Finally, he sighs, running a hand through his hair. He steps away from me like he’s going to disappear into the night before turning back, his eyebrows finally relaxed. “Okay,” he says. “I’ll plan something fun for us.”

I force a smile onto my face because I should be grateful. I can hang out with Devin and spend time with Drew doing whatever cutesy date he plans for us.

But really, I just feel tired.

Wednesday, July 4

Perrilicious posted:

I’m kind of ashamed to be a Meet Cute Diary fan now. I’m sorry to all my followers I promoted this blog to. I’ve officially unfollowed them, and I won’t be talking about them anymore.

Bunbunbun replied: Oh hell, what did they do??? I missed it???

Judgingbyyourmakeup replied: You don’t have to apologize. I fell for it too.

Donttrustabro replied: All good things come to an end, I guess. I unfollowed too.

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Wednesday morning, I wake up to three messages—one from Devin, one from Drew, and one from that asshole on Tumblr.

Devin says, Happy 4th! with a bunch of little celebratory emojis, and I smile as I scroll through the other notifications on my phone.

Drew says, Everything’s set! See you at 6! which pisses me off because I specifically told him I’d be free after seven.

And the Tumblr asshole’s message comes in the form of a blog post circling across my dashboard, but it definitely comes through loud and clear.

Noah, the mod for the Meet Cute Diary blog, has reached out to me asking for his victim to retract their statement. He didn’t even have the nerve to reply to the post I made, instead trying to do all of this in private so the rest of Tumblr wouldn’t be able to hold him accountable or might forget about his actions, but I won’t let this stand. Noah’s victim doesn’t think the stolen story was a coincidence at all, and they’re not retracting their statement unless he promises to stop posting stolen meet cutes and change the blog to a blog about his relationships or something. Anything else feels like a mockery of the hurt he’s caused, and we won’t stand for it.

And just, wow, fuck that. Not interested.

Do they not understand that the whole point of the blog is to give trans people hope? To show them that we can have all the same opportunities as cis people? If I make the blog just about Drew and me, all I’m showing is that some fluke can happen and the occasional trans person might find someone. That doesn’t mean anything!