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[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Maybe no one else in the area wants to work with the local Amish community but the troons are desperate enough?

No, that's definitely not it. From what I've heard and read, the Amish are very good craftsmen. Roofing, carpentry, masonry, you name it. Except for electronics.

 

[Spastic Colon]

Maybe no one else in the area wants to work with the local Amish community but the troons are desperate enough?

If they get ripped off by some Amish people, I will laugh my ass off. Are they sure they are real Amish, though? I saw some "Amish" people in my hometown once and they were just a couple of kids who dressed the part and were selling, among other things, Snyder's of Hanover pretzels (I saw the bag on the ground near them as they were cleaning up) and passing them off as homemade. The tourists fell for it, though, even though there isn't even an Amish community nearby.

I could see the Branch Troonians getting conned pretty easily. I mean, they were dumb enough to buy that ranch in the first place ...

 

[Stuff]

I find it weird that they're doing business with the Amish. Because they're not exactly progressive when it comes to homosexuality. I can't find what their beliefs about trannies are, but I can't imagine that it's anything positive.

The Amish don't care, they just want to get their work done.

 

[Captain Fitzbattleaxe]

The Amish don't care, they just want to get their work done.

Yeah, I get that. But I am saying that if I were to create a "trans utopia" I sure as hell wouldn't work with a group that views homosexuality as a sin.

 

[Lurk]

Edit: shit sorry, completely missed that @Tomssu already caught this
Vice have published an article about the Tranch / archive

Spoiler: Copy and pasted article

One humid day in August of 2019, Bonnie Nelson loaded up a car and began a three day road trip. The destination: a small alpaca ranch in Colorado run entirely by trans people.

Nelson, who uses ey / em / eir pronouns, had recently quit eir day job as a home healthcare aid to elderly and disabled people in New York. Ey were now en route to begin a new life in the country along with eir partner, Sky, at the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, a growing rural sanctuary that its residents sustain by selling alpaca wool on Etsy. The ranch is tiny, but it has an ambitious and important mission: to offer work, shelter, and community to queer and trans people in need.


Nelson had first heard of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch only a month earlier, when ey found the collective posting cute photos of its alpaca herd on Twitter. Nelson had already been looking to move to Colorado, so ey contacted the ranch in mid-July and set up a video interview the following weekend. Less than a month later, Nelson was sharing meals with eir new family.

The collective prides itself on being self-sufficient. It utilizes 100 percent off-grid solar and wind energy and built its own structures to house the ranch’s growing population—including a herd of nearly 100 alpacas. “They were doing basically everything that I’ve ever wanted to do,” Nelson told me of the decision to become part of the collective. “To be fair, it was a really easy choice to make.”

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch’s founders say the idea for the utopian project started in the aftermath of the 2016 election, when many LGBTQ+ people across the U.S. were staring down the barrel of an authoritarian administration unambiguously hostile to queer and trans people. In the intervening years, the Trump administration has demonstrated this animus by rolling back LGBTQ+ rights across the board, most recently with an executive order that explicitly allows healthcare providers to deny medical care to queer and trans people purely based on their sexuality or gender. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing unprecedented mass-death and economic devastation, the collective behind the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch sees their mission as more crucial than ever.

“I’m getting contacted by three new people every day that desperately need housing for a myriad of reasons, mostly pandemic-related,” Penellope Logue, the ranch’s co-founder, told me. “There’s been a huge loss of jobs, and the people getting those jobs back aren’t trans people. They’re just not choosing us.”


Growing up in rural Colorado under the care of her grandfather and his wife, Logue learned farming from an early age. Her grandfather was a programmer for IBM in Boulder, and on the weekends, the two would work on the farm together.

Logue tried to come out at age 14 or 15, but ultimately found the environment around LGBTQ rights to be too hostile. “There was no language around being trans at that time, in the 1980s,” she said. “Even just being gay was so bad, and so I got shoved back into the closet.”

