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@Samwitch11
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    Aug 14, 2022
    4 years ago, I released Énouement into the wild. In the ensuing years, it has connected me with more wonderful people than I could have imagined. It was so healing to write, and it continues to bless me by steering me towards moments of warmth and genuine kindness.
    Panel 1. The word Énouement is written in white, against a dark field of stars. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defines énouement as "the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, where you can finally get the answers to how things turn out in the real world—who your baby sister would become, what your friends would end up doing, where your choices would lead you, exactly when you’d lose the people you took for granted—which is priceless intel that you instinctively want to share with anybody who hadn’t already made the journey, as if there was some part of you who had volunteered to stay behind, who was still stationed at a forgotten outpost somewhere in the past, still eagerly awaiting news from the front." I think it's such a perfect word. Leave it to the French. My name, Samantha Richardson, sits in the corner of the panel, also written in white.
    Panel 2: A child is asleep in a dark room. There is a stuffed dinosaur lying on top of them. A Dark Crystal poster hangs on the wall behind them, as well as a childish drawing of a T.rex. Panel 3: Same scene, but a crack of light, as if from an opened door, falls across the child. Panel 4: A person dressed in a long green coat and rolled-up pants stands in the middle of the room, which is again dark. The person is carrying a duffle bag. We see dinosaurs, books, and clothing strewn across the floor. The person says, "Hey." Panel 5: The person sits on the child's bed, and we see now she is a woman with brown hair, grown out from a purple coloring job. Panel 5: Close up on the woman, who, seeming to speak to the room in general, says, "So, I know how sad you are. I know how you cry yourself to sleep some nights." "I know how angry you feel." "How scared."
    Panel 7: The woman picks up the stuffed dinosaur, which is green with widely-spaced, thin, purple stripe. She holds it almost timidly. Panel 8: Close-up on the dinosaur head, which has a plaid white and blue patch sewn onto the neck. The woman says, "I know what the years that are coming are going to be like." "And I am so sorry." Panel 9: The woman holds the dinosaur gently to her cheek, and a darkness seems to gather behind her. Panel 10: The darkness coalesces into a cloud over her head, and the woman buries her face into the dinosaur's back, hugging it tightly. Panel 11: The woman pulls her face away from the stuffed dinosaur, and the dark cloud appears to break up. Panel 12: The woman straightens, tears running down her face. The cloud dissipates. Panel 13: The woman offers a small smile, still crying. She says, "But..."
    Panel 14: There is a Boba Fett toy on the floor, a sock, a toy T.rex, and 2 issues of The Uncanny X-men comics, issues 167 and 168. The woman continues, "...You're going to have good times, too. You'll have amazing friends." Panel 15: More floor. In this panel there is a blue, hard-back cover of The Book of Mormon, and a red scripture-marking pencil. The woman says, "You're going to serve a mission in Portugal. You're gonna fall in love." Panel 16: The top of a night stand, we see a small plastic sauropod, a green army man with a bazooka, and an orange Swedish Dala horse. The woman's dialog reads: "You're going to visit Sweden. A lot." Panel 17: Floor again, where a plastic two-headed dragon battles a knight and ranger. More dialog: "And...Dungeons and Dragons. It's totally going to change your life." Panel 18: The woman is reaching hesitantly towards the child. The woman says, "And there's Jurassic Park, and SO many superhero movies, even if the X-men ones are kinda terrible."
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    Dec 8, 2023
    At an LGBTQ+ conference a few years ago. Me: ...so, to me, it's important for our cisgender allies to- Cis person: I hate that word! Why do I have to be "cisgender"? Why can't I just be "normal"? Other, kinder cis person: We've been wondering that about you all day, Roger.
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    Mar 10, 2022
    And again.
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    Sep 14, 2023
    Heavy sigh. I was talking to a coworker last week, and she got a phone call that transferred to her super-cool watch. She pointed to her wrist and said, "Sorry, my son is calling!" I said, "Wow! Like Dick Tracy!" Today I am explaining to my manager why I called her a "Dick".
