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"you can totally just choose another name, people do it all the time"

"yeah try out any pronouns! doesn't matter if you're cis, you can be called what you like!"

"oh damn, I love that hairstyle/haircut/outfit"

"yeah, why not play around with drag or costumes, it's fun. let me know if you need help finding good quality bras/breastforms/binders/packers"

"you can totally go on hormones if you want, like technically we're all already producing hormones in our bodies, so if you wanna try out different hormone ratios you could talk to an endocrinologist about it"

"even if you're cis you can get top surgery if it makes you feel good, there's no rules about who is 'allowed' to have larger or smaller chests."

"it's totally cool if you don't think you're cis but you're not ready to use the term trans. use whatever labels you want or none, it's chill"

"you don't need to pick apart all your memories to justify what you want your life to be, it's enough to just want what you want for your own life"

"thank you for trusting me with that, I'll support you no matter what"

"who do you want me to use that name/those pronouns around?"

"hell yeah, so proud of you for realizing that about yourself"

we sometimes joke about how cis people entering a trans friend group often "become" trans, but on a serious note, just having a social context where, when you do stuff for yourself that feels good, you are met with reaffirmed friendship & confidence boosts, that's inherently going to help you become more comfortable identifying as trans if you are trans. and another great thing is it also helps people realize they can be as gender nonconforming as they want & still be cis if that's what feels right too.

it's win/win to have friends who are cool about gender-- everyone is better off when we can make decisions about our own bodies without fear of social ostracism.

consistent acceptance (& encouragement) of radical gender nonconformity is always going to make our relationships with each other safer and more fulfilling.

to be affirmed by friends in any context is wonderful, but to be affirmed by friends in a context where you are feeling vulnerable & still learning about yourself and yet you still consistently feel genuinely understood and believed about yourself by those friends is profound.

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Everyone please look at all the beautiful garlic i grew this year. I love it. I'm going to try not to eat all of it over the next three weeks.

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i haven't seen this here yet so heads up

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I do love the phrase executive dysfunction bc the image it conjures is of a bunch of people wearing business suits around a long oval conference table  arguing with each other to the point where they’re getting into physical fights, but in the background there’s just a big empty whiteboard with a To Do list with one item on it and that item is “take shower”

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crystal potion

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i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police

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Beautiful little harvest for dinner tonight! Cooking up some Greek-inspired chicken with squash fritters.

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Oh hey. I'm still alive!

It's been like... 3-4 years. So many people still posting still have the same usernames and icons, and it feels like home. 🥰

Now I gotta learn to use all this all over again.

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Tadashi Shoij Cosmos inspired gowns

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i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

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Heeeeey...

Update time! Got a new computer, so I’m browsing tumblr a lot more now. That’s neat, since mobile still sucks on my phone/tablet. Even more neat:  I’m buying a house next week.

Not so neat: The stress and excitement of the house + the insane stress of work is causing me to only get 3-5 hours of sleep a night. That’s rough for someone like me, who typically absolutely needs to be asleep by 9:30 to wake up at 5:45 without wanting to commit a few murders. But whatever! Me! A house! A computer that can actually play video games! Yay!

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It's 2020 and Clexa still owns my whole fucking heart.

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nonspecific swede: im not gonna accept ‘hen’ as a gender neutral pronoun bc in english its a bird *makes bird jokes*

swedish language: slut

swedish language: fart

swedish language: barn

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capitalism pushes artists to always be drawing something everyday for sweet attention but please if you’re not feeling it dont ever feel bad about taking a break. your health is way more important than some silly numbers

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My boyfriend didn’t go to university until he was 28 because he didn’t feel anywhere near ready when he was 18. He graduated with first-class honours, went on to do a Masters, and is now a history teacher. It’s so much more important to do things when you’re able to fully commit to them and do them to the best of your ability than to rush to do them by an imaginary deadline.

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The “You know Gerard Way wrote Umbrella Academy but did you also know he was in a band??” articles have me shaking. I’ve become my parents.