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loose leaf tea blends 🌿🍂🌱

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you guys wanna go to basrar’s?

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This tiktok about someone’s pre-transition self is so so SO tender and I just want anyone who has transitioned and may be mourning their old self to see this and to know it’s okay. It’s okay to miss that person you once were, it’s okay to wish you had embraced what you had and who you were before transitioning. It doesn’t mean you regret it, and it doesn’t mean you made the wrong decisions.

It’s okay to think about that person, it’s okay to mourn them, and it’s okay to wonder. The person you were before transitioning may have been a trick of the light, but it doesn’t mean they weren’t special while they were here.

Everyone’s experience is different… but if you find yourself feeling this, just know it’s okay. You don’t have to completely block out every aspect and memory of who you were before. It’s okay if you do, but you don’t have to.

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Map of the Soul Masterlist

Map of the Soul: 7 Workshop Collection

Map of the Soul

For the @btswritingcafe​‘s Map of the Soul: 7 Workshop

Pairings: OT7 x reader (kinda)

Series Summary: If you give a piece of yourself to everyone you love, at some point, there will be nothing left for yourself. While feeling lost and alone in your adult life, a strange box falls onto your head in your own closet, and you take an unexpected walk down memory lane wondering where everything went wrong.  Was it the romances that fizzled out, the friends & loved ones you left behind, the “what could’ve been” moments, the brush with Fate that never quite connected? Could the strange map you find have the answers you are looking for?  Determined to feel complete once again, you embark on a journey to reclaim the missing pieces of your soul.

Genre: Angst, Fluff, Smut

Meet the Characters

Chapter One: There’s Always Time for Euphoria

Chapter Two: Soulmates are a Forever Kind of Thing

Chapter Three: The Beautiful Music We Used to Make

Chapter Four: Just Filter Out the Bad, Keep the Good

Chapter Five: There’s Still Sunshine When He’s Gone

Chapter Six: The Dish Who Ran Away With the Spoon

Chapter Seven: Too Many Keys, Just One Door

Epilogue: 

Coming Soon

Drabbles: 

Drabble #1: The Legendary Virginity Incident (ft. Taehyung)

More Content to Follow as the Muse Strikes…

@caught-in-a-seesaw-stigma​ MASTERLIST

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Disco Overload

Genre: Angst, Smut

Pairing: Yoongi x Reader (with a little Hoseok on the side), mentions of the other members as well

Warnings: sexual tension, groping, jealous Yoongi, kissing, marking, biting, hair pulling, fingering, choking, voyeurism, praise kink, semi-public sex, unprotected sex (please be safe), orgasm denial, squirting, creampie, cumplay, bisexual undertones

Summary: Yoongi promised he would come out dancing with you, but as per usual, he’s working late. What will he do when he arrives only to find you on the dance floor with another man’s hands all over you? Will his anger erupt in the middle of the club or will he find another way to express his displeasure?

Word Count: 4K+

Yoongi drew another shot of whiskey into his mouth and swirled it around before swallowing. Not even the burn of the alcohol in his throat could quell the tempest brewing in his mind.

How dare she let another man touch her like that?!

Another upbeat disco classic started to electrify the dance floor and you continued sashaying away with the man in the blue suit under Yoongi’s scrutinizing glare. You were so engrossed in your dance partner that you hadn’t noticed Yoongi’s arrival at the VIP booth.

It’s like she doesn’t even care whether I’m here or not.

Another hand was lingering near the curve of your ass, another set of eyes were blazing with desire for you, another pair of lips were quirked into a sensual smirk as your dance partner sized up the voluptuous curves grooving in his arms. Yoongi noticed your not so subtle body roll against the man’s crotch and he nearly crushed the crystal highball glass in his hand.

She’s fucking asking for it.

As though his telepathy were coalescing into reality, you turned your gaze toward the booth and froze in place when you realized that Yoongi was staring you down. He could almost see your breath hitching and your throat bobbing up and down in a large nervous gulp. Yoongi drank another mouthful of whiskey and tilted his head at you.

That’s right, baby. You are so busted.

Keep reading

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Obligatory transmasc comic about hair, trauma, and gender

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jimin is heaven sent

mots on:e // vcr

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201010 MAP OF THE SOUL O:NE - Filter

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Wow ! (Unmute !)

