Cathrine Schmid

@schmidcathrine.us

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Medium Humanoid (Paladin), Lawful Good AC 18 (plate armor) HP 67 (6d10 + 31) Speed 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 16 12 16 15 8 18 Condition Immunities: Frightened

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they’re making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here—once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel—once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery.
A vertical spreadsheet table with two columns and 26 rows. The left column contains single uppercase letters of the English alphabet, each in its own row. The right column contains the way each letter is pronounced, written out in capital letters. They have been reordered so that their pronunciation is also in alphabetical order.
Yellow bumper sticker reading "please be patient, student driver"
Boromir standing victoriously over the city of Osgiliath, holding a pride flag
A June 2020 tweet from former Twitter user RPG saying "Just start chanting 'ENDEX' at the National Guard and they'l all pop their helmets off and take a seat or wander off. Promise. Money-back guarantee"
An ad for a rainbow-themed dog collar from Human Rights Campaign, with the slogan "queer gear for your furry friend" emblazoned across the top of the ad like they don't know what they're doing. We see you HRC. Dont pretend like you didnt know what tou were doing here.
Don't make fun of customs that are new to you. Your behavior is probably as funny to the Hindu as the Hindu's behavior is to you. Don't laugh at the Mohammedans when they pray five times a day facing their holy city of Mecca. Who are we Americans to ridicule anybody's clothes? Our swallowtail coats, zoot, suits, and women's hats are funnier than flowing robes, turbans, and grass skirts. Remember that whatever you say is likely to be understood by some passerby, for everywhere people understand some English.
A close-up photo of a dark stone headstone in a cemetery, with green grass visible in the background. A blue baseball cap with a white peace symbol is placed on top of the headstone. On the left side of the stone is a pink triangle above the words “NEVER AGAIN” and the date “6 JULY 1943.” On the right side is an inverted pink triangle above the words “NEVER FORGET” and the date “22 JUNE 1988.” In the center, large engraved text reads: “A GAY VIETNAM VETERAN.” Below that, in smaller letters, the inscription says: “WHEN I WAS IN THE MILITARY THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL FOR KILLING TWO MEN AND A DISCHARGE FOR LOVING ONE.”
Burger King ad but instead of the words Burger King it says sonic the hedgehog
Excerpt from Army Doctrine Publication 6-22 regarding illegal, unethical, or immoral orders
A light brown pit bull-staffordshire mix dog with a red collar curled up asleep on a patterned pillow on a gray couch, surrounded by several blankets in blue, pink, and green-white. A small Ty Beanie Baby toy, also a brown dog, rests near her paws.
A photo of the back of the moon with the earth behind it
A performer sits on a wooden chair on a dimly lit stage bathed in blue and purple light, surrounded by candles, props, and gothic décor set against an exposed brick wall, as an audience watches from the foreground.
A transgender flag painted on a white wall, with "first they came for me" painted in black over it
A Tumblr thread with four posts on the theme of goodness being more complex and interesting than evil. Post 1 — papayajuan2019: "cruelty is so easy. you're not special for choosing it" Post 2 — belyenochi (quoting Toni Morrison): "I just think goodness is more interesting," Morrison said. "Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that's complicated." Post 3 — chilewithcarnage (quoting Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas): "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain." Post 4 — ttthelyss (quoting Brennan Lee Mulligan): "Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It's easy to understand why people do bad things. It's like 'yeah, ok, you're selfish and scared and cruel, I get it.' Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." Post 5 — oldshrewsburyian (quoting C.S. Lewis): "How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints."
A printed program for the Trans Day of Visibility event hosted by the Baltimore Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs. The flyer reads: "Friday March 27th, Trans Day of Visibility, 10AM–11AM, Baltimore City Hall Rotunda." The design uses the transgender pride flag colors (light blue, pink, and white) in stripes along the top and bottom borders and as background highlights on the text banners. The City of Baltimore seal appears in the bottom right corner alongside the text "Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs."
