The Alysia System

Developed in 1996, the Alysia Deprogramming language is perfect for making trans women.

[atlas-of-galaxies]

please play of the devil

[alysia-unbound]

She's so obsessed with you

[atlas-of-galaxies]

please play of the devil

[our-queer-experience]

we DO grow old and happy. btw.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

And you find love and it stays with you.

[irisbleufic]

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

[our-queer-experience]

^^^

[stayingmachine]

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖

[prisonparty]

To Survive On This Shore, including photos and interviews of trans folks of all identities in their golden years

[xx-obliviousfantasy-xx]

Seeing older trans people gives me hope that me and my loved ones will survive.

[jayeelishere]

drowning with you

[alysia-unbound]

waog, gay

[mothicalspoken]

"am I being annoying" are you aware that my heart is trying to crawl out of my chest to get to you

[casceth]

POV: you are about to die 100 times

[alysia-unbound]

lead me through an ffxiv dungeon like a pervert fairy

[grimxark]

Laika - Sarah Doyle

[elvenvespers]

[alysia-unbound]

why must my puppy girl wife suffer like this?

[b0tster]

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

[themechnamedashley]

That giggle is *everything*. That joy.

[halondrus]

Okay

[punkitt-is-here]

its tough out there but so am i

[alysia-unbound]

it's a skill I'm tryina learn

[codex-entry]

I've been working on a major project but little details keep dragging me down rabbit holes that distract me from the core project itself.

Do you experience this same temptations? If so, how do you manage them?

Oh I experience it constantly, I'm technically experiencing it right now (I should be editing instead of checking tumblr lol), but I'm presuming you mean distracted more in the 'get caught up in researching or making something unrelated to the project itself'. I think getting distracted like that is just part of the process. The real important bit is being able to distinguish between the rabbit holes that benefit the project and those that don't. I spent about a month looking over neuroscience for things that might be useful for some of the points I was hoping to explore in the Haruspex video - and it was really interesting! It was compelling and did feel like it gave me a lot to consider and I really wanted to explore it more fully! But also, it was utterly disconnected from the original theatre research I was working on, reinforced my case without really adding to it, and would have added months of not just extra research, but broadly educating myself enough that I could be confident I wasn't just talking out my ass. After a certain point, I had to place a fence around what i wanted this specific project to be and what was influencing it and hone in on that. There will be time for more creating and learning later, but for now I'm making this thing, and I need to be cutthroat about what's relevant and focus on diving deep into that. Staying curious while also staying focused.

Beyond that, learn to value and appreciate the little details. Animating the dialogue text for the patho vids is a boring, tedious chore in the moment, but I know how much life it gives to everything once it's done, so I try to stay focused on how cool it will be to see that.

At least, that's what works for me and my brain. Best of luck with the project <33

[alysia-unbound]

Thank you! Followed the rabbit hole, it paid of in a very small but impactful way.

[ravioliet]

never kill yourself. you have to fill your mutuals dash with shit they don't care about forever, okay?

[the-lumpfish-queen]

[mandi-bul]

My parasite

[empressdrusilla]

Honestly, I know I’m probably thinking too much about this, but HDG and Mechsplo stuff just make me like… sad?

They’re both depictions of oppressive, imperialist/fascist empires that *win*. But at least in them winning, the transfem characters don’t have to fight anymore.

They just feel like declarations of surrender, a bone-deep exhaustion and a wish to stop fighting.

And fuck, man, it makes me depressed.

I know the want to stop fighting. God, I know it. But I’ve lived as long as I have because I kept fighting, and because I’m gonna keep fighting. I’m not gonna give up to myself, I’m not gonna give up to my oppressors, even if maybe it would even feel good.

Idk. They just ring to me of abuse and imperialism, and while by no means should those things not be allowed to be depicted, (and to be clear even if I dislike the writing I still think folks are well in their lane to write it and enjoy it, I’m just tryna think philosophy here I guess) I am put off by the like…

People *want* to be made into florets. They *want* to be made into hounds. The media of HDG encourages this, and while I don’t know as much about WARHOUND’s actual text, I don’t think it discourages it per se. So, with my perspective, that just reads as a lot of people, a lot of my community, desperately wishing they could give up.

And the reason it reads to me as giving up rather than simply not *having* to fight, or *winning*

Is because the Affini always win. The Empire in WARHOUND wins. The antagonists, the empire, they *win*.

I’m not going to let that happen. I’m not going to stop fighting. Not until we win. Not until all my sisters win. Every one of us, across the world, fucking wins. I’m not going to stop fighting.

I’m not a floret. I’m not a hound. I’m a fucking fighter. And I swear to you, we will win. We will win one day.

I think I’d just like to see some more kink fantasies about that, maybe.

Idk.

[alysia-unbound]

So, I like the theory, and the spirit, but in most of the mechsplo I've read the empire starts in control then suffers a major (or total) loss. This isn't a happy ending for the main character, if they survive they're now too broken to fit into this new world. occasionally they find themselves in a healthier relationship and build happiness in spite of it.

Thing is, most mechsplo is a mix of degradation and snuff porn for submissives, and it's generally hot on account of how scary it is, and/or to relieve the constant internal conflicts that having survived similar situations tends to come with.

[burnertracfone]

Untitled by Farfin

[burnertracfone]

[cancancanaman]

Keep an eye on Yandere... There's no telling when she might get jealous!