Derby Ghost

I have league finals tonight and I still haven’t decided if I want to participate. I don’t want to let bigots push me out of one of my favorite things. But also I have become very disillusioned with competitive pinball. I know my local people mean well. But also I am tired.

I am here in body but not in spirit

the hardest part about being trans is being forced to accept that your family probably kinda sucks, whereas if you're cis you can likely tolerate only seeing your lead-poisoned uncle a few times a year because "oh he's family". we don't really get the comfort nor convenience of cognitive dissonance.

Touchin grass with Honey

I'm still processing the part where the pinball tournament we looked forward to all year, was one whose local players fantasize about shooting trans women

Yeah I don’t know if I’m going to get over that. It is. Too much to process and it makes me deeply sad to my core

A body is an object that is mine, that can be broken and can be changed, permanently at any point without my consent.

Thank you @zal-cryptid.bsky.social

FREE LILLY FUCK ICE This page is now being used to raise funds for Lilly's legal fees. Longer update to come

A friend of mine, a disabled trans woman, was detained by ICE in Charlotte yesterday. If you have anything to spare, please do.

chuffed.org/project/1462...

jerkcity HD

my transition in a nutshell...

The San Francisco queer pinball community put up a statement of solidarity in the ifpa discord and ifpa deleted it so I don’t know who directly to thank, but genuinely thanks y’all

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Safe

what if we got matching tattoos of the little embroidered sheep i saw at the flea market

Taking a mental health day

Popeye.mp4 (Reupload)

May Gordita Supreme *live mas*

Thank you everyone! Absolutely floored by this! We had initially set the goals at like $200/person so uh, went a little over that, to say the least!!!

$11,317.45!!!!

What the fuck!!!!

Proudly silenced on the ifpa discord lmao

Pizza Tower for Food Banks!

twitch.tv/tietuesday

Big archipelago randomizer with Pit Crew!

@authorblu.es on Super Mario 64
@smight.bsky.social on Link to the Past
@skybilz.bsky.social on Super Metroid
@sword.zone on SotN

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Raising Money for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC with the Pit Crew!

twitch.tv/skybilz

@authorblu.es on Super Mario 64
@smight.bsky.social on Link to the Past
@sword.zone on SotN
@tietuesday.bsky.social on Pizza Tower

Let's put food on the table of my community <3

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gas station encounter

Tomorrow (starting 11a eastern), some of the Pit Crew (me, @skybilz.bsky.social, @tietuesday.bsky.social, @sword.zone, @smight.bsky.social) will be doing an Archipelago raising money for our local food banks. Sky and I will be raising money for Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC specifically.

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The dick one?

To say the IFPA's statement is disappointing and insufficient is an understatement.

"We made an email address, problem solved."

One man choosing to override the unanimous position of the Women's Advisory Board manages to make this worse than no action by showing how little regard IFPA has for them

I would like to first state that I am glad to see that the IFPA has finally responded to the incident that occurred last weekend at the OBX Fall Flippers Classic. Pinball is for everyone, and Flippers Arcade and Laundromat having a minimum 1-year ban from running events sanctioned from the IFPA shows that there is at least some sense that the organization is trying to stay adherent to it’s own policies. The IFPA did not acknowledge that they were even investigating this event until 5 days and 14 hours later, and that only occurred because I called them out in their Discord – up to that point, nothing had been mentioned in this space about anything that occurred. Yet, two deafening and glaring flaws in the statement made by the “IFPA Organization” still persist, and both the lack thereof of statements and the statements that came out to fill in those blanks show that the IFPA is not living up to it’s expectations for itself, nor it’s perception of being an arbiter of equality/equity to the community. Before I go on, I would like to say that this year would have been my third OBX Fall Flippers. In the two years prior, I have seen trans and queer competitors take at least one top 4 spot (2019 and 2024).

First, nothing in any official IFPA statement mentioned anything about what will happen to the event where this incident occurred in the first place. An official statement from the Women’s Board in response to the “IFPA Organization” statement was made as follows: “The IFPA Women’s Advisory Board unanimously recommended that the IFPA revoke sanctioning for the OBX events, and we vehemently disagree with IFPA Leadership’s decision not to do so. We did not contribute to the announced statement or the new process for incident reporting and we oppose the decision-making process used by IFPA Leadership.” Further statements showed that the IFPA also misrepresented some of the events that were witnessed first hand by Sammie Bacon, a member of the IFPA Women’s Advisory Board. Other than the originally affected party, she was the person most knowledgeable about the events that transpired, and was the person who Becky (the Flippers manager) waved an iPad in their face to justify her hate crimes with bogus bathroom bills. As it has come out, Adam Becker was responsible for this decision as the lead. I may respect you for the work you have done for the community, but I am ashamed to see how you have decided to ignore your Women’s Advisory board in a decision as well as misrepresent them both in including them in your statement when they did not agree to it as well as directly altering first-hand accounts witnessed by a Women’s Board member. Josh Sharpe, Zach Sharpe, Andy Bagwell, Germain Mariolle, Michael Trepp, and Brian Woodard – I am also saddened to hear that you did not step in to ensure that the matter was being treated with the utmost care and concern that a matter of trans and queer exclusion in an Open event should warrant.

As one of the trans people who was eager to play in OBX Fall Flippers event, it also saddens me to see that their own statements mean nothing in practice. “The IFPA only recognizes open division of play to be included in the World Pinball Player Rankings. If certain players are prohibited from playing based on age, gender, skill or personal reasons, those results will not be counted.” By the IFPA’s own admission, this was an act of discrimination. Even further, this was sexual harassment and a hate crime. How can WPPRs be awarded to an event that breaks the IFPA’s own statements? Why are cis and/or hetero players being rewarded because at least 15 phenomenal trans/queer players had to avoid the event because they needed to prioritize their safety? By itself, this is damning – and as a prominent trans pinball player, makes me feel like the IFPA will not have my back at events. If results from this event are posted, I will be suppressing myself from IFPA events as it has been made clear that the IFPA’s statements about “standing in solidarity” with me are just words on a screen and hold no meaning or value. While I understand that part of this involves Kevin Stone, I also believe that his statement and apology are genuine. I would like there to be resources available to Tournament Directors, potentially as part of the IFPA website, that can provide resources to assist in what to do if situations of discrimination or hate show up at your event – as well as fostering a culture where pinball is safe for everyone. No quarter for hate.

No quarter for hate. The International Flipper Pinball Association needs to do better.

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here is my banjo tooie fan art

More to come. But how I feel with the IFPA's statement (and lack thereof in some parts):

I am glad we got to dissociate and stomp together~ stomp stomp fucking stomp