There is a strange familiarity with death and violence that military personnel deal with on a daily basis which grants a sort of knowledge that most other professions do not gain. The most elemental thing that a Soldier knows, or is prepared to know, is that the spectre of Death is always nearby. Military culture works to turn every visit from Death into a celebration of the Warrior Spirit. The raw grief is tempered, if not completely drowned out, by a wash of heroic sentiment and patriotic feeling. No matter how gruesome the details, or how unrecognizable the contents of that flag-draped coffin, ceremony turns the details of Death into something beautiful and fine. But Death still takes its toll on you. Physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually... I'm exhausted. Who am I kidding? I was already exhausted.
We’re gonna make it. Not because the nation deserves us, but because we chose each other when they chose the axe. We called it duty once. We said we’d fulfill our responsibilities like it meant a clean line from oath to outcome, like loyalty was a ladder and if we climbed high enough we could get above the smoke and breathe Everything was not fine. It’s still not. We held the line anyway, stood there in our uniforms while people with more rank and less guts rearranged their talking points, heads tucked safely in their own asses. One of the great uses of a brain is to hold two ideas at once: everything is not OK and we’re gonna make it. The body learns this first, how to brace and move at the same time, how to plant your feet and sprint, how to take no shit and still give a shit, still check your buddy’s breathing, still answer the phone at 3 AM. Five years ago I said they couldn’t take our dignity. Now I know they relieved us of everything but that. The things they can take fit neatly in a file folder. The ones that matter live in the way our hands shake when we text each other after a new law drops, the way nobody has to say I’m tired I’m hurt I’m so fucking scared for us to hear it. They burned Hirschfeld’s library, but Dora Richter lived. That’s the shape of it: the archive goes up in smoke, the state erases the records, the uniforms change hands, and yet someone walks out of the building, carries her own name, keeps a pigeon in her handbag like a small ridiculous proof that she made it past the flames. ​ Our passports can burn. Our laws can change. We are still here, stupid and brave enough to protect the things that are important. Nothing is OK, and we’re gonna make it. You can believe both. You have to.
Cover of the Japanese fashion magazine “SENSE,” August 2015 issue.
A dark blue graphic with white text features a short dialogue from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, attributed at the bottom to “Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19 – William Shakespeare. At the top is a small “Phi Beta Kappa” logo. The text, laid out like a script, shows the speakers’ names in bold followed by their lines: Caesar : Who is it in the press that calls on me ? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry " Caesar ! " Speak , Caesar is turn'd to hear . Soothsayer : Beware the ides of March . Caesar : What man is that ? Brutus : A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March . Behind the text, faint and partially hidden, is a portrait of William Shakespeare.
My service to the US Army has been more than a job; it has been my profession, my community, and a source of immense pride. I have dedicated myself wholly to the mission and the well-being of my fellow Soldiers, their families, and every individual I have the honor to serve alongside. This same dedication guided my transition, undertaken for the greatest benefit of the whole, in reliance and trust in Army policy. To have this dedication and proven capability dismissed, and my very personhood defined as a disqualifier after decades of honorable service, is profoundly devastating. It is an affront to the very principles of fairness, merit, integrity, and moral courage I believed the Army stood for. This separation represents not only the loss of my career but also the Army’s forfeiture of a highly trained, experienced, and deeply committed NCO in whom it has invested substantially. The current policy, ostensibly aimed at “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” paradoxically achieves the opposite by discarding mission-ready, proven assets like myself, solely in pursuit of a partisan political end. b. Despite this deeply unjust and painful situation, my loyalty to the Nation, the Constitution, the Army, my unit, and my fellow Soldiers remains. I am, and always will be, an American Soldier, a Non-Commissioned Officer, and a servant of the people of the United States. It is my most sincere hope that these unethical policies will be rescinded. Should that day come, I stand ready and eager to continue serving the Nation to which I have dedicated my life. c. I do not wish to leave. I am being given no choice. d. I respectfully request that this memorandum be included in my official record to reflect the true nature of my separation. This document is intended to ensure transparency and accuracy, particularly if the Army reaffirms its dedication to its stated Values and future policy reviews, appeals, or changes occur.
