Alin @alinthejellyfishlady - Tumblr Blog

pukicho

I sowed some holes in my clothes today, hashtag house wife

pukicho

Who am I kidding. I am a 28 year old single man. I'm no housewife..

#not tumblr apparently

gremlininho

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

dovewithscales

Free him!

ndnbutch

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

ndnbutch

and when I say people should have the option obviously I do not mean “yeah you can but everyone’s gonna treat you like you’re frumpy and weird.” I also kinda don’t even mean “you’re beautiful even without makeup!!” because like. well of course i think many people are. some of the most beautiful faces i have ever seen in my life have had not a drop of makeup on them. and that’s awesome or whatever. but it’s also kind of irrelevant to the overall point I’m actually making. really what im saying is it shouldn’t fucking matter if you are beautiful or even pleasant to look at at all! you should be able to just be, all the time no matter what. everyone around you should just treat you like a person who is worthy of respect and fair treatment regardless of what you look like. I am of course keenly aware that that is not presently actually how things work much of the time. but that end goal is what my stance on makeup is informed by. you should never ever ever fucking need it to be treated with decency.

alinthejellyfishlady

A major point in my recovery from when I had really low self esteem (largely because I thought I was ugly) was when I realised that ugly people deserve rights too. Like, regardless of whether my perception of myself was overly critical or unnecessarily negative or whatever, even if I really was ugly, so what? What was I supposed to do about that? Lock myself in my room and refuse to leave for all eternity? I don’t think anyone deserves that! Truth is regardless of whether someone is pretty or not (ignoring that beauty is subjective and everyone is pretty in someone’s eyes) they deserve to have a place in society and to be treated with the respect all humans deserve.

It probably also helped me that I was already well into my recovery by the time I started wearing makeup, leading me to making a rule for myself that I’m only allowed to wear makeup as long as I also feel safe being seen without it, but I still think my point stands.

i-am-a-fish

new game called hi

it's really easy to play

I'll go first!

hi :)

Hi!!!!

reblogs were off

The cards see all.

gingik

yujateaandpi

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.