Kalliope O

@kalliopeo.bsky.social

I love reading and I am writing a serial magical girls story.

I’m 31 now, so I was six when it happened, and my memories are vague but I remember even at that young an age, homeschooled and completely cut off from the entire outside world, my mom bought insanely hard into the fear more than anything

For younger people who were not there... Know that this country did not come together after 9/11. They went after every brown skinned person they could. Americans didn't know the difference between a Arab and a Sikh. We perpetrated and tolerated violence and misinformation on these people.

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this BEAUTIFUL page on drawing HUGS, by the talented @miyuliart! What we’re drawing here is a physical INTERACTION - the forms are going to have OVERLAP, COMPRESSION and SHARED LINES, all of which ADD to the feeling of CLOSENESS! #manga

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I want to post a little of my Petra Parker fic: Leaping to the next roof, I wiped at my face, but I can tell it’s not coming off on my hand. This was such a stupid idea, stupid, stupid. I don’t need a mirror to know my tears are smearing the blush. I must look like a freak. 1/

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

Based on HRC analysis of government data, there are 736K queer Michiganders, a little under Detroit and Lansing's combined population. Or for my downtown colleagues that think trees should vote, Michigan's Alphabet Americans are 2.5 times the population of the entire Upper Peninsula. 1/x

Laurel Powell@laurelpowell.net · 4w ago

NEW THIS MORNING: An exclusive analysis of Census Bureau data shows LGBTQ+ people make up a record-breaking 12% of the total population - but, even more importantly, represent 10% of adults in 40 of 50 states.

I’d at least humor a gov official making a show like this if what they were creating had value. Though I’d prefer it if the president ate it and the guest cook or a White House chef made the food. HHS has to much actual work. Also notice I didn’t say “celebrity” cook. Get fucking normal people!

CNN@cnn.com · 4w ago

CNN's Tom Foreman follows US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reality cooking show "Real Food" recipes to see if he can whip up the same dish for the claimed price point.

The thing is: Isabel Fall released "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter and got harassed off the internet by cis people. Jacob Geller released “I am Turning Myself into a Video Game Plane” and is being celebrated. Trans people enjoyed both, but one of them was by us. That's my point.

One part of transition I feel like should be appreciated more is how much better girls like me smell after taking estradiol for awhile. I used to hate smelling myself when I was sweaty and now, it’s not so bad.