I follow Rob Scallon, so I’m familiar with Andrew Huang, but I haven’t followed him so I didn’t know he was in the fam! Good to know!
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Do you think they realize how much cooler that makes it sound?
running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness
running as a member of the forcefem party with a second even more foolprood plan
But what are you going to do about it? It’s a two-party system. You have to vote for one of us.
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Critical Role features LGBTQ characters often. The only thing I am not 100% certain about is whether they are pro-trans but I haven’t seen anything transphobic about them.
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I would imagine them being pro-trans, i can always be wrong but i haven’t gotten any indications otherwise. Similarly i believe that the Dropout folks who also have some popular D&D and similar videos (dimension 20) are also LGBQT friendly, and fairly sure they are pro-trans.
Edit: Some light searching indicates that Matt Mercer from Critical Role has made some subtle nods towards pro-trans views, but he has also said it out right on Twitter that he was pro-trans according to this Reddit thread (i can’t check rn because i’m at work)
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All the pockets!!!
For a while there, I could reliably get hiking pants with two additional front pockets (for wallet and phone). All pants and dresses and skirts and jean should not just have pockets, but have a minimum of 4 pockets that don’t make you sit on them.
This should be a human right.
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except maybe on pajamas? We both sleep on our sides, and they always seem to bunch up.
ducks tomatoes
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You can always opt out of pockets. I know people who don’t want them. But opting in should be the default. 
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I used to quite like his videos, but dropped him like 5th period french after the whole thing with the crappy wizard game.
Lenord French, copyright attorney (https://www.youtube.com/@lawfulmasses)
most everyone else I know of has been mentioned already, but I thought I’d throw that out there.
I probably have more, but I don’t have them on the work computer for obvious reasons. 
PLUS MANY. the bulk of the skirts I have all feature pockets. (some of them large enough to hold a nintendo switch!)
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A good friend, who’s only known after I started HRT, was visiting the other night and I showed her a picture of myself prior to transitioning and her response of “that’s not you” was probably one of the most uplifting things I’ve ever heard. Even though I know I look different now and mostly get gendered correctly by strangers, I sometimes still see him. It felt so good to hear from someone I care about that they don’t even consider that person to be me.
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I get that pretty often now too. It’s lovely. Whenever I get that view of myself as ‘him’, I like to go back into my photo archive and look at myself either pre-egg crack or during the period between coming out and getting on hormones. It really drives home how far I’ve come.
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Our youngest is having a minor crisis right now. Her grandfather on her bio dad’s side just died. She found out that the grandkids got together to writ e a letter to be read at the funeral, and she was left out. There was a family gathering at her dad’s house and she was not invited. Her cousin, who is getting married to her long-time girlfriend this summer, was included in everything, but ours was cut out. The fact that the whole family is flying to Mexico for her wedding we thought might indicate a softening of their MAGAt homophobia, and it may indeed, but the transphobia is there in full force. My side has the LGBT+ bases all well covered, and I told her she has folks to talk to, but she really wants a relationship with those folks. I think this is not going to happen, and she would be better off getting toxic people out of her life, but it is not my call. I hurt for her.
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Realizing that people that are supposed to love and support you will only do so conditional on you remaining cishet is a pretty universal queer experience. I’ve had to cut off a whole branch of the family I used to be quite close to because they’re Canadian MAGA types. I wasn’t even invited to my favourite uncle’s funeral this past summer because his Christian Dominionist wife thinks I’m an abomination.
My dad is somewhat supportive at least. My wife had to go no-contact with her dad for transphobia, and her mom for other reasons. At least your kid has you and your side of the family in her corner.
Both of my kids are queer (agender lesbian and nonbinary goblin of unknown sexuality) and both sides of their families are supportive. I wish it could be thus for every LGBT person, but I know a lot of gay/trans people and maybe one or two of those haven’t experienced family rejection.
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I just cannot imagine cutting one of my kids loose because they were something other than my vision for them to be. But most of the MAGAt worldview is utterly foreign to the point of inhuman to me. Honestly, I have no desire to try to understand it. But yeah, I know it’s her life and her call, but damn it’s hard. I told her that there are alphabet mafia folks in our family who would come beat up these assholes for her. It at least got a laugh.
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I think you’ve nailed it.
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Not sure if this really belongs in the other thread, but it has some hopefully things in here, too, about the trans community in Pakistan…
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