Logue went on to spend six years in the military during the era of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which she described as a “very toxic environment.” Then, after years of therapy, she came out as transgender at age 36. While her adoptive parents were supportive, the neighborhood where she lived in the suburbs of Denver was much less accepting. So she rented out the house, moved back in with her adoptive family just outside of Boulder, and made a living working in retail and selling scrap collected from dumpsters.

Years later, Logue finally saw an opportunity to realize her dream of having her own ranch. After selling her house, she and her partners, Kathryn and Jennifer, rented a plot of land up north and adopted a herd of alpacas, which she had taken a shine to while researching different types of fiber-bearing animals. In all, the group spent nearly $100,000 putting down fencing and fixing up the property.

In order to help with the costs, the group started selling their alpaca wool on Etsy—their first batch sold out completely—and created a Patreon profilethat would allow others to offer them monthly donations. They also began accepting new like-minded residents. Still, the group was eventually priced out of living on the property due to rent hikes from the owner. When Bonnie Nelson and eir partner arrived, the group was searching for new land that they could actually purchase. Finally, on Christmas of 2019, the now eight-person collective put down a deposit on a plot on the other side of the state, about an hour and a half drive from the city of Pueblo, CO.

And so, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch began a move of biblical proportions—a journey that would require 19 separate trips across the state of Colorado.

Now, the collective is settling in and raising money via GoFundMe to build additional housing so that they can invite up to 20 new residents. (The ranch has a basic satellite internet connection, which Logue describes as “comparable to old dial-up speeds.”) The goal is to become a rural haven for queer and trans people—similar to the IDA community land project in Tennessee—and eventually, to help people in other states set up queer farming collectives of their own.

“We don’t wanna just expand housing, we wanna have jobs for people,” said Logue, noting that despite the recent Supreme Court victory barring explicit discrimination, trans folks are far less likely to be employed in the first place. According to a 2015 survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality, trans people are three times more likely to be unemployed compared to the general population, and four times more likely if they are trans people of color.

“Between coronavirus and the revolts against the state, we’ve really been looking at the state of the world and thinking we can’t just sit back and try to get to a stable point,” Nelson told me. “More than anything, it’s really lit a fire under our feet.”

The collective has found work in the area by connecting with the local Amish communities, and there’s plenty to do around the ranch. Logue and Nelson are heading the construction projects in preparation for two new people who will be joining the collective next month. The group also recently added ducks and sheep to their expanding livestock, creating additional sources of income. “It’s country girl shit,” laughed Logue, while describing the day-to-day experience of working on the ranch. “We drive big trucks, we all wear boots and we cuss a lot.”

For its residents, the allure of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch is far greater than the aesthetics of the blue collar lifestyle. It’s about the freedom and joy of being queer and trans out in the country, and the opportunity to share that prosperity and sense of community with others.


“What we ultimately want to provide for people is peace of mind—you have a place to stay, you have food, and you’ll have something to do,” said Nelson. “I’ve never had that support network, that real understanding love from people. I can’t wait to spread that and have that be available to more people.”

Edit: I cannot read this shit with a straight face, every time Vice inserts Bonnie's ridiculous pronouns my sides leave me for 5 minutes

 

[BallBuster]

From his NSFW account, Kevvie spent his money AGAIN for essentials
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Spoiler: NSFW

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Kevvie is passionate about this
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Vice made an article about the ranch
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It is exciting writing about a group of degenerates who beg daily for their continued existence. Without the thousands upon thousands of dollars from unsuspecting morons and anonymous cucks they would surely be living in the dark ages. Let’s praise them.

 

[Buttfuck McGee Returns]

Nelson, who uses ey / em / eir pronouns, had recently quit eir day job as a home healthcare aid to elderly and disabled people in New York. Ey were now en route to begin a new life in the country along with eir partner,

Jfc Vice, what happened to you. What the fuck does Ey/em/eir mean. Why
Just
Why

Edit: fat fingered my phone and posted half a sentence

 

[Stafford Beer Bong]

“Fuck the concept of “evil” races.”

