celestefinally.bsky.social
Pro-justice, anti-bully. Christian-ish, trying to follow love. Writer. Married. 2 kids. Survivor. She/her, trans/lesbian, polyamorous 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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I went to one a few months ago and just being there was fascinating! There's no problem with not saying anything at the first one you go to - you can use it to just get an understanding of what all goes on.
Eiuther way, good luck!
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🔥🔥🔥
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💯💯💯
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Manageable - for pain, I’m now just taking Tylenol, and that seems to manage it well.
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I’m so sorry 😞
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Blahaj is the best! She’s joined me for a coupe now!
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😂😂😂
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🫂
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“Oops I ended up as Zelda again - no worries, her Sheik form is awesome!” - me, deep in the closet
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I’m so sorry, friend 🫂💜
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Let’s go!!!
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Love this for you! Also I just got an iridescent purple graphing calculator 😂
I was just telling my kids that the “?” Character in Smash Bros means “I am trans and secretly want a character who matches my gender identity without anyone knowing that’s what I want.” Right?
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The two of you are amazing together and I am so happy for both of you! And you look absolutely beautiful in this photo!!! So happy for you, and congratulations!!
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YES.
This is literally an excerpt from Sprinkle's book (page 164). Like... yes? This makes sense? Why is this unexpected or unwarranted?
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Yep, exactly. He does so much damage by pretending to be reasonable and kind, but ultimately his views on lgbtq+ folx are pretty much in lockstep with broader evangelical thinking, including his willingness to ignore facts.
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That’s awful!
My wife got a master’s degree from a Christian university (she enrolled while we were still in evangelical-world). By their rules, if they’d found out about my coming out as trans, they could have expelled her. I skipped one of her graduation ceremonies just to avoid the risk 😞
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Oh, and the cover is here - and all of her covers are incredible:
youtu.be/0cD2Yrf_2pk?...
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Songs like this, or my current fav, Plowshare Prayer, give us words we struggle to find for ourselves.
They give us space to feel what we need.
And they tell us that someone - even many someones, understand right where we are at, even if we don’t fully understand it ourselves yet.
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But… tonight I listened to that piano cover with 1.4M views. And then the official video with 680M views.
It turns out that even in my pain, I was never alone.
Perhaps this is too sentimental of me, but music can be so healing for a variety of reasons.
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“Tears stream down your face, when you lose something you cannot replace” wrecked me.
My wife was driving and I was doing everything I could to not let my family see me cry in the passenger seat, still afraid of letting them know how deeply broken I was.
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A month later, I was driving to the airport with my wife & kids, headed to NYC for what I can only call a desperation vacation. Maybe flying across the country could give me space to get my head right.
The day before we left, I got a gut punch: 2 of my closest friends were staying in the cult.
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Yes I did! And yes it does!
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Tough call, but having finished Andor now, honestly I think Rogue One and A New Hope might be better after Andor 🤷🏼♀️
Though there are some teasers throughout Andor that kind of assume you’ve seen at least ANH maybe?
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100% true. I’ve known people who were at least completely unbothered by the idea of most people being tortured for all eternity. Being able to be unbothered by that has to do bad things to one’s conscience.
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Oh absolutely - codifying and enforcing the respect of rights is critical work for any government.
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None of that disagrees with what I said, right?
Example: I, a trans person, have the right to be the authority on who I am and what gender I am.
The US government currently does not recognize that right. That doesn’t negate my right, it just means they are violating it.
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The bill of rights is more correctly seen as recognizing rights and codifying respect for them, rather than creating or granting rights.
If human rights do not exist independently of a country’s law/constitution, then the idea of “human rights violations” crumbles into nothingness.
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Next up rewatches are Coco and Soul, both of which I was uncomfortable with because of non-evangelical views of afterlife.
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I’m so sorry - I went through similar - the only sex messaging I got from parents “don’t until you’re married” (backed by threats, even once I was 18, which of course just led to me keeping it a secret). Nothing about consent, respect, safety, etc.
We’re trying to do better for our kids!