sounded perfect. She was so excited the last time we were there to see her…” He’d wanted to take her home the first time they’d met her, but they’d been told another family ahd already expressed an interest in her. If the family had backed out, she’d have been devastated.
“The father couldn’t pass the background check. The worker on Melanie’s case called me. She knew we were interested and wanted us to come see her. She says she can put a rush in the paperwork and Mel can be oirs by Christmas.” Tony answered, walking over to run a hand through Steve’s hair. “What do you say? Get a present and go make her smile?”
I think it doesn’t matter what stage you’re at in your creative life or your career. People will always have an idea of who they think you are, and often it’s inaccurate – or not wholly accurate. And you mustn’t let them change your own sense of who you are. You have to plough your own furrow.
I love everything that Lindsey does, and this is just so much fun to watch. I have to give this song credit for m wanting to listen to more Christmas music this year.
I introduced a friend to ATLA a few nights ago, and they had only
known two things about the entire show: the cabbage meme, and that Aang
apparently wants to ride every large and dangerous animal he can
possibly find. We got through the first five or so episodes, and my
friend noted that Aang is exactly what a 12-year-old would be like if
given godlike powers, and that this is literally just what he
could do with airbending. He can’t even wield any of the other elements,
and he’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, because he’s an
airbender.
And that got me thinking.
This snippet from Bitter Work is one of the few pieces of concrete information we get about the airbenders, at least in ATLA. Iroh is explaining to Zuko how all four of the elements connect to the world and to each other.
Fire is the element of power, of desire and will, of ambition and the ability to see it through. Power is crucial to the world; without it, there’s no drive, no momentum, no push. But fire can easily grow out of control and become dangerous; it can become unpredictable, unless it is nurtured and watched and structured.
Earth is the element of substance, persistence, and enduring. Earth is strong, consistent, and blunt. It can construct things with a sense of permanence; a house, a town, a walled city. But earth is also stubborn; it’s liable to get stuck, dig in, and stay put even when it’s best to move on.
Water is the element of change, of adaptation, of movement. Water is incredibly powerful both as a liquid and a solid; it will flow and redirect. But it also will change, even when you don’t want it to; ice will melt, liquid will evaporate. A life dedicated to change necessarily involves constant movement, never putting down roots, never letting yourself become too comfortable.
We see only a few flashbacks to Aang’s life in the temples, and we get a sense of who he was and what kind of upbringing he had.
This is a preteen with the power to fucking fly. He’s got no fear of falling, and a much reduced fear of death. There’s a reason why the sages avoid telling the new avatar their status until they turn sixteen; could you imagine a firebender, at twelve years old, learning that they were going to be the most powerful person in the whole world? Depending on that child, that could go so badly.
But the thing about Aang, and the thing about the Air Nomads, is that they were part of the world too. They contributed to the balance, and then they were all but wiped out by Sozin. What was lost, there? Was it freedom? Yes, but I think there’s something else too, and it’s just yet another piece of the utter brilliance of the worldbuilding of ATLA.
To recap: we have power to push us forward; we have stability to keep us strong; we have change to keep us moving.
And then we have this guy.
The air nomads brought fun to the world. They brought a very literal sense of lightheartedness.
Sozin saw this as a weakness. I think a lot of the world did, in ATLA. Why do the Air Nomads bother, right? They’re just up there in their temples, playing games, baking pies in order to throw them as a gag. As Iroh said above, they had pretty great senses of humour, and they didn’t take themselves too seriously.
But that’s a huge part of having a world of balance and peace.
It’s not just about power, or might, or the ability to adapt. You can have all of those, but you also need fun. You need the ability to be vulnerable, to have no ambitions beyond just having a good day. You need to be able to embrace silliness, to nurture play, to have that space where a very specific kind of emotional growth can occur. Fun makes a hard life a little easier. Fun makes your own mortality a little less frightening to grasp. Fun is the spaces in between, that can’t be measured by money or military might. Fun is what nurtures imagination, allows you to see a situation in a whole new light, to find new solutions to problems previously considered impossible.
Fun is what makes a stranger into a friend, rather than an enemy.
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