Does this include white, heterosexual terfs?

 

[the khat quaffer]

Jfc Vice, what happened to you. What the fuck does Ey/em/eir mean. Why
Just
Why

Edit: fat fingered my phone and posted half a sentence

ZEE ZAI ZO ZUM
I SMELL THE BLOOD OF A CIS MALE SCUM

stuff

Is this the first media mention of the Ranch? I for one have been praying for the day that more people find out about these degenerates. The world needs to know about these folx. They need exposure.

If I could have only one thing come out of all this, it's that some form of the phrase 'went down to the Ranch' enters internet vernacular. At least like an urban dictionary thing. It would be like a subtle way of saying someone trooned out and threw their life away for a life of decadence and polyamory. Example: Around age 23 billy started taking titty skittles and basically within a year he threw it all away and went down to the Ranch. Her name is Betty now btw

 

[Spastic Colon]

Jfc Vice, what happened to you. What the fuck does Ey/em/eir mean. Why
Just
Why

Edit: fat fingered my phone and posted half a sentence

LOL, it's just they/them/their without the "th". He's not like those basic bitch trans that use "they" as a singular pronoun. Bonnie is a unicorn troon.

 

[ConsoleWarVet]

Edit: shit sorry, completely missed that @Tomssu already caught this
Vice have published an article about the Tranch / archive

Spoiler: Copy and pasted article

One humid day in August of 2019, Bonnie Nelson loaded up a car and began a three day road trip. The destination: a small alpaca ranch in Colorado run entirely by trans people.

Nelson, who uses ey / em / eir pronouns, had recently quit eir day job as a home healthcare aid to elderly and disabled people in New York. Ey were now en route to begin a new life in the country along with eir partner, Sky, at the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, a growing rural sanctuary that its residents sustain by selling alpaca wool on Etsy. The ranch is tiny, but it has an ambitious and important mission: to offer work, shelter, and community to queer and trans people in need.


Nelson had first heard of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch only a month earlier, when ey found the collective posting cute photos of its alpaca herd on Twitter. Nelson had already been looking to move to Colorado, so ey contacted the ranch in mid-July and set up a video interview the following weekend. Less than a month later, Nelson was sharing meals with eir new family.

The collective prides itself on being self-sufficient. It utilizes 100 percent off-grid solar and wind energy and built its own structures to house the ranch’s growing population—including a herd of nearly 100 alpacas. “They were doing basically everything that I’ve ever wanted to do,” Nelson told me of the decision to become part of the collective. “To be fair, it was a really easy choice to make.”

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch’s founders say the idea for the utopian project started in the aftermath of the 2016 election, when many LGBTQ+ people across the U.S. were staring down the barrel of an authoritarian administration unambiguously hostile to queer and trans people. In the intervening years, the Trump administration has demonstrated this animus by rolling back LGBTQ+ rights across the board, most recently with an executive order that explicitly allows healthcare providers to deny medical care to queer and trans people purely based on their sexuality or gender. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing unprecedented mass-death and economic devastation, the collective behind the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch sees their mission as more crucial than ever.

“I’m getting contacted by three new people every day that desperately need housing for a myriad of reasons, mostly pandemic-related,” Penellope Logue, the ranch’s co-founder, told me. “There’s been a huge loss of jobs, and the people getting those jobs back aren’t trans people. They’re just not choosing us.”


Growing up in rural Colorado under the care of her grandfather and his wife, Logue learned farming from an early age. Her grandfather was a programmer for IBM in Boulder, and on the weekends, the two would work on the farm together.

Logue tried to come out at age 14 or 15, but ultimately found the environment around LGBTQ rights to be too hostile. “There was no language around being trans at that time, in the 1980s,” she said. “Even just being gay was so bad, and so I got shoved back into the closet.”

