#I transitioned at 21

[alyanas-little-hideout]

sometimes it feels like growing up with the privilege to always be heard and acknowledged can make it hard to recognize what is actually being silenced or ignored and what is simply not being afforded those privileges that one has grown to take as their right.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

This winter will be my moment I just know it. Diligent studying, regulated time on my phone, walks in the freezing cold, perfecting my skincare routine, wearing my hair curly, nourishing my body w the best foods, watching more critically acclaimed films, consuming more books, dainty gold jewelry, drinking lots more water, warm spicy perfumes, dark lip gloss, tights under miniskirts, wool sweaters, going out of my comfort zone a lot more, and just another massive growth spurt like the one I had last year around this time. I adore this time of year so much bc it always heralds a metamorphosis. I am so ready <3 <3 <3

[rosekasa]

creating for a fandom from teenage years to adulthood is so special because you can see where your subconscious was through the history of your works

[add1ictwithapen]

here’s a better video of the natn/hds transition!!also tyler sang “I’m dying from a fire” instead of “flying from a fire”

[vaingod]

@post-op just so you cant hide your stupid ass in my replies and spit out transphobic body shaming bullshit!

You are a horrible individual and i hope i am taking up waitlists upon waitlists from the "men who actually want a sex change", you stand for nothing and contain at your core no empathy for anyone but yourself. My posts are specifically for people looking for non traditional phalloplasty routes, i dont need to be lectured by a tactless idiot child online when ive been transitioning with surgeries for years and will continue to get surgeries that "men actually need" boohoo for you ill probably get my surgery before you how sad 😔 truly broken hearted about it 😢

packers are next to useless theres a reason why some of us take surgery into our own hands, yknow instead of leaving vapid transphobic comments to people that are actually making changes on themselves! Crazy! I hope me and every enby are taking up those waitlists taking up those spots and i hope we are all happy and get our combo surgeries, i also hope you drop dead for the nonfunctional penises comment because it flat out tells me youre a body shaming motherfucker that doesnt deserve to breathe and that tosses that comment around a lot. the amount of people that can be applied to alone makes you look like a clown but also some of us arent actually scared of having "nonfunctional" body parts as you fear. ill get my penis and your transmed ass will still be seething and it wont change a thing about the fact that ill be lining up enbies and "not real men who want sex changes" into those waitlists till the day i die

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

imagine the whitest cis gay guy ever. mhm. yup. thats the guy. yeah so he thinks t4t means twink for twink

[coffeeallaloneandlord]

I love everyone who shares their book journals on tik tok but some people's taste in books is so embarrassing

[sonderden]

Me: My ex-bff wasn't that bad. I know my therapist has said it counts as abuse, but we met when we were 11. She didn't know what she was doing. There was no malicious intent. She was a largely neglected kid with a messed up sense of boundaries, it just sucked that I was both really compatible and really incompatible with that. She even got a little better over the 13 years we knew each other, she wasn't a bad person. She saw the world differently than I do, that's all.

Me, talking about what it was like to use Tumblr in middle school: It was fun, but I had some restrictions. I couldn't follow things -- tags, people, etc -- that my best friend didn't like. I couldn't join fandoms she had claimed; if she liked it first, or liked it "more" than me then it was hers and I'd mess it up by liking it. I had to join fandoms she'd decided I would like, or we'd like together, even if they weren't fun for me. I wasn't allowed to be online at night without telling her, because if she caught me she'd say that was time I could have spent chatting with her if I wasn't going to sleep. She'd feel betrayed. If I made an original post, she'd immediately comment on it as a way of "claiming" me as her best friend and warning others that the position of best friend was taken. Also to interact with me and be my friend, but mostly to keep me focused on her. She did not comment on or like any of my writing, though. She never read it. She said it was boring, then demanded I read everything she ever wrote and quizzed me at school about whether I'd seen her posts or emails about her writing yet. So Tumblr had a bit of a shadow looming over it, but I still liked the fandoms and memes!

The Memory of My Therapist (she's not dead, I just haven't seen her in 2 weeks): You know it doesn't have to have malicious intent to have harmful results, right? You know that whether she knew what she was doing or not, she still did messed up things you didn't deserve?