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    May 31, 2023
    NOPE. Bigots don't get to have dinosaurs.
    A blond queer kid holding a stuffed sauropod of some sort. The kid is leaning against the neck of an Allosaurus fragilis, wit coloration that matches the trans pride flag. The text reads "Protect Trans Kids" with a white heart.
    Imagine the Jurassic Park ending, with a roaring T. rex, and a banner with the park slogan drifting down in front of her. Only now, imagine the T. rex in the colors of the trans pride flag, and the banner reading, "Trans Rights or I Bites", and you have a pretty good idea of what this picture is.
    A little kid in a dinosaur costume is walking through a museum, shouting "Skeletons! Wake up! Wake up, skeletons!" Around them, the fossils are indeed waking up. A small grey and white feathered velociraptor follows behind the kid, seeming to gain more of a body as it goes. A Styracosaurus follows behind the small dromaeosaurid, and its colors are those of the trans pride flag. in the background a T. rex is starting to incarnate, looking on with joy at this strange procession.
    Not enough time to write this out properly (apologies), but basically a trans woman gains confidence from a bird who understands that it is an avian dinosaur, and although some people don't see him as a dinosaur, science understands that he is. When confronted by a transphobe who is making fun of her hair (it is dyed the colors of the trans flag, the trans woman just laughs at the lack of understanding of the transphobe, and goes off to buy the bird some fries. Birds are dinosaurs Trans women are women Trans men are men Non-binary people are who they say they are.
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    May 21, 2020
    Finding who you are isn't always easy. And sometimes people can make it harder than it has to be. The majority of people who detransition their gender presentation do so because the people they love refuse to let them be who they are.
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    Jun 8, 2020
    I do not know this sign's source, but omigosh...
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    Dec 23, 2022
    At a funeral, and a man I haven't seen in 10 years calls me by my sister's name, and comments, "I don't remember you being so tall." I tell this to my sister, who then, exasperated, tells me to look at her phone. The facial recognition software opens it. "I hate you," she says.
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    Apr 15, 2022
    Like heck.
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    Dec 6, 2023
    Manager: ...and no using the transition room for breaks- Me: I'm sorry. The what room? Manager: The transi- the room between here and the lockers? Me: I've... never heard it called that Manager: Okay. What dumb thing are you going to say now? Me: *sweats in choice paralysis*
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    Dec 8, 2023
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    Sorry. I was just reminded of this, reading a few tweets today. Gentle reminder that "cis" isn't a slur. Cis folks are just as good or bad as trans folks, they're just not trans. And to single out one group as "normal" in contrast to a group that is less typical is hurtful.
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    Apr 11, 2023
    It is so odd to me when these "good", "God-fearing" men see my mere existence as "testing them." If you see your fellow human beings as "demons and imps", just because they are different than you, I think you've failed the only test that ever mattered.
    On one side, a woman with dark makeup, pale skin, and dishwater blonde hair done up in a bun with bones as hair pins holds a scary looking sci-fi gun, and the leash to some very eldritch-esque animals, with red, tentacled heads, and striped, clawed feet. Her right are is cybernetic. Above her are the words "How TERFs, Evangelicals, and the far right see me. There are quotes around the woman, taken from actual representatives of those groups, accusing trans people of demonic gender ideology (I don't know either). destroying the traditional family, trying to create a new species, and the death of God. On the other side is the same woman, but in rolled up overalls, a t-shirt, and knock-off Keds. She has a purse with a stuffed dinosaur in it, and a "she/her" button in trans pride colors on its strap. Above her are the words "How anyone who actually knows me sees me", and the thought balloon, "Oh, gosh! I think I left the keys by the duck!"
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    Aug 12, 2021
    Since Trans is trending:
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    Nov 30, 2022
    Jessica, I was working on it! ❤