Logue went on to spend six years in the military during the era of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which she described as a “very toxic environment.” Then, after years of therapy, she came out as transgender at age 36. While her adoptive parents were supportive, the neighborhood where she lived in the suburbs of Denver was much less accepting. So she rented out the house, moved back in with her adoptive family just outside of Boulder, and made a living working in retail and selling scrap collected from dumpsters.

Years later, Logue finally saw an opportunity to realize her dream of having her own ranch. After selling her house, she and her partners, Kathryn and Jennifer, rented a plot of land up north and adopted a herd of alpacas, which she had taken a shine to while researching different types of fiber-bearing animals. In all, the group spent nearly $100,000 putting down fencing and fixing up the property.

In order to help with the costs, the group started selling their alpaca wool on Etsy—their first batch sold out completely—and created a Patreon profilethat would allow others to offer them monthly donations. They also began accepting new like-minded residents. Still, the group was eventually priced out of living on the property due to rent hikes from the owner. When Bonnie Nelson and eir partner arrived, the group was searching for new land that they could actually purchase. Finally, on Christmas of 2019, the now eight-person collective put down a deposit on a plot on the other side of the state, about an hour and a half drive from the city of Pueblo, CO.

And so, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch began a move of biblical proportions—a journey that would require 19 separate trips across the state of Colorado.

Now, the collective is settling in and raising money via GoFundMe to build additional housing so that they can invite up to 20 new residents. (The ranch has a basic satellite internet connection, which Logue describes as “comparable to old dial-up speeds.”) The goal is to become a rural haven for queer and trans people—similar to the IDA community land project in Tennessee—and eventually, to help people in other states set up queer farming collectives of their own.

“We don’t wanna just expand housing, we wanna have jobs for people,” said Logue, noting that despite the recent Supreme Court victory barring explicit discrimination, trans folks are far less likely to be employed in the first place. According to a 2015 survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality, trans people are three times more likely to be unemployed compared to the general population, and four times more likely if they are trans people of color.

“Between coronavirus and the revolts against the state, we’ve really been looking at the state of the world and thinking we can’t just sit back and try to get to a stable point,” Nelson told me. “More than anything, it’s really lit a fire under our feet.”

The collective has found work in the area by connecting with the local Amish communities, and there’s plenty to do around the ranch. Logue and Nelson are heading the construction projects in preparation for two new people who will be joining the collective next month. The group also recently added ducks and sheep to their expanding livestock, creating additional sources of income. “It’s country girl shit,” laughed Logue, while describing the day-to-day experience of working on the ranch. “We drive big trucks, we all wear boots and we cuss a lot.”

For its residents, the allure of the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch is far greater than the aesthetics of the blue collar lifestyle. It’s about the freedom and joy of being queer and trans out in the country, and the opportunity to share that prosperity and sense of community with others.


“What we ultimately want to provide for people is peace of mind—you have a place to stay, you have food, and you’ll have something to do,” said Nelson. “I’ve never had that support network, that real understanding love from people. I can’t wait to spread that and have that be available to more people.”

Edit: I cannot read this shit with a straight face, every time Vice inserts Bonnie's ridiculous pronouns my sides leave me for 5 minutes

I'm having trouble believing Phil was chased out of Denver like Frankenstein's monster just for being trans. I'd love to have an old neighbor have their chance to tell their side of the story, assuming one exists and he didn't just piss away his life and savings like most middle-aged troons.

 

[stupid moron]

From his NSFW account, Kevvie spent his money AGAIN for essentials
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Spoiler: NSFW

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Kevvie is passionate about this
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Vice made an article about the ranch
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Just make up a backstory where your character is a good orc. One of the fun things about DND is you can do whatever the fuck you want with your character and no one will really care. You don't need to change the rules for everyone else just because it makes you mad.

Its obnoxious as hell when people want to remove racism from fictional universes because more often than not its just social commentary paralleling actual struggles minorities face today. Why do they want to remove interesting concepts from ficiton

 

[Banditotron]

Do they view the inherently evil monsters as representative of real life minorities? What the fuck?

