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Hooray! Yay! Dykes!

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just ate a peach so ripe it nearly exploded all over my face so I had to eat it hunched over my sink like a maniac or perhaps a caveman so anyway how’s everyone else doing

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Half of the windows in my flat is secured with strong net (cat safety reasons). My flatmate/best friend can't look at them for too long, because the net pattern makes them dizzy. So they can't clean them. Meanwhile, I can't clean the not secured ones for vertigo and intrusive thoughts reason.

And I don't believe in soulmates, in destiny, in anything, I most definitely do not believe in two halves of whatever as a metaphor of relationships. But sometimes things align, and I feel the joy of belonging and cooperation, and of togetherness, and this joy is singing through dirty windowpanes.

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everyone needs a creative outlet to stick a creative fork into

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first rule of being a rare pair shipper is find a freak or three who can be convinced to enjoy the rare pair as much as you do. second rule is feed each other's insanity

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i love when dvd players hold out a little tray and you put the disc on it. it’s like you’re placing it into its little hand. hate the dvd players that make you push the disc into its mouth and then it swallows it obediently

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i realized something about art yesterday that should have been obvious but it took me 25 years to understand

you dont have to hurry

theres no timer, theres no need to cut corners if you think you can do better, theres no one watching over your shoulder, judging your every move

you dont even have to finish the project

some people genuinely enjoy the process alone, and it opened my fucking eyes

i can just tediously do a thing that i think would look cool. i can take my time. i can really show off my skills

cos for the longest time ever i thought the point of art is the finished piece, and the only joy is showing it off, only when you are 'finished' with it

hello?? why the fuck did i think that?

i actually like the 'no hurry, no expectations' approach, to loose time and yourself while doing your craft

whatever it may be

also the freedom of just starting a hobby. oh thats your first time doing that? thats so cool! cant wait where experience gets you, if you decide to keep going!!

its my first time being alive

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reblog game put in the tags how you found prev

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Everyone warns you agaist going to the supermarket hungry, but nobody tells you about the dangers of going there too full: I do not want any of these things, for I will never require any food at all!

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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

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Saw some lady at the train station with a long flowing white skirt, walking a dog with a long flowing white fur, and they both were glowing equally in the contre-jour light of sunshine. Had to draw a rough sketch of them and then shittily shade it on my phone so I'll remember to try to draw them later.

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Loving this letter that one deeply hilarious National Trust employee was clearly tasked with writing to dress one of the rooms at the property we visited today:

I'm sure they never anticipated Dr Tall Gf and I, who spend half an hour minimum in every single goddamn room, and will therefore notice every single thing, including your funny little jokes!!!

(Letter reads:

Fourth Dec. 1772

Dear Brother,

Whilst I am most delighted to welcome you to my home I must also let you know that quite recently I did engage a local artisan-builder to undertake the plasterwork here at Mompesson House. I have had many wonderful ideas for the plasterwork: to whit, peaches, Inigo Jones and Alexander Pope, King Midas, shells, a Green Man who is most distinctive, the Goddess Athena, a lady with the head of a cornucopia, a Large Eagle, several sundry fruits as well as the aforementioned peaches, and so on. Suffice to say, it will be most grand but also cause a lot of mess. Anyway, my great hope is that one day the plasterwork will be so historically significant that it will pass onto some kind of National Trust that protects buildings and their furniture and so forth. I am sure the employees of such an institution would be kind, generous, thoughtful, attractive, most engaging and witty, probably extremely sexy and certainly in general a delight to be near. Visitors of the future witnessing my noble plasterwork will be so grateful that they will no doubt spend plentiful money in the tea room and secondhand bookshop I should think.)

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I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”