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Just a quick reminder...

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like clockwork, local disabled trans woman in need of help yet again

so my lease is up in about a month. i don't have a place lined up yet but we're looking and at the very least i have someplace i can crash for a couple months failing that and i'll at least be out of y'all's hair during that time.

i was able to make a decent chunk of change at a local art show but i still need a fair bit of help, so please do if you can spare it and share it if you can't. love you all ❤���

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so many of the transfems i know spent their time pre-transition performing a kind of lifelong exercise in self-deprivation, the goal of which was to find out exactly how little a person needed to live. they starved themselves, dressed carelessly, shunned friends, and hollowed themselves out so as not to be burdens on anyone but themselves.

i see it now, too, in the girls around me. i'll ask if they want care – a home-cooked meal, relaxed company, sex without the expectation of reciprocation – and they say no, no, thank you, i don't need it; what would you like, what do you want, because in their head they're still doing that awful calculus, still training themselves to disappear in the eyes of the people around them.

i don't think i'd have died without transition – not in the conventional sense, at least – but to take that leap, i had to stop thinking of myself as a human experiment in fuel-efficient living and start nurturing the anemic, atrophied flame of desire in my heart. i had to learn to eat well, to exercise, to style myself beautiful, but harder than that, i had to learn to ask the people around me to work on my behalf in order to enrich my life and give me the things i wanted.

and i did it; i learned. and it was agony, but courage is a muscle you can train, and every day i get better at accepting gifts with the hungry gratitude i never learned in my years and years as a sad, scared, lonely boy.

so be patient with the trans girls in your life. better than that: be proactive, attentive, generous; be forceful, if you have to, and learn to distinguish real discomfort from the terrified reflex of self-denial that so many of us once learned to rely on.

and if you are so lucky as to love a trans girl, you must insist upon her. you must insist upon her happiness, her comfort, her pleasure, and her rest, because she may still not yet know how to make those demands for herself. if you can devote any amount of energy to becoming an engine that nurtures the flame of even a single tgirl then there is a place for you in trans heaven, which as far as i'm concerned is the only one worth going to

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Whoooo's a happy girl today? Me!

Scored a real good deal on this bunch of secondhand doepfer. It was considerably cheaper than you expect. Yay!

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there is no such thing as a heterosexual vampire

NOW AVAILABLE on lots of different shirt designs and sizes up to 5xl on my threadless shop

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My girl grew up a little ♡ here's to a lot of new fun sounds ☆

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new quiz! do you know what the cast of Mario Kart World is from? let's find out

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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stop being silly in front of me

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stop being silly in front of me

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stop being silly in front of me

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stop being silly in front of me

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It's pride month so I'll allow myself to express one opinion on the internet :

There are no "exact color" of pride flags.

I see more and more sites and posts talking about the exact hex codes for the lesbian flag, or the right purple for the ace one, and how it should be more or less saturated and I just want to say: pride flags were meant to be sewn in your kitchen. To be spraypainted and to be recognised.

There are no "exact colors" of pride flags because you should do them with what you have ! Nobody should care if you use a crimson red instead of a cherry red or whatever ! Be free ! wave your colors ! The colors you have !

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HEY

so if you know someone who went to the LA protests today no you don't actually! All of those people have no identity. You've never been to a protest, you've never seen someone at one, and you certainly have never known the names or faces of any individuals associated with the protests.

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If you're a cop you should quit. Quitting is easy and fun. Anyone can do it.