Me: Well, when I lay it out like that it does sound kind of bad, yeah... 😬

[sevens-evan]

i found a bunch of old voice memos from spanish class in high school on my phone and holy shit my voice dropped So Hard. those would've been from 6-9 months the first time i was on t and i recorded a real quick one now and the difference is fucking insane, i sound like two different people. i never bothered keeping actual track of my voice because listening to it made me so goddamn dysphoric before and i don't really regret that but it is very very cool to see how hard it's dropped in just like. the past few months

[silveretta]

Beta request: Monarchs x 21 fic

Dunno if anyone here does beta reads :3 but I could use a 2nd set of eyes on this it and some help punching up the dialogue.

Fic is a little over 6.5k. DM me here or on discord Silveretta2867 if you wanna help. Happy to do beta 4 beta or whatever

polyamory, 5+1, fluff, fluff and feels, getting together, first kiss. takes place through S6/7. SFW.

[sol1loqu1st]

completely predictable, but somehow still unexpected side effects of t: i can finally sing mike's parts in the right octave but have LOST the upper parts of my belting range and can no longer hit most of chester's range without flipping into my very weak falsetto so linkin park car karaoke is awkward

[kissmefriendly]

It’s a very weird thing, being trans/nb and watching all your other trans/nb mates talk about how great it is and how good they feel; about all the little things like singing voices coming back and how they’re on waitlist for surgery, asking what they should do with all their HRT bottles, etc. Like, it’s all little things and I am happy for them. But it’s so weird when you’re all trans and yet you are still excluded by virtue of not having the same lived experiences.

[snxpdragons]

the transition between you'd be paranoid too and fruit roll ups

no question, just felt the need to say this

also consider: the transitions between I Felt Younger When We Met, Cherry Red, and Watch What Happens Next

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

@allthecanadianpolitics @newsfromstolenland

These four books are being targeted by book banners in Alberta, Canada

Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides from Alberta, Canada, announced a public feedback process around what he called “extremely graphic and age-inappropriate content” in K-12 school library books. The four books singled out by the government as containing examples of such content are Blankets by Craig Thompson, Flamer by Mike Curato, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, all of which are comics, three of which are queer stories.

During a press conference Monday, Nicolaides denied that the government’s initiative is about creating a book ban, though he told reporters that “our intent is that extreme offenders—like the ones we’ve identified—do not make their way into school libraries.” (source)

Folks in Alberta, Canada can share their opinion on book banning in this (very biased) government survey before June 6.

Canadians, please share this! You have to speak out against book bans NOW or you will end up having to fight all the same fights we are seeing in the US around erasing queer stories, defunding libraries, and silencing queer authors. Please boost!

[ribscarvedlikebutterflies]

there is so much going on and all i can say is god help me

[vaguely-human-man]

Idk who needs to hear this but take that early transition girl out. Dress her up all pretty and assure her that anyone who dares to say a negative word will have to contend with you. Do her makeup and gently talk her through the steps, do one eye for her and let her try the other one on her own. Kiss her lips and watch the way she grins like a maniac at the imprint that her black lipstick leaves behind. Take her out to the movies or to the mall, walk around and buy her a pair of good boots without letting her look at the price tag, watch the way she smiles shyly and swoons even while insisting she doesn't need them. Tell her 'My love. You loved them instantly and they had your size- it's fate, they're meant to be yours,' and then help her sit down in one of the mall chairs to put them on, watch the way she prances around in them like an excited little girl.

Hold her hand and talk to the lady at Rue 21 for her because you know she's insecure about her voice. Go in the dressing room with her and gently help her into the skirt she was eyeing- one foot, a second, shimmy, shimmy, up- followed by a wonderfully soft sweater that falls just right over her frame. Hug her from behind while she looks in the mirror and feels beautiful, basking in her euphoria. Whisper into her ear how proud you are of her- how brave she is, how beautiful, how honored you are to be able to share this journey with her.

Take her to dinner and kiss her while you wait for your food, run your hands down her freshly shaven arms and gently caress over the back of her neck. Offer her some of your ramen while you take a bite of her fried rice, and clumsily attempt to feed her a bite of sushi with some chopsticks.

And then. Take her home, with all the bags that now hold the beginnings of her new wardrobe, and help her hang them up, try them on. Let her have a fashion show and gently wipe her makeup off before sleep. Kiss her and caress her and shower her with affection, with praise and love and adoration. Let her melt into your arms and if she cries let the tears soak into your shirt. Gently caress her hair and say 'its okay, baby girl. I love making you feel beautiful,'

Or something, idk.