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@nex3 omg, so THAT'S what everyone's been talking about all day! 😍🙊👞💥

@amphetamine I was a little surprised by that. I would have guessed family made LESS difference than friends to wellbeing, but *none*?

@TipsyTentacle @amsomniac it was THE terrible move.

Straight men are not doing okay:

“Jason [aged 17], asked if he had any close friends, said no, 'and immediately adds that while he has nothing against gay people, he himself is not gay.”

http://hazlitt.net/longreads/legion-lonely

O—okay?

@Noelle808 Oh my god.

My sexuality is that you *seem* cool, but how do I know you're not wearing a wire, huh?

@GinnyMcQueen Everyone obey the shirt.

Today's gender:

@TipsyTentacle you can change your avi, but I will always follow the screaming <3

ME: Bristles with paranoia for like an hour whenever coworker makes normal small talk.

ALSO ME: Hopes coworker is creeping on me right here right now.

@glitternoodle I still love Imogen Binnie because she nails the things that make me tick: voice, character, and, well, me. But damn that book broke me in half.

@glitternoodle Which, I mean, hey, about time we got a Trans Catcher in the Rye, I guess?

@glitternoodle Casey Plett wrote that she thought the structure (toying with conventions about resolution, James appearing like some kind of "second-chance" moment, the sudden blackout ending) invite you to continue the story on your own and realize that trans people have no conventional narrative, but that real life is just about "going on" not towards an already-known resolution but just a general hope. Except any hope in that ending has to be imposed on the story from the outside, which you're not really "invited" to do.

Dunno. Maybe I got way too excited only to find it's basically Trans Catcher in the Rye.

@glitternoodle And for me that sudden stop made the whole thing desolate as hell.

Like, yeah, you fell for these characters, identified with them, were excited to see yourself in print *for the first time,* and read like a maniac to get to the part where there's some kind of a turn, where their arc bends upward toward literally anything — a tiny but genuine glimpse at themselves, a promise of growth, consolation. A CHANGE.

But no, the narrative is like, "yeah it just goes on and on like that forever, plus James stole a bunch of heroin nobody actually wants, everything is punk as fuck, whatever."

Ice cube sitting in a freezer melting from the heat of its own anger.

Glass of water sitting on a hot countertop freezing from the coolness of its own (whatever).

Jesus Christ, Nevada is bleak and I kind of hate it? Like, the last 10% made me feel like a fucking idiot for loving the first 90%.