it surely is not trivial. but if your boss isn't super whack he should know that. (he knows, you haven't played it? the others are also noobs?)
but from my expierience, passing a few easy balls is easy enough to learn in a short while. not as a competetive game but as an activity. — i played with friends sometimes, as a kid. they were playing in a team, i started everytime almost from scratch.
a year ago i found out i am trans. i turned 35 in the meantime. i felt myself for the first time. this connection is now largely buried ind everday shit again, but i never felt so directly what i wanted. if you think you are old now (which is debateble, but i know the brain worms), what would you say in 1, 5, 10 years? use your time to be yourself. explore yourself now. find out what you need and want now rather than next year. :)
there will be troubles big and small. but it get's better.
but yeah ... one of the most embarassing thought i ever had was, "i wanna be a goth". at a point at which i was already pretty much integrated in my local community of sorrows. i wanted to match my cool new friends. for the wrong reason.
i am embarassed of this bc at the time i thought it would be important to belong to group and be good at that. i was a little in love with the clichees.
do what you genuinly like and find people who you can share with. that's all there is about subcultures. the rest follows. people who hang out a lot tend to converge in style and habit.
usually subcultures form around music, games, movies ... sounds like you found yours already? the festivals you go to certainly attract people you can connect with, no?
well zar nikolaus II is a saint of the russian orthodox church since 2000. i couldn't find anything abt this in a catholic context. (and even if so, he was a geopolitically important person. not a kid from highschool)
the canonisation of kateri tekekwitha took centuries and on the basis, that she was already revered in northern america. i don't know the details.
there are undeserved saints. i just dont think that the catholic church, will muddy their image as an eternal institution by throwing themselves into the usa's culture war news-cycle. thats not to defend the church, but to focus on those who actually threaten democracy and freedom, like the king in orange.
it'd be quite unusual for the pope to adress a specific crime somewhere with more than thoughts and prayers. he also cannot throw around with sainthood. the catholic church has laws and requirements for that. even if he wanted to fast-track that it would take years.
i'm sure people will try to instrumentalise this. but i can't imagine the pope picking up on this. his carreer is wholly independent on trump. why should he? he is a souvereign monarch. (catholics in the us tend to be quite extreme tho, there is a lot of very active sedisvacantists. these have been, and will be dangerous, i guess. but they distance themself from the younger popes anyway.)
i have heared abt it, but do need more context. what does the pope have to do with it? (other than that it happend in a cathoöic school?) has there been a transphobic reaction from the holy see? and why?
... you see i didn't follow the news closely. i dont live in the usa, so maybe i am not the intended reader. but you seem to write for people who have read the same articles and stuff as you did.
it felt like, this could've been written by me. besides the clubs.
i started not conforming to my villages flavor of masculinty waaaay back so it's been quite easy push more and more fem stuff over the years ... no skirts and stuff but i do like my representation in the village atm. now that i consider myself trans i too feel the icks of every "he".
recently a friend's kid asked their mom if i was a boy or a girl. (so, my look works. yay) it felt brutal to not take the opportunity to explain myself, but there were too many other people around, i didnt trust.
i am worried that moments like that might add up at some point. i am hurting myself and i shouldn't be ...
it surely is not trivial. but if your boss isn't super whack he should know that. (he knows, you haven't played it? the others are also noobs?)
but from my expierience, passing a few easy balls is easy enough to learn in a short while. not as a competetive game but as an activity. — i played with friends sometimes, as a kid. they were playing in a team, i started everytime almost from scratch.