To say "no future" means to say that we have no tuture except for one drifting at sea, blown at all times by the winds of the unfolding crisis of the capitalist mode of production. Precarious employment, lifetimes of debt, the impossibility of retirement, the need to constantly remake oneself through countless techniques-of-the-self in order to bring oneself to market as a pretty new commodity, rent, bills, credit: the facts of our own daily reproduction force us to continually sell, not just our bodily capacity, but our futures as well. Every time we offer up our body in a medical study, or turn a trick, or run a scam we are wagering our futures against the daunting task of surviving another month in hell.
Your disability rating: 100% service connected
The best smoke I ever had was from a hookah in Baghdad And they put orange peel and walnut shells in with the tobacco And we were celebrating our partnership with the Iraqi Army And it was 2013, and we had won And I went home, and they went to Tikrit And a year later they were all dead The best smoke I ever had was on the tarmac of an Army airfield And we were waiting on the shuttle to take us back to our families And I hadn't seen them in months And I'd quit cigarettes years before And I bummed one off of my friend And field smokes don't count The best smoke I ever had was at 12:01 on my first day as a civilian And you can't smoke weed in the Army And I had been looking forward to it And I'll never be a Soldier again And I survived And I'm still not sure if I like it And they say each smoke takes 10 minutes off of your life And I don't know if I'm losing time Or if I'm paying a tithe
A ceremonial US Army Model 1840 sword in a metal scabbard is mounted diagonally on a blank wall, with a pair of Army dog tags hanging from the mounting hardware near the upper third of the scabbard.
A rectangular blue poster shows an advertisement titled “Introducing… Therapy Sword™” at the top in white text on a dark blue background. Below the title, in smaller white text, it says, “Why spend hundreds of dollars on a therapist when you can just swing a cool sword around for awhile?” At the center of the poster is a photo of an ornate sword standing upright against a plain gray background, with a decorative hilt and a strip of red cloth tied near the guard. At the bottom of the poster, on another dark blue band, white text reads, “Don’t wait… Buy Therapy Sword™ today!” with small green circular icons containing a white leaf in the lower left and right corners.
A graphic announcing a military retirement ceremony livestream, featuring a close-up of a folded American flag as the background, with white text on the right side reading: “Retirement Ceremony Livestream Thursday, January 8th, 1PM Eastern https://www.youtube.com/@hrcmedia/streams.” Near the bottom center are five military rank insignia in a row, including a silver eagle, two silver oak leaves, and two senior enlisted-style chevrons and shields. Below the insignia is additional white text that says: “Five leaders. Five paths. Five specialties. One unshakeable truth: each served with exceptional skill, courage, and authenticity.”
Splashscreen for the game Slay the Spire
A custom military-style medal with the transgender pride colors; the ribbon is striped light blue, pink, and white and has two small gold pins on it (a middle finger symbol and a star), and hanging from the ribbon is a large gold, pink, and blue five-pointed star-shaped medallion featuring a prominent transgender symbol in the center.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/AirForce subreddit titled "Plastered all over the Pentagon today." The image shows a wide hallway with a white cylindrical pillar in the foreground. Taped to the pillar is a poster stylized like the classic "Uncle Sam" recruitment ad, featuring an illustration of the most despicable human being on earth, Pete Hegseth, in a suit pointing at the viewer. The poster text reads "I WANT YOU TO USE AI"
2 subsequent Bluesky posts, both using the Norman Rockwell painting of the guy standing up at a town hall meeting. The top post reads: "I think health care systems should be easier to navigate." The bottom post reads: "People who perform colonoscopies should not be attractive."
