Reblog If You Have Made A Friend Online That You Would Love To Hang With, But They Live Far Away.

Reblog if you have made a friend online that you would love to hang with, but they live far away.

attention all trans people (or anyone who feels they'd benefit from this!)

the holidays can be a tough time for us. it often means spending time with relatives who deadname you or who you don't feel safe coming out to. that's why i'm running santa's grotto this year !!

send me an ask with your name, pronouns, and a few of your interests (optional) and on christmas day (or a preferred holiday, please specify) i will reply with a gift for you and a little message addressed to your real name :))

please share this, i want it to reach as many people as possible and spread some trans joy this season !!

i'm not like other trans women (thought celeste was just okay)

your heart is a muscle the size of a rat

I've developed (that's a stretch) something as a part of game dev that I have used for awhile now as a means of motivation, and also just to feel cool. I call it 'Hat Switching', after what someone I mentioned it to called it.

Basically what it actually is, is using a little bit of imagination to put yourself in the shoes of someone developing what it is your game is about, it only really works for the early phases but it's still fun.

For example some cases I've used it in are, a VR mech brawler where while going in and out of the game and testing values to make the arms of the mechsuit work I imagined myself as a mechanic from something like mobile suit gundam, or while adding and testing new spells for the magic system in an educational game I've been building I imagined myself an ancient sorceress who just discovered how to harness magical power and was writing the first ever spell book for that world.

I can really recommend it if you struggle to get through the frustrating parts of things not working in those early prototyping phases or if you just want to take things a little less seriously when developing.

I know this audience skews young, so I wanna tell y'all something. Listen.

If it hasn't already, there'll come a day in your late teens or early 20s when you get disillusioned and relieved of a whole bunch of childhood notions at once, when you take a good look around at the life you're in or seem to be walking into and you ask yourself, "Is this it? Is this everything life is going to be? Am I really supposed to devote my life to making money for someone else day after day and year after year, with two days a week and one week a year left over to live, until I die? This is a helot's stake. This is the wrong side of the line between libertas and servitas. How can this be it?"

And when that happens, I want you to remember that you're right. It is bullshit, and it is a misery, and it doesn't have to continue. People are gonna tell you you're wrong, they're gonna say shit like "That's just how life is, kid, so grow up," and I want you to remember that those people deserve equal measures of pity and contempt.

If this makes you angry, that's good. It ought to.

And once you're good and angry, you can read up on this cool thing we got called a union.