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Ellie, Your Tyrannosaurus Friend
@misscrossbones.bsky.social

I grew up with the poem on the statue of liberty being aspirational, Superman being an interplanetary refugee, captain America being the moral backbone of Marvel, cartoons where tyrants were always opposed, and video games where you killed hundreds of nazis without sympathy. Where you could be

Ellie, Your Tyrannosaurus Friend
@misscrossbones.bsky.social

Anything you wanted when you grew up, the government spying on you was supposed to be scandalous, and racism was supposed to be shut down as soon as it reared its ugly head. Where a racial slur got your nose broken with a quickness. Now some of that was childhood naivety, sure, but it's what we