Support for LGBTQ+
Added 2025-02-05 11:43:06 +0000 UTCHey everyone.
This is a bit of a serious post I’ve wanted to make for a while with all the absurd shit that is going on lately in the US (and other places too).
I thought of writing this is a more official tone but it doesn’t feel right so it’ll be more of a personal rambling sort of message instead, I hope that is ok.
I’ve struggled with who I am my entire life and spent an upsetting amount of years just pushing it down and ignoring it. I’ve never spoken to anyone about it, never opened up, never really embraced it until quite recently. This is very much the first time I’ve really acknowledged it publicly.
I’m not announcing this here to get attention or sympathy or whatever, only to say to all the LGBTQ+ folk that might see this, and those that don’t, whether you are loud and proud or quiet, still finding yourself, afraid, I see you, I support you, and I love you.
You can be assured that I personally and by extension Stained Karbon will always be on your side, OUR side, forever.
I wish I could do more, but I hope you’re able to get something meaningful from this message.
Krane
Comments
Replying to Karbon: Being any LGBTQ person is rooted in being human. And besides historical proof of the existence of those people, there's biological proof that this is fact as well. We're all as natural as any other human. :D
Koops
2025-03-29 22:42:58 +0000 UTCYeah it has been absolutely nuts the sort of things that have been going on. Even if it is just in some small way, it helps to know that others out there stand with you. I hoop your journey of self discovery goes well for you too, thank you Koops <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-03-29 22:41:04 +0000 UTCThank you for saying something about this. I'm also worried for people in the US specifically after seeing all that's been going on there. I'm also trying to figure myself out this year, so I think I can understand what you could feel. Stay true to yourself and I wish you all the best. :D
Koops
2025-03-29 22:34:22 +0000 UTCAw, thanks for checking up on me. Things are still up in the air but hopefully going in the right direction. I'm wrestling with a lot of complex things right now as many of us are. I appreciate the kind words and love <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-03-15 23:29:12 +0000 UTCHi Krane, how is your journey going? If you want a supportive ear feel free to message me. I'm not a member (and I wish I were!) due to hardship but I've followed you for a long time and love your maps. Anyway I was thinking about you and hope you're OK.
camelotcrusade
2025-03-15 16:27:42 +0000 UTCHaha, I suppose that could be considered a sign XD I'm personally not american, I'm british, but I wouldn't mind visiting the land of drop bears anyway :D Thanks for the support <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-10 09:27:22 +0000 UTCI knew it! There’s no way these absolutely fabulously colourful drawings and maps were created by a heteronormative person. They’re just too awesomely loud! I’m a forever DM, queer AF and have been out since I was 18. Welcome mate! Ps, if the US gets too much, Australia will have you in a heartbeat. It’s chill down here and (almost) always sunny.
A Conspiracy of Ravens
2025-02-10 09:05:47 +0000 UTCSigns always seem obvious in hindsight... so so obvious lol A brief skim of the history is really interesting, gonna look more into that when I have free time. Thank you.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-07 13:17:08 +0000 UTCI didn't crack my egg and realise I was trans until I was in my 30s, despite admitting to a friend I wish I'd been born a girl in my early 20s. Sometimes the signs don't make sense in the moment until we're looking back with the context. Yeah one of the earliest examples of writing in human history is about the Ishtar priests downing potions to become like women. Let no one tell you that being Trans was invented recently, because we been doing this shit for thousands of years.
Arashi of Ordo 3
2025-02-07 12:31:02 +0000 UTCYeah, I'm really struggling with the regret of not figuring stuff out sooner, I feel like I wasted so many years. Is that true? If so that's a really cool history lesson and I definitely wanna research more on that! As natural as rain, I like that <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-07 06:40:07 +0000 UTCAs a Transgirl, I get it. Shit's complicated, no one teaches us how to work it out, we've all gotta arrive at the discovery ourselves. Whatever you find yourself to be, I hope you stay safe, things are getting scary out here for us. But we will endure, just as we have before. Because no matter what conservatives tell themselves or try to suppress, people are gonna figure that shit out for themselves again and again. Just like we did 3000 years ago in ancient mesopotania, where entire sections of the priesthood of Ishtar were gender non-conforming and taking elixers to become women. Or how every culture in the history of the world has had gay people. We're as natural as the air we breath and the rain from the sky.