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I am completely speechless on this one

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Rejuvenation (Preview)

For @jamaisjoons​ ‘The Summer Bucketlist: BTS Edition Collab’

Pairing(s): Yoongi x Reader x Hoseok (featuring Jungkook & Jimin w/ mentions of the others)

Genre: non-idol AU; Spa Owners/Workers, fluff, smut, dash of angst

Prompt: Treat Yourself to a Spa Day

Summary: You finally get a break from work and you decide to indulge in a little pampering and self-care. During lunch, your friend slips a card into your hand for an exclusive spa with a special referral discount. How can you resist? Let’s hope the Bangtan Blossoms Spa provides the relaxation & rejuvenation experience you desperately seek.

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A soft knock resounded behind you and you dropped your things on the lounger before walking back to open the door. The two men who greeted you were unbelievably attractive, and you were awestruck by the bright shining smile on one face and the mysteriously stoic face of the other.

“Hello,” chirped the ball of sunshine. “My name is J-Hope and this is my partner, Suga. We’re here to give you the ultimate Sope spa treatment.”

‘That was not the introduction we agreed on,” grumbled his partner. “Why did you make me practice that intro if you were just going to commandeer the entire thing?”

“Whoops,” giggled Mr. Sunshine. “Sorry about that. We can do it again, if you want.”

Mr. Grumblecakes pouted and shook his head slightly. You almost cooed at his knitted brow and puckered lips, but then he spoke again.

“The moment’s lost now,” Suga responded in pout. “Besides, we have more important matters to attend to, don’t we?”

His feline eyes lifted to meet your own and his pouty lips pulled up into a flirtatious smirk. You were taken aback at the duality between his previous cuteness and the unmistakable swagger that now greeted you.

“So, are you going to invite us in, beautiful?” he quipped. “Or should we wait for you in the hallway?”

Author’s Note: Just wanted to post a little taste while I finish this up - this was way too much fun to write. I need this to be a real place already, ya feel me?

COMING AUGUST 2020

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Is it easier to be a man? Transgender men have the answer.

Tara Bahrampour from The Washington Post has spoken to transgender men about how their lives changed after they transitioned. 

What many of them say is that many people started to treat them more seriously after they started presenting as men. People would listen more carefully to what they had to say. Men would stop interrupting them.

Transgender men normally pass more easily than transgender women, so cis people are more likely to see them as cis men.

However, as Trystan Cotten, Professor of gender studies at California State University Stanislaus, says, life doesn’t necessarily get easier as an African American male:

The way that police officers deal with me, the way that racism undermines my ability to feel safe in the world, affects my mobility, affects where I go. Other African American and Latino Americans grew up as boys and were taught to deal with that at an earlier age. I had to learn from my black and brown brothers about how to stay alive in my new body and retain some dignity while being demeaned by the cops.

Trystan Cotten relaxes after skateboarding in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco.

Zander Keig is a Coast Guard veteran and works at Naval Medical Center San Diego as a clinical social work case manager. He explains that in some ways he gets less respect now than when he presented as a woman:

Prior to my transition, I was an outspoken radical feminist. I spoke up often, loudly and with confidence. I was encouraged to speak up. I was given awards for my efforts, literally — it was like, “Oh, yeah, speak up, speak out.” When I speak up now, I am often given the direct or indirect message that I am “mansplaining,” “taking up too much space” or “asserting my white male heterosexual privilege.” Never mind that I am a first-generation Mexican American, a transsexual man, and married to the same woman I was with prior to my transition.

He argues that his ability to empathize has grown exponentially post transitioning, because he now factors men into his thinking and feeling about situations.

He sees a significant reduction in friendliness and kindness  extended to him in public spaces:

 It now feels as though I am on my own: No one, outside of family and close friends, is paying any attention to my well-being.

Alex Coon (top photo), on the other hand, points out that he is now ranked above the women at work when it comes to input and influence:

People now assume I have logic, advice and seniority. They look at me and assume I know the answer, even when I don’t. I’ve been in meetings where everyone else in the room was a woman and more senior, yet I still got asked, “Alex, what do you think? We thought you would know.” I was at an all-team meeting with 40 people, and I was recognized by name for my team’s accomplishments. Whereas next to me, there was another successful team led by a woman, but she was never mentioned by name.

What their stories tell us is that sexism can strike both ways, and that gender stereotypes harm both men and women.

Male to female transgender people will also confirm this. When presenting as men, any “feminine” trait, ability, interest or expression was seen as as shameful and worth of scorn, including expressing feelings and emotions in a rich and meaningful way. Homophobia and transphobia hit those assigned male, cis or trans, hard. Transgender women give up a lot of male privilege when transitioning, but they also gain some female privilege.

Read the whole article over at The Washington Post. It is an important one!

Photos by Evelyn Hockstein