Don't Be Afraid To Be Who You Are - Isle Side

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The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down

Just over a week after the Isle visit people would find themselves drawn outside. The weather was finally getting warmer, but that wasn't all of it. A strange foul smelling - and fairly toxic - mold had begun growing in some of the classrooms. Thankfully not the ones where people were sleeping but it was still enough to make it unpleasant to remain indoors. Some might blame the growth of the mold on a certain obsessive compulsive cleaner, though others might say that he just discovered it and accidentally gave it access to oxygen and such.

Whichever the reason, sleeping outside for a few days was sounding like a better and better plan with every passing minute. Even the drizzling weather couldn't make the indoors terribly appealing for anyone with a sense of smell.

And it was over night on one such night that the rain was... different. Warmer and a bit tingly. And some people would awaken quite a bit older than when they fell asleep, perhaps. Their memories might have caught up with their age, or might come to them slowly. However it happens, there might be some very confusing moments as those who seemed to be young just a moment before are now... less so.

Gift In Time Gift In Time Nary A Reason Nary A Rhyme Gift In Time!

Weirdly, there was something good to come not long after the rain. In addition to aging some folks up, it also seemed to wash away the worst of the mold, allowing people to return indoors once more. And each of them would find, soon after, in some place that they considered theirs... a small gift. It was rare that positive things happened on the Isle, but perhaps this was a sign of things to come.

Or perhaps even a broken clock is right once in a blue moon...

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[ubuntu_programmer]

Ian nooded, wiping their face carefully with the back of their hand. They wren’t wearing eyeliner today - black makeup being hard to come by here - but it was habit.

"It can be hard, where I am from, to find songs willing to speak this candidly about what it is like for LGBT+ kids. So many people are so scared to openly be part of us or align with us for fear of recrimination. There was a huge boycott a while back because a beer company loved generally by the sorts of people that wish we didn't exist... the company hired a small celebrity to do an ad spot for them, basically they wanted her to tell her fans to buy and drink their beer. That's just... how brand sponsorships happen these days for people who make their living in the spotlight as it were. But in this case the woman they asked to do the ad spot was Trans. Out and open, loud and proud. And oh the flood after that, of bigoted people making videos posting photos, talking loudly about dumping all their beer from that brand out into the streets or down the drain because they would rather throw away something they paid good money for, wasting something they enjoyed, then drinking a beer that a trans woman recommended..." Ian shook their head. "Or how many politicians lose their careers if they come out. It is just.... We are an easy target for so many people to aim their hate at. From the big scale of global politics and huge international brands down to a person's own family."