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I wish I knew how to organize the queer people in my area and become powerful so we can avoid dying because of the government but alas the queer people do not trust me or consider my ideas worthwhile for some reason.

Why do people have to go through a psych evaluation to get on HRT or have SRS? If some cis man wants to have tits or a cis woman wants to get rid of tits, who cares? Why should that be locked behind actually being something or other?

It fucks me up that some legal adult in a country can't make a decision that messes them up for life. If you want to give away an organ, such as a kidney, you can do that! Wow, now you've lost partial functionality of your filters in your body!

I think that this being a medical decision you're allowed to make at any point in your life for no reason, (with a psych evaluation, but only one to make sure you aren't majorly fucked up.) should mean that you can also make the other decision of using HRT or getting SRS without any issues, correct? I wouldn't know, I'm just some kid. Anyways.

Ragh! Gyarh! 👍

Spy tf2 and his identity

Character analysis (or at least my vision on him, if you believe my reasoning)

What do we know about Spy? He's a disguise mastermind. He can pretend to be anyone in order to infiltrate into the scene to do his job - quite literally, stab people on the back. But when he's not in the battle, what is he to his teammates? A suave Frenchman, a gentleman with taste, somewhat a leader.

At least, that's the persona he prefers to show. But is he really..?

What if I tell you that this person never drops his disguise?

For a man who always wears a mask and who's identity being secret is a sacred part of his role in this job, isn't this persona too much to show if it is real? Frenchman, rich, ladykiller... Wouldn't it be too easy to decipher his identity with so much clues provided? Wouldn't it be dangerous?

While Miss Pauling and the Administrator definitely know Spy's real identity, hiding it is a major thing for whatever reason. One could assume it might be because of Scout (obvious guess) but I doubt he's a sole reason. Spy very much enjoys being the Spy all by himself. Do what's the deal?

Let's start from the beginning.

Why did Spy join Mann Co. in the first place?

Let's take this assumption as a fact: people come here out of desperation. They are professionals in their field, yet in their past/casual life there is a pattern of them having difficulties that push them into joining this service. I don't see why Spy would be an exception.

The reason for joining is usually money. Some people question why Spy, a wealthy man from higher society, would join Mann Co. if he has it all already.

Well, probably because he really does not.

Have you ever met an aristocrat? Wealthy people don't get so protective about their expensive suits, they can afford cleaning or a new one. Regardless, rich people don't usually get stingy about material goods, especially if they're mass produced.

At least, not those who were born into wealth.

Spy's defensiveness about his "wealthy stuff", his pomp-ness, disgust and arrogance towards "plebs" gives off a man who knows what it means to live in poverty and who doesn't want to be associated with it ever again.

(Not even talking about his own filthy habits such as not washing his mask and pissing on walls? Jesus Christ)

Dare I even guess that he might be not French at all? His French is so broken. (Although, so is Medic's German, but at least he uses his language much more frequently and in more complex sentences, while Spy only uses French to say some basic expressions, occasionally confusing them with other languages). Definitely not a native.

If anything, he's not giving "rich man" at all, he's giving con man. And that fits my picture perfectly.

So, poor upbringing. How old is Spy? If he's Scout's father (and he was young when he was conceived), I'd say he's no less than 20 years older than him. I'd give him a few more years actually. So, approximately Spy is around 50 at the events of the game (1968-1972). Let's assume he was born somewhere in the 1910s.

Even if he's not French, I still agree that he's probably European. Hmm, what was happening in Europe at the time Spy was a kid?

Oh yeah. The Great Depression.

See my picture: imagine, a child from a lower class family during the Great Depression, his parents were most likely to not take good care about him (both because of the economical situation AND as an echo to Spy's struggles with his own fatherhood). He has to run away from home early and start to make money. Any way possible.

Unavoidably, it leads to crime.

Petty theft, blackmail, scams. Changing identities. Selling low quality products and services. Changing identities again. When older, seducing rich women to stay at their homes overnight, be fed and supported. Running away from the police. Walking into a trap of the mafia, and then joining them as their goon.

In this nightmare of a life he just had to keep pretending to be someone else, someone better and stronger, in order to his ego to not completely shutter. He had to imagine he was an invincible mastermind trickster of some sort, not just a poor boo-hoo victim of poverty who has never knew normal life and care.

And if you pretend for long enough, you become your role eventually... Right?

His true self was long lost forgotten under many layers of new identities. Worse, his true self was never known. And he didn't want it to be known in its ugly and disgusting vulnerability. Narcissism became his lifeline.

It's so much better to be Spy. To be rich and elegant and respected. His ego rebuilt.

Holy fuckshit

#Repost @gogreensavegreen

You might be more than one. You might be different ones at different times. 🫶🏽🫶🏽 you might not be one of these. There are more roles 💪🏽 but this is an amazing intro.

You can’t just like the idea and envision yourself in one of these roles you have to figure out how to be about it ♥️🫶🏽

Via @deiloh & @fablefulart

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Why the hell would someone not know themself? What kind of moron thinks shit like that?

Is AO3 DOWN???

I did. As a queer person, directly decended from an immigrant, I will not stand for Donald Trump or his horrible policies.

Now would be an excellent time to contact the White House and call for

1) Kamala Harris not to concede

2) an investigation into the voter registration surge/vote lull discrepancy, and election interference both foreign and domestic

3) a revote.

Do not go down easy.

The White House

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Contact the President, Vice President, get help with a Federal Agency, or request a Presidential Greeting.

Here's the bones of what I sent, feel free to use and build off it.

To the office of the Vice / President of the United States,

I am reaching out to express how imperative it is that there be a revote of the 2024 Presidential Election. Attempts at election interference by foreign powers and domestic oligarchs cannot be permitted to stand.

As evidenced by the January 6th coup attempt and his willful mishandling of sensitive documents, the American people categorically cannot trust that Donald Trump has not manipulated the election in his favor.

I hope that you will listen to myself and the other Americans your office is obliged to represent, and call not only for these discrepancies to be investigated, but for a revote to be held.

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