 

[Norman B. Normal]

Vice made an article about the ranch
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A kind soul at Vice who wishes to remain anonymous sent me a passage that was cut out of the article during the editing process:

"It's a lot of hard work, but I always try to keep in mind what we're building here, and that makes it all worthwhile," Nelson said. She had been working all morning on the ranch's latest project, a guest house that will serve as a refuge for up to a dozen trans women at a time who will be given food, shelter, and the opportunity to learn basic carpentry and animal husbandry skills in exchange for pitching in around the ranch. As we headed inside the main house for a couple of cold beers, Nelson was accosted by Kathryn Gibes, 33, who was holding a plastic Transformers toy in one hand and a large stuffed animal--Yoshi from the Super Mario video game series, she explained later--in the other.

"Bonnie, I made it to the second dot on my dilator today!" Gibes said excitedly. "I could just feel those heckin' nerves waking up right and left!"

"That's nice, hon," Nelson said, tactfully attempting to steer around Gibes to the refrigerator.

"Mistress says that if I drink all my milk I can try the third dot next week!" Gibes burbled, crowding Nelson away from the refrigerator in her excitement. "I'm going to buy the entire set of Zelda Amiibos to celebrate!"

"That's nice, hon," Nelson repeated, stepping around Gibes to grab a couple of long-necked Coors from the refrigerator.

"2020 is the year I'm gonna get fucked in my new vag!"

"Okay, sweetie," Nelson said, a slight edge in her voice, as we escaped out the front door.

On the deck, Nelson took a long pull from her beer and handed me the opener. "Kathryn's such a sweetheart," Nelson said. "You know, we actually have a rule that everyone here contributes as much as they are able. Because it's basically a commune, right? But poor Kathryn hasn't been able to do a whole lot since her bottom surgery, so Penellope says she can stay inside and tweet and play video games until she heals. I'm actually not sure what the situation is between those two; they don't really seem to be that close, physically or romantically."

She took another long swig. "It's just--" Nelson stood on the deck, staring out at the flock, her free hand repeatedly clenching into a fist and unclenching, apparently unconsciously. Neither of us spoke for a long time.

After what seemed like an eternity, Nelson spoke again. "I'm just very happy to be here," she said, her eyes not wavering from the horizon. She drained the bottle and let it fall from her hand. "It's time to get back to work," she said.

 

[AmbiTron]

Oh wow, I didn't realize Vice had gone THIS far down the shitter. Remember when they made interesting content on the cutting edge of journalism? Haha yeah me neither but it was still far better than this absolute dog turd of an article. How many bottles of soylent do you think the writer went through during the process? I'd say at least a few thousand.

 

[Constellationzero]

Hmm...
VICE writes an article and includes many pictures of hulking hot, sweaty, stinking troons. Good thing they didn't include a scratch n' sniff card.

 

[Captain Fitzbattleaxe]

The collective prides itself on being self-sufficient. It utilizes 100 percent off-grid solar and wind energy and built its own structures to house the ranch’s growing population—including a herd of nearly 100 alpacas.

Wait a bit, if they utilizes "100 percent off grind solar panels and wind energy" why do they need a generator? Also correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't the only structure they have built that metal shed?

 

[scallion]

Wait a bit, if they utilizes "100 percent off grind solar panels and wind energy" why do they need a generator? Also correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't the only structure they have built that metal shed?

Are you questioning Vice's journalistic merit?!

 

[FramerGirl420]

From his NSFW account, Kevvie spent his money AGAIN for essentials
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Spoiler: NSFW

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motherfucker lookin like a shell-less Zoidberg over here

 

[ConsoleWarVet]

Wait a bit, if they utilizes "100 percent off grind solar panels and wind energy" why do they need a generator? Also correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't the only structure they have built that metal shed?

Don't forget the fence!

The other additions they have planned for the add on are even worse, just shipping containers turned into housing units.