Dawn of the Final Day -24 hours remain-
close-up view of a white kitchen cabinet unit, including an drawer with a sleek, horizontal stainless steel pull handle centered on its front panel. The handle's shadow on the drawer makes a 😄 face
1-20. Soldiers in combat operations are responsible for the ethical application of lethal force in honorable service to the Nation. The law is explicit. Soldiers are bound to obey the legal and moral orders of their superiors; but they must disobey an unlawful or immoral order. Soldiers are also legally bound to report violations of the law of war to their chain of command 1-21. Under normal circumstances, Soldiers and Army civilians trust their superior's orders and execute them to the best of their ability. However, making an ethical choice and acting on it when faced with an ethical or moral issue can be difficult. Sometimes it means standing firm and disagreeing with a leader. These occasions test character. If Army professionals perceive that an order is unlawful or immoral, they seek situational understanding regarding the order and its original intent. This may include asking for clarification from the person who issued the order. 1-22. If the question is complex, Soldiers and Army civilians should seek legal counsel. If circumstances do not permit that, Soldiers make the best judgment possible based on their understanding of the Army ethic and their conscience, as applied to the immediate situation. There is a risk when disobeying what is perceived to be an unlawful or immoral order- and it may be the most courageous decision an Army professional ever makes. 1-23. While none of us can be completely prepared for complex, ambiguous situations, we should reflect on the Army ethic, study lessons learned, anticipate ethical challenges, and mitigate the risks. It is expected that Soldiers and Army Civilians, as trusted Army professionals, will do what they believe is right,
A close-up photograph of various official U.S. Army documents and awards arranged on a gray car seat inside a vehicle. An open green binder displays Department of the Army orders on white paper, and beside it a framed certificate for the Meritorious Service Medal.
A flyer from the VA Boston Health Care System promoting a research study on an 8-session treatment for anxiety and depression among lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or other sexual orientation veterans. Mentions of trans people are conspicuously absent.
“HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” he added.
November 14th: A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing
A photo of an army basic training platoon: A-1-48, 4th platoon, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, February 2005
Excerpt from Army Executive Order 175-25 (the trans ban), claiming that the Army establishes high standards that all Soldiers must follow.
The Zohran for NYC meme but it says Transgender for Everybody
Roberta Gomez-Fernandez January Six Two Thousand Twenty One prompted by Seema Reza / after Kristi Maxwell This was after the speech given from Ted Cruz, but before L ate the brown sugared steel cuts. This was after the feeling of rage had taken over my body, before the discussion about impeachment. This was after the shock of the confederate flag in the capitol, but before the lame duck trump's address to the American white supremacists This was after Maryland admitting it took 1.5 hours to get ahold of the defense secretary for military help clearance, and before the denial that a country's president would retaliate in a way that cost lives. This was after confusion that we don't have a government that would put such cheapened presidential acts in handcuffs. but before the bold truth pierced through my brain cells and into my amygdala Ihis was after the fear that if the capitol building blew up with everyone that represents the American people, but before the thought that I have a president that is a dictator This was after the comparison of the Black Lives Matter movement events, but before I rode my bike aimlessly down the bike trail not realizing I was trying to run away from it all.
A page from a book titled "A Spell of Peaceful Calm" with decorative leaf icons on either side of the header. The spell requires some rocks and a cloudless night. The directions instruct the reader to: go outside, yell at the moon, shake your fists, yell some more, hurl rocks skyward, shout "FUCK OFF SPACE EGG," and repeat until dawn.
Cathrine Schmid wearing a white tshirt emblazoned with a screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for "Integrity"
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.
Screenshot of an automated email from indeed.com offering me a position I'm eminently qualified for and would never get.
A black t-shirt featuring what kinda looks likw a poorly rendered cast photo of the TV show "Friends" displayed beneath an ornate death metal-style band logo treatment of a completely illegible word. Below the distressed, grainy cast photo are the letters "HGRKE 8PRL"
"Essentially, he’s daring the top brass of the military to stop him. For now, they won’t."
A flyer titled "Faces of the Transgender Military Purge: Who Our Nation is Losing," advertises a panel discussion on November 1, 2025, from 2pm–5pm, moderated by Bree Fram. The event highlights the experiences of transgender service members who served openly and are being forced out due to Trump-era policies. Bree Fram is described as an astronautical engineer, author, podcaster, and one of the highest-ranking transgender officers in the U.S. military, currently facing separation at the end of 2025. The panel features Lieutenant Rae Timberlake (U.S. Navy, public affairs), Commander Blake Dremann (U.S. Navy supply officer, SPARTA President), Sergeant First Class Katie Schmid (U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Analyst), and Master Sergeant Sabrina Bruce (Air Force and Space Force, Cyber Combat Course graduate). The event is part of the "Dissent" exhibition at Atrium Artspace, on view from October 17–November 9, 2025, at 2029 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore. Curators are Michel Heisttuman, Matt Moses, and Susan Washington.