Arashi of Ordo 3
2025-02-06 17:38:12 +0000 UTCSure thing.
Sheo of Isles
2025-02-06 11:44:46 +0000 UTCWell wake me up if you ever figure out how to get everyone to work together lol I'm not looking for a complex political discussion on my patreon, this post is just a small show of support for people who need it, so lets just agree that a little battlemap patreon isn't the place for such a conversation, deal? I'll keep putting out those maps and you can keep using them :D
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 11:40:12 +0000 UTCI understand that my words might hurt people and i dont want that, im just here for the maps to be honest. Feel free to delete this thread.
Sheo of Isles
2025-02-06 11:37:18 +0000 UTCEverything is complicated but the basic truth is very simple. And a very complicated situation lead to this simple outcome, people got outvoted and now might suffer. For the last 5+ years i've been saying that instead of fighting for one side people need to work on unity. Its not simple, it's a baseline. And it's not easy. And i said that the only thing whoever's agenda will achieve is hate from another side and in time it will all turn around. And by saying you did this to yourself i mean everyone. We did. Small "good" thing out of this - it won't be forever. Nobody is gonna learn from mistakes and in few years it all will turn to you.
Sheo of Isles
2025-02-06 11:34:04 +0000 UTCFirst I'm not american, and second blanket blaming literally everyone for a very complicated situation and saying 'you did this to yourself' isn't exactly fair. While I couldn't vote, I have many US friends who could and did desperately vote against this shit, so please don't reduce the outcome to such a simple, reductive comment.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 11:22:59 +0000 UTCWell, this movement tried to destroy many things that people love and did not consider anyone's thought. You reap what you saw. US state is insace, but you did this to yourself.
Sheo of Isles
2025-02-06 10:49:23 +0000 UTCYeah I don't really understand it either, not like it hurts anyone either. Whatever, all we can do is support each other and stand up for what is right.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 06:40:25 +0000 UTCThat's a good quote, even if dreaming it is much easier than being it. Never alone <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:59:10 +0000 UTCIt's easy to feel like we're alone, so hopefully it helps just a little to know we're not.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:57:57 +0000 UTCAnd I you, Zach <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:52:16 +0000 UTCIt's not much but I can at least let people know I care for them.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:52:00 +0000 UTCI'm still figuring things out to be totally sure, but I'm definitely something lol Thank you, I appreciate that <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:50:51 +0000 UTC<3 <3 <3
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:49:55 +0000 UTCYeah it is scary times, I can't do much outside of just offering support and a safe place online since I'm not in the US, but hopefully enough people stand up for what is right in the face of what is happening.
Stained Karbon Maps
2025-02-06 00:49:30 +0000 UTCCowards are always afraid, and fear needs a target. There's no more logic behind bigotry and hate than that. You say this is "absurd shit going on lately in the US", and you're right, because everyone expects better from America. It makes me unbearably sad to think that ten years from now, nobody will make the mistake of expecting better from us.
B. Griffith
2025-02-05 23:42:24 +0000 UTC💕
Birdee Blake
2025-02-05 20:54:12 +0000 UTCIts okay if you wanna come out as trans, gay or whatever, Karbon. We'll always be by your side no matter what.
Easiest cc
2025-02-05 19:31:09 +0000 UTCShouting this message for the people in the back is always important, thanks for speaking up!
Odd
2025-02-05 19:18:30 +0000 UTCI appreciate you Krane.
Zach Moeller
2025-02-05 16:29:01 +0000 UTCThank you for speaking up! While there are always challenges, some of us feel particularly under attack right now. Words of support are very welcome. 💖
camelotcrusade
2025-02-05 16:23:40 +0000 UTCOne of the most importang things humans can say to each other is "You are not alone.", so I think you did very good. As someone with similar struggles, I put in a favourite quote of mine: "Don't dream it, be it."
Tyziel
2025-02-05 16:18:14 +0000 UTCStupid people judge so easily without knowing the reality of others. I say to all the idiots, do you think that millions of human beings decide to live this ostracization for reasons of trends??? Seriously? Krane, my reality is not yours but we all have our own with our difficulties and challenges. So in closing, I would say to everyone... open your mind and just try to put yourself in other people's shoes.
Spark
2025-02-05 13:37:36 +0000 UTC
