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Someone has stolen my body!

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the issue with writing for yourself is that you will get sucked into rereading your own fic over and over and pretend it’s “editing,” but really you’re just reading because it’s exactly what you want to read. because you wrote it. for you.

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i don't usually post my embroidery on here but i'm really happy with how this piece turned out! inspired by this post by @siarven, made and posted with their permission of course :)

dandelions as a symbol for transness is a concept that means so much to me actually. ever since i first saw the post that inspired this (and the post by @doppelnatur which in turn inspired that post) it's been stuck in my head. i've loved dandelions for a long time and was already attached to them as symbols of hope, determination, and a refusal to conform or give in, and having my eyes opened to their potential as trans symbols as well made me love them even more.

to all my fellow trans people out there: may we all grow, transform ourselves, and flourish, in spite of everything the world throws at us <3

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I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

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supernatural actor men getting married and. I can't believe but we. well we. we got a. we got a gif for it

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today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one.  it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy.  zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive

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genuinely especially with everything happening in britain rn with regards to trans healthcare we need to start shutting down the "your brain doesn't fully develop until 25!" pseudoscience bullshit asap

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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Mood. Like, gee, I wonder why so many trans men who came out in the 2000s and 2010s named themselves Aiden and similar rhyming names?

Mysterious. How wacky of them. I guess there's no way forward but relentless mockery.

You know I find it very weird when people make fun of trans men’s names and then it’s just …. Popular names.

Like woah a trans man named himself Oliver ?? Crazy. It’s almost as if it’s been in the top 100 popular boys names for the past 4 years or something.

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Take the test

You can only do 12 options in a poll so if you tie choose which one you prefer???

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you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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Nah you don't get it bud, feudalism was totally leftist and progressive, the servants in this one book I read were given room and board and the master talked to them like they were human beings, at least when none of their betters were around, of course! And sometimes the servants were even in chaste lesbian relationships with each other, at least they made it seem that way on this one Netflix show and