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just passed a guy in the store wearing a shirt that said "I hate being sexy but I'm a chubby bearded man so I can't help it". hell yeah brother

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20 examples of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

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A lot of trans people of every stripe have spent too much of our lives being what other people want and expect us to be. Even if you guess correctly and the person does end up being trans, it has to be their decision to define themself that way.

Coming out to yourself and claiming your identity is a powerful act of love. Don't make someone second-guess that wondering whose idea it really was.

you resisted the forcefemmification beams for too long

Nope. Completely incorrect and wrong.

This is a decision that I made for myself. I made this choice because it's who I want to be. Not because someone else wanted me to for their own pleasure.

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Art tip: gesso your fabric before painting on it

Art tip: if you dilute your gesso with water and paint an entire hat it will take a whole ass 24 hours to dry

Art tip: paint more hats

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And people will say "oh thank god someone is organizing this, I'm so fried, just tell me when and where to show up". People love not having to plan things.

the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

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‘am i Having A Brain Problem or Being a Shithead’: a short procrastination checklist

aka why tf am i procrastinating on The Thing (more like a flowchart, actually)

lots of people who have executive function difficulties worry about whether they’re procrastinating on a task out of laziness/simply wanting to be a jerk or mental struggles. this checklist might help you figure out which it is at any given time! (hint: it’s almost never laziness or being a jerk.) (obligatory disclaimer: this is just what works for me! something different might work better for you.)

1) do I honestly intend to start the task despite my lack of success?

yes: it’s a Brain Problem. next question

no: it’s shitty to say one thing & do another. better be honest with myself & anyone expecting me to do the task.

2) am I fed, watered, well-rested, medicated properly, etc?

yes: next question

no: guess what? this is the real next task

3) does the idea of starting the task make me feel scared or anxious?

yes: Anxiety Brain. identify what’s scaring me first.

no: next question

4) do I know how to start the task?

yes: next question

no: ADHD Brain. time to make an order of operations list.

5) do I have everything I need to start the task?

yes: next question

no: ADHD Brain lying to me about the steps again, dangit. first task is ‘gather the materials’.

6) why am i having a hard time switching from my current task to this new task?

i’m having fun doing what i’m doing: it’s okay to have fun doing a thing! if task is time-sensitive, go to next question.

i have to finish doing what i’m doing: might be ADHD brain. can I actually finish the current task or will I get trapped in a cycle? does this task really need to be finished?

the next task will be boring/boring-er than the current task: ADHD brain. re-think the next task. what would make it exciting? what am I looking forward to?

I might not have enough time to complete the task: ADHD brain wants to finish everything it starts. (if task is time-sensitive, go to next question)

i just want to make the person who asked me to do it angry: sounds like anxiety brain trying to punish itself, because I know I’ll be miserable if someone is angry at me. why do i think I deserve punishment?

no, I seriously want to piss them off: okay, i’m being a shithead

7) have I already procrastinated so badly that I now cannot finish the task in time?

yes: ADHD brain is probably caught in a guilt-perfection cycle. since I can’t have the task done on time, i don’t even want to start.

reality check: having part of a thing done is almost always better than none of a thing done. if I can get an extension, having part of it done will help me keep from stalling out until the extension deadline. i’ll feel better if I at least try to finish it.

no, there’s still a chance to finish on time: ADHD brain thinks that I have all the time in the world, but the truth is I don’t. 

reality check: if i’m having fun doing what I’m doing, I can keep doing it, but I should probably set a timer & ask someone to check on me to make sure I start doing the task later today.

8) I’ve completed the checklist and still don’t know what’s wrong!

probably wasn’t honest enough with myself. take one more look.

if I’m still mystified, ask a friend to help me talk it out.

hope this helps some of you! YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE DON’T GIVE UP ON YOU

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jesus fucking christ. I dress like a gay flamingo now, but when I first came out I dressed boring as fuck. because the T hadn't hit yet. I couldn't get people to see me for who I was, but I could (a little bit) try to avoid being seen for who I wasn't. And it takes a while to figure out how to dress flashier in ways that don't always get immediately read as Girl??? fuckin' give him a minute, shit goddamn.

also, obviously, it's fine if a trans guy wants to be just some guy. it's fine if a trans girl wants to be just some girl. fuck.

A popular artist suddenly made a trans man comic, and the viewers are not getting it

Being against a trans man's transition because you think it's too boring is transphobic, actually.

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at the goth dance night I go to, technically "male-presenting" nipples (for lack of a better term) are allowed. but you never see 'em because everyone decided that until ALL nipples are allowed, we're all gonna wear the electrical tape x's.

also everyone is genderfucky anyway and enough people are unsure whether their nips are illegal or not. extremely silly situation. just let 'em be free.

We need to bring back free the nipple

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reblog and put in the tags a physical feature about yourself that might change your mutuals visual idea of you

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i will raise my children traditionally

the oldest will have a ruinous military career and develop a tendency to recklessness, alcoholism and anger management issues the middle one will be a brilliant student with strong atheist inclinations and casual demonic hallucinations the youngest will be an angel prone to hysteria turned tsaricide by circumstances

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who up dinking they oiter

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✨ tower

✨ animal familiar(s)

✨ many charms

✨ glittery robe dress

✨ smoking a fat pipe all the time

✨ pointy hat

✨ probably knows at least one dragon

I think a wizard can be a princess sometimes.. I mean a tower is a tower

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for any creative pursuit, it's important to occasionally do it wrong on purpose. and not just throw stuff at it haphazard, but Intentionally place things where they will look the worst.

learn why and when things don't work, or that they actually DO work, or that they give an effect people usually don't want but that you can do something cool with. test the limits of your medium.

Also reminds you to have fun and not take yourself so seriously. prove to your brain that if you make something bad, people will not show up to kill you with hammers.

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yeah golden retreiver boyfriends are great and I've met several personally, but personally I have a house cat boyfriend

extremely affectionate despite of seeming aloof and politely distant to unfamiliar people

my friends have seen him irl less than 5 times in the five years I've had him - if I invited people over he would hide under furniture until they're gone

haha you got up from your work desk, time for unskippable 35 minutes of kisses and cuddles

can and will throw up out of sheer anxiety because Things And Events Are Happening that do not even involve him in any way

can instinctively sense exactly when I am going to decide I'm done bedrotting and will climb on top of me to cuddle exactly 3 minutes before I was just about to get up

can be placed sideways on any soft surface at any time of the day and immediately takes a five hour nap

cannot eat or drink in unfamilair places. can and will go 16 hours without food or water if the situation is uncomfy.

unhelpful but valiant efforts to try to protect and rescue you from things and situations that he would personally hate being in, out of not understanding of Why Are You In There Voluntarily

will come show me incomprehensible memes the same way a cat will bring you a random bug. thank you. I do not understand it but I know you brought it to me because you love me.

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i hate how fake misophonia sounds. like yeah, I have Touchy Bitch Disorder, it makes me start ranking methods of self-harm by speed and accessibility if I hear a mouth noise I think is icky. no, I'm not even mad at you, I just want to beat my head with hammers until I can't hear your disgusting spit noises anymore. sorry, I love you, but if my headphones die I'm going to flee✌️💖

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You are loved.

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very funny that the symptoms of blood loss include making you more uncoordinated and cognitively impaired. look at me i'm so cute and helpless and fucking dying.