A room with cream walls, a lamp on a nightstand, and a television, but the walls and furniture are heavily splattered and streaked with what appears to be red liquid resembling blood. There is a large picture frame on the wall, also covered by the red substance. At the bottom of the image, there is a prompt in a white box that reads: "CAPTION THIS WITH THE 2ND TO LAST TEXT YOU SENT."
A trans woman in a red leather jacket and black lipstick does a reading of Henry V, Act IV Scene iii (the Saint Crispin's Day speech)
A black-and-white illustration shows a man with extremely large, exaggerated ears, a long pointed nose, and a thin face. He wears a long lab coat and a comically oversized doctor's mirror on his forehead. Above him is a quote: "'I am KAKOFONOUS A. DISCHORD, DOCTOR OF DISSONANCE,' roared the man, and, as he spoke, several small explosions and a grinding crash were heard."
Frodo Baggins is lying in bed. The subtitle text says: "And it is 10 o'clock in the morning on October 24th, if you want to know."
Screenshot of a bluesky post from @deptofwar.bsky.social, showing an official-looking seal and the word "UNCLASSIFIED" above a grainy, black-and-white video feed of a drone strike on a ship on the ocean.
Four-panel comic. Panel 1: A person with glasses and short curly hair, wearing a purple shirt and holding a phone, is walking past a brick wall. Someone off-panel calls out, "HEY, YOU!" Panel 2: The person has stopped. A man in a red "MAGA" hat and olive shirt, with exaggerated facial features, points at his own shirt and says, "I see you're looking at my shirt." His shirt reads (with some red ink): "I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU, SUSAN." He adds, "I bet you're triggered, lol." Panel 3: The first person replies, "Now that you mention it, yeah-" The man, now holding a large firearm, says, "I also have this huge gun... but I'm only carrying it to make you upset." Panel 4: The man stabs a framed picture of the first person and says, "This is satire."
A screenshot of an NPR news article titled "Hegseth orders troops to watch his speech decrying a 'woke' military." The article is authored by Tom Bowman and dated October 15, 2025, at 4:43 PM ET. Below the headline, there is a photo showing a man in a blue suit standing on a stage decorated with a red, white, and blue banner, addressing a large audience of uniformed military personnel seated in an auditorium.
"But when looking for the JAGS’ replacements, Hegseth’s staff prioritized questions about whether candidates agreed with former President Joe Biden’s policies rather than their interpretations of law, the former official and another person familiar with the interviews said. Candidates were asked, for example, how they felt about requiring COVID-19 vaccines for troops and allowing transgender troops to serve, the sources said."
A transgender woman wearing a red hoodie tells you why coming out is cool as hell
A sign reading "WELCOME THIS PLACE IS A BLESSING AND PART OF A SYSTEM OF BLESSINGS CHERISH IT DEEPLY! SENDING THIS BLESSING WAS MEANINGFUL TO US. WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES A JOYFUL COMMUNITY. THIS PLACE IS A PLACE OF HONOR MANY CHERISHED DEEDS ARE CELEBRATED HERE EVERYTHING VALUED THRIVES HERE. WHAT IS HERE WAS NURTURING AND DELIGHTFUL TO US. THIS BLESSING IS A MESSAGE OF HOPE. THE HOPE IS IN A SPECIAL LOCATION IT RADIATES OUTWARD FROM A CENTER THE CENTER OF HOPE IS HERE OF A UNIQUE SHAPE AND SIZE AND BENEATH US. THE HOPE IS EVER-PRESENT, IN YOUR TIME, AS IT WAS IN OURS. THE HOPE iS FOR THE SPIRIT. AND IT CAN HEAL. THE FORM OF THE HOPE IS A FLOW OF LIGHT. THE HOPE IS SHARED FREELY WHEN YOU LOVINGLY ENGAGE WITH THIS PLACE PHYSICALLY. THIS PLACE IS BEST EMBRACED AND CARED FOR
A costume package labeled "Special Forces Babe" from Spirit Halloween is shown. The package features a model wearing a camouflage-pattern romper with long sleeves, a matching hat, thigh pouch, black knee-high boots, and accessories including sunglasses, dog tags, and a belt.