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Michali and Aiden, my OCs from my novel WIP, Shadows and Ruins. They were the first OCs I created as a teen back in middle school (so quite a while ago). They've grown with me, and I can't wait to start back on writing their story once I'm done with my current WIP. I painted these recently in preparation for art fight.
These are my babies, and I can't wait to finish writing their story.
[“I told my mother I thought I might be trans in a lengthy and overly apologetic email, which she didn’t quite know how to respond to. From her perspective, my transition had popped up out of nowhere, with no prior warning signs. She was convinced I had been brainwashed into transitioning, and agreed to meet my counsellor for a joint meeting with me, primarily to meet the person she felt had brainwashed her child into transitioning.
My mother describes her first meeting with me presenting as Laura as very difficult for her, due in no small part to her inability to see me as anything but her very traditionally masculine son in a dress. For a while she knew but did not talk to my father, which she found very difficult. She told me years later that she went through a period of mourning, feeling like her child had died, and that she was left with a stranger she did not know. It put a lot of strain on her, and on our relationship as parent and child.
Why the assumption I was brainwashed? Because of autism infantilisation.
Before we talk more about my journey coming out as transgender, we have to rewind a little bit to something else that went on at around the same point in my life: my diagnosis of Asperger’s. By the time my mother attended that appointment and met me as Laura for the first time, I had already been diagnosed with Asperger’s, which was part of the reason she was so worried about me. She was not aware of any statistical link between autism and gender dysphoria, and in her eyes I was a vulnerable young person with an autism spectrum condition who was being manipulated into transition because I was easily swayed, or lacking in ability to assess my feelings on the matter properly for myself. This is depressingly common: an adult’s assumption that having an autism spectrum condition means you’re incapable of proper self-understanding, or that you’re susceptible to being manipulated into believing things about yourself that you did not previously. You’re not trusted as being of sound mind to make choices about your own life, out of fear you’ve been manipulated.
Speaking to my mother years later, now she has somewhat settled down and got used to me going by Laura and female pronouns, she told me that her biggest fear, and the primary reason she agreed to attend that first joint session together, was that, as a youth with Asperger’s, my therapist was influencing me into believing that I was trans. She feared it was some kind of brainwashing that my gullible mind could not resist the allure of, rather than believing my own account of what I was experiencing.
I also faced this same issue with doctors when trying to access medical support through the NHS. I would have general practitioners, mental health doctors and gender specialists alike raise an eyebrow when I acknowledged my Asperger’s diagnosis, and then proceed to take plenty of extra time asking me lengthy questions about how my autism symptoms manifested, to ensure I was of sound enough mind to make permanent choices about my body. Apart from the obvious infantilisation of people with conditions like Asperger’s on display there, I always just explained it as being like the decision to get a tattoo. I am an adult, over the age of 18, who has been deemed sober and mentally sound, and as such I have every right to permanently inject colours into my skin that may never go away. Why should I not be trusted to take slow-acting meds that are somewhat easier to reverse? Still, the fact I had to fight to be believed that I was mentally sound enough to make that choice says a lot about misunderstandings about autism spectrum conditions, but highlights that to assert that transition is unique in the permanent nature of its change to the body is completely inaccurate.”]
laura kate dale, from uncomfortable labels: my life as a gay autistic trans woman
no offense to people named aaron but who the fuck decided two a’s were necessary??? now i can’t converse with someone named aaron without calling them a-aron
not to be That Bitch but it’s another example of an anglicized disaster of a name from biblical hebrew, which was aharon and imo infinitely more badass than aaron others in this cursed category: elisheva (elizabeth), yirmiyahu (jeremy), mikha-el (michael), matisyahu (matthew), shoshana (susanna)
you really are that bitch huh i feel educated as fuck right now
arán is Irish for bread :)
Two types of people
an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen
my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored
Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act
Bog Trail by Shane Garlock
Maybe I need to walk down the submerged bog trail and I’ll calm down
prayer to whichever dead catholic person is most appropriate: may I not have to run a whole week of surprise camps on crutches. in a knee brace.
Im agnostic raised liberal protestant, but absolutely the catholics got saints right. Sometimes your problem is so fucking specific you need Some Guy. If you're listening, Guy of Workers Who Have Strain Injuries,
No fucking WAY, there's actually a knee injury Guy? Catholicism accidentally reinventing the medical specialty system......
I know you're wondering: are there slutty pictures of him revealing his knees?
Saint Roch, by Francesco Ribalta, c. 1625, Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia
[image id: st. Roch staring soulfully and hiking up his robe to show that his thigh has a bubo on it, also sluttily revealing his knees]
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thinking about anti-role models. people you look at like "well whatever i'm gonna be in life it's not gonna be that"
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Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So
mentally and physically exhausted
I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3
Needing this ❤️
I think that we as a society should get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes our friends will be attracted to us and sometimes we will be attracted to our friends and nothing needs to come of that.
You don't have to date. You don't have to stop being friends. You can just keep hanging out. Self control and respect exists.
And sometimes you will date your friend and figure out that your dynamic worked better when you were friends. And then you can go back to being friends. It's really quite simple. Mature and cool, even.
Even requited attraction doesn't need to be acted upon. Two people can be mutually attracted to each other and still decide not to date or not to change the dynamic of their friendship. People who are dating can mutually decide it worked better as a friendship, even if the attraction persists.
Feelings are just feelings. Not all feelings need to be realized as actions. It's very mature and cool to still treat people like people even after learning about their feelings, whatever they are.
Crushes come and go like beautiful weather and you need not do anything but enjoy the lovely day.
My recent portrait commissions and then a portrait of my sweet pup who passed a long time ago.
Done on clip studio paint.
From my art page that I'm trying to revamp!
Henlo friends. Do any of you have any wlw book recommendations? I couldn't get into tlt or priory sadly, but I would loove some other options!!!!!!
Sita by Kate Millet - 1970s memoir of a lesbian affair
Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott - cyberpunk scifi thriller
Sarah Waters' works - Tipping the Velvet in particular
Whiskey When We're Dry - butch gunslinger goes on a hunt for her outlaw brother
So Far From God - not specifically sapphic but focuses on the lives of four chicanas and environmental injustice
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Very LeFreak - YA about a girl with a tech addiction
The Fifth Season trilogy - mostly side characters and not a main focus, but def a queer series
Our Wives Under the Sea
Boots of Leather,Slippers of Gold
Cold War Femme
You look like a 12 y/o. I’m not sure why, but I thought you should know.
LOL I'm 25 now. Not even sure how long ago I got this anon. Def not a 12 year old.
Metztli was the goddess (or possibly god) of the moon, the night and farmers in Aztec mythology. They were likely the same deity as Yohaulticetl or Coyolxauhqui (both moon goddesses) and Tecciztecatl (moon god); like the latter, who feared the sun because of it’s fire. The moon and sun were at one time equally bright. Fearing the earth would burn under the light of two luminaries, one of the deities threw a rabbit in the face of the other, and the one struck darkened to become today’s moon. Henceforth it is possible to distinguish a figure of a rabbit on the moon’s surface. During a full moon, the ‘Rabbit in the Moon’ becomes readily visible. (Elie Saab Spring 2017 Haute Couture Collection)
Chotronette ‘Floral Tulle’ Various Haute Couture Gowns
