Rustisamust

So this dumb bitch forgot to put her proper name on her Uber account, so the driver (an old white dude) pulls up and says "[deadname]?" and I about died on the spot. I decided to own the space and replied "for now!" and got in the car (sitting directly behind the driver, because I'm not completely brainless). I figured I'd do my part for trans visibility, and at worst it would be an uncomfortable 10 minutes.

But it went well! We had a pleasant discussion about how complex biology actually is, and how people shouldn't be judgmental because we can't know the experience of others, and he asked for my new name and actually used it. And this was someone with religious stuff pasted up for his p

I emailed my supervisor telling her that I'm transitioning.

I have a fairly uncommon skill set, and work for a midsized public university with robust anti-discrimination policies, so I'm not worried about getting fired, but holy shit that was hard. I hadn't planned to take this step for several more months, and I don't feel comfortable yet, but I am fed up with hiding, so my comfort level can go spin.

She knows something is up anyway. I've been getting looks for a while, and today she asked me if I had new glasses, so she's clearly trying to figure my shirt out. It's not a big surprise, I've been wearing nail polish for months, my boobs are coming in hot, and my boymode clothes are just my

... But I'm extremely excited that it finally happened.

I started cracking for real about a week ago, and between one thing and another last night it shattered entirely at which point I broke down ugly crying because I realized that I've been someone other than myself for 40 goddamn years and it's been making me and everyone around me have a worse life.

Everything I have is because I somehow fell ass-backwards into a pretty okay life, despite being a cranky asshole with absolutely no motivation. I have a wonderful spouse who will be the first irl person I talk to about this (they're on a work trip and this needs more than a phone call), and I can count on their support. I have a kid who is

It's kind of late, since Kanto cup is nearly done, but I figured I'd share anyways.

I started k-cup with alolan muk/machamp/primeape, which worked pretty well for a while. But then I ran into a wall of charmers and hypno, and it got ugly (although primeape does surprisingly well against hypno with an energy lead, and nearly ko's wigglytuff if it tanks a CC).

I spent a day or two trying stuff with little success. So I got out my a-wak (hex-Sbone/Bclub) and paired it with wing attack charizard and Kanto 9tails. I figured I'd at least have some fun running an unexpected team and shake things up a bit. To my mild surprise, it's actually been fairly successful.

I think everyone has a plan for

Tl;Dr: it's not always a weak-ass dust tornado, sometimes it's a 10.0 quake bomb coming to push your face in.

It seems like everyone in the 2000-2500 range thinks sand tomb is the only option for the landshark. It's been really good for my ELO and rare candy stash, but I think it's time to get the word out. Just because all the youtubers run sand tomb doesn't mean you're safe from getting quaked.

I ran into 5 metagross in my last set, and only one shielded the earthquake. Two of them were the last pokémon, and had a shield and nearly full health against my one shield, mangled chomp and depleted metagross. If they'd shielded, BP probably would have KO'ed before I got to a second EQ, and

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