DAY 2: Banana & Bread At The Panama Canal

This is Sam Nordquist. He was a transgender man who was lured to my hometown back in September by his Internet girlfriend. She and four other individuals then proceeded to torture and kill him, leaving his body in a field. I'm absolutely gutted. The misunderstanding for the trans community that leads to this sort of hatred is something that I just will never understand. I'm so sorry, Sam. You deserved so much more than this.

If you are able, please donate and share the GoFundMe set up by his sister. She and Sam's mom have made it to New York, but now they will have to go through the horrible process of arranging his funeral and transporting his body back home.

https://gofund.me/b11a9148

English added by me :)

"good work banning tiktok team! Now the youth will no longer be exposed to anti American propaganda!"

"did they all move to Facebook or Twitter?"

"no sir, they all moved to a Chinese owned site populated almost entirely by Chinese people"

btw if youve never touched itch.io I really recommend opening it up and browsing it for a little bit if your bored. there are so many interesting lil games and a good chunk of them are free

something about jv suddenly being all willing to criticize tumblr’s racism makes me feel gross. maybe this is just my personal grudge speaking, and if that’s the case then i should be ashamed, but i remember him basically implying that i was lying when i said that tumblr staff did not respond to my reports of white supremacists on here. i also seem to recall that several of the other users that he mocked and berated for raising similar complaints about staff were black.

so this feels very hollow now. to me.

seeing people thirst over a white man I'm not personally attracted to is wild like they'll say things like "he had no right to be this hot on this picture 🥵" and he's just.

i mean good for you but personally i think if being so hot is a crime he's a law abiding citizen

i scroll one page down, read one panel and viv says she thought hayden was cheating on her with jordi

christopher is just sitting there

they're going to get killed by dudes in white robes

the high school drama is crazyyyy

christopher chaos is so funny he brings a pigeon back to life once suddenly he thinks he can back human beings

like he says that he can bring back hayden to get jordi off his tail but then says it to viv?? the confidence?

edit: i'm so silly he just wanted to make her feel better. this white boy brought back his pigeon and started claiming he could bring everyone back

it is so, so, so funny to interact with people that don't super know embroidery, who try to pick out which of my projects is more... skilled? or whatever. one time i had someone tell me to my face that my linework wasn't impressive and anyone could do backstitches, and they had learned how to backstitch last week so they could say this. someone else I've been teaching how to sew here and there told me that some patches I made recently and haven't put on this blog yet were true skill and above their skill level - they wanted to start with something easy! like massive block lettering on a stretchy tshirt!